Scott Hopson will learn the next few years.

While I wish he had chosen UK, best of luck to him and now that drama is over. This announcement is merely a blip on the screen with the news we've had today.

I hate to be one to continue to bring up rumors but Sutton just recently resigned from OK State.  Anyone else just a smidge concerned?

Gillispie will be UK coach whenever Okla St announces their new one.

to the next recruit.......Scotty will be where he wants to be.....again, the rebuilding at UK could take another year or so.  No worries here.

Signed #1 class in 2004.

Signed #1 JuCo player in 2005.

Signed (3) Top 50 recruits in 2006.

Signed 2 HS All-Americans in 2007.

Signed (2) Top 50 recruits in 2008.

TBD in 2009.

Verbals from (2) Top 25 recruits in 2010.

The OSU opening has been known to many in Big XII circles for a long time. I think it was more than three months ago that I heard from a coach friend of Bill Self's that Self said - 1 - Sean was out, and 2 - BCG told Self he was unhappy at UK and interested in OSU.
Now, that was during the dark days and before the strong finish; however, if we can step outside our Big Blue Fog and see what the world looks like to other people, we might see some reasons why someone would actually prefer the Cherokee Strip to the Bluegrass, though the very idea seems to us like willingly choosing to live in the hills somewhere without running water, electricity or the Internet instead of in a nice pricey loft somewhere ... wait a minute ...
What kinds of things motivate people?
Money? Well, they can find it in Stillwater without the strings attached to Blue money.
Prestige? Well, if you win in Kentucky a lot, you can still have the boosters offering to buy your contract out so you will leave, while people put For Sale signs in your yard, etc. You have to keep winning to stay in Bracketville ... and the Bluegrass. You don't have to win as much or as often to be Cowboy King. Sure, the expectations are lower - but the rewards of taking a nearly-was team like OSU to great heights would be greater - and more easily attainable - than taking a perennial power like UK to where it is expected to be every year.
Challenge? Well, what's a greater challenge to a competitor - to do something no one else has ever done, as in build a champion at OSU, or kill yourself trying to replicate past success at UK? If you think about it, there are reasons to see such an opportunity as a greater challenge - depending on how you define it.
Security? Well, which school is going to pay you more for doing less over a longer period of time? Where do you stand a better chance of surviving longer? Whose fans will be more patient with less up front, and reward you more for less along the way, and wait longer for top success? Which school's administration is going to silently sit by while loonies tear you down because you have won a national title and record tournament success, etc?
Fan Support? Well, who will be satisfied more easily, and more regularly, and for longer? As wonderful as the past few weeks have been, BCG got a taste of the Dark Side of the Nation and has to know that he is only as good as his recent winning streak.
Independence? At which school will he have more freedom to do as he sees fit, how he sees fit, without constant media attention, stalking from the Fake Gimel Martinez, etc.? In which pond will he be a bigger fish - regardless of the size of the pond? Where will he face more coverage of off-campus issues?
Intangibles? Maybe BCG is like the many who do not believe there is life east of the Mississippi. Maybe he has his eyes on a job at Kansas and wants to move closer to wait for his buddy Bill to leave. Maybe he would like to be back out in the wilderness.
Friends, there is nothing on this planet that would drag any one of us away from our precious Old Kentucky Home. But there are reasons why someone actually could look the situation in the eye, size it up, try it on for size for a season, and then decide that UK is a great place, just not for him. I cannot imagine trading the chance for even one season at UK for a dozen anywhere else ... but I also must try to imagine someone doing just that for reasons that make sense to him. Billy Dee did it.
Finally, we must all remember that these decisions are made by folks who don't always think like we do or act like we think they ought to act. University administrators, well-funded powerful boosters and highly sought coaches are going to do what they decide they want to do, and the rest of us really only have two choices: get on the bandwagon, or get off. The bandwagon has its own agenda and exists in its own world - and we fans live in a delusional world of our own where we actually think we can do anything about our favorite teams somehow.
I would be sad to see Billy Gee return west - but I would not be surprised. We may be on the verge of seeing UK become a stepping stone, a resume builder, a place for promising coaches to come and leverage for cherry deals elsewhere, getting out of town before the honeymoon sours completely - as it always does these days. It may be that the kind of coach UK needs to come in and dig in and build for the future is exactly the same kind of coach the lunatic fringe won't wait for past the honeymoon.
On the other hand, as we have seen, maybe Billy Gee has his own ideas and is going to do what he wants to do, regardless of critics, and he is going to keep on doing it until he wins a national title or gets asked to leave, whichever comes first. He may be here for a good long time - but ultimately, he will be the one to decide that, and he just might decide otherwise, too.

