Could this be Rick Barnes last season at Texas?

[beevomav]

Rick Barnes has been the head basketball coach at Texas since the 98-99 season, and last season was his first losing season. It's also the first of his 15 seasons at Texas his team didn't make the NCAA tournament. In another first, it's the first Texas team, since his first at Texas, that didn't win 20 games.

Barnes, in a Sporting News interview, said:

I’m telling you, we’re as excited as we’ve ever been about our program

When asked what went wrong Barnes said:

We lost an edge there, but we got that back this spring

Even the usually sunshine pumping AD, DeLoss Dodds chimed in on this upcoming season:

If I said I was not concerned, that would not be accurate,†Dodds told the newspaper. “I am concerned. I am troubled by it, and we need to get it fixed.

On paper it doesn't appear this season's Longhorn team will be improved. Myck Kobongo and Sheldon McClellan both chose to leave after his junior year. Julien Lewis and Jaylen Bond have both had enough and elected to transfer.

If your keeping score, that's the three leading scorers, in Kobongo(14.6 ppg), McClellan(13.5 ppg), and Lewis at (11.2 ppg)..poof gone. Add Sterling Gibbs, who transferred after his freshman season, and you have one player, Jonathan Holmes(6.7 ppg) left from the 2011 recruiting class.

Texas has four recruits for this upcoming season. Only one, Kendal Yancy Harris, is ranked in ESPN top 100 recruits. He joins fellow guards Demarcus Coker and Isaiah Taylor in 247Sports.com 48th best recruiting class in the country.

Compare that to the 2011 class that had three players, Kobongo #26, McClellan #60 and Holmes #89, in Rival.com rankings, and it's just hard to see where the improvement will come?

 

[Lord Vader]

I think, the hope, is no repeat of the Chaminade shame, and the excuse of being "so young" will buy him time until Dodds retires and the next AD is left to clean up the mess.

 

[MBHORNSFAN]

F@#K rick barnes

 

[bbdude]

Barnes has shown that he doesn't give a rats ass about winning. Watch him on the LHN sometime. He cares more about trying to be a comedian. We need a hard nails guy to get in there and shake some shit up. I'm sick of it boys. Absolutely sick of it.

 

[beevomav]

He even said the players leaving is a good thing because it gets rid of mal contents and whiners.

but..you know it's bad when even DeLoss is noticing..

 

[bbdude]

Rick, thanks for everything but win a championship or get your ass out of Austin.

 

[beevomav]

My biggest issue with RB is the players who have bailed on the program. We wondered why so many were declaring for the NBA draft, when it was obvious they weren't ready? Now we know. They wanted out of Barnes reach..

 

[bbdude]

Locker room culture sucks too I hear.