The Big Blue Daily Mail -- A Quickie from the Road Back to Kentucky

by Truzenzuzex on Jul 8, 2009 9:23 PM EDT in News Comment 28 comments

I am on my way back from Deee-twa, home of the Pistons, Ford, General Motors, and as it turns out, other businesses with which I deal. This is an 20-hour+ day, from 4:00AM this morning to about 12:30AM tomorrow morning if my plane is on time. I'll be making up for it by taking tomorrow off and playing golf, so blogging could be light.

So without much further ado (my plane leaves in a few minutes), here is the news:

UK Basketball News

UK recruits are doing the roundball thing well
So says Jody Demling. I so want his job.
Tubby and Calipari hang out together
Just so you know.
Bret Dawson dishes a ton.
Spent a lot of time with college coaches. Two hottest topics: Calipari's immediate impact at Kentucky and Billy Gillisipe's lawsuit against the school. It should come as no surprise that every coach I talked to expects Gillispie to win the $6 million buyout he's suing for, and hopes that he does.

That's just at taste. Read the whole thing.
Bearup says Calipari ‘right fit’ | Vaught's Views
He's right, you know.
Dakotah Euton's goatee is like Samson's hair.
Or something like that.
Gilchrist has hoops recruiters salivating | Philadelphia Inquirer | 07/07/2009
"Michael loves Villanova," said Cindy Richardson, Gilchrist's mother. "It's Kentucky, Villanova. Villanova, Kentucky."

I just hope it winds up "Kentucky."
More, "Gillispie's got a case" from the Voice-Tribune
Speaking of what’s-his-name, my legal sources insist that UK is in expensive and deep doo-doo trying to get out of paying the $6 million Billy Gillispie’s memorandum of understanding calls for if he was fired without just cause. If it’s on paper, it’s a legal document whether Gillispie signed it or not. Ask your lawyer.

C'mon, UK, settle this thing and move on. Take it out of Barnhart's salary if you must. I'm sure he won't mind.

UK Football News

Woodyard will always be True Blue | Vaught's Views
"The money is one thing, but I always love Kentucky. what I did here I can never forget and never will forget. it's like my second home here. I will always come back to Lexington and will always have that love for Kentucky."

I could read this over and over again. I do miss Wesley Woodyard.

Other UK Sports News

None today.

NCAA Sports News

College: Coaches court recruits on Twitter while NCAA keeps watchful eye | HonoluluAdvertiser.com | The Honolulu Advertiser
The NCAA will ban Twitter. Just wait and see.

Other News of Interest

Kenny Perry, Calipari enjoy budding friendship
Nice to see this.
Good Thing Courtney Lee Exists (LeBron James)
Heh. LeBron quashing a video showing him getting dunked on. Hilarious.

The Daily Schadenfreude

KUsports.com Message Boards: UK and its dominance
There used to be a basketball school named Kentucky - and it did have a long and proud history.

Unfortunately, it is no more. In making its current coaching hire it has traded decades of tradition for the quick fix. It has sold its soul.

Embrace. The. Hate.
The Dookies never cease to amuse.
At some point, the NCAA has to catch up with Calipari, right? He cannot just walk away from violations repeatedly. And the scholarship crunch is going to scare a lot of recruits away. But hey, better Knight to Kentucky than UNC.

Priceless.
Some UConn sweetness as well.
Gilchrist and Irving might want to play together, which is the main reason Kentucky is looking at Irving. I hate Calipari. He throws the kids who worked hard and are real student athletes off the team for his one and done players. He is a sucky coach, just pays his players and lets them do whatever they want. If he doesn't get his 5 top 25 guys a year his teams are horrible.

Heh. Feel the love.

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Agree With Comment In One Of The Gillispie Lawsuit Articles

If he gets $6 million from UK, Mitch gets fired from UK for allowing G to work 2+ years with signing a contract.

by FortyYearCatFan on Jul 8, 2009 9:45 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

This was the main reason I was

so upset when Burnfart and Ted put the axe on Gillispie like they did. Bozos. Going to make our university look like backwoods reactionaries. I’m not sensitive or anything about the image so much as I amazed that IDIOTS like that are allowed to run a multi-million dollar establishment. My 14 year old daughter has more respect for people and self control than these grown men. Actually, I would put my 8 year old daughter against these two in a battle of wits ANYTIME…..ANYPLACE. She’s got her ma’s analytical and debate skills. They wouldn’t stand a chance, doctorate or not.

Let the “job” become more important than his job and like Forty says will probably be fired for gross negligence, incompetence and any other idiot phrase you can throw at him. Probably shouldn’t be the only fall guy but life don’t always work that way. :)

I want to die while asleep like my grandfather,
not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.

by bluecrip on Jul 9, 2009 7:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

And UK/UKAA

need to get some competent contract attorneys. Or perhaps, if Mitch is gone, the attorneys will have a competent client.

by Fortunatus on Jul 9, 2009 11:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

2 Years Guaranteed For Meeks, 3rd Year Is Bucks' Option

Per UK athletics update.

by FortyYearCatFan on Jul 8, 2009 9:48 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

What did you expect?

Some UK fan goes to a message board at KU.com and starts a thread entitled “UK and its dominance”. Not hard to believe they didn’t take too kindly to that.

The Duke fans are just douchebags, though.

by don'tshootmei'macard on Jul 9, 2009 12:24 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

De"Pukes"

If you read farther on their post, they think one year at Puke U. is better than a degree at most other universities. Seems like an attempt to rationalize recruiting of “one and dones”

"SPORTS"--Not interested----"CATS"--Pull up a chair,I've got all night.

by kydamcat on Jul 10, 2009 1:30 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

One year at Duke guarantees you a lifetime contract with ESPN

Or didn’t you know?

