Billy G Update

[ponyscott]

Would be a GREAT hire for SMU.

The guy made a mistake.

He can obviously recruit Texas.

DBB

He was one step ahead of the NCAA at TAMU...we don't need this idiot...look at those beady eyes in his pics...you would trust this man?.....C'mon Duke man you MUST know better......

[Ttown]

One step ahead of the ncaa? First I've heard of this. Fill us in wont you.

Billy would have you guys winning right away. Sorry the Aggies where maybe in worse shape than you guys. Had UTEP in the tourney as well. No reason why he couldn't make it work in Dallas.

[mustangbill67]

Would be a GREAT hire for SMU.

The guy made a mistake.

He can obviously recruit Texas.

DBB

He was one step ahead of the NCAA at TAMU...we don't need this idiot...look at those beady eyes in his pics...you would trust this man?.....C'mon Duke man you MUST know better......

We need somebody beady eyes or not that knows how to quickly but legally build a program.

[Ttown]

Billy would have you guys on the steps if not in the NIT next season and at the door to the tourney the next. Mark it down.

[PonyDoh]

ponyscott is 100% right, he walks a slippery slope. He's tarnished both personally and professionally.

[ponyscott]

One step ahead of the ncaa? First I've heard of this. Fill us in wont you.

Billy would have you guys winning right away. Sorry the Aggies where maybe in worse shape than you guys. Had UTEP in the tourney as well. No reason why he couldn't make it work in Dallas.

He had three(3) DUI's BTW ( not one mistake)and went through Rehab recently, but his bad choices on many other fronts would derail him here at SMU. It's been posted other times and hes not worth the time to talk about.... waste of energy...slimy would be the word. sorry...PonDoh probably knows more, but suffice to say he would be a bad choice. Heck he lost to VMI and Gardner-Webb at Kentucky with all that talent and was reported to have gone back and asked TAMU if he could get his job back after he lost to Gardner Webb!! He wanted to get hired at Texas Pan American- Edinberg this last year at their opening and he couldn't even get on there....we don't need to panic and if a change is made, lets get a good coach on their way UP...not a guy on his way DOWN.

From Kentucky:

Why Billy Gillispie is a dying breed
By Eamonn Brennan

Billy Gillispie's modus operandi as a coach was well-known but rarely talked about: He was a jerk. He screamed at players, he ran them hard in practice, and he played the role -- whether he was playing a role or not is up for debate -- of old-school nose-to-the-grindstone tough guy. And if you didn't like it, you could play somewhere else. Which is what most players decided to do. Which got Billy Gillispie fired.

We sort of know all this, even if anecdotes about Gillispie's time at Kentucky are rare. Fortunately, we have one today, courtesy of the Lexington Herald-Leader's John Clay. Get a load of this:

[Kentucky center] Josh Harrellson verified to our own Jerry Tipton the rumor that during halftime of last year's game at Vanderbilt, the sophomore forward was banished to a bathroom stall, apart from the team, apparently as punishment for poor play. Then after the Cats' 77-64 loss to the Commodores, Gillispie ordered Harrellson off the team bus and into the team equipment truck for the long ride back to Lexington.

I'm no coach, and I'm no expert on coaching, but I'm going to go ahead and guess that that's not the best way to treat your players. Just a thought.

That's Clay's whole point, actually; after using Harrellson's anecdotes as a lead, Clay theorizes that there's a reason why this sort of old-school surliness doesn't work on college basketball players anymore. Frankly, they're smarter:

Kids today don't want to play for those coaches, nor should they. They're too smart for that. They know too much. They've been exposed to too much. While some argue that kids today don't know the difference between right and wrong, I'd argue that they know the difference now more than ever. They can think for themselves.

It's not that college basketball players in the modern era just inherently smarter. The system does this to them. By the time college hoopsters -- the really good ones, the ones who would consider playing at Kentucky -- get to college, they've had plenty of coaches in orbit. They've played high school ball and AAU and gone to hundreds of summer camps. They get to see nearly every kind of coach, and they get to figure out what sort of man they want to play for. They're experienced. Things weren't always like this.

And sure, maybe some of these kids are spoiled, uber-stars before they ever set foot on a professional court. That's a byproduct of the system. But there are just as many kids who are anxious to play and eager to please -- Harrelson's quotes make him sound like a confused puppy; he still says he and Gillispie had a "good relationship" -- and who can't figure out why their coaches are like this. They just don't know what their screaming coaches want from them.

