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Barnes' transformation at Texas

By Fran Fraschilla

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

I just had a discussion with a writer in Austin, Texas, about what makes Rick Barnes such a good coach in light of the Longhorns' win at UCLA. I was with Barnes (as an assistant) when he was a young head coach at Providence College, back when the Big East was a nine-team cage match. We were fighting for survival every night against teams that were more talented than we were, and Barnes was intense and, at times, hard to play for. He controlled every possession from the sideline, and that takes ...

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