They said the same thing as your friend.

I don't believe it will happen for a second.

Gillispie is sad (today) but very happy at UK.

Someday (hopefully soon) he won't be sad.

If the "friend in the administration that says X" were often true, Billy Donavan would be our head coach this year and we would have played in the NIT.  Roy Williams would be in the NBA, and Rick Pitino would be at Florida.  If CBCG goes, then let him, he wasn't who wanted here anyway and his actions will have been the determining factor for that.  If he stays (which I imagine he will) then he is every bit of the great coach I, and most Kentuckians, thought he was.  I don't see how you sit next to Bill Keightley on his deathbed, call him your best friend and leave two weeks later.  Whether he wants to believe it or not, CBCG is now a part of UK folklore, amazing turn around by a team that tugged at the heart strings of the Big Blue Nation like no other in recent history and two weeks later holding the hand of a legend as he passed.  That would be tough to leave if it were me.  I believe I would think I had a pretty special situation.

big blue nation maybe tough to deal with at times, but don't pretend for one second that T. Boone Pickens isn't and don't think Billy Clyde doesn't already know that.  TBPickens has said that he is tired of OK state playing second fiddle in the state and will do whatever in his power to change that and that money is of no consequence... that sounds like one crazy rich man to me, maybe with loftier expectations than us?.   Here is another reason BCG will stay here, Billy Gillispie is a native Texan, Texans hate Oklahoma on principle.  Duh, it would be like a Kentucky coach going to Louisville... wait.  Do I sound worried....?

Hey, guys, I never said anyone claimed that any change was definitely going to happen. I only related a conversation that has been corroborated by UK 40 and others. I wouldn't waste your time with BS I found on some silly blog. If I didn't have trustworthy sources, I would not pass this info along.
But the info doesn't mean anything is going to happen. It only means that some folks have been thinking about it.
Personally, I think anyone who would willingly leave the post of UK men's basketball head coach - or any UK coaching job, for that matter - would be acting irrationally. I think Ricky was crazy to leave, I think Tubby was crazy to leave, and I think Billy would be crazy to leave. But people are known to do crazy things - and they usually don't see the craziness in their actions that others might.
I'm with Truze on this one, as usual - I care not who shows up on the sideline or bench next spring, and I fear no transition. When the whistle blows, I will be there wearing the Blue and screaming my head off for whatever five guys showed up in their Blue to represent the great Commonwealth and its flagship, and I will support whoever the powers that be have hired as coach. I may have my own opinions and differences, but I will not take them out on the coach, staff or players - I do not have the right to do that, and neither do any of you.
Of course, maybe my UK football fanhood has altered my sense of reality here - but all that means is that I have enjoyed the recent successes more than most who were never in the stands during the dark times. So long as 11 guys show up in Blue at Commonwealth - or five at Rupp - we will rejoice in the blessing we have to watch and cheer them on, win or lose, Elite 8 or NIT, it's all about the privilege, not the right. A Kentucky birthright is its own blessing, but it does not include the right to winning in sports. That is a blessing and privilege all its own, and just God's generous gooey gravy on top of all the other blessings we Kentuckians already enjoy undeservedly every single day of our lucky lives. Amen. Hope BCG feels the blessings that are his, but if not, surely someone else will be more than happy to take his place. It'll be his loss, not ours.

10 years at UK is enough. 13 was too long for Hall. 8 years about right for Pitino.

90 million dollars and partial ownership of the Celtics... I believe was the offer... or something similar.  UK is rich, but not that rich.  He is Rick Pitino and the dollar signs were as big as his ego.  College National Championships were old news to him.  He'd failed in the NBA in round one, here was his new challenge.  He basically put together a team of former UK players in the NBA though, funny how that never panned out for him.

I was excited to see so many of them on the same team.  I just was surprised to see it not work in the NBA like it did in college.

Through Natalie, I've gotten to talk to some of his former NBA teammates over the years.

For whatever reason, he was not well liked by his teammates. Somewhat of a Me, Not We attitude.

Prince was 3-time All-SEC and 2-time A-A who can shoot and play D. No surprise (4 me) what we has done in NBA.