Bruce Pearl Talking Before The Memphis Game (video) (flag)

www.youtube.com — Pep talk at Jillian's a couple hours before the game.

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Bruce Pearl

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Bruce Pearl Firing Up the Vol Fans in Memphis
FanHouse — Filed under: Tennessee Basketball, SEC Basketball, NCAA Basketball Coaches, NCAA Basketball VideoIn the hours leading up to a big game on the road against the #1 team in the country, most coaches would be going over the game plan a few hundred more times. They'd be reviewing every scouting report and designing plays for every possible contingency. Well, not Bruce Pearl. Instead, he went to a Vol fan gathering in Memphis to fire up the fans. There's a line between cartoonish buffoonery and inspiring the fanbase. The line is a not nearly so fine when the coach is winning and bringing a level of excitement unseen to the ...

A Video Pearl: “We’re Gonna Kick Memphis’s Ass!”
SPORTSbyBROOKS — Charles Rich of AOL FANHOUSE volunteers to put up video of Bruce Pearl firing up the Tennessee faithful before last Saturday’s match with Memphis: ( They’re not saying “boo!”, they’re saying “Boo-urns”… er, “Bruuuce!”) The UT coach spoke in front of a gathering of Rocky Top fans right before the Vols tamed the Tigers to take the #1 spot in the nation. His speech included the usual “play-hard”, “110-percent” & other cliches of predictable pep talks, but Bruce did toss out a few, ahem, pearls of wisdom:“All I can tell you is that we’re 40 minutes away from being #1!” (Wow, he’s psychic ...