Archive for the ‘Bruce Pearl’ Category

The views I’m about to express are not necessarily those of anybody else but me, but they ought to be, and as a matter of fact, they probably are. The year was 1997. Tennessee basketball sucked something terrible on the court, but not in recruiting. Kevin “Mad Dog” O’Neill was pulling in some amazing classes [...]

I am a firm believer that 75% of coaching in college basketball is recruiting, and so with that in mind, I’ll rank the 12 coaches in the Southeastern Conference based on their recruiting prowess, then I‘ll do the same with coaching prowess tomorrow. I’m still reeling from hearing Dicky Lyons Jr. at football media day, [...]