When Rick Barnes left Providence for Clemson, he was coming out of a conference that was more physical and, well, rougher than the ACC was then (or now, for that matter).
This didn’t go over very well, least of all with UNC and Dean Smith.
This was in the mid to late ‘90s. In this video, Barnes says that he had a sign in his locker room at point that says “strength negates talent.”
He also says that today he’d probably handle things differently and after having a player like Kevin Durant at Texas, he realized that a free flowing offense had a lot going for it.