Auburn's Bruce Pearl symbolizes the rot in college athletics
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/nancy-armour/2019/03/31/march-madness-2019-auburn-ncaa-tournament-final-four/3327368002/? Nancy Armour USA TODAY Published 8:03 AM EDT Mar 29, 2019 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Bruce Pearl could outlive a cat. Just one of his run-ins with the NCAA would have been enough to torpedo the career of pretty much any other coach . There was the secret taping of a recruit to try and bust a rival. There was the barbecue with recruits, at his house, which he made worse by lying about afterward and encouraging his assistants to do the same . There were the assistants caught up in FBI investigations. Yet here Pearl is, not only still employed, but back in the Sweet 16 for the first time in almost a decade . With Auburn, no less, which doesn’t remotely resemble the kind of backwater school where most disgraced coaches have to go to find redemption . But that’s Pearl. There is no jam too big for him to escape , no sin too grave for him to