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1. Efficient Recruiting
When Barnes accepted the Tennessee job, he was immediately behind from a recruiting and roster perspective. He inherited just five official visits and a couple dozen evaluation days from Donnie Tyndall – something which left Barnes with little margin for error while trying to quickly find prospects to fill out Tennessee’s roster.
To our knowledge, he has used three official visits – on Alexander, Kasongo and Ebuka Izundu. Barnes has signed two of those players and finished in the top-4 for the other. That’s efficient recruiting and an encouraging sign. In his short Tennessee tenure, when Barnes has put the full court press on a prospect he has signed them more times than not.
That bodes well moving forward as Barnes strives to get the Vols back to a top-25 program.
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