Comments on: Gillispie pushing too hard?

By: dale

dale — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:36:15 +0000

this is ncaa basketball, billy may not be pushing hard enough goof balls

By: Howard

Howard — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:48:39 +0000

It is totally ridiculous to blame Gillispie for injuries that have
occurred this season. The man has taken the lowest talent level team
that i can remember at Kentucky in the past twenty years, and has them playing as good as any team in the country at this point and time. No other NCAA coach in America could have done what coach Gillispie has done with this team. Tennessee is one of the top four teams in the NCAA this year, and we were playing without our two most talented players, and still give them all they could stand. If Tubby Smith was coaching this same team, our record would be below .500. Tubby knew what he was doing when he left the way he did, he knew if he stayed things would continue to get worse because of his lack of recruiting. He left while his stock as a coach was still respectable. If he stays another year or two it drops like lead in water. Billy Gillispie is one of the best young coaches in America, and you will see big changes starting next year. We are very lucky to have him at Kentucky.

By: jw

jw — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:22:37 +0000

i hope jerry is not seriously asking this question, he is more knowledgeable than that. you want to see what a soft coach does for you look at A&M, Turgeon took top talent and turned it into a mid of the pack team. bc took questionable talent and took it to upper level of SEC, there is your fact. all this whining over tired legs is nothing but bs. the way that team played sunday against vols should take all doubt away as to what kind of coach bc is.

By: John

John — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:24:07 +0000

I think the point has been mentioned way too much. Remember when Rick would put trash cans at the baseline so the players could puke in them and not miss a lap? Did we question him then? No.

Please get off the negative soap box of too hard of a practice.

By: KC

KC — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:12:51 +0000

What’s the track record for Gillispie at Texas A&M? Did Acie Law average 39 minutes per game? The last few years, what kind of minutes did his starters (i.e., his best players) average?

By: Andrew Martin

Andrew Martin — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:56:59 +0000

Today the Courier-Journal published a similar story about Patrick Patterson’s injury, except Brett Dawson actually interviewed a doctor, who stated “It’s an overuse injury, but the difference between playing 28 and 35 minutes a game isn’t enough to cause it,” he said. “It’s more the pounding that you do day after day after day.” This doesn’t resolve the entire question of what caused Patterson’s injury, but I’ll take actual reporting over idle speculation any day.

By: cats1068

cats1068 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:50:39 +0000

I tell you what. Why don’t you investigate all the other seasons he has coached. See how many injuries his teams had. Just like injury free seasons sometimes there injury riddled seasons. Stress fractures happen all the time. Did Joe Hall overwork Sam Bowie? The DR.’s gave Jasper the go ahead to play. So you can’t blame the coach on that one. Meeks was cleared and probably told the coach he was fine. He probably was just trying to give him minutes to get the rust off. We can sit here until the cows come home and play the blame game. The fact of the matter is the injuries happened and it is what it is.

By: Discusted ky alum

Discusted ky alum — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:49:53 +0000

I’ve never been so fed up with one of our coaches. I like the way Gillispie can make a group of players play together as a confident team and some players even learning to pass and pass well under him….but that is it.

However…………. Gillispie’s total lack of communicaton on explaining his many strange coaching moves to the fanatics who are Ky basketball is inexcusable as is his coaching progress calender that allows losses early to unheard of teams to prove his points to his players. I’d rather listen to QVC (ugh) after a game than Gillispie - you learn as much (nothing).

And now to break down his 3rd player with a stress fracture in one season is totally unforgivable to the players, the team, the school and the fans. Have 3 stress fractures ever happened to any one basketball team. He would be fired in the horse industry and he should be in basketball. I sure can see why our players weren’t buying into Gillispie’s treatment early on.

Gillispie has some good points about him but his overall package is terribly flawed & he was much too quick a hire. Kentucky did not have to gamble handing KENTUCKY BASKETBALL to such a flawed coach.

By: Mike Kleitz

Mike Kleitz — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:15:05 +0000

The injured players were only allowed back because the trainers gave an ok. Every coach in the country with our roster would have let Jasper and Meeks back on the court as soon as they were given the ok. Injuries mappen (most of the time) due to a way a guy lands or is hit, not because of being over worked. Let me guess, Bradley’s concussion was because he played to many minutes as well huh?

By: Ken Weedman

Ken Weedman — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:32:53 +0000

KY Alum -

Move to Minnesota. (Hmmmmmm - lol)