YouTube Gold: Rick Barnes On His Conflict With Dean Smith

Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images CHAPEL HILL, NC - DECEMBER 18: Coach Roy Williams of the North Carolina Tar Heels and coach Rick Barnes of the Texas Longhorns confer with official Karl Hess about a double foul during their game at the Dean Smith Center on December 18, 2013 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Texas won 86-83.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…