Rick Barnes gets lifetime contract
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Because that worked out so well for Kentucky with Cal!! Good luck Vols.
The greatest win in school history occurred in the Sweet 16.
We can’t cast stones, gave Cal one and Stoops/Pope are nearly there. Stoops with 1 year extension after a 7 win season and Pope with an auto extension for making the sweet 16.
Regardless, unless the bar is really high (ie final 4) I don’t think contracts should automatically extend.
Regardless, unless the bar is really high (ie final 4) I don’t think contracts should automatically extend.
Considering he is 71, contract may be over after the end of this season.
To be fair, we gave Cal one coming off one of the better 10+ year runs in the modern era going back to his last 4 years at Memphis.
In hindsight it was a bad move because he just seemed to start mailing it in after that. But Barnhardt was in a bind. He gave it to him in 2019 and Cal was still viewed as one of the best in the business. If we had let him walk to UCLA at that point it would not have looked good.
Cal and his agent at the time really put Barnhardt in a bad spot.
Honestly there should have been a little more outrage from the fanbase towards CAL at the time for leveraging the UCLA job against us. It showed where his loyalties really lied. And it wasn’t with UK. It was with $
Yeah, but he's tripled the Elite Eight appearances Tennessee has made in the past Century-plus of having a program. From one to three. That's pretty impressive, considering Kentucky itself only has 38 Elite Eight appearances.
This. Barnhart gets a ton of grief for Cal’s contract but it’s nothing compared to what he would’ve gotten from the same group if he let Cal walk to UCLA in 2019. Could it have been done better? I don’t know but calling Cal’s bluff at that point wasn’t an option.
We certainly can cast stones. Hindsight is 20/20. Cal's contract was well earned. 4 Final Fours, a Natty, and a runner-up. 305-71= 81% winning% at the time. In 19-20 won the reg season title before Covid derailed the season. Calipari also had FF(runner-up) while at Memphis just a few seasons earlier.
Rick Barnes has 4 Elite 8s and 1 Final Four in 37 seasons(been coaching 38). Calipari had 5 E8s before he even got to Kentucky. Barnes had 2 in his first 34 seasons.
Barnes even went 1-1 against the worst Kentucky team in modern program history(19-20).
Rick Barnes has 4 Elite 8s and 1 Final Four in 37 seasons(been coaching 38). Calipari had 5 E8s before he even got to Kentucky. Barnes had 2 in his first 34 seasons.
Barnes even went 1-1 against the worst Kentucky team in modern program history(19-20).
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Almost as stupid as giving Calipari a lifetime contract. Calipari is an arrogant, narcissistic, egotistical, non coaching, insufferable ahole. And that’s being kind.
I’ll say one good thing about him, he was the best at having a loaded roster every year.
Can’t coach a lick.
And I mean this, with all due respect.
I’ll say one good thing about him, he was the best at having a loaded roster every year.
Can’t coach a lick.
And I mean this, with all due respect.
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That contact might actually be there attempt to keep him from retring as he aready said he was probably done when Ziegler graduated.
The sad part for me, is, when he was hired here, I was ecstatic. I thought he would win 5-6 titles in 20 years, and retire here, and have a statue built of him outside of Rupp Arena.
I also thought he would embrace our tradition, our State, and most importantly, our fans. Uh, he crapped on all three.
I also thought he would embrace our tradition, our State, and most importantly, our fans. Uh, he crapped on all three.
I chuckled at Pilgrim’s headline.
Step aside, Coach Cal -- there's a new lifetime contract in the SEC
He won the Lakers a title so I like him more than when we used to discuss him lol
I had another user name then but can't remember it lol getting old.
Who’s “WE” ? I sure as hell didn’t give Cal that contract. And I was against it from day one . It is fundamentally bad business.
FR he’s been really great there, but hasn’t got it done with all his great teams.
He’s a good coach. Seems like a nice enough guy. And, he did us that solid years ago by removing his name from consideration and all…..I’ll let him have a moment and won’t beat the guy up. But I hate UT.
Cal got a 10 year $86 million extension that they called a lifetime contract. It was not a life time contract, it was a 10 year deal.
Almost as stupid as always calling a 10!year extension when it was called a lifetime contract for recruiting purposes.
I was surprised to see Barne's paltry success in March Madness. What I feel and see is he's doing much better at TN than he was at Texas. But dude looks like he has the personality of an old creepy mortician. I'm surprised kids want to play for him.
UT should've done exactly that. Barnes does it the right way. He's a seemingly good dude. And he produces more wins in Knoxville than that fanbase and program should otherwise expect.
His roster continuity the last 5 years has finally gone off the rails. They better hope Nate ament is as good as he costs (he isn’t) because this contract is just to keep UT from the cellar for a few years before Barnes finally goes and they have to rebuild.
The only real problem with Cal's contract was the insanely high buy out if terminated. If the contract was just for salary and a modest buy out it wouldn't have been such a bad deal for the program. As it was, UK was not going to fire him any earlier that when he left. Mitch just wasn't going to.