Barnett left a mess at Northwestern when he left.
He is one of those college coaches that leaves messes everywhere he goes.
while you are probably right to a certain extent, Barnett has a history as well.
I realize Barnett is no angel, but he did have to try and clean up the Neuheisel mess in Boulder. Looking at the condition in which Slick Rick left Washington's program, it appears Barnett did a fairly decent job against a stacked deck.