Pearl To Get Show-Cause Penalties

Carolina Kat Tue Aug 23, 2011 8:34 pm

Updated: August 23, 2011, 4:03 PM ET

Sources: Bruce Pearl to get penalty

By Andy Katz
ESPN.com

Former Tennessee men's basketball coach Bruce Pearl will receive a multiple-year show-cause penalty from the NCAA's committee on infractions, and his three former assistants -- Tony Jones, Steve Forbes and Jason Shay -- will receive one-year show-cause penalties, multiple sources with knowledge of the report told ESPN.com Tuesday.

The NCAA called to alert the respective parties that the news release would be coming out Wednesday.

Pearl and the assistants went in front of the committee on infractions June 11.

Andy Katz is a senior writer for ESPN.com.

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