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Pearl comes clean … and pays for it
By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports Sep 10, 5:51 pm EDT
That honesty is the best policy is a long-held philosophy. In the case of Tennessee basketball coach Bruce Pearl, it now has a price tag: A whopping $1.5 million, which could increase to $2 million if he doesn’t remain the Volunteers coach through 2015.
Pearl was cited for “misleading” the NCAA enforcement staff during an investigation into what can generally be called excessive phone calls to recruits. Pearl admitted he didn’t tell the truth in a June interview. He said he regretted it immediately and came clean about it to his boss, athletic director Mike Hamilton, in July. Hamilton confirmed the story.
“I’m truly sorry,” Pearl said Friday before, comically and perhaps ironically, a fire alarm interrupted him.
The delayed honesty didn’t stop Tennessee from taking the unusual, and dramatic, route of hitting the coach up where it counts.
Read more: http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=dw-tennpearl091010
Bruce Pearl admitted he lied to NCAA
investigators and Tennessee decided
to cut his pay.
By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports Sep 10, 5:51 pm EDT
That honesty is the best policy is a long-held philosophy. In the case of Tennessee basketball coach Bruce Pearl, it now has a price tag: A whopping $1.5 million, which could increase to $2 million if he doesn’t remain the Volunteers coach through 2015.
Pearl was cited for “misleading” the NCAA enforcement staff during an investigation into what can generally be called excessive phone calls to recruits. Pearl admitted he didn’t tell the truth in a June interview. He said he regretted it immediately and came clean about it to his boss, athletic director Mike Hamilton, in July. Hamilton confirmed the story.
“I’m truly sorry,” Pearl said Friday before, comically and perhaps ironically, a fire alarm interrupted him.
The delayed honesty didn’t stop Tennessee from taking the unusual, and dramatic, route of hitting the coach up where it counts.
Read more: http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=dw-tennpearl091010
Bruce Pearl admitted he lied to NCAA
investigators and Tennessee decided
to cut his pay.
