Rick Barnes

[Pony_Law]

Sounds like Bama is getting serious about bball-- supposedly was willing to offer somewhere in the range of $4M annually for Marshall

always been a concern of mine. The P5 will price everyone else out of the market. That's effectively happened in FB, natural evolution is for it to now occur in BB as well.

Can't price people out of the hungry good coach that is ready for the first time head coaching job. Small schools might not be able to keep a coach like that forever but you get 4-5 years with them producing conference and tournament wins.

[Planter's Punch]

looks like Barnes bounced from one UT to another UT

[DiamondM75]

looks like Barnes bounced from one UT to another UT

At least he won't have to purchase a new wardrobe.

[Rebel10]

Tennessee has a bit of talent to work with

[SoCal_Pony]

Sounds like Bama is getting serious about bball-- supposedly was willing to offer somewhere in the range of $4M annually for Marshall

always been a concern of mine. The P5 will price everyone else out of the market. That's effectively happened in FB, natural evolution is for it to now occur in BB as well.

Can't price people out of the hungry good coach that is ready for the first time head coaching job. Small schools might not be able to keep a coach like that forever but you get 4-5 years with them producing conference and tournament wins.

You're proving my point.

Younger, hungrier and less experienced = bigger risk.

What happens when even lower rung P5 schools pay their BB coaching staffs $10M/year, could we afford the assistant coaches LB hired just 3 years ago? Maybe not.

Anyway, that is my prediction. Greed will rule in the end & P5 will want a much much bigger slice of men's BB pie. There is simply too much parity today, relatively speaking.

[max the wonder dog]

looks like Barnes bounced from one UT to another UT

At least he won't have to purchase a new wardrobe.

Nope. UTenn's orange is a much lighter shade, some variants are on the urine yellow side of the color spectrum.

[smupony94]

@JimmyHyams: Rick Barnes' contract at Tennessee: 6 years at $2.25 million with incentives.