This is the guy for the Wildcats. Rick Barnes.
Rick Pitino says he’s staying at Louisville. John Calipari has re-upped at Memphis and the Aggies are expected to give Billy G a raise to stay at Texas A&M.
Barnes can bring in top talent. He did it at Providence and at Texas.
I think Barnes is getting tired of the lack of sellouts in Austin…and the backseat the hoops program takes to football.
This is Rick’s chance to be THE MAN. Mack Brown is THE MAN at Texas.
Brown left North Carolina because basketball was always going to be #1.
Barnes knows Texas basketball will never be #1. He saw Kelvin Sampson leave Oklahoma for Indiana basketball. Sampson was good for the Sooners, but it’s a football program. The state of Indiana is all about basketball.
So look for Barnes to end his 9 year run at Texas and take his act to the Bluegrass of Kentucky.
Newy Scruggs
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