He's been critical of the school at times however he has bent over backwards to protect Penny since he advocated for the hire big time.
The mental gymnastics he was doing to deflect blame away from Penny when they lost 80-40 to a Frank Haith coached Tulsa team was all I needed to see.
Yep, I understand that part. That was one of the days I questioned his coaching too. Also watching our game against them made me question him, even though they won. He was isolating Lomax, which I didn’t understand.
But I do agree that they would have been much better with Wiseman (and I know their decisions were a reason why Wiseman never really played). If you take a top 5 recruit off any team, it hurts. Plus, Jeffries missed the last 6 weeks, and he was their 2nd best player after Wiseman decided to skip the year.
Barnes is a better coach, but players help you win, and I said very similar things after we lost Turner for the year.