After one season----was Barnes the right hire?

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vols 30 said:
No! Not his fault that the game passed him by. The Cheap ass AD should have spent the money for a younger, successful coach. Instead, we will get two more years of winning around 14/15 games.

You'll have the same cast of characters defending his recruiting, but it sucks compared to the rest of SEC.
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I don't get this game has passed him by argument. If I was a player I'd be appreciative of his style of teaching and preparing his team and allowing them to have the spotlight as opposed to a clown coach that is an attention whore wanting to be the focus. Years of experience in most cases results in wisdom, not suddenly getting stupid.
 
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#27
#27
I think he was a great hire. As someone posted earlier, he stopped the bleeding. I don't expect him to be here long term, but he can get us back on stable ground. At that point it will be a much more attractive position for a big hire
 
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#28
I hope that he can make the program progressively better for several years and Duke, UNC, Louisville, and Kentucky all have their next coaches in place. I want TN to be best coaching opportunity available when Barnes retires and becomes an elder stateman of TN basketball. I hate that TN fires so many coaches instead of having them leave on good terms and be advocates of the program after they're done with their coaching gigs.
 
#30
#30
Im not sure Barnes has the energy for a rebuild job but hopefully he can stabilize the program for a few years
 
#31
#31
Too early to tell. We'll know more 2 years from now. He was the 3rd coach in 3 years. The roster had taken a major hit because of all the coaching changes. Next year may be worse than this year. Unfortunately, we won't be sniffing a possible NCAA birth until 2 more years. He has to upgrade the roster. We were in a gunfight with a pocket knife for most of our games this year.
 
#32
#32
I'd say he was the right hire because he was the best guy available considering the situation we were in . I think at the minimum he will leave his successor with some decent talent . That is something that Cuonzo and DT didn't do although DT didn't really have a chance to build a roster because of his mistakes.

Can he win ? It is too early to tell but I don't recall any great options that were beating down the door.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
I don't get this game has passed him by argument. If I was a player I'd be appreciative of his style of teaching and preparing his team and allowing them to have the spotlight as opposed to a clown coach that is an attention whore wanting to be the focus. Years of experience in most cases results in wisdom, not suddenly getting stupid.[/QUOTE

i just see Barnes and Fulmer in the same way. Great coaches that probably sticked around a couple of years too long. The results show in wins/losses and recruiting - for both coaches
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The fact that CFB had to start Derrick Reese says everything about this season. I think he did an excellent job with having a crop roster. Third coach in three years. If anyone expected some kind of crazy run to the dance this year, you're just that Crazy!!!
 
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Special Ed said:
I haven't seen anything impressive out of Barnes since he donned Volunteer Orange, so it's hard to be optimistic about his future at UT, however long or short it might be. I'm hoping he can do better than 12th place in the conference once he gets a full roster under him, but he's going to have to recruit like a bandit and coach like hell to keep pace with the rising programs in the SEC. I won't be content seeing the Vols lurking in the bottom tier of the SEC for the foreseeable future.
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We've had some very good wins. Kentucky and LSU were very bright spots
 
#44
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He did beat Florida and Kentucky in his first season and no matter how different they are I have to give him credit for that at least. He made bball exciting at times.
 
#45
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BigOrangeVols said:
He did beat Florida and Kentucky in his first season and no matter how different they are I have to give him credit for that at least. He made bball exciting at times.
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Yep. Which shows us how much Potenial this team had.

Way too much gap between good(USCe, florida, lsu, Kentucky) and bad(auburn, Vandy, TCU, mizzu)
 
#46
#46
Nope, but this year showed me what I expected. A couple good game plans lead to wins, blown halftime leads, lack of offensive creativity.

Barnes didn't have much to work with but it's not good when you have your worst season in twelve years.
 
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butchna said:
We were bleeding...he stopped it. Would have loved to hire the SFA coach, but he would've lost games without the cred that Coach Barnes has built during the years. I don't know for how long this hire will be the correct...but it is right now.
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For right now is the exact best point.
 
#48
#48
"Barnes didn't have much to work with but it's not good when you have your worst season in twelve years."
No offense but that sentence is illogical to me.
 
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#49
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I think it was good hire and it showed with the progress Punter made from being a streaky player last year to being one of the most consistent scorers in the nation. When you have a 6'4 player as your only option scoring in the paint there isn't a lot of ways to change the up the gameplan. I think Alexanders progress from this season to next will be a good way to judge if this was the right hire. Player development will always be key to UT's success on the court not recruiting ratings.
 
#50
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vols 30 said:
No! Not his fault that the game passed him by. The Cheap ass AD should have spent the money for a younger, successful coach. Instead, we will get two more years of winning around 14/15 games.

You'll have the same cast of characters defending his recruiting, but it sucks compared to the rest of SEC.
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Think you're wrong on this one, Hart ponied up $2.2m for Barnes, Florida is paying less than that for White. It wasn't a money issue for once with Tennessee, as it's becoming more and more common people don't simply just run at more money like they used to. Look at how many jobs Shaka Smart turned down that would've been raises, same for Gregg Marshall, it's not as simple as offer more money than their current school and you get your guy.
 
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