Rick Barnes
Rick Barnes
Richard Dale Barnesis the current head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers men's basketball team, a post he has held since 2015...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth17 July 1954
anybody chance final good
I think they've got as good a chance as anybody in the Final Four.
best campus culture expecting great texas wanting
I think there's a culture at Texas about winning. You come there expecting great things to happen, to be special. There is a culture on our campus about wanting to be the best at what you do.
definitely deserves people texas
Texas A&M definitely deserves to get in. There will be a lot of people who won't want to play A&M.
basketball five good people ranked start three top
Look at Oklahoma. They start three seniors. They're a good basketball team. If people thought they were just going to go away, they (were wrong). You don't get ranked in the top five in the preseason if you don't have a good basketball team.
clean saw talk
I saw it. It was a clean block. There's no need to talk any more about it.
basketball doubted good guys kept tough tremendous
Our guys showed a tremendous will to win. We had some tough times, but we kept believing, and our guys never doubted they were a good basketball team.
guard guys matter smaller worried
Our big guys will have to guard their smaller players, so it?s a matter of defense. I?m not worried about us offensively.
fine goes jumping leaves line mind slow trouble
It is a fine line between where you don't want him to not be aggressive. But then again, I don't mind if he leaves his feet. As long as he goes up in his area. Where he has been getting in trouble is he is jumping in to people. He just has to slow down.
couple guys rick upset
I think that Rick would have to have upset a couple guys and have them quit,
desire four goes hire shown son though whatsoever
If it goes well in the league, even though my son has never shown any desire whatsoever to coach, ... In about four years if he doesn't have a job, I am going to hire him.
definitely great night perspective
He was a little jumpy the other night, and we got him for it. He had a great response. He definitely had a different perspective on things.
game knew loves
He loves this game. I knew he would be a person that would come back from it.
improved iron man might player
He might have improved as much as any player that I've ever coached. And he has become an iron man.
coming pros talked
We talked about the pros of coming back and pros of leaving. I told him he's going to have to make this decision; I can't.