The Big Blue Daily Mail -- Mississippi State Edition.
by Glenn Logan on Feb 16, 2010 10:41 AM EST
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- In The News: Kentucky’s Derek Anderson Screens Documentary Featuring "The Untouchables" – LostLettermen.com
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Chris Diggs smacks down a UK hater.
Remember the hate piece I linked the other day? Chris Diggs brings the thundah and smacks him around like a piñata. Nice work, Chris. -
Alligator Army Off-Topic: When "out of context" Is Out Of Context - Alligator Army
Interesting choice of words by Phillips. It's obvious he didn't mean it in a pejorative way, but he sure set himself up to be taken out of context. -
Rush The Court " Blog Archive " Morning Five: 02.16.10 Edition
Some sad news about Dana Kirk. -
Kentucky basketball's DeMarcus Cousins ready to answer the calls - in more ways than one | courier-journal.com | The Courier-Journal
Mississippi State fans had acquired UK center DeMarcus Cousins’ cell phone number, and they were putting it to use.
By Monday afternoon — still more than 24 hours away from Cousins’ matchup against Bulldogs center Jarvis Varnado on Tuesday night in Starkville, Miss. — Cousins estimated he’d received nearly 100 phone calls and 1,000 text messages, mostly from Mississippi area codes.
Good grief. Well, hopefully the fans in Starkville will be on at least acceptable behavior tonight. Calling Cousins and making racially offensive remarks is certainly not an image the school would want paraded around in newspapers.
- The Kentucky Wildcats Hit the Road " Big Blue Lowdown :: The Top Destination for Kentucky Hoops
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UConn runs over No. 3 Nova 48 hours after 'embarrassing' loss to Cincinnati
I don't know if the last two UConn games are a net positive or negative for UK's RPI. - 3-Pointers: Calipari has nothing to gain with Nets - Mike DeCourcy - College Basketball - Sporting News
- Inside the SEC: Coaches favor expanded tournament | Sports from the Press-Register - al.com
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Inside the SEC: How mighty have fallen: LSU could go 0-16 in SEC | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger
I can't understand how LSU could be this bad. - Everything about UK impresses Stansbury | Vaught's Views
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Billy Gillispie is ready to resume his career | College Sports | Sports News and Videos on th...
During a recent reflective and wide-ranging interview of more than two hours, Gillispie said he has no animosity toward the university that sideswiped him out of coaching's fast lane.
"I met a lot of great people there and I don't have any ill will toward Kentucky," he said. "The Kentucky fans are as good as there is in the history of sport.
"I got fired from the job, but I understand how the business works."
Perhaps Gillispie has finally turned the corner, and is ready, in the words of Coach Cal, to begin his bounce back. -
Can defensive star Jarvis Vernado handle DeMarcus Cousins? | Vaught's Views
Good question. We'll know the answer shortly. - UK's Wall Named SEC Freshman of the Week for a Fifth Time - WVNS-TV - WVNSTV.com
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Basketball Prospectus | Articles | Microfracture in the NBA
Interesting article, although a bit disconcerting to those of us who have bad knees. - Cousins wants to show maturity vs. Miss. State - ncaa - SI.com
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Why expand the tournament
if it wont’ potentially affect the outcome of the tournament? 16 seed teams don’t reach the Final 4 anyway, so why would anyone think that a 19 or 20 seed could win a national title? If anything, reducing the tournament by 8 or 16 teams makes more sense from a competition standpoint.
by tyler cottrell on Feb 16, 2010 11:17 AM EST reply actions
It's an easy appeal to egalitarianism.
Plus, all the $$$ the NCAA seem to see in reducing the regular season to meaninglessness.
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by Glenn Logan on Feb 16, 2010 12:40 PM EST up reply actions
I can see how Coaches' would love it
those 16 seed teams get to say “I made Possum Trot U a tourney team” or something.
"Come test me every day if you want," says Pujols, "Everything I ever made in this game I would give back to the Cardinals if I got caught."
Hey now
I happen to live close to Possum Trot and depicting PTU as something less than a top 16 team is a little harsh. Next thing will be some sort of bashing of Monkey’s Eyebrow. Careful there.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro...Hunter S. Thompson
I'm from Paducah
So I know all about being halfway between Possum Trot and Monkey’s Eyebrow
"Come test me every day if you want," says Pujols, "Everything I ever made in this game I would give back to the Cardinals if I got caught."
haha
I’m from the area too…hey, what’s so funny about Possum Trot or Monkey’s Eyebrow?? I’ve heard them all my life so don’t even think about them being completely over-the-top bizarre town names any more.
by blue kentucky girl on Feb 16, 2010 5:56 PM EST up reply actions
I read the Gillispie article front to back
and it really just confirmed what I already believed. An outstanding guy that didnt have a clue. And the unfortunate part is that he probably really loved his job and what he was doing, and really believed he was doing it the right way. Thirty years ago, I am not sure he would not have been the exact guy we needed for the job, because his methods, while honorable AND honest, are more suited to the players of that era. Unfortunately, as I said, it is suited to that era, or at least to a place where your recruits are more hungry than talented.
Remember, we're having fun now!!!
Thought about BG when I head Cal was spending 30 minutes before
practice, one-on-one, with Patterson. And I think Cal did that with another player having trouble, too.
I thought, BillyG would have never done that. Never gone out of his way to help a player like that. He’d have screamed at them and done something stupid to them, but he’d never have devoted extra time daily to trying to help them.
Good riddance.
(Remember that creepy fake-smile he always wore when things got bad? Especially in those painful coach’s programs on TV with Rob Bromley? Oooh.)
