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some of the K-State people say there was a little mini-rushing of the court that was not seen on TV...
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it's been a month since Pearl's Tennessee beat #1 Kansas....and things are truly melting down....
I have to admit, Pearl has landed some good players and had a few fine years - basically rescuing Tennessee from obscurity...
But in the last month, there's been tremedous turmoil over players arrested, guns, drugs, and then players getting suspended and booted.
Even then, at first, Tennessee was playing OK.....but now -- the fans are ranting...
Now they've lost 3 of their last 5, headed into a showdown with Kentucky...
and the fans are very, very restless......
Their message boards (which are obviously no real reflection of their true fans, right?) are filled with hostile and insulting comments about Bruce Pearl and about the players...
and apparently numerous posts on twitter by the players give evidence to a full fledged internal meltdown as well......
(what do you want to bet none of them are suspended for their tweets!)
As I had noted elsewhere, Tennessee still has 2 5-Star guys playing and a bunch of 4-Star guys, so you can't really say they're doing it with walk ons, but they do seem to be in serious trouble if this turmoil does indeed reflect a player rebellion...and a fan rebellion...
After several of the starters posted tweets ripping on a couple of teammates and complaining about playing time, then their twitter accounts suddenly got locked and some of the tweets removed...
The rips appear to be aimed at a certain walk on that Coach Pearl is playing 24 minutes per game, whose production appears pretty anemic...
I suppose that the fact the player in question who is also getting ripped a bit by the fans on the message boards, also just happens to be the son of the head coach....that it probably doesn't sit well with Coach Pearl...
The only two guys who played substantially more minutes that Pearl's son were the two 5-Star guys
BTW - there's a Facebook pic of Pearl's son that does kinda show him to be a chip off the old block if you know what I mean...
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