Gillespie getting out of hand in Lexington

[AndyPopCat]

You can't fault Billy Gillispie for getting things done.

After he swung and missed on Jai Lucas and Michael Sanchez shortly after taking over at Kentucky, the new Wildcats head man has been busy bringing in recruits - including incoming freshman Patrick Patterson in a war with Florida and Duke and talented rising senior wing DeAndre Liggins.

However, Gillispie may need to slow down a bit and understand he's now at Kentucky and not Texas A&M.

Gillispie has secured a pair of 2010 commitments and one from the Class of 2009. G.J. Vilarino will be a junior at McKinney High (Texas) next season while in-state rising sopBLEEP re big man Dakotah Euton and most recently, God's Academy (Texas) point guard K.C. Ross-Miller, both gave the Wildcats a verbal pledge.

Back when Gillispie was at College Station, taking commitments from freshman and sopBLEEP res may have been necessary before Texas got involved. However, Kentucky has the cache to go up against just about anyone not named Duke or Carolina.

Vilarino isn't good enough to play at Kentucky. Trust me on this one. The word is that Ross-Miller isn't, either.

Gillispie may want to talk to UCLA's Ben Howland or Arizona's Lute Olson about taking young kids. Taylor King committed to the Bruins prior to his first high school game and then did an about-face and is enrolled at Duke - while Olson and the Wildcats accepted a scholarship offer from Texas pint-sized point guard Nic Wise prior to his sopBLEEP re year. The Wildcats, with their proven track record of point guards, probably wouldn't have taken Wise if they had further evaluated him into his junior campaign.

Kudos to Gillispie for his work ethic. He's plugged into the Lone Star State. But someone needs to let him know that he's no longer working in College Station.

Take your time, Billy Clyde. You're at Kentucky now.

http://community.foxsports.com/blogs/goodmanonfox/2007/07/03/GILLESPIE_GETTING_OUT_OF_HAND_IN_LEXINGTON

[JayB]

Ok....

[SCBlu]

You can't fault Billy Gillispie for getting things done.

After he swung and missed on Jai Lucas and Michael Sanchez shortly after taking over at Kentucky, the new Wildcats head man has been busy bringing in recruits - including incoming freshman Patrick Patterson in a war with Florida and Duke and talented rising senior wing DeAndre Liggins.

However, Gillispie may need to slow down a bit and understand he's now at Kentucky and not Texas A&M.

Gillispie has secured a pair of 2010 commitments and one from the Class of 2009. G.J. Vilarino will be a junior at McKinney High (Texas) next season while in-state rising sopBLEEP re big man Dakotah Euton and most recently, God's Academy (Texas) point guard K.C. Ross-Miller, both gave the Wildcats a verbal pledge.

Back when Gillispie was at College Station, taking commitments from freshman and sopBLEEP res may have been necessary before Texas got involved. However, Kentucky has the cache to go up against just about anyone not named Duke or Carolina.

Vilarino isn't good enough to play at Kentucky. Trust me on this one. The word is that Ross-Miller isn't, either.

Gillispie may want to talk to UCLA's Ben Howland or Arizona's Lute Olson about taking young kids. Taylor King committed to the Bruins prior to his first high school game and then did an about-face and is enrolled at Duke - while Olson and the Wildcats accepted a scholarship offer from Texas pint-sized point guard Nic Wise prior to his sopBLEEP re year. The Wildcats, with their proven track record of point guards, probably wouldn't have taken Wise if they had further evaluated him into his junior campaign.

Kudos to Gillispie for his work ethic. He's plugged into the Lone Star State. But someone needs to let him know that he's no longer working in College Station.

Take your time, Billy Clyde. You're at Kentucky now.

http://community.foxsports.com/blogs/goodmanonfox/2007/07/03/GILLESPIE_GETTING_OUT_OF_HAND_IN_LEXINGTON

I don't know enough about BG's "diaper dandies" to say their not UK quality, but I am concerned about committing a scholarship 3-4 years in advance. Regretably, some players peak at an early age and stop progressing. Others, a la Mayo, just get better. Still others may have a change-of-heart between their 9th and 12th grade. Let's keep some options!

[Will Lavender]

Thing is, I don't trust Goodman at all. I've seen him blog the outright ignorant or the blatantly wrong many times in the past year or so. He "reported" something about Tubby once that he'd taken from message boards that was just a flat-out lie.

