Irrational Rick Barnes takes (merged)

[SGMVols]

Sure it doesn’t. Right. I think Barnes is a good regular season coach and poor in March and I have a lot of evidence to prove this. You don’t have a lot of evidence to prove the contrary

They don’t make the court longer or the basket higher when the calendar flips to March. It’s the same game. The only thing that changes is level of competition.

 

[OrangeUTopia]

How many sweet 16’s do we have historically?

I know, we’re killing it

 

[SGMVols]

Losing early in tourneys has.

When he leaves you won’t have to worry about that because we’ll be going back to the days of begging for the NIT

 

[OrangeUTopia]

To be fair, it is hard for most coaches to win in March. It has gotten worse lately, each game is like a dice roll with the way teams play today.

We keep rolling snake eyes

 

[nomads-11]

Decelerating in March.....seems like when get here we're too worn out.

 

[WestTennesseeVol]

At least this thread is more entertaining than the actual game

 

[beachvol23]

Exactly… well to me it starts with our seniors !! They’re supposed to lighten the load on the rest of the team bc they’ve been there.. but our seniors do the opposite

They should’ve been benched some time ago, but thanks, Rick Warlick! Another classic performance!

 

[207 others]

Such a poor excuse for a fan, I’ve been to an absurd amount of games across all sports. The facts are Barnes In March is a joke. He’s incredible in regular season. This has been a trend his entire career. I like Barnes, but he won’t ever win in March.

That means NOTHING because you're not a bootlicker ! Lmao

 

[SonOfGodVolforlife]

Barnes is shooting 3 for 9,000,000 from three?

… Barnes is the coach that does this every year. If this was football he’d be fired

 

[207 others]

How many sweet 16’s do we have historically?

How many teams would get in the tournament historically? UK would take the sec spot unfair question

 

[GoodTimeVol]

How many teams would get in the tournament historically? UK would take the sec spot unfair question

The question is valid based on the original point of the thread…

 

[GoodTimeVol]

Why doesn’t Rick Barnes recruit some fukin 3 point shooters.. he’s stuck in 2002

dumb take after another in this thread

 

[Orange_Vol1321]

Tournament Barnes strikes again.

 

[SonOfGodVolforlife]

dumb take after another in this thread

… the dumb ones are expecting something to change year after year of the same result.

 

[northknoxvol]

Regular Season Rick..........too early?

 

[GoodTimeVol]

… the dumb ones are expecting something to change year after year of the same result.

Ahh yes because we have such a rich history of final 4 appearances in our past Barnes sucks because he can’t win back to back sec tournaments let’s go with that narrative instead

 

[SonOfGodVolforlife]

Ahh yes because we have such a rich history of final 4 appearances in our past Barnes sucks because he can’t win back to back sec tournaments let’s go with that narrative instead

Let’s clap we just lost by 20 to the 9 seed!! Woooh!! Let’s do it again next year !

 

[GoodTimeVol]

Let’s clap we just lost by 20 to the 9 seed!! Woooh!! Let’s do it again next year !

you realize this doesn’t end the season right?

 

[Vol737]

It’s disappointing, but Barnes isn’t going anywhere. Our losses have been when the whole team goes cold. We only have a couple of guys that are reliable to some degree, Knecht more than the others, obviously. The rest may just occasionally contribute. We don’t really seem to have a team full of good shooters we can rely on. Season would have sucked if not for DK.

 

[207 others]

Ahh yes because we have such a rich history of final 4 appearances in our past Barnes sucks because he can’t win back to back sec tournaments let’s go with that narrative instead

Ah yes we have so many national championships before Fulmer it's just a loss to Wyoming forgetting 1998? Let's go with that narrative instead

 

[vols 30]

This thread is going to be tonight

 

[SonOfGodVolforlife]

you realize this doesn’t end the season right?

that’s your argument? Well to bad Barnes is next game is the tourney. What’s his record again??

 

[GoodTimeVol]

Ah yes we have so many national championships before Fulmer it's just a loss to Wyoming forgetting 1998? Let's go with that narrative instead

Found the Kentucky fan lol

 

[berryvol]

It’s disappointing, but Barnes isn’t going anywhere. Our losses have been when the whole team goes cold. We only have a couple of guys that are reliable to some degree, Knecht more than the others, obviously. The rest may just occasionally contribute. We don’t really seem to have a team full of good shooters we can rely on. Season would have sucked if not for DK.

I love Barnes and don’t want him to leave - you’re crazy if you do, especially over this single game. But our guys came in totally unprepared for this game and that rests just as much on the staff as it does the team. Hopefully we come out well-rested and ready to play next week, but this game is certainly not going to instill any confidence in anyone that we will.

 

[volgr]

I give Barnes full credit for all the wins, 2 SEC titles and a SEC Tourney title but man, more years than not, the Tournament just isnt kind to the guy.