Based on previous statements by each coach, and a gut feeling.

I probably should have notated as much in the post.

also read these rumors on a different site,if true we are better off w/out bcg,and by we i mean the kids.they kinda make since in some instances,players very rarely made eye contact with bcg,seemded more than unhappy and you could tell it was more than just losing,there is something to be said about checking out players body language.You could plainly tell there was more going on with Jodie than being tired,and on and on.

but those are fairly strong accusations, especially situations like forcing a player to spend halftime in a bathroom stall. If true, he definitely mistreated his players, on more than one occasion, but I’d prefer to see something supporting those statements, other than “sources.”

Let’s see: Barnes has been a head coach at a high-major for 22 seasons, Ford for one — There is no comparison.

Is still Sean Miller from Xavier. Has a lot to offer if you look closely.

… but, of course this list isn’t all-encompassing.

I know some folks who shall remain unnamed :) aren’t crazy about him, but I think he would fit UK like a hand to a glove. Of course one can’t go by me …

Two years ago my choices were 1a. Cal, 1b. Gillispie

get the look some of us thinks he should have. Let me say in response to your Tubby comment, that I completely agree. He should be held in the very highest regard by our fan base.

I feel dirty saying this but I have to agree. Calipari gets my vote. We need a name coach and IMO he’s the biggest name left after Billy D.

you Calipari supporters keep ignoring it. So here goes nothing (again)…

http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_5735

The NABC was worried about texting, early commits, etc. with Gillispie. The stuff that Calipari is involved with runs much deeper and into a somewhat sinister world.

But he’s not a homerun. Not experienced enough. Capel is the same way.

He plays probably the most exciting brand of basketball in the country. He is a Nolan Richardson disciple and apsires to the “40 Minutes of Hell” pilosophy. His Missouri team leads the country in assistas per game. Not sure how good a recruiter he is but couple the style of play with the UK brand, he could successfully recruit here. Seems very good with the media etc.

Not sure how good he is with the X’s and O’s when his style of play is not working. I would think he would fall into 7-12 range on a wish list. Interesting name though.

40 – of all the names (besides the pipedream of Pitino) isn’t he the least likely to leave his current job? How do you view that?

last time, he can stay in sunny Gainsville for all I care, but I need to see proof that Cal’s name is tarnished before I would be opposed to that choice.

there are several of them to choose from.

http://www.weht.com/dsp_story.cfm?storyid=11907&RequestTimeout=500

As I said above, I like Anderson as well, but I’m not sure if the “search committee” would be interested.

even the notion of Izzo coaching the Cats makes me throw up in my mouth a little. Thinking about that plodding style on display regularly at Rupp is the stuff of nightmares.

I think that if they are true that might change some opinions about this firing. My jaw hit the floor when I read them.

…you’re gonna be second string all your life, boy!" ‘oopty-oop, gimme a break’

Voight was CLASSIC

…and hearing many in the MSM corroborate what was said, I have lost all respect for Billy G. I am glad he is gone.

This isn’t an all-inclusive list.

I may have more later, based on the length of the search.

Tru mentioned someone that I haven’t even thought of in Reggie Theus. He’s and interesting possibility.

who we hire will play a big part in whether current players stay and recruits honor their LOI. I’m not sure someone like Travis Ford could keep Orton here (though Orton’s dad mentioned OK St. as a place he expected would call Daniel if he reopened).

Had it not been for the ‘95’-‘96 UK team, he probably would’ve won the championship that year.

I don’t think he’s overrated.

he doing the finger wag already?

he played for Puke. Don’t think I could live with that even though he has done very well and is getting great results. “Philisophical diffferences” ’-)

There is always more than one side to every story. Trust in that, and you will be properly skeptical. I’m not saying that the story isn’t true, I am saying that there is always more to it than meets the eye.

Many people have sources that they trust. What you most often don’t know are the sources’ sources’ sources, which could reveal both their motivation for passing the rumor and its intended target or purpose.

If you will read The Cats Pause thread to which you have been referring, the site moderators have allowed certain people to pass along unverifiable rumors as fact, and then added comments to certain ambiguous ones to the effect of, "that is true." They have not themselves described these events, nor explained how they know them. Instead, they set up a scenario to provide this information by allowing others to obtain and pass these rumors, people who hide behind the anonymity of the Internet, and supported them strategically. If these were true as stated, and witnessed, why would they not put their name to the story. Further, why would any athletic administration allow a coach to be employed even one day after performing some of these alleged acts?

The Cats Pause, as is Matt at KSR, is little more than an adjunct to the UK Sports Information department. Do you believe for a moment that Mitch Barnhart is not trying to save his own bacon by creating a situation where the public will be persuaded that the firing was absolutely necessary? Do you believe him incapable of making sure that happens by using others who depend upon sources within the athletic department that he controls? Do you further believe him incapable of having begun this process some time back?

Without the good will of the UK AD, The Cats Pause is just like the LHL. Same with KSR. If you uncritically accept the information there, you are doing yourself an injustice.

I recall to you the movie, "Absence of Malice," one of my favorite movies of all time. Sally Field, playing the reporter Megan Carter, was asked by her editor if a story were true. Her response was, "No. But it’s accurate."

