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Bruce Pearl dons wig, lip syncs Taylor Swift at Auburn athletic awards

Auburn’s annual award show featured a COACH LIP SYNC BATTLE. Basketball coach Bruce Pearl competed against soccer coach Karen Hoppa and, while she did a pretty solid Bon Jovi, Pearl stole the show (and permanently etched his image in the deepest recesses of our brains) with a bewigged rendition of Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Getting Back Together”:

Hoppa helped out as the supporting actor, but Pearl really shone when solo. Just look at this:

And I hope you stuck around in the full video until the wig came off. That was a profound and not at all horrifying moment.

Pearl’s dressed up as Gus Malzahn before, but this is way better. Definitely keeping it 100.

(via AL.com)

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