Of course its difficult, its a shortcut... if it was easy it'd just be "the way."

by chirop1 on Jul 10, 2009 7:58 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Congrats to Jodie

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy (or family).

And Wesley Woodyard rocks.

The King is dead! Long live the King!

by NYCCats on Jul 9, 2009 9:44 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Tru

looks like the PC media is in a firestorm about retro Billy Dee Williams Colt 45 Billboards “works every time” in the Detroit area.Not sure what the beef is,but since you were just there,maybe some insight.The Billboards have been tagged “racist” by AOL and local city counsel???

by -Zoso- on Jul 9, 2009 8:26 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

If Cal is hanging with LaBron, where is Wes? Could jealousy be brewing? Will it become a NCAA investigation? Nope, not with Mr, Clean at the helm.

by TheParisGuy on Jul 9, 2009 8:32 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Are you ever happy?

Honestly, it must be a miserable life you lead.

You came in here spewing vitriol with Coach Gillispie at the helm and now that he’s gone you seem to be making thinly veiled accusations against the new coach. I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see old archived message board posts calling for Tubby’s head too.

Of course its difficult, its a shortcut... if it was easy it'd just be "the way."

by chirop1 on Jul 10, 2009 8:01 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Who recruited Meeks to Kentucky? That’s what I thought. Can’t say anything about him though. Mr. Cheek might get upset.

by TheParisGuy on Jul 9, 2009 8:33 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Tubby Still Hears From Mr. Meeks

Orestes call him the night Jodie scored 54 on Tennessee.

by FortyYearCatFan on Jul 9, 2009 9:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I like that

Im glad he’s been good for the Meek’s’s

DEEETROIT BASKETBALLL!!!

by davw83 on Jul 10, 2009 10:05 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Paris

Meth is not your friend.

by -Zoso- on Jul 9, 2009 9:12 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Clever.

'..when they bring a knife, you bring a gun...that's the Chicago way..'

by HozeKing on Jul 9, 2009 10:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Zoso, tell me about your experiences with it. I don’t need drugs to voice my opinions, how about you?

by TheParisGuy on Jul 9, 2009 9:24 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Games better start soon

or this site will implode. Comments seem to be getting testier by the day.

by hoboat33 on Jul 9, 2009 10:19 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

And A Lot More Mindless

"The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source of national wealth, and has accordingly become a primary object of its political cares."

--Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 12, 27 November 1787

by Wild Weasel on Jul 9, 2009 10:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I Believe That Would Be Marc Maggard's And/Or Mark Santangelo's Websites

Impossible to get more MINDLESS than those two are.

by FortyYearCatFan on Jul 9, 2009 10:29 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Meeks

Many of us opined regarding his decision to stay in the draft. Few of us applauded it. More of us wrung our hands. Turns out, the young man knew what he was doing. He didn’t go in the first round, but he got a contract. (Without an agent, apparently.) He and his dad approached the challenge head on, played the field like a fiddle and got a good basic contract. He has 2-3 years to build his case for a longer term contract for bigger bucks. Meeks is a class act; he will be a very successful person inside and outside of basketball for the next 40-50 years.

by Fortunatus on Jul 9, 2009 11:49 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Go go go go go go go!!!!!

Many of the folks suggesting that Meeks should come back really just wanted him to do it for UK’s interests.

I want to die while asleep like my grandfather,
not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.

by bluecrip on Jul 10, 2009 6:26 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Unless I'm not mistaken...

He hasn’t actually made the roster yet. In the end, I think it will be a good move for him but I don’t think his work is over to make the league just yet.

I just hate that Jodie Meeks will be the answer to the ignominious trivia question “Name the only Kentucky All-American to never win an NCAA tournament game…”

Of course its difficult, its a shortcut... if it was easy it'd just be "the way."

by chirop1 on Jul 10, 2009 8:03 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Technically

Jodie’s team beat Villanova in March 2007 NCAA game.

Jodie wasn’t A-A until 2009.

by FortyYearCatFan on Jul 10, 2009 11:07 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Then don't live your life by trivia ;)

I’m sure Meeks could care less. The $$$ he is going to be making would erase any stigma he may have possible, maybe, okay not really, had from not winning an NCAA Tourney game as an AA.

Meeks may have loved it at UK but he could probably care less about UK trivia. I am sure he is proud of his accomplishments (especially last season) but those things don’t garner a monthly check.

I want to die while asleep like my grandfather,
not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.

by bluecrip on Jul 10, 2009 3:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Then let the question be:

What Kentucky AA player never won an NCAA game and made the most money in the NBA?

by hoboat33 on Jul 10, 2009 3:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Contract / Roster

If you have a guarenteed deal then you have made the roster.
Jodie does. 3 yr deal. First 2 are guarenteed.
He will count towards the Bucks 15 man roster.
They can ship him down to their D-league if they want and call him back up to two times per season in his first two years but he will still be Bucks property and count towards their roster even if he isnt actively with the team. They can also waive him but if they do they will still have to pay him what they owe him on his contract.

DEEETROIT BASKETBALLL!!!

by davw83 on Jul 10, 2009 10:09 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

15 man roster

Teams are allowed to have 15 players on their roster but only 13 are allowed to be active each game. Two players must be inactive. They can either sit the bench in street clothes if you want them to continue to be around the team or you can send them to the Dleague.

DEEETROIT BASKETBALLL!!!

by davw83 on Jul 10, 2009 10:10 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs