The Official Rick Barnes discussion thread

[chuckiepoo]

Barnes is in his 11th year as the head ball coach.

6 of the 9 times TN has won 25 or more games, Barnes was the coach.

2 of the 5 highest winning percentages in a season since 1950 and Rick Barnes was the coach.

The 30 games won LAST year is the third most in UT’s 117 seasons. The 78.9% winning percentage was the 10th best ever.

You LoM posters wanting CRB to leave are idiots. Stop eating paint chips.

…but, but: Tasty paint chips…

 

[chuckiepoo]

Plus he apparently likes the Tuscaloosa haberdasher that he shares with Wimp Sanderson.

Those jackets… sheesh.

 

[chuckiepoo]

Our fans aren’t smart enough to grasp this concept.

There are some knuckle draggers up in here..

 

[walkenvol]

I'm not saying Barnes sucks. The players he brought in are bad. Burg the best 2 guard he could get. Come on. You can't win with projects anymore.

Is anybody thinking Burg wasn’t a fallback option when we struck out on several others? Burg was an afterthought who they hoped might be able to provide some solid backup minutes and lately that’s just what he’s been doing. CRB never could have been thinking Burg was going to provide all-conference type of play. Hammer the staff for striking out on their first 5 two guard wants, but for a last second pick up Burg is finally playing some decent backup minutes

 

[Skooter]

I think Burg was a body added and we expected Boswell and Abrams to hold down SG with an inside presence, lottery pick and All sec pg doing the scoring. No idea what happened with Abrams.

 

[beachvol23]

I won't lie to you, a part of me hopes that Coach Barnes hangs on until after ADDW moves on to a better job then retires. Right now I have zero faith in ADDW's ability to replace Barnes with a competent coach upon retirement; worried he might try to "experiment" again like he did with the Lady Vols hire.

I made this exact point in another thread!!!! ADDW had to be put in his place already for the baseball situation and the good folks involved made Elander happen or DW was going to screw that up. IMO, when Heupel goes, so does DW. In Randy and Donde we trust!

 

[BernardKingGOAT]

It's so laughable how this thread stays dormant during win streaks, but after any of the few losses we have each year, the know-nothings pop in to tell us what Barnes is doing wrong. Same guys. All with low level knowledge who wouldn't have a clue how to prepare or coach a team through a game

 

[VolFreakJosh]

It's so laughable how this thread stays dormant during win streaks, but after any of the few losses we have each year, the know-nothings pop in to tell us what Barnes is doing wrong. Same guys. All with low level knowledge who wouldn't have a clue how to prepare or coach a team through a game

I’ve come to conclusion those folks don’t like Barnes and make up any narrative they can to put down the guy.

Those type of low IQ fans give our fanbase a bad name.

 

[Delmar]

I’ve come to conclusion those folks don’t like Barnes and make up any narrative they can to put down the guy.

Those type of low IQ fans give our fanbase a bad name.

There’s always a few at the end of every season that crawl out of their hole when the team gets knocked out of the SEC or NCAA tournament. I use it as a time to activate the Ignore list. And I see a couple of culprits that are about to join it. Got no time for fools, trolls or the incessantly negative.