volsarelife1
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The Vols on Friday afternoon released details of the new deal, which is worth $26 million over five years. The contract amendment will take Barnes to $4.7 million next year, with annual raises of $250,000 over the following four years increasing the salary to $5.7 million during the 2023-24 season.
Would you rather he recruit or win at an elite level?
I think I would prefer he continues to recruit the players he feels best fits his system. His recruiting brought UT back to being a basketball team that is one to b feared in the short amount of time he has been here. You were probably one that was whining when he brought in Grant and Kyle and was upset when he kept Admiral.He's being paid like an elite coach. I hope he starts recruiting at an elite level.
Lol "played us." That's one way to spin it.I was his biggest supporter and am glad we kept him but now that he played us like he did he better not give us a chance to show we're just a loyal as he was.
Keep us competing for SEC titles and March Madness runs and all will be good.
Stop doing that and it wont be a story book finish for you Brother Rick.
I think I would prefer he continues to recruit the players he feels best fits his system. His recruiting brought UT back to being a basketball team that is one to b feared in the short amount of time he has been here. You were probably one that was whining when he brought in Grant and Kyle and was upset when he kept Admiral.
I agree with wanting to get better kids that fit the system. If he could recruit 5* players that buy in and don't want to be one and done types, I would be ecstatic! I do not want him to start relying on recruiting agencies to decide what is best though. That cost us a pretty good football coach a few years ago who became star struck and stopped evaluating.The question being...was that just an anomaly or is this a viable plan going forward? If Grant and Bone also depart, we're going to roll with the next generation of his recruiting evaluations so it won't take long to get an answer to that question.
As for the other question, I really hadn't cared enough about UT basketball to follow hoop recruiting until we came out of the wilderness by hiring Pearl. Then the BBQ debacle pulled the rug from under our program and we returned to basketball purgatory. I viewed hiring Barnes as signing a guy who was looking for a check until retirement. I also considered his recruiting as just getting kids who would be easier to deal with and that Barnes just had no desire to stroke the egos of 18-22 year old kids anymore. Don't blame him for that, but at this point, UT has the table set for a few years of consistent success and hopefully will be viewed in a far more favorable light by other coaches when Barnes does step away.
Simply put...I hope we can start going after and signing more talented players who also fit his preferred "type" of player. All signs point to that being the case with kids like James and Walker. Just hoping there are more of those types in our future classes.