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Message: [QUOTE="HooperScooper, post: 5168337, member: 10"] I saw this comment from Tennessee's Rick Barnes and it raised my eyebrows. Now that college athletes are getting so much money to play should they be treated more like NBA players? I wonder how many coaches are thinking like Rick Barnes? First time I've heard a coach say something like this. On the one hand you'd like to see college kids be college kids and not NBA players. But on the other hand they're now being paid a lot of money to play so they can't expect to have it both ways. [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/TENN/tennessee-volunteers/'][I]Tennessee[/I][/URL][I] coach Rick Barnes gave leading scorer [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/players/3178414/chaz-lanier/']Chaz Lanier[/URL] a quick hook just 11 seconds into the second half on Saturday at [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/TEXAS/texas-longhorns/']Texas[/URL], benching him for peeling off a screen and hurling an errant pass into the bench area. Barnes said after the game the decision had nothing to do with the turnover and everything to do with his decision to decline a shot, which Barnes made sure to note that Lanier is "paid to do." "I took him out the first play of the second half because he didn't shoot the ball," Barnes said. "That play is designed for that shot. I told him, 'If you're not going to do what you're getting paid to do, then you're going to sit over here.' Because he is getting paid to do that."[/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/rick-barnes-benches-chaz-lanier-says-tennessees-leading-scorer-wasnt-doing-what-hes-getting-paid-to-do/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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