Comments on: Taking Shots at Gillispie, UK

By: Xavier

Xavier — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:36:29 +0000

Okay so if I understand this right. Billy G takes over aggies that are 7-21 and 0-16 in conference. He turns it around in the following year going 21-10 and 8-8 in conference.

He comes to UK and takes over a team that was 22-12 and 9-7 conference. So far he is 4-5 with loses to Gardner-Webb and UAB.

Tubby Smith goes to the gophers and takes over a team that went 9-22 and 3-13 in conference. So far he is 7-1.

I’m confused?!? So the aggies had better players than the wildcats when he took these teams over?

Granted it’s still early in the season. I’m just not buying it. So put away your money, credit cards, and checkbooks.

Tubby got blamed for not getting the big name recruits. Anyone know where Carruth, Jason Parker, or Randolph Morris is? I do know where Tayshaun Prince, Keith Bogans, and Chuck Hayes are. Let him get the players he wants and not the players the fans want.

Also you can have all the jimmy and joes you want. You better be good at the x’s and o’s. If talent is better how did Villanova beat Georgetown, Indiana over Syracuse, Kansas over Oklahoma, and Duke over UNLV just to name a few.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:53:54 +0000

I’m sorry, but a team featuring a HEALTHY Jodie Meeks, Derrick Jasper, Joe Crawford, Ramel Bradley, Patrick Patterson, AJ Stewart, Ramon Harris and Perry Stevenson is not bereft of talent, regardless if these players are playing well or not.

A team with just these players on its roster is still talented.

The problem is, of course, injuries and players like Stevenson, Harris and Stewart have not progressed. At all. Well, with Stewart, you don’t know because he never gets to play, but I digress.

However, I’m not going to turn this into a Tubby versus Billy discussion. Like I said in the post, as long as Gillispie continues to sign players like Patterson, Darius Miller and DeAndre Liggins, we will not be down for long.

The question is, are Cat fans willing to be that patient.

By: John

John — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:47:02 +0000

Van Pelt and the other talking heads have made up their minds that Tubby Smith was run off and if he were still at UK things would be better. Smith left because it was a good career move. Surely he realized that after this year he would have been fired. He left no center, no power forward, and no effective point guard. He has a contract til retirement. People are criticizing Bobby Petrino for leaving a sinking ship in Atlanta, but Tubby did the same thing. The only difference is Tubby created the sinking ship at UK. There are only two good players now, Patterson and Meeks. In the glory years even the best of the rest would have been on the end of the bench, if on the team at all. Gillispie is not God. He wasn’t my first choice, John Pelphrey was, but let’s give Gillispie a chance to clean up this mess he inherited.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:34:19 +0000

With as many talented teams as Billy Don choked with I would be surprised Florida fans would open their mouth. They were blessed with four juniors who could play, just like Roy Williams Billy D is overhyped, that’s why he left Orlando, he would have been fired in a year.

By: Bring the Shame or Shut Up at Fire Billy?

Bring the Shame or Shut Up at Fire Billy? — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:13:05 +0000

[...] relation to all this, I agree with Chris at Intentional Foul: “Either show and prove or just keep quiet. Even the sports bloggers of the world seem to [...]

By: Truzenzuzex

Truzenzuzex — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:46:01 +0000

Thanks for the link, Chris.

I hope Gillispie can right the ship, and I believe he can. Getting our two fine guards healthy would probably go a long way toward making this team more competitive than GP’s Gators would like.

Time will tell. Keep the faith.