Posted by TommyJack on January 31, 2008 at 4:43 p.m. (Suggest removal)

coolio

Posted by KingsportVol on January 31, 2008 at 5:26 p.m. (Suggest removal)

WERD!

Posted by cdonsbach on January 31, 2008 at 5:37 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Mazal Tov!

Posted by utk9 on January 31, 2008 at 5:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)

challah!

Posted by orangeblood on January 31, 2008 at 6:41 p.m. (Suggest removal)

cdonsbach as in Chris Donsbach?

Posted by ashvol on January 31, 2008 at 7:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)

great recognition for Coach Pearl. I admire his commitment to faith as much as his coaching ability. He obviously has a passion for both.

Posted by TurboFan on January 31, 2008 at 9:37 p.m. (Suggest removal)

orangeblood, click on the name and answer your own question.

Posted by GreerVol22 on February 1, 2008 at 7:13 a.m. (Suggest removal)

you....you meshuga coach you.....

Posted by utvolz on February 1, 2008 at 8:49 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Congrats Coach! You represent both The University of Tennessee and your faith with pride. I'm certainly glad we have you.

Frank in Miami

Posted by tngeoff on February 1, 2008 at 9:36 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Congratulations Coach! Outstanding achievement! Keep up the great work!

Posted by shoalcreekvol on February 1, 2008 at 12:57 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I was watching the UT-Bama game with a friend the other night (he's an Ole Miss fan) and he kept going on and on about the "black coach". I thought he was talking about an assistant or someone else but no, he thought Bruce Pearl was black. Took me the rest of the game to convince him that "Jewish" is not just a religion but is also a race. That led me to do a Google search and I found that fans of other schools have had the same discussion in their forums. Needless to say the actual discussion in those forums was not always held to the highest standards of decency...

FYI this is the same friend that was (against his will) part of the famous "Cutcliffe Debates", as recorded here:
http://govolsxtra.ning.com/profiles/b...

Posted by TommyJack on February 1, 2008 at 1:10 p.m. (Suggest removal)

shoalcreek: Well stupid me. I'm thinking Judaism IS A RELIGION, NOT a race.

Posted by shoalcreekvol on February 1, 2008 at 1:28 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I wasn't intending to get into this but "Judaism" is both a religion and an ethnicity. That makes it unique among most races and religions. I'm not Jewish, but a Jewish man did die for me once so I've studied his life story a little (as you may also have done).

If you are a Christian or have ever studied the Christian bible (especially the New Testament), you'll notice a lot of discussion of "Jewish Christians" in the first century. These were people who were Jewish by race and religion, but changed their religion to Christianity. After they became Christians by religion they were still Jews by race. They were joined by Greek Christians and then eventually Christians from all over the world as it existed at that time.

I'm not writing this to start a big religious discussion, just pointing out that the existence of both the Jewish race and the Jewish religion was illustrated in the Bible, as it still is all over the world today. Hope that clarifies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew

Posted by pdhuff on February 1, 2008 at 2:02 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Beat MSU with our Jewish coach. Who cares. I like him and I'm a back-sliding (big group) Methodist.

Posted by andefromtn on February 1, 2008 at 4:32 p.m. (Suggest removal)

A Jew can be a person's religion and nationlity of descent according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

Jew

Etymology: Middle English, from Old French gyu, from Latin Judaeus, from Greek Ioudaios, from Hebrew Yehūdhī, from YehūdhAh Judah, Jewish kingdom
1 a : a member of the tribe of Judah b : ISRAELITE
2 : a member of a nation existing in Palestine from the 6th century BCE to the 1st century CE
3 : a person belonging to a continuation through descent or conversion of the ancient Jewish people
4 : one whose religion is Judaism

Posted by HardcoreHottie on February 2, 2008 at 12:15 p.m.

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Posted by andefromtn on February 2, 2008 at 11:12 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Your comment is offensive to every Jewish person who follows his or her faith and keeps kosher.

Posted by goldengate on February 3, 2008 at 9:02 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Jewish, Christian, whatever. Pearl is a great guy and a very good coach. He has represented the university very well, fitting right in with the leaders of the sports money-makers at UT, namely Summitt and Fulmer.

He better hope he never has a season that the idiot posters to this site consider subpar. If he does, the resident basketball geniuses (and they know who they are) will come up with something briliaint (to their thinking) like "Pound the matzoh ball".

Posted by smokymtman on February 4, 2008 at 5:59 p.m. (Suggest removal)

"Idiot posters"...I resemble that remark!