This article is syndicated content from our college basketball blog, Rush the Court.
For the second time since last spring’s Mario Miracle, the NABC has put out a statement that squarely fixes its crosshairs on Kentucky’s second-year coach, Billy Gillispie.
Certainly you remember the June directive the NABC made to stop recruiting junior high players in the wake of the media firestorm over Gillispie’s recruiting of eighth grader Michael Avery. We wrote
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about 1 month ago
Billy Gillispie is a coach that lives for basketball. He is a smart man when it comes to x's and o's. He found a way to get around and let his fans of his team enjoy a special night. Everybody knows how much the great state of Kentucky loves basketball. The coach gets 2 hours a week. Why can't he spend those 2 hours on whatever he may want? I know that Midnight Madness brings in recruits, however it gives recruits a chance to go to another madness if it is on another night, hopefully making it easier to choice what school he wishes to go to. It all goes back to if another school and another coach does it then it is just brushed under a rug. If Kentucky does it then it is hell to pay. Just look at what the University of Southern California did when they accepted a very young recruit and nothing was said. Kentucky does it, and everybody is in a uproar. Nothing was said weeks later when Billy D at Florida did it. Kentucky is rebuilding without former coach/current Minnesota coach/ NABC president, Tubby Smith. It seems to most Kentucky fans that Tubby is lashing out at Billy. Why knows? It doesn't matter. Billy G is a smart man, he will do what he has always done to win and succeed unlike Tubby when he was at UK.
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