Nailed it. Bruce and his agent timed this perfectly. He parlayed the UL interest into a lifetime contract and Auburn is going to build the basketball-only facility he has been lobbying for.
The U6 job search will go down like one of the half dozen Tennessee football coaching searches. It will likely be very humbling.
That place is such a dumpster fire. Mack was the hottest coach in the country at Xavier. He had that program rolling and could have had any major job that opened. He took UL and now his career is either badly damaged or ruined. Any great coach who is already at a program competing at a high level would have to be a moron to sign up to try and extinguish the UL dumpster fire.
Louisville didn’t offer he used you as a contract extension. I don’t even care. We’ve seen this before, he’ll either be fired (Auburn really has no ethics in their athletics department though) or he’ll be decent and when it’s over it’s back to the doormat. Talk to Florida, Arkansas, LSU, etc.
I bet you’re knew to this but try and keep up.
I’ll give you one thing, you refuse to ever concede defeat. FYI, Bruce was never going to Louisville, offer or not
That's not how this works. They wanted Bruce and obviously made it clear to his agent how much they were willing to offer. Contrary to what you repeatedly said would happen, Bruce turned them down to stay at Auburn. Bruce never intended to leave and his agent did his job by using the interest from UL to speed up what had already been in the works for his lifetime contract at Auburn. He also got our AD and board to agree to build a basketball-only facility. Huge win all around for us.
In his mind, the situation is something like this
Louisville: Hey Bruce, would you be interested in coaching us?
Bruce: Lol, go f*** yourself
Louisville: You know, maybe we should formally offer just to be sure?
(Bruce accepts Auburn extension)
Gromcat: Well if Louisville had ACTUALLY formally offered, then Bruce would be gone in a heart beat. I’m sure of it and everyone who thinks otherwise just doesn’t know what they’re talking about
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Looks like Pearl is staying at Auburn.
https://www.on3.com/teams/kentucky-...MG4NIxUoGG-b3RSiEYPtAZuf5m_voS1mNSwOG-UnBhKko
Looks like Louisville. Wil land Payne at this point.
https://www.on3.com/teams/kentucky-...MG4NIxUoGG-b3RSiEYPtAZuf5m_voS1mNSwOG-UnBhKko
Looks like Louisville. Wil land Payne at this point.
Why are we all just expecting KP to have interest in the gig? I’ve literally read nothing that suggests he would be interested. Are we all just assuming?
There’s a big push by the boosters. And it would give KP a shot at his alma mater. UofL wants hi to run a clean protea. And improve their image.
Can you read or do you just see what you want. Show me where Louisville offered Bruce Pearl and I’ll take the L.
I heard Jerry Eaves say earlier in the week that he had talked with Payne and that he was definitely interested. I doubt if he wants it if Louisville tries to lowball him though, and they will at first because they are a low rent outfit.
Maybe we should get Gromcats take on it. He seems to be be connected and in the loop on things.
