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Crazy Billy Gillispie stories...
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No, he lasted two more years than he should have....
God, I remember watching both of those live and just thinking "what the hell??...." during both of them. But at least after "the chase" there was a sense of relief that it was all over.
While writing that post, I said to myself, "if one person gets it, it'll be worth it."
Dude, if I'd have watched it previously I still wouldn't have got it, unless I had watched it a day or two ago. No "pop" in my culture. (I figured it was some sort of reference to something but still sounded as if some sauce was involved.)
I did a player average per 40 min that year & Galloway's was around 8 pts, 8 rb, 8 ast per 40 min. He was productive when he got a chance. I never could understand Porter, Harris, & Courier getting the amount of playing time that they did.
My roommate was a server at Merrick during the Billy G years. The story were endless, Billy is drunk and won't go home, Billy is drunk and slobbering on some whore, Billy is drunk and naked at the pool, Billy is trying to sleep with another one of the servers. It was unbelievable for a guy his age with that job. Knowing the operation the cooks were running I would be surprised if there wasn't a bit of cocaine thrown In the mix for good measure.
The Stevenson free throw block was a complete embarrassment.
Not sure if you can blame him on Cancun though
The craziest story of all is he was hired as the head coach of the University of Kentucky Men's basketball team
I think the craziest BCG story is simply how he recruited, even above all the drunkenness, chasing young girls less than half his age, and weird mistreatment of players. Remember, this is a coach that offered UK scholarship to guys like Dakotah Euton, Michael Avery, Konner Tucker, Vinny Zollo, GJ Vilarino, KC Ross Miller, etc. Now THAT'S crazy.
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Yup. Perry even looked at him afterwards like "there ya go, idiot"
Seriously, we were at the Oxford inn during his second year. We travel to lots of away games and stay at the teams hotel. Every UK coach since Hall (he would actually allow fans into his room to talk) would mingle with the fans, be active around the hotels, and so on. We were stunned to find Gillispie locked in his room the entire time, and the players told us they weren't allowed to talk on game day. They looked miserable. When he finally stumbled out of his room, he smelled like a bottle of makers. We couldn't believe it. I was still in love with him at the time ( just glad he wasn't tubby).
I made a post on this on rafters and was crushed. I laughed and thought to myself "these idiots will see in time". A few months later everything broke, team was transferring, people were gonna be fired etc.
That's my Gillispie story, but there's many more.
I still stand behind my opinion Barnhart should have been removed from hirings after that. It was his guy, he hired him on his own, without anyone. It's no wonder the cal hire happened, as the right people made it happen. I still to this day don't believe Mitch is in charge of basketball, and from the looks of it, needs to be removed from football.
Gillispie is the single worst hire in this schools history by a long shot. Joker is one of the worst in football history. How does Mitch survive? I wish I could suck this badly at my job and survive.
I made a post on this on rafters and was crushed. I laughed and thought to myself "these idiots will see in time". A few months later everything broke, team was transferring, people were gonna be fired etc.
That's my Gillispie story, but there's many more.
I still stand behind my opinion Barnhart should have been removed from hirings after that. It was his guy, he hired him on his own, without anyone. It's no wonder the cal hire happened, as the right people made it happen. I still to this day don't believe Mitch is in charge of basketball, and from the looks of it, needs to be removed from football.
Gillispie is the single worst hire in this schools history by a long shot. Joker is one of the worst in football history. How does Mitch survive? I wish I could suck this badly at my job and survive.
Mitch didn't even come out of his robe and allowed no one access to the hiring. He was gonna " do it all himself, from his house".
I just don't see how anyone can defend the guy.
Most knew he was a disaster, but there were still a few defending him. I remember when that happened, I looked at a friend and said, "Gillispie has truly lost his mind. Fire him now"
The incident where the reporter was chasing him, while he was talking on his phone or pretending to right after he was let go was amazing to me. That dude was just way over his head here, I am not going to totally blame the AD because on the surface Billy G looked like a rising star, but at the same time he didn't learn all these moves that has been mentioned in this thread overnight here at Kentucky.
Kentucky is not a job for training. You hire proven winners here, period. He gambled on Gillispie and probably thought he'd save money. Gillispie had already had a tough stint and a few run ins, we just didn't vet him properly. This stuff didn't just start at UK.
Ah.. thanks. Completely forgot about him, not sure if was the spelling (Slone) or what. I must have repressed that entire two year stretch, outside of the Meeks 54 point game.
I was on the Gillispie bandwagon until we lost to Miami in Rupp.
We all made light of him being a drunk and what not, but I never realized just how bad it was until I started talking to people who were seeing it first hand in Lexington.
The average fan isn't supposed to know these kind of details, however I'm sure Mitch had a BCG story on his desk every morning. Mitch should have nipped it in the bud but since BCG was his hire, Mitch let this drag on to the detriment of the players who had to deal with this psycho.
