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Fox Sports Oral History of Billy Gillispie
Posted on 2/16/15 at 11:05 am
Posted on 2/16/15 at 11:05 am
Fox Sports with an oral history of Billy Gillispie's turbulent coaching tenure at Kentucky. It discusses the question as to why the same coach using the same methods could thrive at Texas A&M, but fail at Kentucky.
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I've often wondered where the A&M basketball program would be today if Billy had stayed put. Would he have self-destructed even at A&M with continued success? Or was A&M just the ideal fit for him?
I sure did like the way his A&M teams played hard. The players there obviously responded to his methods.
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I've often wondered where the A&M basketball program would be today if Billy had stayed put. Would he have self-destructed even at A&M with continued success? Or was A&M just the ideal fit for him?
I sure did like the way his A&M teams played hard. The players there obviously responded to his methods.
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Posted on 2/16/15 at 11:07 am to PikeBishop
I feel like he would have eventually stepped over the line to the point we had to let him go. Who knows though. I think he would have had some pretty salty squads with the Sloan/Roland/Davis group though and might have taken us deeper than Turge did
Posted on 2/16/15 at 11:11 am to PikeBishop
I might be way off base, and it certainly is different reasons, but to me Billy's issue at Kentucky is the same issue Charlie has had at Texas. In both of those positions you are more than just a coach, you are also the ambassador to that community. At A&M Billy could be a barely functional drunk (I love the Christmas tree story) and succeed because no one cared what he did off the basketball court. Charlie isn't a drunk (well I don't think he is) but he certainly wasn't ready for the fact that his position is the second most visible spot in Texas to the governor's office.
Posted on 2/16/15 at 11:12 am to PikeBishop
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I've often wondered where the A&M basketball program would be today if Billy had stayed put. Would he have self-destructed even at A&M with continued success? Or was A&M just the ideal fit for him?
It's interesting to think about for sure. I think he probably would have self-destructed, but TAMU really was the ideal fit for him, in hindsight.
What might have been....
Posted on 2/16/15 at 12:19 pm to cardboardboxer
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but to me Billy's issue at Kentucky is the same issue Charlie has had at Texas. In both of those positions you are more than just a coach, you are also the ambassador to that community. At A&M Billy could be a barely functional drunk (I love the Christmas tree story) and succeed because no one cared what he did off the basketball court. Charlie isn't a drunk (well I don't think he is) but he certainly wasn't ready for the fact that his position is the second most visible spot in Texas to the governor's office.
Agreed on all counts.
Posted on 2/16/15 at 1:46 pm to ShaneTheLegLechler
I think his antics would have caught up with him.
I remember reading an old TA lore about him sleeping with co-eds and seen sneaking out of that girls dorm hall in the north side in the early AM hours. Not that there's anything wrong with that legally, but depending on who you ask that's either morally
or 
as frick!
I remember reading an old TA lore about him sleeping with co-eds and seen sneaking out of that girls dorm hall in the north side in the early AM hours. Not that there's anything wrong with that legally, but depending on who you ask that's either morally
or as frick!Posted on 2/16/15 at 4:35 pm to PikeBishop
Not ashamed to say it: I love that man.
Good luck to you, Billy Clyde.
Good luck to you, Billy Clyde.
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