Why Leave? Barnes Realized Clemson’s Limitations Premium Content

ACCSports Staff

September 17, 1999 CLEMSON - With the Clemson basketball program in disarray and sinking fast, Rick Barnes decided to switch instead of fight. He switched to a program at Texas that was, in several ways at least, in just as much trouble as the one at Clemson.

Barnes joined the Longhorns for a minimal pay raise, approximately $7,000 annually. It cost him - through…


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