Associated Press
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Billy Gillispie doesn't know about chemistry problems or whether he was the right fit at Kentucky. What he does know is that he simply didn't win enough games.
"I wish we would have won more," Gillispie said Saturday, less than 24 hours after the university fired him following two turbulent seasons.
During an amiable 30-minute meeting with re-porters, the former Texas A&M coach hardly sounded like the guy whose prickly act had quickly worn thin during his brief time at the home of college basketball's winningest program.
He cracked jokes, asking if someone wanted to buy his mansion. He smiled, a rarity during his final days with the program. And he said he had no ill feelings toward athletic director Mitch Barnhart, who cited philosophical differences as the reason Gillispie was let go.
"I'm not a woe-is-me kind of person," Gillispie said. "I've always said this, show up every day, try to work hard, try to do your best with the right attitude and everything works out right. I've had a great time here at Kentucky."
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Posted by: 12thmanfound On: 4/14/2009
Comment Title: RE:Miller
here's ur______ cr*p_____ Get______a____ L__I___F___E___!___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ____ ___ ____ _+_____ 5*____ 4*______
Posted by: On: 3/30/2009
Comment Title: No can do
BCG will not make it at a basketball power. He does not coach well with 4 and 5 star athletes. He makes average athletes better with hard work that the stars will not tolerate and frankly do not need to excell.
Posted by: miller58 On: 3/30/2009
Comment Title: __________BCG__________
My personal opinions:_____With $12 million in the bank, BCG can pick and choose at his convenience!_____No hurry at all, just wait until it's a job he wants and at a time he wants it!_____miller58
Posted by: On: 3/29/2009
Comment Title:
Eunuch or Eunoch are both right
Posted by: On: 3/29/2009
Comment Title:
I know....lets have a spelling contest.
Posted by: On: 3/29/2009
Comment Title:
I know....lets have a spelling contest.
Posted by: On: 3/29/2009
Comment Title: BCG in Big 12 - So what?
Besides, he may go to another Big 12 team. He did a great job here, but it was time to move on. BCG will always have to move every few years unless he ends up in a situation like Knight had at Indiana, and those don't exist any more. Too much drinkin, staying out late, chasing tail, etc. for most college towns, and he won't change. This is a man who admits he left his wife because basketball was more important, but don't think he is a eunoch or something! (Miller 58 may need to look that word up) Bottom line - BCG bought A&M to the game, others, Turgeon included, will have to carry it forward - If he had not gone to K, BCG would have been somewhere else by now anyway! Also, Miller 58, PLEASE cut out the ______ between each sentence! It only hurts your point, whatever it is.
Posted by: On: 3/29/2009
Comment Title: Miller 58
Don't know who you are, but you post more unintelligent, incomplete post than everyone else combined. How about a English class or something before you post again? Or just a coherent thought?
Posted by: miller58 On: 3/29/2009
Comment Title: BCG AT TECH OR OKIE LITE IN THE BIG 12?
My personal opinions:_____Signing twice the difference makers as Turgeon every year, secure with his $12 million dollars, and shoving 3 loses up Byrnes nose every year, will be interesting to watch?_____miller58
