{"id":1486,"date":"2025-10-16T16:03:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2025-10-17T14:34:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:34:38","slug":"high-profile-sec-coach-makes-decision-on-political-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/sports-media\/high-profile-sec-coach-makes-decision-on-political-run\/","title":{"rendered":"High Profile SEC Coach Makes Decision On Political Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to a run for office, one high profile SEC coach has made a decision on whether to seek a political post.<\/p>\n<p>Warner Brothers\/Discovery and CBS announced Thursday that former Tennessee and Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl has joined CBS and TNT for its college basketball broadcasts as a color commentator and studio analyst for the upcoming 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">CBS SPORTS STRENGTHENS ROSTER OF COLLEGE BASKETBALL ANALYSTS WITH BRUCE PEARL AND ROBBIE HUMMEL\u203c\ufe0f<a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coachbrucepearl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@coachbrucepearl<\/a> and <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobbieHummel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@RobbieHummel<\/a> to call CBS regular-season games and contribute to studio coverage, as well as CBS Sports and TNT Sports\u2019 joint coverage of March Madness. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D5Ds97g2ar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/D5Ds97g2ar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS Sports College Basketball \ud83c\udfc0 (@CBSSportsCBB) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSSportsCBB\/status\/1978811940307656734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Pearl, who <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/09\/05\/bruce-pearl-makes-important-revelation-about-his-coaching-future\/\" target=\"_self\">stepped down from his position as Auburn&#8217;s head coach in September<\/a>, will work regular season college basketball games for CBS as a color analyst as well as a studio analyst.\u00a0 For TNT, he will only be a studio analyst with Adam Lefkoe, Jalen Rose, and Jamal Mashburn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve long admired and deeply respected the way TNT Sports delivers the best studio shows in the industry, along with the way they treat everyone as family, and I could not be more excited to join the amazing team they\u2019ve assembled to cover college basketball,\u201d Pearl said <a  href=\"https:\/\/press.wbd.com\/us\/media-release\/tnt-sports\/tnt-sports-unveils-star-studded-college-basketball-studio-team\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in a statement<\/a>. \u201cThe product has never been in better shape on the court and I\u2019m going to bring the same passion I displayed as a coach to broadcasting. I can\u2019t wait for the start of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Pearl Decision Leaves Other High Profile Names For Run<\/h2>\n<h3>He was rumored to be interested in Tuberville&#8217;s Alabama Senate seat<\/h3>\n<p>The decision to joins CBS and TNT likely rules out any chance that Pearl would run in 2026 to try and take the seat in the United States Senate currently occupied by former Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the same seat that ESPN college football commentator and radio host <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/podcasts\/finebaum-returns-to-espn-after-absence-amid-senate-run-speculation\/\" target=\"_self\">Paul Finebaum has also been rumored to be running for<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pearl spent 11 seasons at Auburn, and seven years coaching Tennessee.\u00a0 He was also head coach at Southern Indiana and Milwaukee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to a run for office, one high profile SEC coach has made a decision on whether to seek a political post. Warner Brothers\/Discovery and CBS announced Thursday that former Tennessee and Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl has joined CBS and TNT for its college basketball broadcasts as a color commentator and studio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5660,"featured_media":1487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[273,238,266,285],"tags":[286,75],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cbs-sports","category-sports-media","category-networks","category-tnt","tag-bruce-pearl","tag-featured"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1490,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions\/1490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}