Bruce Pearl travels to Waco, cheers on Auburn football from McLane Stadium stands
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Bruce Pearl’s enthusiasm for Auburn basketball is obvious, since he’s the head coach of the Tigers and a passionate one at that.
But the 65-year-old man also has been known to get into it with other sports at whatever school he happens to be coaching at. Pearl was the head coach at Tennessee from 2005-11, and during those years Pearl often would get all crazy for Volunteer women’s basketball games, crossing over to another sport to show it the spirit and fire that he exudes on the sidelines during his regular gig.
Now, that fire is ablaze at Auburn, and Pearl showed once again on Friday night that he’s out there for all Tigers sports, not just the basketball team he leads. When the Auburn football team opened its season under the bright national TV lights on FOX in a true road game against Baylor, who do you think was spotted by SEC Network going wild for the Tigers in Waco?
Yes, it was Pearl, and here is the video of Pearl acting like a normal Auburn football fan and not a celebrity fan masquerading as a normal fan:
Pearl must have liked most of what he saw in the first half on Friday night, with Auburn taking a 17-10 lead into the halftime locker room. Of course, Pearl knows better than most that a halftime lead on the road isn’t safe, so the Tigers were going to need some more of that Pearl fire in the second half to survive in Waco.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
