JL in the midwest, Duke cheats, and Bruce Pearl ...

Guess who's in the midwest recruiting hard -- "UC-Davis"
http://twitter.com/#!/srchoops/status/97450012258209792

also -- one premium site says JL was tracking Kellon Thomas at Ft. Wayne Speice AAU Event --
"Kellon Thomas has offers from Austin Peay, Kent State, Loyola, IUPUI, UC-Davis, Florida Atlantic, Gardner Webb, Morehead State, and SIU-Edwardsville."
http://scouthoops.scout.com/2/1090764.html

Today = last day of AAU season and open recruiting.

Duke commits violation -- better read it now as this'll be the last we ever hear about it. It'll be a cold day in you-know-where when the NCAA ever goes after Duke.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/duke-investigating-possible-ncaa-recruiting-violation-of-top-high-school-player/2011/07/30/gIQAnUejjI_story.html


More on Bruce Pearl -- who was as recently (and maybe still is to some blind worshippers) as a year ago being lauded as one of the best coaches ever.
In a thread about a year ago on BradleyFans discussing the worst college basketball coaches, many Pearl-worshippers argued vehemently that Bruce was a great coach and should never be listed on the same page as guys like those other cheaters.

But, oh how times have changed. And probably we see only a tiny smattering of how much Bruce Pearl breaks rules, cheats, and lies. We know he tampered with Bradley's Joah Tucker in luring Tucker to leave BU and transfer to UW-M, and now it's been exposed that Pearl had illegal recruiting violations at Iowa, at UW-M, and even at University of Southern Indiana. And even before his most recent exposure of cheating and lying that got him finally fired at Tennessee -- we knew that he had the biggest collection of drug using, felony committing, and bar brawling recruits and players of any coach in the history of college basketball.
Just a few examples --
Link - Link - Link - Link - Link - Link - Link

Now Bruce is saying Tennessee knew about the photo and that the NCAA was laying a trap for him but neglected to tell him -- so instead of taking the blame for his own cheating and lying -- he's cowardly trying to shift the blame to someone else...
http://m.govolsxtra.com/news/2011/jul/25/pearl-ut-delayed-info-on-photo/

BUT -- now the evidence is clear that Bruce is not so innocent -- in fact he's been in the news for several reasons...

-But first -- it seems there are still a lot of Bruce Pearl lovers out there - unwilling to admit they had the guy pegged so badly wrong and thought he was a good man and a good coach. They are still in denial, as a few voted to hire Pearl in a recent poll on the message boards where anonymously a lot of folks think we ought to have hired Pearl to coach at Bradley believe it or not!!

-Then, now that the facts show how dishonest and scummy Pearl is-- you can go back and see that many have supported him and praised him for his honesty, coaching abilities, and integrity -- right here on BradleyFans! Boy -- were they ever wrong!

-Vanderbilt's Kevin Stallings had it right almost 5 years ago -- when he called Bruce Pearl "an idiot asshole"...
http://www.govolsxtra.com/news/2007/jan/26/stallings-called-pearl-145idiot-a------146/

-This editorial writer amazingly actually says the Milwaukee Bucks ought to hire Pearl!! Hey -- they just lost Kelvin Sampson to the Rockets -- so they have an opening in the scum department!!
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/126293368.html

-BUT the big thing in the news about Pearl is Pearl re-iterating his claim that he was hung out to dry by Tennessee and then UT turns around and defends their really STOOPID decision to keep Pearl on the payroll even after knowing how crooked and dishonest he was!
http://www.clickondetroit.com/sports/28680232/detail.html

Of course all of this is just jockeying for some line of defense when the NCAA finally gets around to handing down the penalties to Tennessee -- which of course will be far less than SEMO got when one of their boosters bought a pizza for a player.