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Bruce Pearl: I will get the chance to coach again

"Do you want me to write the book about how do you lose $10 million jobs? I can write the book," he told the radio station. "How can you be so dumb and so careless? ... It's not so much about what we did, it's about how we handled it.

"I think there was some decisions that we made. Specifically, in my visit with the enforcement staff. I answered about 150 questions. I answered 148 of them honestly. There were two questions that I did not answer honestly. Had I answered those two questions knowingly, willingly, honestly, instead of a week later asking them to come back because I knew I had made a mistake ... you guys would be interviewing the coach at Tennessee."

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