To some, he may even be the feel good story. Before this season, Pearl’s associate head coach was one of four college assistants indicted in a wide-ranging and ongoing bribery and corruption scandal that … That people write about and read about their improved graduation rates, … SALT LAKE CITY — Auburn Coach Bruce Pearl would prefer that his players get the attention. Pearl was previously head coach at Tennessee, Milwaukee and Southern Indiana. But Pearl’s explanation of the events made sense to me. According to an ESPN report, Auburn coach Bruce Pearl's job is in jeopardy after he has refused to cooperate with the university's internal investigation into the basketball program. It doesn’t take a significant amount of effort to understand why.

Maybe because I was dying for them to make sense to me. You spend time with Bruce Pearl, you fall under his spell. Bruce Pearl is head men's basketball coach for the Auburn Tigers of the SEC. To many, Bruce Pearl is one of the feel good stories of the 2019 Final Four.