Tennessee Volunteers Offensive Playbook

Can the Barnes-Vols approach work for you? We all saw what Head Coach Rick Barnes did at Tennessee in 2019 after just 4 seasons. Crazy good numbers. At one point this past season they sat at No. 1 in the rankings for the first time in over a decade. Check out these stats also from this year: The Volunteers had the nation’s second most efficient offense!They averaged 1.168 points EVERY time they were on offense (ranked 4th)They averaged 20.1 assists per game (ranked 2nd)But, there’s a part of this story many coaches overlook… When a coach is as far along in his D1 career as Rick Barnes, you don’t often see noticeable changes in how they do things. By this point, most coaches are VERY set in their ways, have defined systems. Something pretty radical would have to happen in order for them to toss out their tried-and-true philosophies. Right? Well, that’s what Coach Barnes did.  (Okay, so it may not have been a complete overhaul, but it was clearly powerful enough for opposing teams to si