Longtime coaches like Barnes often times see their best success dependent on elite staff members.
All of this has made him extremely valuable to the program. He’s also the mastermind behind the team defense the Vols play. Kyle Alexander made the NBA off of his defensive prowess.Įverywhere you look, at every position, Schwartz has been able to make stars out of players by developing them defensively. Before him, Yves Pons had developed into a superstar defender for Rocky Top. Jay Price has been the head mens basketball coach at Chattanooga State Community College (Tenn.) for the past ten seasons. Josiah-Jordan James has blossomed into one of the best defenders in basketball thanks to Schwartz’s coaching. There’s a reason the Kentucky Wildcats shot uncharacteristically bad fro three in the SEC Tournament semifinal matchup between these two, and there’s also a reason the Texas A&M Aggies’ red-hot shooting ran out. They just managed to force lots of misses. In 2018-19, Barnes was named the Naismith College Basketball Coach of. UT’s defense didn’t dominate by forcing turnovers all year. Rick Barnes is the head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers Mens Basketball program. Sure, they have lots of guys who can shoot, and they have star power, but their biggest strength is being able to contest every shot that’s put up. It’s no secret that defense is why the Vols won the SEC Tournament and are such a high seed in the NCAA Tournament. Over the past few years but particularly this year, Schwartz has been the assistant most focused on developing Tennessee basketball’s defense. Schwartz’s speciality is what makes him hard to replace. Longevity isn’t the only reason he’s the Vols’ toughest loss, though. He was part of the program rebuild from 2016 to now, becoming Barnes’ top assistant in 2019.
Similar to Oliver in 2021, Schwartz has spent a while with Barnes on Rocky Top. There are two reasons Schwartz is Barnes’ toughest loss. SOURCES: Tennessee associate head coach Michael Schwartz has agreed to be the next head basketball coach at East Carolina, pending board of trustees approval on Wednesday. Stephen Igoe of 247Sports broke the news on Twitter Monday night. Mike Schwartz, who replaced Ogden with Tennessee basketball in 2016, is now leaving to take over the head coaching job of the East Carolina Pirates. However, he’s now about to suffer his toughest loss yet. Then Bares lost Rob Lanier, Desmond Oliver and Kim English directly to head coaching jobs with the Georgia State Panthers in 2019, ETSU Bucs in 2021 and George Mason Patriots in 2021 respectively. Ogden became the UT Arlington Mavericks’ head coach in 2017. If you do your job right, you’re naturally going to lose members of your staff to head coaching jobs elsewhere over time.īarnes lost Chris Ogden to the Texas Tech Red Raiders as an assistant in 2016. He’s lost five with Tennessee basketball alone. Losing assistant coaches is nothing new to a veteran like Rick Barnes. By Caleb Calhoun 6 months ago Follow Tweet
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