Rick Barnes is at Tennessee, while Shaka Smart is now the big man on campus in Austin.
Unfortunately, Smart has to deal with the mess Barnes left behind.
According to multiple reports, there were separate acts of academic fraud under Barnes’ watch.
“We now are reviewing three other cases purported to have occurred over a nine-year period since 2006 to determine if any university of NCAA rules were violated and if any action is needed,” the school said.
This is sure to be a long drawn out process.
“The university takes any suggestion of wrongdoing extremely seriously,” the school said in its statement. “We are always looking to identify problems that may exist and ways we can do better.”