🏀 Wow! This is a stark contrast from Coach Johnson. (AU content.)

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Scheduling could be Auburn’s biggest obstacle in making tourney.

Auburn coach Bruce Pearl described the challenges he faced scheduling top 25 opponents on Paul Finebaum’s show Wednesday from the SEC meetings in Destin.

An ongoing issue for Bruce Pearl in building Auburn into a top tier team program is scheduling.

Pearl is confident Auburn has what it takes to make the NCAA tournament this season for the first time since 2003, but the team’s non-conference strength of schedule could be an issue.

"My challenge at Auburn has been scheduling more so than anything else,” Pearl said.

Pearl likes how his non-conference schedule is shaping up for the 2017-18 season with games scheduled against UConn and Dayton, but it might not be enough given what Kentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart told the group of assembled SEC basketball coaches this week.

Barnhart, who joined the committee two years, shared an inside perspective about the process and underlined the importance of a team’s record against top 25 opponents.

“When I was at Tennessee I had the chance to play a few top 25 teams because we got Kansas, or we got Texas or we got Memphis or a few others cause it was Tennessee,” Pearl said Wednesday during an appearance on Paul Finebaum’s show from the SEC meetings in Destin. “At Auburn I just have not been able to get those marquee games in the non-conference. We try, but we just haven’t been able to. That’s a challenge for us trying to get out of the bottom.”

 

[TerryP]

Oh gee manetti! Are you freakin' kidding me?!?!

The program is 10+ games under the .500 mark the last four years. They were what, 18-14 last year and that was his first winning season?

It ain't scheduling. It called winning. Go ahead, Bruce, schedule tougher competition. There's a pink slip right around the corner for ya.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

Oh gee manetti! Are you freakin' kidding me?!?!

The program is 10+ games under the .500 mark the last four years. They were what, 18-14 last year and that was his first winning season?

It ain't scheduling. It called winning. Go ahead, Bruce, schedule tougher competition. There's a pink slip right around the corner for ya.

Sounds to me like he's making conveniently job-prolonging excuses.

 

[TerryP]

Sounds to me like he's making conveniently job-prolonging excuses.

How relevant is Bruce Pearl in the state of Alabama?

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

How relevant is Bruce Pearl in the state of Alabama?

About as relvant as the shit I just dropped 30 min ago.

Wait, maybe not.

 

[TerryP]

How relevant is Bruce Pearl in the state of Alabama?

I got curious, so I decided to look.

 

[TerryP]

It's a business card in a manner of speaking.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Well he is right...its Auburn....
They do nothing for another teams OOCS
Its Auburn