Hey, Billy Gillispie…Wanna Get Away?

Bing! You are now free to move about the country. Run Billy, Run!

The Houston Cougars just finished a 15-point thumping of Gillispie’s Wildcats, and the natives are sure to be more than restless tomorrow.

I do not purport to know much about this year’s Kentucky team, although I know they are suffering through some injuries. Nor, can I say I am an expert on the coaching job to date of one Billy Gillispie.

These are the things I do know…

1. The word “rebuilding” does not exist in the context of Wildcats hoops down in Lexington

2. If a word similar to rebuilding were to be whispered behind closed doors, the connotation of such speech would translate to something like 17 wins and an NIT finals appearance (not that such a thing is acceptable, but if the program was truly to be in dire straits…)

3. Even if it were to be acknowledged as such a year (behind closed doors of course), a 4-5 start would not be part of the equation

4. And, if three of those first five losses included falling to the likes of UAB, Houston and Gardner-Webb, well, now that would just be crazy talk

5. Somewhere in the land of a thousand lakes Tubby Smith can’t help but smile…just a little bit.

Hey, Gillispie…wanna get away?