How do opponents beat coach Billy Gillispie?

[SamKat]

To beat our coach, you first get a young team who can't understand his toughness and "means" to an end. Secondly, you get a couple of seniors who just do not enjoy his early season practices in their senior year. Thirdly, injuries seek to bring the coach down, although you don't hear him using that as an excuse. Fourthly, although a few make it back from injuries, such as Joe Crawford and Derrick Jasper, and Meeks tries valiantly to make it back, the coach loses the top inside performer and freshman, Patrick Patterson, for the remainder of the season. The Rupp Arena crowds coach Gillispie loves support him through an 8-0 SEC season in the place, but then, just prior to the SEC Tournament first game for the Cats, the traveling UK fans of Catlanta are largely taken away by a tornado hitting at the Georgia Dome area. The stumbling blocks have been a little much. Another straw dropped and the Cats lost an extremely close game to Georgia in spite of the lack of the normal Catlanta crowd.

Don't anybody tell me this coach isn't tough. He has the Catastrophic Cats playing hard, playing smart, and playing together. And he says "Bring it on" to the NCAA competition in the Big League Tournament.

What all of this means is- don't mess with coach Billy Gillispie.

If not now, it will be soon.

Go Cats!

Go Coach Gillispie!

[KCKUKFan]

This team has faced nothing if not adversity. In this case, it's a shining reflection of the toughness of their head coach.

I'm not going to say names, but I think if somebody else was coaching through all this, :shrug1: where we'd be.

Go Cats.

[wildcat fanatic]

I could not have said it better!!! Imagine what it will be like when we are healthy and have no natural disasters!!!!

[IAM4UK88]

I cannot remember a single season in which a basketball team faced more adversity, short of an actual death within the program. But life is not supposed to be fair, and we are all challenged to deal with it. I like the way these 'Cats and their new coach have dealt with it.

That is why I prefer to call this team "The Unbreakables."

[poodoo]

I cannot remember a single season in which a basketball team faced more adversity, short of an actual death within the program. But life is not supposed to be fair, and we are all challenged to deal with it. I like the way these 'Cats and their new coach have dealt with it.

That is why I prefer to call this team "The Unbreakables."

Good post -- and SamKat's too! :) GO CATS! BEAT MARQUETTE!

[CatOfFaith]

Great post!!

[ukwebfan]

I cannot remember a single season in which a basketball team faced more adversity, short of an actual death within the program. But life is not supposed to be fair, and we are all challenged to deal with it. RIP John Stewart, class of 2003. :icon_sad: