First off, I was in the camp of firing Barry. Gabe, in looking at the last 3 years Barry had a record of 21-17 which ranks him tied for 58th in Division 1. When looking at P5 schools, Barry ranks 34 out of 65 (P5 + Notre Dame). Barry ranked 9th in the SEC during the last 3 years with the following programs having won more games:
Alabama - 37
Georgia - 35
LSU - 31
Auburn - 27
Florida - 24
Kentucky - 24
Mississippi State - 23
Texas A&M - 23
Barry was fired for losing the following games in 2018 and 2019:
2018 - South Carolina, Kentucky and Oklahoma State
2019 - Wyoming, Vanderbilt and Tennessee
Do you believe that coaches around the country are looking at this and saying based on the ability to recruit at Missouri that Barry's record is about 3 wins off and he got fired? If Barry would have split the 6 games over the last two years he would have won 24 games that would have ranked tied for 31st in Division 1, tied for 19th in P5 and jumped Mississippi State and A&M to tie Florida and Kentucky for the 5th best record in the SEC.
I wander if this is part of the problem being able to attract what we all would consider a name hire? Do you think coaches around the country believe that Barry was doing a good job based on the general national thought about Missouri as a program? Obviously, we all have a higher thought of our program but it would make sense that some coaches feel that Missouri is a mid level program in P5 / SEC and they just fired a coach after 4 years where in the last 3 he performed based on their perceived expectations.
Alabama - 37
Georgia - 35
LSU - 31
Auburn - 27
Florida - 24
Kentucky - 24
Mississippi State - 23
Texas A&M - 23
Barry was fired for losing the following games in 2018 and 2019:
2018 - South Carolina, Kentucky and Oklahoma State
2019 - Wyoming, Vanderbilt and Tennessee
Do you believe that coaches around the country are looking at this and saying based on the ability to recruit at Missouri that Barry's record is about 3 wins off and he got fired? If Barry would have split the 6 games over the last two years he would have won 24 games that would have ranked tied for 31st in Division 1, tied for 19th in P5 and jumped Mississippi State and A&M to tie Florida and Kentucky for the 5th best record in the SEC.
I wander if this is part of the problem being able to attract what we all would consider a name hire? Do you think coaches around the country believe that Barry was doing a good job based on the general national thought about Missouri as a program? Obviously, we all have a higher thought of our program but it would make sense that some coaches feel that Missouri is a mid level program in P5 / SEC and they just fired a coach after 4 years where in the last 3 he performed based on their perceived expectations.
