When are we giving CBP a raise?

[augolf1716 21,432]

Auburn is proactively pursuing a contract extension for men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl, and there is comfort in the athletics department that Auburn will be able to offer an extension that will allow him to finish his career with the Tigers, the Opelika-Auburn News learned Thursday as talk swirled linking Pearl to the newly open Louisville job.

Pearl’s Auburn team has soared to a No. 1 ranking in the Associated Press Top 25, winning 16 straight games in a streak highlighted by a thrilling win over Kentucky last Saturday. A report at WLKY in Kentucky indicated Tuesday night that there was interest from Pearl in the Louisville opening after Louisville this week parted ways with coach Chris Mack, and ESPN’s Jay Williams asked Pearl directly about Louisville during a podcast appearance released Thursday morning.

 

Inside the Auburn athletics complex, though, talks about program support have been ongoing and the feeling is that they’re in a comfortable place. Auburn is preparing to offer a contract to Pearl which demonstrates that Auburn wants him to finish his career on the Plains.

 

Dialogue, which has been going on since well before the Louisville opening, has the athletics office confident it’ll be able to meet Pearl’s needs. Once Pearl comes to the table to talk about his contract, the two parties will be able to begin hammering out the details of an extension. Meanwhile, the athletics department’s intentions to invest in basketball are coming to the university’s board of trustees on Feb. 4. On the agenda for the meeting is approval for a project which would build a new practice gym for basketball.

It’s part of a project that’s long been on the horizon for Auburn athletics, in some ways since volleyball moved its operations into Auburn Arena years ago.

Athletics director Allen Greene and school associate vice president Dan King will seek authorization to initiate the project and start selecting an architect.

 

Also on the agenda is the final project approval for locker room renovations for women’s basketball in Auburn Arena. The building first opened in 2010. Auburn upgraded the men’s locker room in the offseason before the 2019-20 season.

The Opelika-Auburn News was assured Thursday that Auburn athletics is actively working to devise plans to create more practice space for both the men’s and women’s basketball teams, while also seeking to renovate the office space in the building which hasn’t been upgraded since the arena opened.

 

Pearl and his team will step out of SEC play on Saturday when the Tigers host Oklahoma as part of the SEC/Big 12 Challenge.

As for Pearl, he said on ESPN’s Keyshawn, JWill and Max podcast: “When you win, folks are worried you’re going to leave, and when you’re losing, they’re packing your bags.”

 

He said Auburn is a “fabulous place” and said it’s the best place he’s been that he can develop players.

Williams had asked him what it was like to be linked to the Louisville job and thought of as a candidate at a ‘basketball school.’

 

He argued that he’s already been at a basketball school: Tennessee.

“Now, it was a women’s basketball school,” he laughed, “but it was a basketball school.”

[Randman5000 4,235]

 

 

[wareagleguy 1,393]

Should be a no brainer

[kennypowers 1,431]

Auburn facilities are being built. Auburn basketball is being molded in his image.  As long as we basically let him do his thing...build his facilities... and keep him paid, I think he'll retire here.  

[wareagleguy 1,393]

CBP is in a position of leverage, I’m sure he’ll be shrewd enough to use it to his advantage 

[tgrogan21 6,198]

Posts on some other boards say that everything is expected to be worked out tonight. Happy they got this done even if it was a coordinated effort to make sure Bruce gets what he wants. He definitely deserves everything.

 

Edited January 28, 2022 by tgrogan21

[Maverick.AU 13,281]

4 minutes ago, tgrogan21 said:

Posts on some other boards say that everything is expected to be worked out tonight. Happy they got this done even if it was a coordinated effort to make sure Bruce gets what he wants. He definitely deserves everything.

 

If we had jaba'd this, I could never forgive this university 

[Maverick.AU 13,281]

1 hour ago, wareagleguy said:

CBP is in a position of leverage, I’m sure he’ll be shrewd enough to use it to his advantage 

Can't blame the guy. At the end of the day u want the most money, so that your family lives comfortably later on. Although with Bruce I think it's more about wants to make AU better than $, but $ is just a part of that 

[tgrogan21 6,198]

3 minutes ago, Maverick.AU said:

If we had jaba'd this, I could never forgive this university 

I don't think many were actually concerned but knowing it's Auburn I was still thinking that if any school screwed it up it would have been us. lol

I'm just glad that it seems like we'll have it done before the offseason so there should be no distractions for this team.