Beware "The truth" in situations like this. It often isn’t.

… that “where there’s smoke, there’s fire” is exactly the desired perception?

Look, I’m not saying Gillispie wasn’t tough on them. I am convinced that he was. But allegations like this go beyond being tough and into the arena of … well, for lack of a better word, insanity.

But they are both beholden to the administration for their access, though, and are clearly being fed identical information — likely from the same sources.

That’s what I believe.

I am just objecting to people drawing conclusions from rumors, and damn convenient rumors at that. I’ll take it all back as soon as the Herald-Leader writes and article detailing these offenses and people go on the record.

It does not.

and to support any end result you are trying to obtain.

I wasn’t trying to show you up. We were posting at the same time.

Have you read the article in GQ about “World Wide Wes”?

You are mistaken. Betting he would agree means nothing. He has not made any accusation against Gillispie, and Gillispie explicitly defended his decision to play Jasper just today in the press conference. Nobody has gainsaid him, not the trainers (who are not his employees) nor anyone else.

I can absolutely not imagine medical staff clearing Jasper if he were not ready to play. If the trainers deemed him unfit to play, Gillispie decided to go against their recommendations and Jasper acquiesced (by playing) then there are two that are culpable (Gillispie and Jasper).

One can play with pain and not do long term damage to their body. You need medical professionals to make the determination. There is quite a bit of difference between playing with discomfort and playing injured.

Tru found some undisputed facts I truly believe that he would be the first one to nail BCG. He just wants to hear it as fact and not speculation I think.

has a career at the University of Kentucky to milk for the next 60 years, so yes, I would question his motives.

What I am doing is objecting to a process of character assassination that has absolutely no integrity whatsoever.

I don’t give one microscopic shit what you believe — you can choose to believe that Jimmy Hoffa was kidnapped by space aliens, for all the hell I care. Believing these rumors represent the truth, in my opinion, are just about the same thing.

mom in me would NEVER say that!!!! But that is just me. I had a parent who got mad at me this year because one of my girls jammed her finger so bad it was deformed and took care of her and let my assistants coach. But that is just the mom in me.

But I played an entire district football game with a separated shoulder and, the next year, played the final two games with a broken ankle. Years later, when my playing days were over, I had three knee operations to repair damage I had been playing with since I was a sophomore in high school. There is a difference between playing with pain and playing hurt with a chance of doing life-long damage. Not saying I did the smart or brave thing – I simply did it because I wanted to play. It means more to some people than it does others therefore some are willing to go farther than others.

If Coach Gillispie put Jasper on the floor against medical advice, he should have been fired last season. If he pressured the training staff to clear Jasper to play when he wasn’t ready physically, he should have been fired last year.

The Meeks situation was much different I believe. Coach expressed frustration several times last year with Jodie’s status because they couldn’t nail down the exact cause of his problem. It was a pelvic mircofracture, it was a torn muscle, etc. They didn’t figure it out until way too late.

As far as the verbal stuff, I can’t tell you how many times I heard coaches tell players things like “If you can’t do any better than that, you should clean out your locker”. It’s part of being involved in athletics – your coach challenges you so you will challenge yourself. Not all coaches employ this tactic, but all that I ever played for weren’t shy about using it.

So I guess what I’m saying is, there is a question of degrees, both with the player and the coach. And things said in a lockerroom during the heat of the moment will never look A-OK in the toucy-feely, PC world we find ourselves in today.

“Threw Sevenson under the bus?” That’s just nonsense — he called him out, just like Rick Pitino called out Edgar Sosa the same day in the media.

Gillispie may have made a mistake with the way he handled Liggins. I think he was trying to avoid another midseason defection, and in retrospect, that may not have been best for the team. But it is an understandable, rational reason for handling it the way he did.

So he told Meeks not to shoot — what the hell is wrong with that? He didn’t tell him, “Jodie, never shoot!” He may have told him something like, “Jodie, don’t shoot until we get Patterson a touch.” There is a context to coaching that is absent when you hear sideline instructions shouted like that.

We completely dissected that Jasper article here. I suggest you look it up and read about it. Bottom line — Gillispie may be all sorts of things, but these rumors don’t prove any of them, and neither do the incidents you mention.

UK does not have to have an immediate replacement,who says they don’t?There may be coaches still coaching in the tourney they can’t speak to yet.UK does need to try and hit a home run hire,but if the BCG fiasco has taught them one thing,it is not to rush to a choice just to pacify us,They need to take their time and get it right!

plus, it is easier to do a search when your coach is gone.

if they held on to bcg while they looked behind the scenes and then fired him in a month, we would all say that was not fair and was not handled correctly.

no – i am afraid this “process” must be handled this way – i do not like it, but the alternative (behind the scenes and letting bcg/team hang in the wind for another couple of weeks) is worse…

Irrational. Non-sequitur.

game and it was AJ

anyone have any speculation as to what this meant?

Donovan threw his players out of the locker room last year, and wouldn’t let them back in until they “got it.” He threw the whole team “under the bus.” Nobody complained.

Pitino did the same thing to Edgar Sosa. Nobody complained.