🚨AUBURN’S BRUCE PEARL RETIRES 🚨
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
So much for a slow news Monday. Auburn Head Coach Bruce Pearl is retiring, leaving his son Steven Pearl to take over the Tigers' top spot. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander break down everything on this emergency episode of the show! 06:00 - Could Bruce Pearl run for Senate? 17:11 - How it ended at Tennessee 20:30 - How great Bruce Pearl was at Auburn 26:45 - Should Bruce be taking heat for the timing of his retirement decision
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, scary parish, welcome back, CBS Sports I Own College Basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting dodo birds and |
| 0:21.9 | leaky black. Matt Norlander is here with me. If you're watching on YouTube, you know what to do |
| 0:25.9 | that like button. Shouts to Brandon Davies. And if you haven't yet subscribe to the CBS Sports |
| 0:29.9 | College Basketball YouTube channel, please also do that while you're here. Let's get into it. |
| 0:34.8 | Big headline on this Monday afternoon. |
| 0:41.5 | Bruce Pearl, the winning is coach in Auburn men's basketball history. |
| 0:50.1 | A man who has advanced to a pair of Final Fours, including last seasons, is retiring from Auburn at the age of 65. |
| 0:53.1 | His son, Stephen Pearl, is the tiger's new head coach. |
| 0:54.6 | He is 38 years old. |
| 1:01.4 | Norlander, both of us have been aware that this has been in the wind for a while. |
| 1:04.2 | Just out of curiosity, I went back and looked at our text. |
| 1:07.5 | On August 6th, I text you about this exactly. |
| 1:10.7 | Taking him behind the curtain, huh? |
| 1:12.0 | Okay, let's just do it. |
| 1:12.6 | All right, here we go. |
| 1:13.9 | It was August 6th. |
| 1:18.7 | I texted you about this specifically, and we had both heard this. |
| 1:20.0 | I think a lot of people have heard this. |
| 1:25.1 | More recently, BP was asked about it publicly and kind of just dismissed the entire topic, didn't deny anything necessarily but just talked |
| 1:29.0 | around it either way now here we are it's september 22nd bp is done coaching college basketball |
| 1:35.7 | your thoughts uh well there's a lot to get to here um i am surprised that this is happening today now |
| 1:41.6 | this has been in the wind plenty the why of it remains to be seen to everyone hopping on. First of all, we'd love to see the YouTube chat just humming here on a Monday in September. That's good stuff. The reason for it, well, there's a coach that's no longer going to be on the sidelines who's one of the better quotes behind a mic that there is. So that's a bummer to lose Pearl on that end. |
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