[Maverick.AU 13,281]

Just now, tgrogan21 said:

I don't think many were actually concerned but knowing it's Auburn I was still thinking that if any school screwed it up it would have been us. lol

I'm just glad that it seems like we'll have it done before the offseason so there should be no distractions for this team.

Still a load of crap that this stuff comes out now, right after getting the #1 ranking. Hoping we get it handled swiftly. Such an unnecessary distraction to this team, however between them I'm sure Bruce has already addressed it 

[wareagleguy 1,393]

2 hours ago, Maverick.AU said:

Can't blame the guy. At the end of the day u want the most money, so that your family lives comfortably later on. Although with Bruce I think it's more about wants to make AU better than $, but $ is just a part of that 

Yes, that’s my thought as well. It’s not only a contract for himself, but the facilities, budget, and so forth for the bball program.

[steeleagle 2,945]

6 hours ago, Maverick.AU said:

Still a load of crap that this stuff comes out now, right after getting the #1 ranking. Hoping we get it handled swiftly. Such an unnecessary distraction to this team, however between them I'm sure Bruce has already addressed it 

Well he’s a hot commodity w a program that 8 years ago was dead. 
 

it comes w his success that more basketball programs might go after him.  
This was unique to bc Louisville in the middle of the season tells its coach to be gone while we are at the top. 
 

I never doubted Auburn would not step up as soon as possible. They did. And I’m thankful for that. 
I also don’t think Bruce has an ego to be paid the best, but now one of the best. He knows he’s now going to help his staff monetarily and get our program needs upgraded significantly. 
and now other programs like WBB and Volleyball benefit. 

[woodford 3,678]

Hope we name the court after him one day. Let’s win a national championship first though. 

[AUBwins 10,107]

1 hour ago, woodford said:

Hope we name the court after him one day. Let’s win a national championship first though. 

Really hope we get it done this year. Check this off the Auburn Basketball bucket list!  I also really want to get one before Bama lol

[AuburnEagle79 2,170]

Give the man a blank check and call it a day. 

He is more Auburn than any coach we've had in any sport in a while, and he's pulled a full blown Lazarus miracle on our program.

Worth every single penny. 

[Muscle Shoals Tiger 144]

I hope they get it done. Hes brought such energy and positive personality to Auburn and its fanbase at a time when we need it. Get it done Auburn.

[autigeremt 6,776]

Bruce is the best thing going right now in Auburn Athletics. 

[NoALtiger 3,873]

1 hour ago, AuburnEagle79 said:

Give the man a blank check and call it a day. 

He is more Auburn than any coach we've had in any sport in a while, and he's pulled a full blown Lazarus miracle on our program.

Worth every single penny. 

This is so spot on. For a guy not born or bred even close to here, he’s fit in like a glove. Totally gets Auburn and what it all means. 

[Potatooooooes!! 1,375]

5 hours ago, woodford said:

Hope we name the court after him one day. Let’s win a national championship first though. 

Can we also build giant gates to the arena and call them…the Pearly Gates?

[Randman5000 4,235]

Check out Allen Greene s Twitter!

[Never2Yield 1,005]

8 minutes ago, Randman5000 said:

Check out Allen Greene s Twitter!

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[AUBwins 10,107]

Auburn just whipped Bama in gymnastics 197.525-197.125 (.400). For those that didn't know.  Suni won the all around for the night!

[aucat 69]

 

then CBP worth 8.1 mil

[MaxCohen216 514]

On 1/26/2022 at 7:21 PM, steeleagle said:

They’re not going to lock him up for life. 
 

that’s Coach K stuff. 
 

they will do plenty to make all happy. 
 

theres more to accomplish first. 

Well, they locked him up for life.  And I'd rather have Bruce Pearl than coach K any day.