Well, you gotta keep up with the Jones', and the Floyd's, and the Williams' ...

Welcome to out first commit from the class of 2016! Wow!

Mr. SHOW PRESCIENT?

You seem to have a lot of the same charater traits as that guy.

Dont come with the negative waves man

The Tubby comment at the end of your post was deliberately inflammatory and you know that you put it in there with all the maturity of the 8th grader we're recruiting just to get a rise out of some people.  Shame on you.

To each his own, I guess.  We certainly don't require anyone here to like the current head coach, or the AD.

There's plenty of room for dissonance and reasonable concern (the pre-hiring phenomenom in general bothers me) with many decisions.  Its all in how you phrase it.

Internet forums get awfully boring if everyone agrees, but they become awfully annoying when they are filled with empty rhetoric wrapped in a sarcastic covering.

PS  Yes the Easter Bunny brought me lots of chocolate.  Did you get enough?

Oh, and don't apologize for having an opinion, even a stupid one. I won't apologize for calling it what it is.

"This shows that your no longer KENTUCKY, your just kentucky."

Dude, Adolph Rupp isnt walking through that door, and besides your whole argument against Coach Brooks is totally hypothetical. Who gets this upset over a hypothetical situation?

We tried for who we thought would be a homerun coach, turns out that Donovan would have been a bad fit because he likes to bad mouth his players, we tried for who we thought would be good and we got a man who works 24 hours a day to make kentucky, KENTUCKY again.

By the way, Santa Clause said hi.

And Gillispie has only had the head job at UK for 1 year.  I think even an unreasonable person would give him more than that.

And the Easter Bunny was very kind to me this year, thank you.  I was a very good boy this year.

:-)

:-)

Most people around here don't consider themselves Tubby fans or Gillispie fans... we are KENTUCKY fans.  You can trade in your blue and white for maroon and yellow at any time.

This site doesnt need any more people coming on here for a week to start an argument about the Tubbs. You will find that 95% of everybody on here liked tubby and are still fairly strong supporters. What you need to do is adjust your panties that seem to be in a wad, and calm down, and understand that Tubby started with a lot more talent than did Billy.

Does that make either of them a bad coach? No.

Gillispie has done fine so far by any reasonable measure.  Next year should give us a better read, and I do see more consistency in recruiting.

I just didn't expect to be committing 2012 recruits in 2008.

/end sarcasm

I wonder if Kentucky actually offered him.  I don't think so.

1.  Was discussed at length a year ago.  Generally seen as a bush league move.  In retrospect, it would have been just one more loss on the pile.
2.  Don't recall any real discussion about it around here, nor did the local news outlets in E-town pick up on it.  If as you say it was just trashed, my view is that it was a huge revenue loss.  People would have paid good money to have a piece of the floor framed and hanging on their wall.

In fact, in my opinion, Tru and FortyYear are amongst the most ardent Tubby defenders, but being a Tubby defender doesn't mean you have to bash Coach G. I happen to like them both. I happen to believe that Coach G. is moving the program in the right direction. Did he have a tough first year? Yep. But we are poised to be better in the coming years. One need only look at the marked in-season improvement this year to see that. They don't just throw around SEC Coach of the Year trophies for nothing.

Mark this one down! I'm dropping facts from web sites on FortyYear! That's gotta be a first. :)

These kids are giving a verbal commitment. That's it. They are not using their own blood to sign a binding document with Coach Gillispie and the University of Kentucky to sell their 14-year-old souls to the devil. These kids, their families and the coaching staff can change their minds at anytime.

That last sentence concerns me. How many of these sophomore/freshmen/8th grader verbals can we expect to completely pan out? Right now, I'd say that a verbal commitment doesn't guarantee UK anything. If Coach K shows up at this kids house 3 years from now and cries, he might change his mind.

I'm hesitant to start making "Welcome to the Family" posts for young kids who verbal. But I understand what Gillispie and the rest of the college basketball world is trying to do; secure the projected top talent as best as they can. This is some sort of crazy futures trading game now.

I am so sorry he is having to suffer that.  I pray he will recover fully, and soon.  He seems like a high-quality young man.

I wish him the best in his full recovery and his career.

This kid go by Michael or Matt?

You could be the best coach ever there! and not have to live in the shadow of Denny Crum.

But you should probably start thinking up some kind of good excuse for why you still suck like "Jamal Mashburn is not walking through that door." Or something else like that.

I will pay for your plane ticket and your moving fees to take the Dallas Mavericks back to the basement of the NBA like you did with the Celtics who are JUST NOW recovering.

GO RICK GO!!!

But before you do hold a press conference telling U of L how much you love them, the fans, and the tradition there.

That way you will feel comfortable.

I hate you

I hate Doyell less now that a couple of years ago, but it will be some time before I believe something like this coming from him.

Most adults would prefer that kids choose college when there is reason to believe that they are making that decision as an adult.  When someone is 17 or 18 years old, our society presumes that they are near enough to being considered an adult to make at least a semi-responsible decision.

But when a 14 year-old makes that kind of decision, I would say the presumption is, if not reversed, subject to significant skepticism.  I think that is the concern of Dr. Todd, and I think it is warranted.  I agree with his hope that we see this kind of thing rarely.

We all know, and must accept this as the cutting edge of recruiting.  I suspect the NCAA will be addressing this issue soon, and there may or may not be legislation.  But Todd's reaction is illustrative of what we can expect from the other college presidents if this becomes a widespread trend.

Gillispie cannot have direct contact with the young man until his junior year in high school.  All contacts will have to go through his coach, his parents or other persons representing his interests.