I don't agree
Patterson has a story that he tells of Billy Gillispie personally driving him from Lexington to West Virginia for a friend’s funeral (or something like that) before Pat had ever played a game for the blue and white.
I think the man genuinely cared about his players as people, he was just clueless about how to treat them when it came to basketball matters.
Of course its difficult, its a shortcut... if it was easy it'd just be "the way."
He
in my opinion had some anger issues. He would do some really great things and seemed to have a great heart but would be emotionally/verbally abusive to some of his players. Hopefully he has worked through them. I am interested in what Porter says about it in his new book.
Its funny that the Gillispie article comes up today
Because it was 2 hours before the Mississippi State game last year that I had the jarring revelation that Gillispie had to go.
I remember it clearly and even remember what stretch of road I was on while listening to the pre-game comments leading up to Varnardo and Co making a trip to Rupp Arena. Gillispie was asked about what the team would do differently to avoid another triple double with 10 blocks from Varnardo… Gillispie’s answer? “Well I don’t think we need to do anything different. We need to take it to him aggresively and just play tougher.” 7 blocks and countless altered shots later, I had my answer about Gillispie’s coaching ability at UK.
Of course its difficult, its a shortcut... if it was easy it'd just be "the way."
I hope Cousins crushes Vernado
On the court in the basketball sense, that is.
The whole Cousins getting stupid phone calls/texts just confirmed (again) two of my life-long mantras: 1. People are stupid. 2. People are cowards. Like 1/4 of the people making those dumb calls/texts would have the balls to say all that crap to his face. UGH!
Mississippi St. fans .....
Remember the quote I put up from Rupp a while back about them putting a dead skunk under his bench before one game? They never change, I guess.
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Calls/texts??
Howd they get his number anyway? I’d like to have it if its that EASY to get….
Lets get it on!!!!
He has two friends there
but he said they “wouldn’t” have given it out, someone suggested facebook but I would hope he was smarter than that. All I do know is that one of the MSU sports writers took a photo of a sign that had his number on it posted at a bus stop.
"Come test me every day if you want," says Pujols, "Everything I ever made in this game I would give back to the Cardinals if I got caught."
loved the SI piece,
and Coach is so right, Cousins is a "fun-loving kid". It baffles me that some people might think otherwise, I mean, just look at him. : )
Also, I thought it was really interesting (in the CJ piece, I think?) when it talked about how good a shot blocker Daniel is and how he is really helping DeMarcus prepare for Varnado (and all other excellent shot blockers, for that matter) in practice. I hadn’t really thought about it that way before, but yes, Daniel is most surely a great asset in that regard and definitely deserves some props for helping out "behind the scenes". Atta boy, Daniel.
That is ...
… a great point.
Cousins has more moves than most guys his size, and plays … well, not so much below the rim as at the rim. He doesn’t really play way above the rim like some guys his size.
So I think that he is used to having to deal with guys who can block is shot. We’ll see.
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Cousins reminds me of a slightly less crafty Kevin McHale
But with tons more physical gifts. Anyone who passes on Cousins in the first three picks is gonna make Bowie over Jordan look smart.
"all the way"
Billy G to DePaul?
http://cbs2chicago.com/local/billy.gillispie.depaul.2.1497159.html
First time I shot her, shot her in the side.
Hard to watch her suffer, but with the second shot she died...
I saw that
…although I am not sure what he is talking about here:
“He’s a good enough coach, but he was mismatched,” North said. “He looks like Marty – Ernest Borgnine – from the Academy Award-winning film back in the ‘50s. He’s just didn’t fit in there, I mean, he’s a paisan; he’s a New Jersey guy, and he’s at Kentucky – the land of horses and bluegrass.”
Gillispie is definitely not a New Jersey guy.
It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
by kentuckygirl0724 on Feb 16, 2010 3:52 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, that was odd
I can, however, get where he was going with this:
First time I shot her, shot her in the side.
Hard to watch her suffer, but with the second shot she died...
It'd be odd to see him replace his former assistant
Tracey Webster is the interim coach there (former Gillispie asst at UK).
Of course its difficult, its a shortcut... if it was easy it'd just be "the way."
DePaul
I think he’d be a decent fit there with his midwest ties from his time as an assistant to Self at Illinois, but the Big East is a tough place to try and re-establish your coaching credentials. I have always thought that DePaul could be a good job, I don’t understand how a major college in the heart of Chicago can’t get better recruits than they do.
Of course its difficult, its a shortcut... if it was easy it'd just be "the way."
that's what I always think about St John
How are they not awesome? Nice tradition, in the Big East, and right in the heart of Manhattan? Maybe New York is not quite the recruiting mecca it once was, but come on…I can’t believe it’s not still pretty fertile. And you’d think NYC kids would love to stay home—although I heard it mentioned during the commentating of an SJU game (Louisville game, probably) that since so many kids go to prep school now, that takes them out of the city right after high school, and after that they’re more inclined to be open to branching out and leaving the city. I don’t think it will happen, but I thought St John sounded like a much more probable UL-exit-strategy than the Nets for Pitino.
by blue kentucky girl on Feb 16, 2010 6:03 PM EST up reply actions
Kirk and Askew
Ironically, two of today’s posts tie together. Not to speak ill of the dead, but Dana Kirk was rumored to have told Vincent Askew to hold the ball against Villanova in the semis at Rupp in 1985, leading to suspicion that Kirk threw the game. The justification hinged on rumors that he ran up some considerable card gambling debts at the Colonial Country Club in Memphis.
I grew up a few miles from Gravel Switch
Now I live in a suburb of Atlanta. Go figure
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i wish i could get a hold of cousins number
i’d love to have a conversation with the guy
by UKalltheway2010 on Feb 16, 2010 7:38 PM EST reply actions
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