Is everybody’s mind right for the game tomorrow?
Boogs v Coogs ( Round 1 THE TOURNEY)
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Remember - do not look ahead to the next game or you may cost us
Currently listening to Bruno Mars. If that’s not getting your mind ready for the game then I don’t know what is. Oh yeah yeah
Spent the day looking at flights to Omaha and San Antonio. Locked in.
Goddamn am I ready to Boog HARD tomorrow. I might wear all AU gear like Rice on a Friday during football season. We bout to roll up on these second class teens.
Happy tourney game day, boogs!
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A good shooting gym means that the rims are rounded instead of spiked like barb wire. Feels good
I did this the Friday of the SEC huthut title game. Didn't work out so well. Standard Friday attire today.
My stars what a deranged individual. College sports people are kinda scary sometimes. Oh well hopefully BRUCE got something for this trash loser.
same...there will be no "awbren" branded attire worn by this individual during the boogz tournament run. i still blame the Florida loss on my wearing one of @MomentInTheSun "university" t's to pub.
#toast
I hope my nervousness doesn’t carry over to the team..
This guy is bad takes galore:
SAN DIEGO — There will be a lot of eyes on the College of Charleston-Auburn matchup Friday night at San Diego State’s Viejas Arena, and what a treat. College basketball fans and fellow travelers with temporary NCAA Tournament bracket interest will get a prime-time contrast to make “The Voice” producers envious.
Earl Grant is the humble head coach who built his College of Charleston program methodically. The right way.
Bruce Pearl, the smug Auburn head coach embroiled in another wrong mess.
It’s not quite Good vs. Evil, but matchups don’t come much more neatly packaged.
It’s much of what’s wonderful and troubling about a sport at a crossroads and in FBI crosshairs.
A Pearl jam.
Earl The Pearl.
Grant, 41, has No. 13 seed College of Charleston in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1999. His won-loss record has improved each of the last three seasons since a 9-24 mark in his first year as a head coach.
Pearl, 57, was fired at Tennessee and slapped with a three-year NCAA show-cause penalty in 2011. But that’s old news.
Now he is refusing to cooperate with an Auburn investigation into an FBI probe of college basketball fraud and payoffs.
Grant is a rising star.
“Oh, yeah, there is no doubt,” Wichita State head coach Gregg Marshall said Thursday. “Earl’s got the whole package. He can recruit, he can X and O. He’s great with people. He’s a relationship builder.”
Auburn is a No. 4 seed and SEC regular-season champion. But it’s an upset if Pearl is back as head coach next season.
Grant demonstrated as an assistant coach under Marshall at Wichita State and Brad Brownell at Clemson that he can succeed while gaining the respect of those around him.
Pearl seems bound for the NBA, where they don’t care about recruiting controversies. He lost his job at Tennessee for lying to the NCAA about seeing a recruit at a barbecue.
“Mistakes were made,” is how Pearl explained his downfall in Knoxville, where fans loved the guy for taking the Volunteers to six NCAA Tournament appearances in six seasons.
Where there is Bruce Pearl smoke, there is typically fire. His brushes with controversy started well before Tennessee. Pearl, while an assistant coach at Iowa in 1989, taped his phone conversation with high-profile recruit Deon Thomas, in which he got Thomas to say he received $80,000 to flip from Iowa to Illinois.
“Coaching suicide,” veteran analyst Dick Vitale said at the time.
Later, Pearl was ambivalent.
“I’m still not comfortable with my methodology,” he told Teddy Greenstein, now of the Chicago Tribune, “but I thought exposing this was necessary for college athletics.”
‘Troublesome’
It’s so unfortunate.
Because while Grant’s work ethic enhances the achievements of his College of Charleston players, Pearl’s transgressions take away from Auburn’s terrific season.
The Tigers were picked to finish ninth in the SEC but are 25-7. They have done it without ace assistant coach Chuck Person, arrested in the FBI probe and fired, and without key players Austin Wiley and Danjel Purifoy, suspended for their ties to the federal probe.
It’s a fun team to watch, led by a creative coach who just happens to have a contract peppered with show-cause stipulations.
Auburn was left for dead at the Charleston Classic in November but is a strong Sweet 16 candidate despite school president Steven Leath telling Tiger fans Pearl’s decision not to talk to in-house investigators is “troublesome.”
Pearl says he’ll prevail
I asked Pearl on Thursday about that FBI probe, when he might finally cooperate with Auburn’s investigation and his own future.
“I’m not going to comment specifically about that,” he said. “But I am confident when everything is said and done that I will still be coaching at Auburn.”
The last time we saw Earl Grant on a basketball court, he was cutting down a net at the North Charleston Coliseum following College of Charleston’s victory over Northeastern in the Colonial Athletic Association Tournament championship game.
The last time we saw Pearl, he was engaged in a heated exchange with Alabama strength and conditioning coach Lou DeNeen following Auburn’s 81-63 loss to the Tide in an SEC Tournament quarterfinal game.
It’s not certain which of these coaches will go out a winner Friday night but college basketball will be better off if Bruce Pearl is forced out completely after this season.
Follow Gene Sapakoff on Twitter @sapakoff
SAN DIEGO — There will be a lot of eyes on the College of Charleston-Auburn matchup Friday night at San Diego State’s Viejas Arena, and what a treat. College basketball fans and fellow travelers with temporary NCAA Tournament bracket interest will get a prime-time contrast to make “The Voice” producers envious.
Earl Grant is the humble head coach who built his College of Charleston program methodically. The right way.
Bruce Pearl, the smug Auburn head coach embroiled in another wrong mess.
It’s not quite Good vs. Evil, but matchups don’t come much more neatly packaged.
It’s much of what’s wonderful and troubling about a sport at a crossroads and in FBI crosshairs.
A Pearl jam.
Earl The Pearl.
Grant, 41, has No. 13 seed College of Charleston in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1999. His won-loss record has improved each of the last three seasons since a 9-24 mark in his first year as a head coach.
Pearl, 57, was fired at Tennessee and slapped with a three-year NCAA show-cause penalty in 2011. But that’s old news.
Now he is refusing to cooperate with an Auburn investigation into an FBI probe of college basketball fraud and payoffs.
Grant is a rising star.
“Oh, yeah, there is no doubt,” Wichita State head coach Gregg Marshall said Thursday. “Earl’s got the whole package. He can recruit, he can X and O. He’s great with people. He’s a relationship builder.”
Auburn is a No. 4 seed and SEC regular-season champion. But it’s an upset if Pearl is back as head coach next season.
Grant demonstrated as an assistant coach under Marshall at Wichita State and Brad Brownell at Clemson that he can succeed while gaining the respect of those around him.
Pearl seems bound for the NBA, where they don’t care about recruiting controversies. He lost his job at Tennessee for lying to the NCAA about seeing a recruit at a barbecue.
“Mistakes were made,” is how Pearl explained his downfall in Knoxville, where fans loved the guy for taking the Volunteers to six NCAA Tournament appearances in six seasons.
Where there is Bruce Pearl smoke, there is typically fire. His brushes with controversy started well before Tennessee. Pearl, while an assistant coach at Iowa in 1989, taped his phone conversation with high-profile recruit Deon Thomas, in which he got Thomas to say he received $80,000 to flip from Iowa to Illinois.
“Coaching suicide,” veteran analyst Dick Vitale said at the time.
Later, Pearl was ambivalent.
“I’m still not comfortable with my methodology,” he told Teddy Greenstein, now of the Chicago Tribune, “but I thought exposing this was necessary for college athletics.”
‘Troublesome’
It’s so unfortunate.
Because while Grant’s work ethic enhances the achievements of his College of Charleston players, Pearl’s transgressions take away from Auburn’s terrific season.
The Tigers were picked to finish ninth in the SEC but are 25-7. They have done it without ace assistant coach Chuck Person, arrested in the FBI probe and fired, and without key players Austin Wiley and Danjel Purifoy, suspended for their ties to the federal probe.
It’s a fun team to watch, led by a creative coach who just happens to have a contract peppered with show-cause stipulations.
Auburn was left for dead at the Charleston Classic in November but is a strong Sweet 16 candidate despite school president Steven Leath telling Tiger fans Pearl’s decision not to talk to in-house investigators is “troublesome.”
Pearl says he’ll prevail
I asked Pearl on Thursday about that FBI probe, when he might finally cooperate with Auburn’s investigation and his own future.
“I’m not going to comment specifically about that,” he said. “But I am confident when everything is said and done that I will still be coaching at Auburn.”
The last time we saw Earl Grant on a basketball court, he was cutting down a net at the North Charleston Coliseum following College of Charleston’s victory over Northeastern in the Colonial Athletic Association Tournament championship game.
The last time we saw Pearl, he was engaged in a heated exchange with Alabama strength and conditioning coach Lou DeNeen following Auburn’s 81-63 loss to the Tide in an SEC Tournament quarterfinal game.
It’s not certain which of these coaches will go out a winner Friday night but college basketball will be better off if Bruce Pearl is forced out completely after this season.
Follow Gene Sapakoff on Twitter @sapakoff
I'll miss the game tonight. My son has baseball practice from 6:30-8:30. It sucks. I'll be watching the game on Sunday as long as Bryce gets 13 or more tonight.
So does that mean if we win the FBI isn’t an issue for us anymore since we would beat them?
This has been a good indicator. To me the x-factor in this game is Desean Murray. He was really effective in the post until he started seeing teams with freak athleticism and a lot of height. I would assume CoC won't have that.
Between being at the hospital with my grandfather, helping my dad get his shit together since he broke his foot, and trying to prep for going out of town tomorrow, I may not have much time to gregHopefully this is your game day attire
What a psycho for real. Telling you gang these college sports people are deranged. Anyway, enough about that so ready to Boog this evening. It’s time for all these beautiful studs to regain their form.
good luck with everything man, hopefully Bruce and crew will give us a great game
Does anyone have extra tickets in section G behind the bench? Trying to bring some girls I know out here. TIA.
after watching most of the day yesterday, I’m convinced we can make an Elite 8 run even in our weakened state... goddamn college basketball is atrocious
now, the way we’ve played lately we may very well add our Boogs to the list of godawful products teams are putting on the court - but I really think the extra time off and getting away from conference teams who know us well will allow our Boog to shine like a diamond
I just hurt muh dick on this one:
Jesus I am already about to vomit. Not sure my a$$ can handle 10hrs straight on the couch, but I am going to give it all I got.
My 12 yr old said Dad have you ever thought about getting some IV’s and a plastic toliet so we don’t have to get off the couches until Monday. Little dude is locked in! War Damn Boog Nation!
I've got the same feeling that I used to get on a big AU football gameday. You know, those huge matchups during the Tubs years where we were playing LSU and basically the West and a trip to ATL was on the line in week 4. Or an Iron Bowl with playoff implications. Yeah....I'm there. And when I get here I turn into full D&Ger. I'm convinced we won't make any shots and won't defend because I never feel confident when things are big if it concerns AU sports.
Boogs big brah. In Bruce We Trust.
One of the guys who has helped cover-up the corruption in NCAA basketball recruiting through not covering it. Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?
