This is ridiculous and really puts the program in the toilet. They're going to have to settle for Steve Alford or Matt Dougherty.
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I hope nothing like that ever happens here.
What Cutler did was disturbing and poor form BUT based on what I know now....Gillispie deserved it.
If FoT knows who I think he knows he'll be able to confirm what I have to say fairly easily.
I have never, in my life, been more ashamed to be associated with a person like Billy Gillispie. Eddie Sutton had personal problems and did a lot of damage with his unethical behavior but what happened to some of our players this season was like a cross between Pat Conroy's My Losing Season and the Great Santini with a splash of the Junction Boys and the Marquis De Sade thrown in for good measure.
This was not about Wins or Losses or the NIT. This was about a man who lost control. I know for a fact that our AD is seriously shaken over what this hire did and not because of anything like losing. I heard some "rumblings" all season but dismissed them as "growing pains" or the byproducts of a poor season. I feel like a coward for that.
Part of me knows what damage the MoU debate can do to the UK program if it were to go to court but I don't really care. I would much rather deal with aftershocks of the truth than coverups. It honestly makes me appreciate the stewardship of men like Tubby or Joe B or Rick Pitino (and I hate to admit that one) even more. Men who may have pushed players hard but they always had their best interests at heart. I can't say the same for Coach Gillispie.