This, ultimately, was Billy Gillispie's undoing. Stories like the one above are why he's not a coach anymore. And the lack of such stories about the Jim Calipari, the man who replaced, speak almost as loudly. There's a new order in place. And it's not even all that new. Do the names Dean Smith and John Wooden ring a bell

[mrydel]

I would settle for the love child of Foster Brooks and Gilbert Gottfried if I knew it would keep me from seeing what I saw last night again.

[Pony_Fan]

sounds like a Mike Leach kinda of guy. We don't need another hard [deleted] here.

[Duke Blue Blood]

Programs hire "questionable" guys all the time in order to win. That is ALL that matters. The NCAA has proven they will look the other way if you are a winner.

He has proven to be a good Texas recruiter.

After leading both UTEP and Texas A&M to postseason appearances one year after poor seasons, Gillispie became the only college basketball coach to be in charge of the NCAA program with the biggest turnaround in two consecutive seasons. Gillispie is known as an excellent recruiter who has managed to put together four straight top-25 recruiting classes. In his three seasons at A&M, the Aggies achieved three consecutive 20-win seasons for the first time eve

[ponyscott]

Programs hire "questionable" guys all the time in order to win. That is ALL that matters. The NCAA has proven they will look the other way if you are a winner.

He has proven to be a good Texas recruiter.

After leading both UTEP and Texas A&M to postseason appearances one year after poor seasons, Gillispie became the only college basketball coach to be in charge of the NCAA program with the biggest turnaround in two consecutive seasons. Gillispie is known as an excellent recruiter who has managed to put together four straight top-25 recruiting classes. In his three seasons at A&M, the Aggies achieved three consecutive 20-win seasons for the first time eve

Sorry Duke BB you are grasping at straws...Gillespie is known as an idiot, not a good recruiter.

[Ttown]

Two sides to every story, how come you don't hear stories like this anywhere else Billy has been? Acie Law loves him like a 2nd father, and Bill Self loves him like a brother. Again not one player had anything bad to say about him when he left for UK, all seemed to be sad he was going. Just find it funny how he became this monster at UK.

[PonyDoh]

Programs hire "questionable" guys all the time in order to win. That is ALL that matters. The NCAA has proven they will look the other way if you are a winner.

He has proven to be a good Texas recruiter.

After leading both UTEP and Texas A&M to postseason appearances one year after poor seasons, Gillispie became the only college basketball coach to be in charge of the NCAA program with the biggest turnaround in two consecutive seasons. Gillispie is known as an excellent recruiter who has managed to put together four straight top-25 recruiting classes. In his three seasons at A&M, the Aggies achieved three consecutive 20-win seasons for the first time eve

Did you just say that on an SMU forum? If so, you are disqualified from further discussions on the topic. Do you not know our history?

[lwjr]

Programs hire "questionable" guys all the time in order to win. That is ALL that matters. The NCAA has proven they will look the other way if you are a winner.

He has proven to be a good Texas recruiter.

After leading both UTEP and Texas A&M to postseason appearances one year after poor seasons, Gillispie became the only college basketball coach to be in charge of the NCAA program with the biggest turnaround in two consecutive seasons. Gillispie is known as an excellent recruiter who has managed to put together four straight top-25 recruiting classes. In his three seasons at A&M, the Aggies achieved three consecutive 20-win seasons for the first time eve

Did you just say that on an SMU forum? If so, you are disqualified from further discussions on the topic. Do you not know our history?

NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!

[ponyscott]

Programs hire "questionable" guys all the time in order to win. That is ALL that matters. The NCAA has proven they will look the other way if you are a winner.



Did you just say that on an SMU forum? If so, you are disqualified from further discussions on the topic. Do you not know our history?

NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!

No more coments from me about BG, beating a dead horse..as below recent headlines from Billy at DUI Alcohol Awareness Class at Spaghetti Warehouse in Plano.
We have to at least agree he has fallen from grace and don't need MORE bad pub for BB at SMU.

http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/billy-gil ... ouse-27560

[mustangklick]

We don't really get any pub, so I don't see what all this bad pub is (certainly not in the last 5 years, and what 7th grader was looking at SMU 6 years ago?). The recruits don't even know who we are.