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Bruce Pearl does not know what is next. He ponders an offer to coach in the NBA’s D-League that would make him a part of the terrific Dallas Mavericks organization. He wonders if there might be opportunities in broadcasting. He laments that any course he might follow could take him away from his children in the Knoxville area.
He knows one thing at his core: “I’m really a college guy.”
And that’s what he should stay.
Pearl did all of this to himself, of course. He deserves no sympathy on this day, as the NCAA imposes a three-year show-cause penalty Wednesday that will make it difficult for him to obtain another job as a Division I head coach.
It does not make it impossible, though. And if I were the athletics director at...
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