Rod Barnes
Rod Barnes
Rodrick Kenneth Barnesis an American college basketball coach and current head coach of the Cal State Bakersfield Men's Basketball program. He previously served as head coach for the Georgia State University men's basketball team of the NCAA Division I's Colonial Athletic Association. Barnes was also head coach of the men's basketball team at the University of Mississippi...
eddie fox last post
Last year, we had Tommy Eddie in the post, who was 6-7. Kendrick Fox started and was not really a post player.
growing guys leadership
Some nights, we'll have guys that look like all-conference. It's been difficult. We are going through some growing pains. I take it personally. We need better leadership on the floor.
drive fight level practice respect rival today took trip
My level of respect for him just took a whole different level, to make that trip and then drive back and then practice and then play today and then fight in a rival game.
giving guys older stayed
We're giving a lot of guys opportunities. We've stayed with our older guys for a long time. Not that we're going away from them, we're just going to use (the freshmen).
affect becomes cry guys older rallying situation team time
When you have a young time like we do, it's going to affect them. Sometimes when you have an older team you may have a situation where guys have been there, and it becomes a rallying cry for everybody.
team
We've got to be a team that bounces back.
beat game gone great home last opportunity places played time winning
We've just gone to two places and got beat pretty badly. We go back home, the last time we were at home we played a great game. We're one game away from a regular-season winning season, and that's something we haven't done (since 2002). We get the opportunity to do that Saturday.
country maybe men playing wing
Those two are probably playing as well as any two wing men in the league, and maybe in the country.
doubt run
We run a lot of things offensively through Dwayne. When he's out, we've had doubts.
chose confidence couple gain guys shots squeezed work
We had a couple of times when our guys could have squeezed off shots when they chose not to. We've got to work our way out of this and gain our confidence back.
confidence few lack missing process rebuilding season starting team
We're the third-youngest team in the league, and it's starting to show. We're in a rebuilding process and we've still got a few missing pieces. We lack in confidence --kind of like my first season here. This is an unforgiving league. But one of these games, we're going to put everything together.
battle fighting fights-and-fighting uphill
We were fighting an uphill battle all night.
against country expect floor teams top
You can't come to the floor and get 19 turnovers against one of the top 10 teams in the country and expect to win. It just doesn't happen.
leave next tonight travel western
We wouldn't want to leave tonight and travel to Alabama. We've got to play better than this (against Western Carolina) next Tuesday.