Worst college basketball writer around -- if you can really call a blogger a writer. As I've posted eight or ten times in the last year, I'm never really sure what he's doing at Fox. He's a writer for InsideCarolina, if that tells you anything.

I'm not sure what to make one of the last lines:

"Someone needs to let him know that he's no longer working in College Station."

What does that even mean? Gillispie recruited at a better level at Texas A&M than Kentucky has in the last couple of years by far, and he recruited better at Illinois than Tubby Smith ever did.

I'd say the man knows what he's doing.

[TrueblueCATfan]

interesting read......I am finding it very hard to believe any of this......I hope our coach knows what he is doing which I believe he does.............

[BigBlue75]

Sounds like this guy is nothing more than someone with an axe to grind.
Where do these people come from, anyway?:icon_question:

[matt colvin]

You can't fault Billy Gillispie for getting things done.

After he swung and missed on Jai Lucas and Michael Sanchez shortly after taking over at Kentucky, the new Wildcats head man has been busy bringing in recruits - including incoming freshman Patrick Patterson in a war with Florida and Duke and talented rising senior wing DeAndre Liggins.

However, Gillispie may need to slow down a bit and understand he's now at Kentucky and not Texas A&M.

Gillispie has secured a pair of 2010 commitments and one from the Class of 2009. G.J. Vilarino will be a junior at McKinney High (Texas) next season while in-state rising sopBLEEP re big man Dakotah Euton and most recently, God's Academy (Texas) point guard K.C. Ross-Miller, both gave the Wildcats a verbal pledge.

Back when Gillispie was at College Station, taking commitments from freshman and sopBLEEP res may have been necessary before Texas got involved. However, Kentucky has the cache to go up against just about anyone not named Duke or Carolina.

Vilarino isn't good enough to play at Kentucky. Trust me on this one. The word is that Ross-Miller isn't, either.

Gillispie may want to talk to UCLA's Ben Howland or Arizona's Lute Olson about taking young kids. Taylor King committed to the Bruins prior to his first high school game and then did an about-face and is enrolled at Duke - while Olson and the Wildcats accepted a scholarship offer from Texas pint-sized point guard Nic Wise prior to his sopBLEEP re year. The Wildcats, with their proven track record of point guards, probably wouldn't have taken Wise if they had further evaluated him into his junior campaign.

Kudos to Gillispie for his work ethic. He's plugged into the Lone Star State. But someone needs to let him know that he's no longer working in College Station.

Take your time, Billy Clyde. You're at Kentucky now.

http://community.foxsports.com/blogs/goodmanonfox/2007/07/03/GILLESPIE_GETTING_OUT_OF_HAND_IN_LEXINGTON


I'm sure Coach Gillispie is worried about what this guy thinks. I'm certainly not. If the guys Coach has recruited keep up their hard work, they'll be fine by the time they get here. :thumbup:

[SouthBeachWildcat]

anyone else notice the article wrote Bleep for the letters I have capitalized in sopHOMOre? Is he trying to come out of the closet? :)

[Gunsmoke]

:thumbdn:I could care less about what any supposed writer, who obviously lacks a crystal ball to see into the future, says about our coach until our coach is proven wrong in the approach he is taking. I wouldn't bet the farm against our coach. He obviously trusts his ability to identify talent even at a young age and I am sure he uses others to assist in this process. I doubt seriously that the new coach of Kentucky with our rabid demanding fanbase is just going around the country haphazardly throwing out scholarship offers to just anybody who can pick up a basketball. It is also literally impossible to compare what occurred at other schools with other coaches and other players. Sounds to me like sour grapes from a sour individual who may just not like the reimmergence(sp?) of the sleeping giant. 'nuff said.

[DCWildcat]

Got to question a guy who couldn't even spell Gillispie's name correctly.

lol, the only person I've seen doubt Miller to date is HoopsObserver on TCP, who sort of appears on boards to bash a recruit they covet or have committed, then disappears. All indications otherwise (Scout's early reports, hoopscoop, hoopsreport) have Miller as one of the very elite.

[catkrazy]

THAT'S AN ARTICLE OUT OF SPORTS ILLUSTRATED BY SETH DAVIS!!! WHAT A HOMER!