Rick Barnes has emerged as a serious candidate the for UCLA job, reportedly has interviewed

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wmcovol said:
Many of them want to come east. That’s been the issue the last 20 yrs with UCLA.
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Once again, you don’t have to get the whole lot of them. Just need 2-3. That’s not tough to do with a prominent name coach in a town like LA
 
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Roustabout said:
Huh?
His wife is a UT grad. He’s from the south. LA is about as unBarnes as you can get. Can’t imagine UCLA would pay a $5 mil buyout and $5ion salary for a coach at his age. If they do the more power to them. And if Barnes bites then he wasn’t who we thought he was.
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Austin, Texas has a lot more in common with California than it does Knoxville and he spent 17 years there.
 
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Roustabout said:
Huh?
His wife is a UT grad. He’s from the south. LA is about as unBarnes as you can get. Can’t imagine UCLA would pay a $5 mil buyout and $5ion salary for a coach at his age. If they do the more power to them. And if Barnes bites then he wasn’t who we thought he was.
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UCLA is desperate and has crazy money to spend. Barnes could simply have said I want 7 million per year to come. What if they offer it.... Barnes would be an idiot to turn it down
 
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If Rick Barnes winds up going to UCLA who would be your Top 5 candidates to replace him? Here are my Top 5+3 not necessarily in this order.

1)Leonard Hamilton FSU head coach
2)Scott Drew Baylor head coach
3)Kenny Payne Kentucky associate head coach
4)Steve Prohm Iowa State head coach
5)Tony Bennett Virginia head coach
6)Steve Robinson North Carolina assistant coach
7)Kermit Davis Ole Miss head coach
8)Bruce Pearl Auburn head coach
 
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cwbytruckers said:
HELL NO TO BRUCE
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HAHAHA oh man, my all time favorite post on Volnation. In it's simplicity, this post is still able to check off three absurd points:
1. We are ready to fight about a replacement coach when there is almost no chance we are hiring a new coach;
2. That in the event we are needing to replace our coach, we wouldn't want to consider a guy who just finished up a tourney run in the Final Four, a whisker away from the championship game, without his best player;
and
3. That Bruce would leave to Auburn to come here.

Bravo sir, Bravo!!
 
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Just to throw another log on to the possible meltdown here - Grant Williams would be eligible to follow Barnes as a grad transfer.
 
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