MBB 2020 Coaching Carousel

[HereBeforeCoachK]

I mean, this was pretty commonplace here within (relatively) recent memory.

Now if the players smoked during games, that would be a story.

I think into the 70s there were players who smoked in NBA locker rooms at half and so on...I remember being surprised reading about that.

[OldPhiKap]

Vlade Divac was a smoker as an nba player. Not in games though.

Just a hunch, but I think Bill Walton was too.

[pfrduke]

Just a hunch, but I think Bill Walton was too.

Not sure they were smoking the same substances.

[kako]

https://sports.yahoo.com/tarleton-st...150053996.html

It's not often I read an article so scathing about a coach from a real news outlet. Either this is libel, or Billy Gillispie is a bad person. I think I had heard about the DUIs, but mostly I know that UK went to the NIT with him at the helm. And unless you are Coach Cal with Big Blue nattys in your pocket, that's not flying at Kentucky... thus the pink slip.

If there's no lawsuit, then the shoe probably fits.

9F

[SlapTheFloor]

https://sports.yahoo.com/tarleton-st...150053996.html

It's not often I read an article so scathing about a coach from a real news outlet. Either this is libel, or Billy Gillispie is a bad person. I think I had heard about the DUIs, but mostly I know that UK went to the NIT with him at the helm. And unless you are Coach Cal with Big Blue nattys in your pocket, that's not flying at Kentucky... thus the pink slip.

If there's no lawsuit, then the shoe probably fits.

9F

This jives with the stories I've heard about him. He reportedly had a significant alcohol problem, so that may have been a factor. The question for me is, if he had been a successful basketball coach, would UK and its fans have tolerated the bad behavior?

[sagegrouse]

This jives with the stories I've heard about him. He reportedly had a significant alcohol problem, so that may have been a factor. The question for me is, if he had been a successful basketball coach, would UK and its fans have tolerated the bad behavior?

From reports, he is a strange and self-destructive man. Like he never signed his contract at Kentucky, just an MOU -- and he was there two years!

Gillispie signed a memorandum of understanding in [AD Mitch] Barnhart’s house following a whirlwind courtship that lasted less than a day. Yet he never signed a formal contract as his lawyer and the university fought over the wording.

In the end, that decision may end up costing him millions. Barnhart said the university did not plan to pay Gillispie a $6 million buyout that was to be part of his seven-year deal that remains unsigned.

“Suffice it to say it will be less than that,” Barnhart said.

Barnhart said the school would abide by the memorandum of understanding, but he considers it to be a year-to-year contract. Gillispie made $2.3 million annually.

In the predictable lawsuit, he got $3 million, one-half of what was in the unsigned contract.

[brevity]

We have a Coaching Carousel thread. Billy Gillispie is not special enough to merit his own.

[MartyClark]

This jives with the stories I've heard about him. He reportedly had a significant alcohol problem, so that may have been a factor. The question for me is, if he had been a successful basketball coach, would UK and its fans have tolerated the bad behavior?

I think they would tolerate anything from a coach who wins

[kako]

We have a Coaching Carousel thread. Billy Gillispie is not special enough to merit his own.

Fair enough. I stand corrected!

9F