Billy G is Overrated!

#26
#26
hatvol96 said:
I think I'll print out all the "Saban is overrated" and "Gillispie is overrated" threads. That way, in two years, I'll be able to accurately identify all the people deserving of ridicule. Enjoy taking your shots now. It's going to be short lived.
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You are correct sir........as Ed McMahon would say.


Has anybody been over at the catpause forum? Man, they are having a melt down! Of course we would never do that here.:wink2:
 
#27
#27
BCG is routinely criticized for his lack of in-game adjustments to win games. UK has plenty of talent, despite the injuries, to beat Gardner-Webb and San Diego at Rupp and UAB at Freedom Hall. Period. Could it be possible that he is a way-above-average recruiter but a below-average in-game coach? If that's the case, after he fills the cupboard with talent, he'll still be a lousy coach during games.
 
#28
#28
What's really ridiculous is that UK could completely mail in the rest of the season, and if BCG has a good year next season, all of the blame for '08 will fall on Tubby. BCG has been awful but has a free pass. I'm not trying to discredit BCG's prior accomplishments, but he has clearly been a below-average coach this season. That is indisputable.
 
#29
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Finally, it could also be possible that UK is too big of a stage for BCG. His two prior head-coaching stops were at places with no pressure to come in and win - no pressure at all. Now, he is at UK. And, he is presiding over the worst season in school history. UK was in the second round last year and lost Morris, Sheray Thomas, and Bobby Perry, and added Patterson (and Legion for a while). I don't think that is enough of a downgrade in talent to go from the NCAA second round to at this point missing the NIT. Well, apparently it is, because it must be the talent, because BCG is such a great coach (sarcasm). Feel free to print that, sir!
 
#30
#30
emainvol said:
probably beat a Joe Crawford led Kentucky team to death. :)
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Joe Crawford doesn´t even start for Kentucky.

ukvols said:
I'm not trying to discredit BCG's prior accomplishments, but he has clearly been a below-average coach this season. That is indisputable.
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I agree, the man can coach, but can he coach effectively at UK? Time will tell. Enjoy getting your licks in now. UK may not be back to glory days under Gillispie, but they will be back.
 
#31
#31
johnnybravo said:
Yeah it is. They been saying poor coaching during all the 20 win seasons under Tubby
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20-12 plays as well in Lexington just as well as 7-5 does for football fans in Knoxville.

And you call us delusional. Need help pulling that plank out of your eye? :blink:
 
#32
#32
Billy will not be in Lexington in 2 years if he doesn't figure out how to coach soon. Losing to San Diego at home falls squarely on the shoulders of bad coaching. Watching the game yesterday made that obvious to even casual bballs fans. They are a very poorly coached team that has tons more talent than San Diego.
 
#33
#33
Someone please tell me the date that Gillespie was hired....I want to do some research and see what kind of posts the day of and after he was hired..

KY fans still think everyone would sell their momma to go to Lex., Some also think that if they offered to Bruce Pearl, he would take it in a heartbeat...hilarious.

Lastly, UK fans are SERIOUSLY worried about the KY-Louisville game coming up.

they are hoping Pitino has a heart attack or something.
 
#34
#34
hat do you really think Billy Clyde has Kentucky playing the best they can be? Good coaches adapt to the players around them. I thought I've even read where you've said that. If Billy is the good coach and hardest working man in NCAA Basketball everyone claims he is, he should have found a way by now to at least make them competitive. There is something not working with him and the University of Kentucky.
 
#35
#35
popeople arguing for UKs talent please do tell about it. IMO, they have horrendous guard play, are small, have a couple of big time recruits who were massively overrated and they have one good freshman in the post, but don't get him the ball.

gillespie has made some mistakes and they've lost a couple they shouldn't have, but their shooting is worse than Memphis. unfortunately, they don't have all of the other stuff Emphis does, especially the D
 
#36
#36
Billy Clyde's inherited talent is still world's above Gardner-Webb, UAB and San Diego.
 
#38
#38
BigPapaVol said:
talent aside, if you can't shoot the 3 today, you are doomed
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please. Slightly accurate, but there is absolutely no excuse for this Kentucky team to lose to Gardner-Webb, UAB and San Diego in the same year. If they lose to FIU it's even more embarrassing.
 
#39
#39
Brian McCat said:
Joe Crawford doesn´t even start for Kentucky.
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Didn't he start at the beginning of the year though?

And I certainly wasn't directly the delusional comment at you, you are certainly one of the more level headed Kentucky fans I have run into.
 
#40
#40
they have no ability to score without the threat of the 3. AL and LSU last year were pime examples of plenty of talent with no ability to spread d's out.

i'm not making excuses for gillespie, just telling how it is. i asked you to tell me about the talent which you claim is better than some others. i've watched 5 of their games and just don't see the ability.
 
#41
#41
alabama and lsu didn't have these kind of embarassing losses last year. closest you could say was Wichita State for LSU, but they at least were a bubble team who fell apart in February/March
 
#42
#42
al and lsu also had massively superior talent. point was that the lack of shooting will detroy a college team, regardless of interior talent. memphis overcomes it today by having one shooter, running at every opportunity and having tremendous athletes. KY has nowhere close to the ability needed to overcome their wretched shooting.
 
#43
#43
I don't think its a problem of talent or coaching. I think its a problem animosity amoung the troops.
Although I am loving seeing them down now, I really think that Billy G will have them contending for a
N.C. within 5 years.
 
#44
#44
all I'm asking is wo is the talent. they don't have a player that could crack our top 9 or 10.
 
#45
#45
only meeks FG% has gone down drastically from last year. No way was Randolph Morris that big of a difference.
 
#46
#46
let's see, leading scorer has atrocious fg%, big man threat gone, bradley and crawford don't pan out. who on earth is supposed to consistently score.
 
#47
#47
BigPapaVol said:
let's see, leading scorer has atrocious fg%, big man threat gone, bradley and crawford don't pan out. who on earth is supposed to consistently score.
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I never said they were good. But their talent is far better than the players Gardner-Webb and USD are putting on the floor.
 
#49
#49
no. But I've seen 4 UK games and they just aren't prepared. I can't buy the excuse that Billy Clyde cant' get these players to buy into his system because they are all rejects. BS. If he's a good coach he can get them to at least play fundamentally sound ball. Better passing, better movement, better D.
 
#50
#50
volfanbill said:
no. But I've seen 4 UK games and they just aren't prepared. I can't buy the excuse that Billy Clyde cant' get these players to buy into his system because they are all rejects. BS. If he's a good coach he can get them to at least play fundamentally sound ball. Better passing, better movement, better D.
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He'd better get busy is all I can say..
 
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