Wild message board poster wants Auburn to replace Bruce Pearl with Chris Beard after Vanderbilt loss

An Auburn basketball fan took to the famed Auburn Live “Bunker” after the Tigers’ last-second 67-65 loss to Vanderbilt in Nashville on February 18 to propose an absolutely wild scenario to overhaul the team’s coaching staff: replace Bruce Pearl, the most successful coach in program history, to bring on former Texas coach Chris Beard — who was let go from the Longhorns program after he was arrested on a third-degree felony assault charge for allegedly strangling, biting, and assaulting his fiancée in their home.

Here was the post in all its shameless lowliness, of which the poster clearly understood the absurdity with the phrase “yeah I said it”…

Bruce Pearl should dictate when he leaves Auburn

If you thought the backlash from the Hugh Freeze hiring was something, replacing Bruce Pearl at this juncture with Beard would cause a firestorm of epic proportions. John Cohen knows that such a switch would turn the Auburn Family against him in an instant and further alienate any fans who were unhappy with the Auburn football coaching hire.

Pearl’s Tigers have been underwhelming on the hardwood this season with two incoming freshman who were expected to be relied upon not being up to snuff. Chance Westry has been sidelined for all but 11 games due to complications from a knee surgery he had in the offseason, but 5-star prospect Yohan Traore has been healthy yet ineffective in his freshman season. Couple that with inconsistent shooting from the team’s backcourt trio of Wendell Green Jr., K.D. Johnson, and Zep Jasper, and you have a team unable produce a steady offensive attack outside of dumping the ball to either Johni Broome or Jaylin Williams in the post.

Even still, this team could turn it on in March and have everyone forgetting the woes suffered throughout conference play. Talking about replacing Pearl now could potentially age poorly in record time.

Not to mention, with Pearl’s 2024 recruiting class ranked No. 3 in the nation, firing the head coach would risk the future health of the program.

When Bruce Pearl leaves Auburn, it should be on his own accord. The program has never had a coach like him, and shouldn’t risk letting him get away due to the short-term outlook of the team overshadowing the long-term vision Pearl has on the Plains.