Auburn Tigers basketball coach Bruce Pearl and AD John Cohen celebrated their team being the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament this past March with rings.
To many, this is an easy-to-meme mistake that could be brought back up at inopportune times for the program. It's not hard to picture the final score being posted from a loss, and dozens of opposing fanbases, though let's be real, they'll mostly be Gumps, flooding the graphic with call-backs to this decision.
OutKick's Austin Perry believes the Tigers "out-embarrassed" the Georgia Bulldogs for a similar gesture and the Tennessee Volunteers for extending a coach who hasn't even achieved a No.