Gillispie already wearing out his welcome at Tech

[Soonerman]

If he is let back, more players will leave (if there's any left). Tech will have to field a team full of walks on and intramural studs. I don't like Tech, but what a sorry situation.

 

[seniorsooner]

AP just released a statement from the school saying that Gillispie is on "indefinite sick leave" and that he is "taking sick days". That tells me he is definitely going to get canned but the university is working on crossing their t's and dotting their I's first

 

[Ham]

We need the easy win but it doesn't do the Big 12 good to just see them implode.

Also occuring to me...their AD is the guy from Miami involved in that Shapiro business.
They just need to fire Tuberville, Gillespie, Hocutt and reboot.

Or they can stick with him, field a squad of walk-ons and kill our conference RPI when they go 1-11 (or whatever) out of conference.

 

[Ham]

AP just released a statement from the school saying that Gillispie is on "indefinite sick leave" and that he is "taking sick days". That tells me he is definitely going to get canned but the university is working on crossing their t's and dotting their I's first

Oooh, I didn't see this before I posted.

Looks like he's toast. Rightfully so.

 

[Sam]

AP just released a statement from the school saying that Gillispie is on "indefinite sick leave" and that he is "taking sick days". That tells me he is definitely going to get canned but the university is working on crossing their t's and dotting their I's first

Once they can legally fire him, BCG is going to be gone.

 

[campbest]

We need the easy win but it doesn't do the Big 12 good to just see them implode.

Also occuring to me...their AD is the guy from Miami involved in that Shapiro business.
They just need to fire Tuberville, Gillespie, Hocutt and reboot.

Or they can stick with him, field a squad of walk-ons and kill our conference RPI when they go 1-11 (or whatever) out of conference.

Kirby Hocutt also worked at the University of Oklahoma for a while.

 

[mattham4]

Hocutt was an assistant AD at OU from '99 to around 2005...former K State football player.

 

[tycat947]

Kirby Hocutt also worked at the University of Oklahoma for a while.

So did Long at Arkansas! These 2 guys have had a rough few months for sure!!!

 

[thebigabd]

Good news for Tech... they have Doc Sadler sitting there on Bill Self's staff as an assistant.

Doc should be reporting for duty in Lubbock right away. Doc is a good coach, does things the right way, will make the competitive, wont drink, and wont abuse his players.

 

[Seymore Cox]

Good news for Tech... they have Doc Sadler sitting there on Bill Self's staff as an assistant.

Doc should be reporting for duty in Lubbock right away. Doc is a good coach, does things the right way, will make the competitive, wont drink, and wont abuse his players.

Why would you bring in someone from the same coaching family.....

 

[boksooner]

I don't know if he's a long term solution, but he would make a good interim coach.

 

[WTSooner]

Why would you bring in someone from the same coaching family.....

Because other than that, they are nothing alike? Because you probably aren't going to be able to find anybody worth a darn at this point in the season?

TT isn't going to be a very attractive job after this. If Sadler wants it, I bet he gets it. Not just for this year, but going forward, maybe.

 

[Seymore Cox]

Sadler is basically Gillespies's best friend. I don't see that happening.

 

[seniorsooner]

So I hear Billy Clyde's headed to the Mayo Clinic now. LMAO

 

[bocabull]

So I hear Billy Clyde's headed to the Mayo Clinic now. LMAO

Here in Scottsdale? Maybe I will take him out for some drinks. ha ha

 

[thegreyghost]

Sounds like he is the modern day shooter from Hoosiers

 

[Sam]

Sounds like he is the modern day shooter from Hoosiers

Come on, Shooter had a heart of gold. He was simply a wayward soul, I don't think the same applies for BCG.

 

[seniorsooner]

This guy will stop at nothing to try to save his job. That "story" that ESPN did yesterday on him going to the Mayo Clinic read like a press release done by Billy Clyde's PR team.

 

[MsProudSooner]

Gillespie placed a second 911 call yesterday. Note the bolded paragraph. That seems unusual for a 'normal' Sick Leave.

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/viewart/20120911/SPORTS/120911037/2nd-911-call-from-Billy-Gillespie-s-home-ambulance-sent-

LUBBOCK, Texas — An ambulance was sent to the home of Texas Tech coach Billy Gillispie for the second time in 10 days while he remains on leave as the school investigates his leadership of the program.

Lubbock Police Sgt. Jeff Baker said Tuesday that the emergency call came from Gillispie’s home around 6 p.m. Monday and that an ambulance was sent.

A spokesman for University Medical Center, where Gillispie earlier spent six days this month, said Gillispie did not come there. A spokeswoman for the other hospital in Lubbock said Gillispie was not brought there.

Gillispie, in a text message to The Associated Press late Tuesday, said he would be treated for high blood pressure “amongst other things,” at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

Texas Tech spokesman Blayne Beal said Gillispie told athletic director Kirby Hocutt he was going to the Minnesota medical facility for treatment.

Gillispie is on indefinite sick leave and Hocutt said he is no longer making day-to-day decisions for the basketball program so he can focus on his health.

“Nor is he to engage with our program in any way until he and I have a chance to sit down and talk face to face,” Hocutt said.

On Aug. 31, Gillispie called 911 and was taken to the medical center. It was the same day he was supposed to meet with Hocutt to discuss allegations he had mistreated his players. The school has reported excessive practice-time violations to the NCAA and reprimanded Gillispie in January.

Gillispie told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal on Aug. 31 that he felt like he was having a heart attack or a stroke when he called 911. Doctors told Gillispie his blood pressure was dangerously high, the paper reported.

The school penalized itself for the practice overage, docking twice the number of hours that Gillispie had exceeded during a two-week period in October or 12 hours and 20 minutes. An unidentified assistant coach was also reprimanded.

The NCAA allows 20 hours of practice per week.

Hocutt said the school continues to “work through the process” of looking into allegations players brought to him Aug. 29. Gillispie’s assistant coaches, with Hocutt’s oversight, are handling the program for now.

Hocutt did not put a timetable on when he and Gillispie would meet.

“I can’t anticipate given the other issues related to his health,” he said. “With basketball season officially starting practice in a month, the sooner the better.”

Hocutt has declined to say whether Gillispie could be fired. He has said he was “very troubled” by the information players had given him.

Hired in March 2011, Gillispie came to Texas Tech after two years out of coaching. The school and fans had hoped he could orchestrate another remarkable turnaround, like the ones he put together at UTEP and Texas A&M.

He went to Kentucky in 2007 but the school fired him in 2009 after it went 40-27 in his two seasons and missed the NCAA tournament for the first time in 17 years.

 

[AdaSooner]

This guy will stop at nothing to try to save his job. That "story" that ESPN did yesterday on him going to the Mayo Clinic read like a press release done by Billy Clyde's PR team.

Exactly my thoughts when I read the brief in this morning's Oklahoman.