I read the story Rick Barnes gave everyone a few weeks back about his flirtation with the UCLA job.
In it, he stated that UCLA would not pay his buyout...and that THAT was what held up his hiring there...and after praying about it...it didn't seem like God wanted him to be at UCLA.
Fast forward a week and a half or so later....UCLA releases THEIR account of the Rick Barnes process, saying that he agreed to become their coach...they WERE going to pay his buyout.
What held the matter up...was that after verbally agreeing to terms...Rick Barnes went back to UCLA asking for MORE MONEY!
UCLA said no thank you...and walked away.
Rick Barnes, in a panic called them back and said he'd accept the original offer that they had agreed upon to no avail. That ship had sailed...and not very many UT fans are too happy with Rick Barnes these days.
UCLA was prepared to pay his buyout, but Barnes decided he was worth more money than the original contract —to which UCLA said, ‘no, you’re not.’
Then Barnes caved. ‘I’ll take the original deal,’ he said. But UCL said ..............,...........................Wait for it ..............................,,,.....,...........................
(05-02-2019 04:26 PM)snowtiger Wrote: [ -> ]Ok, let’s see if I got this.
UCLA was prepared to pay his buyout, but Barnes decided he was worth more money than the original contract —to which UCLA said, ‘no, you’re not.’
Then Barnes caved. ‘I’ll take the original deal,’ he said. But UCL said ..............,...........................Wait for it ..............................,,,.....,...........................
Not exactly the most sophisticated negotiator. He got greedy and lost all his leverage in the negotiation process, and it blew up in his face. That's just simple Negotiating 101, honor your word. He should fire his agent if that's who encouraged him to counter for more money after a verbal agreement was already reached.
After UCLA told him to go jump in a lake for asking for more money after he agreed to the original deal, he must've realized.
"I've done some coaching yeah a time or two... I almost made it to the Final Two!...But coaching to that NC, I've never done!...I wanna' know how the Final...feels!"
This is how they spend their $30M.+ Conference better than Memphis in college basketball.
(05-03-2019 08:08 PM)I_LUV_MEMPHISTIGERS Wrote: [ -> ]Not exactly the most sophisticated negotiator. He got greedy and lost all his leverage in the negotiation process, and it blew up in his face. That's just simple Negotiating 101, honor your word. He should fire his agent if that's who encouraged him to counter for more money after a verbal agreement was already reached.
After UCLA told him to go jump in a lake for asking for more money after he agreed to the original deal, he must've realized.
"I've done some coaching yeah a time or two... I almost made it to the Final Two!...But coaching to that NC, I've never done!...I wanna' know how the Final...feels!"
This is how they spend their $30M.+ Conference better than Memphis in college basketball.
(05-03-2019 08:08 PM)I_LUV_MEMPHISTIGERS Wrote: [ -> ]Not exactly the most sophisticated negotiator. He got greedy and lost all his leverage in the negotiation process, and it blew up in his face. That's just simple Negotiating 101, honor your word. He should fire his agent if that's who encouraged him to counter for more money after a verbal agreement was already reached.
After UCLA told him to go jump in a lake for asking for more money after he agreed to the original deal, he must've realized.
"I've done some coaching yeah a time or two... I almost made it to the Final Two!...But coaching to that NC, I've never done!...I wanna' know how the Final...feels!"
This is how they spend their $30M.+ Conference better than Memphis in college basketball.
Whoah, Go Vawls!
Barnes is his own agent
Yeah, not sure that worked out for him.
In many lines of work he’d have been canned by his current employer too.
(05-03-2019 08:08 PM)I_LUV_MEMPHISTIGERS Wrote: [ -> ]Not exactly the most sophisticated negotiator. He got greedy and lost all his leverage in the negotiation process, and it blew up in his face. That's just simple Negotiating 101, honor your word. He should fire his agent if that's who encouraged him to counter for more money after a verbal agreement was already reached.
After UCLA told him to go jump in a lake for asking for more money after he agreed to the original deal, he must've realized.
"I've done some coaching yeah a time or two... I almost made it to the Final Two!...But coaching to that NC, I've never done!...I wanna' know how the Final...feels!"
This is how they spend their $30M.+ Conference better than Memphis in college basketball.
Whoah, Go Vawls!
Barnes is his own agent
he Caravan this year
Yeah, not sure that worked out for him.
In many lines of work he’d have been canned by his current employer too.
In a related move, UT is CANCELLING the Big Orange Caravan this year. Lot of their fans irate that they won't get to question Barnes and Fulmer this year, or football coach Jeremy Pruitt.
As the nation turned its attention to the Final Four in Minneapolis, UCLA was looking farther east. The search committee engaged Tennessee’s Rick Barnes in a series of intense negotiations to finally fill its coaching vacancy.
Barnes had been a popular pick all along among some Bruins donors, and the veteran coach could be touted as a hot commodity after having just been given the Naismith Coach of the Year award following a season in which his team won 31 games.
After a series of back-and-forth discussions, Barnes agreed to take the job for just short of $6 million per season, with the Bruins footing his $5-million buyout, according to two people familiar with the talks. But Barnes subsequently had a representative contact UCLA, asking for more money.
UCLA pulled out of the discussions at that point, even after Barnes said he would accept the previously agreed-upon terms in an attempt to salvage the deal.
Barnes told reporters in the following days that he momentarily thought he was going to become the Bruins’ coach and that the holdup had been UCLA’s unwillingness to pay his buyout.
There was one truth everybody could agree on: Barnes wasn’t coming to Westwood.
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