Rick Barnes, Tennessee Men's Basketball Coach
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Episode 324
Rick Barnes is the head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers Men's Basketball program. In 2018-19, Barnes was named the Naismith College Basketball Coach of the Year for leading Tennessee to a 31-6 record and an appearance in the Sweet Sixteen.
Barnes began his head coaching career in 1987 with George Mason. After that, he has had stops at Providence, Clemson and Texas before coming to the Volunteers in 2015.
He is a 4-time Big 12 Coach of the Year during his time with Texas and led the Longhorns to the Final Four in 2003. His 690 career wins ranks him 22nd on the all-time list for Division 1.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk with Coach Barnes about the 2018-19 season, winning coach of the year, his amazing testimony of faith in Christ, why he partners with Nations of Coaches, and his desire to preach the Gospel wherever he goes.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:19.8 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast is brought to you by Compassion International. |
| 0:24.6 | It's $38 a month and it's a chance for you and I to release a child from poverty. |
| 0:29.6 | For more information, check out the website, Compassion.com slash Sports Spectrum, and consider sponsoring a child today. |
| 0:40.0 | Today in the podcast, we welcome Rick Barnes from Tennessee, the men's basketball coach |
| 0:44.9 | there, joins us here on Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:47.7 | And if you know that name, Rick Barnes, you know he has been around a long time in college |
| 0:52.7 | basketball, starting his head coaching career in 1987 with |
| 0:58.3 | George Mason in Division I, and then moving on to Providence, Clemson, then Texas, where he took |
| 1:04.0 | the 2003 Texas Longhorns to the final four, and then in 2015 he came to Tennessee. And his first year there, they lost |
| 1:13.5 | 19 games. Just four years later, 2018, 2019, the volunteers went 31 and 6, 15 and 3 in the conference |
| 1:24.5 | and reached the Sweet 16. They were ranked number one quite a bit during the 2018-2019 season |
| 1:31.0 | and in the top 10 pretty much the entire year |
| 1:34.4 | and then went all the way to the Sweet 16 in March Madness |
| 1:38.0 | and they had a great season and Coach Barnes was named |
| 1:41.8 | for that season as the 2018-2019 Naismith coach of the year. |
| 1:48.7 | Coach Barnes is a legend. He's been around for a long time and he's done really, really great things in college basketball. |
| 1:56.2 | Most notably, though, is that Coach Barnes, especially recently you've been hearing a lot about his faith |
| 2:01.7 | and how outspoken he is about his faith in the lord and we were able to catch up with him |
| 2:07.2 | recently at a conference called the nations of coaches summit which was a one day conference in |
| 2:13.0 | Atlanta Georgia and coach won a award down there called the master coach award and it was just |
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