Coach Gillispie. New Coach at UK. He’s taken over a team with 1 uber-talented frosh, 2 talented but injured Sophs, and two talented but stunted Seniors. The rest of the team are guys who should be role players. Porter is a possible 3 point specialists and should be a back up PG. He’s not a starting PG at the Kentucky level. Jared Carter is injured more often than not so who knows what he might have been. He may show next year. Everyone else has major liabilities due either to inexperience or non-development. When you have to start Mark Coury, the cupboard is pretty bare. The old die hard Ten Loss Tubby fans want to blame everything on Gillispie.  A contingent of them seem hellbent to ensure that Gillispie gets fired as soon as possible. Spreading malicious rumours about the man. Calling him incompetent or worse. The don’t seem like fans to me. Not UK fans. They seem to be University of Tubby fans. Everything that these cretins complained about in the Tubby era, they do themselves now that Tubby is gone. (We’ll talk about TLTs leaving later.)

Look at Gillispie’s record. He has a rough first year, followed by immense improvement in his second year and then continued improvement thereafter. Gillispie is having a bad first year by UK standards. The team has lost to Gardner-Webb, Houston, UAB, Indiana and UNC. Not good by any standard. But the team is making steady improvement.

I don’t miss Tubby. Like I said earlier. You knew that Tubby wasn’t going to do anything exciting. 20 wins, 10 losses and fall short of the Final Four. The last two years, TLT couldn’t make it out of the first weekend of the tournament. That is why he scurried off to UM.

Bottom line. I’m happy that TLT is gone and I believe that Gillispie will have UK back in contention for the NCAA Championship within four years. The man is a recruiting machine. He’ll get it done. UK fans need to have patience.