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5 at 10: Bruce Pearl, Vols future and the marathon running sumo wrestler

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Buckets, the first weekend of the NCAA tournament is something else.

Here we go…

photo UT coach Bruce Pearl yells in the student section before the Lady Vols college basketball game against Duke in Knoxville on Jan. 22, 2007. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)

It had to happen, right

Bruce Pearl was fired Monday, capping the best six-year stretch in Tennessee basketball history.

Pearl’s utter indifference to the rules that are designed to place boundaries on college athletics was his downfall.