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
anyone basketball close coached fix happened improving kid knew knows player program spent sure time
Anyone close to our program knows the kind of kid and person he is. He knew a lot of the things that happened were his fault. He said he would fix it, and he did. I'm not sure I ever coached a player that spent as much time improving the kind of person he is as he did improving his basketball game.
america atlantic best coach coast conference desire jobs quite
If you want me to be quite blunt, I've got one of the best jobs in America. I have no desire to coach in the Atlantic Coast Conference or any other part of the country.
anyone coaches love stress tough understand until
I don't know if anyone can really understand the stress of coaches until you go through it. I love this business, as we all do, but it's a tough profession. There's a lot of stress.
coaching hopefully learned less save
When I was at Providence, I'd feel like every day I was coaching to save my life. As you get older, hopefully you get smarter. I've learned that sometimes less is more.
anybody coach love player today
P.J. showed today why he's the player he is. Not only you look at his line, but defensively what he did for us. You love anybody as a coach that's going to give you everything he's got.
coach deserves herb poured
Herb hasn't been appreciated the way he should be appreciated. He deserves more than the way he's been treated. He has poured everything he has into the job. I don't think they could find a better coach for their program.
knew
I knew he'd make it back, ... He never pouted.
game next win
I just want to win the next game we play, and then the next one after that. All I know is, we can't let down.
four seven
It's not four out of seven or two out of three. It's a one-shot deal.
biggest consistency
The biggest thing we need right now is consistency.
attitude capable played trying
I want to see us play better. We haven't played as well as we are capable of playing, but we have the attitude of trying to get better.
anywhere confidence playing running screens
Once he got it going, we were playing off him, running him off screens anywhere we could. When they concentrate inside, he has enough confidence to get it going.
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I'm glad they said something like that. I'll be using that for the next few years. I guess we wanted it more during the regular season since we beat them and came into the tournament as the No. 1 seed. I don't doubt my players' desire one bit.
acted beat beaten looking team
I'm not going to take anything away from them because I thought they beat us in every way you could be beaten today. From looking at my team out there, I thought they acted like it was going to be (like the first game) again.