The senior night Georgia game in Rupp was basically their revolt. They had no interest in furthering the season with that man in charge.
We all made light of him being a drunk and what not, but I never realized just how bad it was until I started talking to people who were seeing it first hand in Lexington.
The average fan isn't supposed to know these kind of details, however I'm sure Mitch had a BCG story on his desk every morning. Mitch should have nipped it in the bud but since BCG was his hire, Mitch let this drag on to the detriment of the players who had to deal with this psycho.
The senior night Georgia game in Rupp was basically their revolt. They had no interest in furthering the season with that man in charge.
I was around him multiple times, I never saw him stone cold sober. Not exaggerating. If there was alcohol available he had a drink in his hand.
I will say the really awful things he did to some of these kids had more to do with him as a person than his drinking. See A&M injured player and Canadian players schollies, see 15 kids leaving Texas Tech, etc.
I was there for the Georgia game. Still the worst environment I've ever seen at UK game...for any sport. When he pulled meeks, patterson, and the other few good players we had and put in coury, porter, sloan, etc only to see UGA come back and then take a 9 point lead. I sat close enough to the bench and remember hearing meeks begging him to go back in during the under 12 timeout, but they didn't go back in until about 7 minutes to go but by then, UGA was on fire and confident and UK was in shambles. UK lost, he did his blow-by handshake and as he walked off the floor people starting yelling, booing and some even threw nachos and their drinks at him. He didn't come out and do the post game show with tom. I think they had the show in the hallway. It was an awful awful scene and you could just tell it was over.
When BCG was hired I got a call from former supervisor in Champaign. He told me BCG was a drunk womanizer that would not last more than two years. His son turned down a job here because BCG was not stable. I passed this along and was trashed. I was shocked anyway as I wanted Cal. 2009 was so fine.
except its generally believed that Mitch was just an empty suit in the hiring process to bring in Cal.
But Billy was the one in charge of scheduling that. Cal had his hands tied there.
While Mitch has done great things, there is 1 thing that matters - UK basketball...you don't take chances and don't eff that up.
It was, without question, the absolute worst sourcing and reviewing process that could have possibly happened. You had legendary coaches very interested in this job, and Mitch said no we have to hire someone now can't wait...sorry but everything would have been fine waiting another few weeks to interview Izzo, and it would have be fine to consider Cal. And I could name 5 other coaches I'd talk to before even looking at Gillespie and no this isn't hindsight 20/20...I hated the hire from the start.
He's lucky Cal was still around to take it, since the program was in worst shape than when Tubby left.
All this being said, I will give Mitch as much credit for having the stones to fire him...many made it out as we are insane for firing someone after 2 seasons and that shows how rabid our fan base is and we won't give anyone enough time to establish their strategy. Other AD's would have stuck it out, and if it were anyone else as the coach Mitch probably would have too (like he did with Brooks). But BCG was his own worst enemy.
I was at that game and that douchebag didn't call one play all he did was stay in that stupid crouch stance he did the entire game even during timeouts.
On a
side note I did not speak to my girlfriend the entire ride back to Ohio that night. Still the only time I witnessed the cats lose in person.
That mansion he lived in or had, even though he did not live there and lived in hotel downtown. Well he goes back to mansion after a binge with a group of ladies and others to party a little late night at the mansion. They get there and no electricity, it had been shut off due to not paying the bills. He calls 911 and complains in a drunk stupor from what I heard and even calls KU to go along with the 911 call. UK got the call the next day.
IMO
IMO
Heard it happened but wasn't there. You think I could make that up, a little prickly aren't you.
IMO is habit only so I would say I heard that story and believe it to be true but was not present if you are asking for such detail.
IMO is habit only so I would say I heard that story and believe it to be true but was not present if you are asking for such detail.
You have to wonder how many banners would be hanging if MB had gone with Cal from the start. IMHO,
he was clearly the man for the job.
I believe boosters along with Pratt and company forced MB's hand to hire Cal, if solely left to MB, Mike Brey would have been hired.
Some of these I'd never heard before, just unreal. I think he also played Jasper before he was healed.
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“Did I ever tell you about the time BCG took me out to go get a drink with him? We go off looking for a bar and we can’t find one. Finally, BCG takes me into a vacant lot and says, ‘Here we are.’ Well, we sat there for a year and a half. Sure enough, someone constructed a bar around us. Well, the day they opened it, we ordered a shot, drank it, and then burnt the place to the ground. BCGy yelled over the roar of the flames, ‘Always leave things the way you found them!'”
It's a shame so few got your reference. I'm 26 and it was still clear as day haha. Props to you.
When the tornado hit the Georgia Dome, he just stood there and grinned. He told someone standing there it was kind of scary wasn't it. He wasn't bright enough to be scared.
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