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Bruce Pearl Fired After NCAA Recruiting Violations [VIDEO]

Tennessee Makes Special Delivery to NCAA: Lane Kiffin

For the past several months the University of Tennessee and the NCAA have been feverishly negotiating the notice of allegations that UT released Wednesday. The damage to the Volunteer athletic program was significant, but it wasn't crippling. Why? Because Tennessee handled the NCAA, a bureaucratic agency that answers to...

Tennessee Receives NCAA Notice of Allegations; Lane Kiffin Cited

The NCAA has cited former Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin with a failure to monitor charge in a Notice of Allegations letter released by the University of Tennessee on Wednesday. Overall, the school was charged with 9 major violations, two in football -- both tied to Kiffin -- and seven in basketball. The story was first...

Bruce Pearl Cited in NCAA's Notice of Allegations Against Tennessee

The NCAA delivered a notice of allegations to Tennessee Tuesday, accusing the program of more than a dozen violations and charging both basketball coach Bruce Pearl and former football coach Lane Kiffin with failure "to promote an atmosphere of compliance." The 26-page document, which comes at the conclusion of a 22-month...

Bruce Pearl's Return Puts Swagger Back in Tennessee's Step

Tuesday night, Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl will return to his team's bench, a place he's been absent from eight of the Vols' last nine games. He'll likely be donning a loud orange blazer as he always days when UT plays Vanderbilt and Kentucky, and there's no reason to believe that his demeanor will deviate from what we are...

Bruce Pearl News From the Web

02/08/12 CBS Sports: Ripping its way through SEC, talent-laden... Source: The Mid-Majority Bruce Pearl once beat John Calipari when he had a top-ranked team and three times beat Billy Donovan when he had eventual national champions.
02/07/12 Vols rank fifth in nation in basketball attendance Source: CBS - Volunteer WVLT - Knoxville TN Cuonzo Martin and Bruce Pearl don't have much in common in terms of their basketball coaching styles on the court, but both the former and current Tennessee coach are alike in their appreciation for the Vols' big home crowds.
01/24/12 Tennessee Coaches & Peyton Manning Headline Day Of... Source: CBS - Volunteer WVLT - Knoxville TN From a sports perspective, it was a who's who of speakers at Thursday's "Get Motivated" Seminar in Downtown Knoxville, at the Civic Auditorium.

Background on Bruce Pearl

Bruce Dean-Fredrick Pearl (born March 18, 1960) is an American college basketball coach who most recently served as head coach of the University of Tennessee Volunteers men's team.

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