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This was the article form the Chronicle that I quoted from earlier.  I think its a fairly good article, especialyl since it was written by a UT grad.

Good riddance, Billy Clyde. Onward and upward, Aggies.

He was a great hire. Let's begin with that basic point. No matter how bitter you are, no matter how betrayed you feel, don't ever forget what Billy Gillispie did for Texas A&M. He left a blueprint for the lucky coach who follows him. Never again should Texas A&M take a backseat to Texas in basketball. That will be Gillispie's legacy.

Here's the other thing to know about Billy Clyde Gillispie. He was never going to stay at Texas A&M. Never. If he didn't have a legitimate reason to leave, he was going to invent one.

His monstrous ego wasn't going to be satisfied in Aggieland. He wanted more. He has been that way his entire coaching career. Ask some of the people who coached with and against him along the way. Billy Clyde never lacked ambition.

Ambition isn't a bad thing, but it can be consuming and alter one's sense of reality. Billy Clyde wants to be mentioned in the same breath as Coach K. or Roy Williams, and he's determined to get there no matter how many times he has to break his word.

His word means nothing. He's a liar in the worst sense of the word. He will come up with some reason for leaving Texas A&M, but the bottom line is he gave his word that he would stay when he probably never had any intention of staying.

Some A&M officials knew this. They expected him to take the Arkansas job. Even if he decided to stay at A&M, they knew they'd be going through this drama again next year and every year after that until he finally did leave.

Gillispie began telling friends a year ago he was dissatisfied with A&M. He believed some promises had gone unfulfilled. In the last few weeks, he told some that he wanted the Arkansas job.

The Aggies who are unhappy with him now are missing the point. Gillispie used A&M, but A&M used Gillispie, too. Now there's a roadmap for how to succeed in basketball.

Don't worry about the players or the recruits. Sure they committed to a liar. That's the wrong way to look at the thing. They committed to attending school and playing basketball for one of the country's great universities. They're Aggies now and forever. They may have wished they'd signed on with Rick Barnes, but they're going to end up all right.

Bill Byrne surely knows this was coming. He gave Gillispie virtually everything he asked for last week and still couldn't get an answer from him. He had to know that Gillispie was either having some kind of identity crisis or simply a liar.

I was convinced last week that he was going to leave, but once he issued a pretty definitive statement about the new contract, that seemed to be the end of it. Still, doubts lingered. He never said definitively that he was staying. He never signed the deal. I've heard he didn't sign his previous deal, either, but that's beside the point.

The bottom line is that this little man with the smirk and the big ego came to see himself as worthy of Kentucky but not Texas A&M. Don't sweat it, Aggie fan.

Bill Byrne will go find another first-rate coach. He'll build on what Gillispie has started. He'll have great facilities and a solid recruiting class, and he might make the A&M-Texas basketball rivalry one of the countries best.

Gillispie will attempt to find whatever he's looking for in Kentucky. He won't find it. He'll never find it. The Aggies shouldn't sweat his leaving. He's not worth it.

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I called this one 2 weeks ago.....say what you want about me being anti atm but I told you so!!  Stick that in your karma meter  ::)

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:::phone rings::::

Billy Gillespie:  Hello

Kentucky AD Mitch Barnhart:  Hi Billy, this is Mitch Barnhart how would you like to be the new basketball coach here at Kentucky?

BG:  Got beer??

MB:  Better...we got all the Kentucky bourbon you can drink

BG:  Can I get my picture taken with Ashley Judd?

MB:  Huh?  Yeah sure.

BG:  Do I have to whoop or hump it?

MB:  Uhhhh no

BG:  Sign me up

man denis...you sure are smart!  ::)

let me on this band wagon!

I PREDICT THAT THE SUN WILL RISE TOMORROW!

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I live here in College Station so I can speak for myself and at least all the Aggies I have spoken to and everyone is stunned... He never released a statement to his players or the student body....

i think its sad that they had to find out like the rest of us...but lets be realistic guys- kentucky got permission to speak to him yesterday afternoon, and they announced it this morning- when was he going to make this "press release"?

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First and foremost i'm a fan of all Texas scools, but it looks like the shoe is on the other foot here.  I remember a certain current football coach at Aggieland abruptly leaving his previous school without talking to his players as well.  I do not remember the negativity displayed towards him by the Aggie faithful at that time.  We all know what they say about Karma.

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First and foremost i'm a fan of all Texas scools, but it looks like the shoe is on the other foot here.  I remember a certain current football coach at Aggieland abruptly leaving his previous school without talking to his players as well.  I do not remember the negativity displayed towards him by the Aggie faithful at that time.  We all know what they say about Karma.

cha ching! I am a diehard Aggie, but also a pretty big fan if TCU, and I know that Fran left them high and dry MUCH MUCH worse than BCG did. He simply did not show up to Spring practice one day

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First and foremost i'm a fan of all Texas scools, but it looks like the shoe is on the other foot here.  I remember a certain current football coach at Aggieland abruptly leaving his previous school without talking to his players as well.  I do not remember the negativity displayed towards him by the Aggie faithful at that time.  We all know what they say about Karma.

Nobody is stating that what Fran did was ok... Even at the time that happened, I thought he was being a little speedy with getting out of there... two wrongs dont make a right, and to say that A&M or his basketball players deserve what happened because of what Fran did is just speaking out of ignorance and out of your ___....

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Nobody is stating that what Fran did was ok... Even at the time that happened, I thought he was being a little speedy with getting out of there... two wrongs dont make a right, and to say that A&M or his basketball players deserve what happened because of what Fran did is just speaking out of ignorance and out of your ___....

Obviously you can't read too well.  >:( Nobody said anyone deserves this sort of treatment.  Point out where that was even stated.  I merely said that for all of the negativety being displayed towards Gillispie by the Aggie fans, it was not viewed the same by most Aggies a few years ago.

Loyalty by coaches for the most part is a thing of the past.  If the right money is shown, Brown, Stoops, Carroll, etc will pack up their bags and leave.

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