It's official, Rick Barnes is going to be a college basketball coach for the rest of his life... Kind of.
The former Texas men's basketball coach just put ink to paper and signed a lifetime contract with the Tennessee Volunteers, the team he has coached since 2015, when he and the Longhorns parted ways.
This essentially means that until Barnes decides to officially hang up the clipboard, the Vols are going to keep him on the sidelines, and that contract is more than deserved.
When the Volunteers announced the latest deal they had struck with their head coach, the social media team kept it incredibly simple, which made the message that much more powerful:
"Rick Barnes forever.