E-mail from over the weekend:
K. wrote:
“Well, y’see, there’s all these slots to fill in bowl games and Kentucky has qualified by winning at least six, some of whom won almost as many as they lost. They even won two in their league. Of course those records leave leave an odor in the air, but, y’know….” Well, at least Kentucky’s basketball team has great defense. Oh, missed again.
Mark wrote:
I guess Brooks and Gillispie spent last week together not getting their teams ready to play.
Embarrassing is a kind way to describe what happened last weekend.
Patrick Patterson NCAA player of the year? What year? If Billie G. wanted a no-brainer decision about whether or not to go pro he sure got one…no way is he ready.
Defense? Playing together? Playing smart? It is going to be another long and hurtful season….UK is a second tier basketball school. I wonder how things would have played out if Mark Few had gotten the head coaching job.
D.C. wrote:
“Gillespie takes blame for bad game…”
Wasn’t that the party line last year??
And just what, prey tell, did he do to contribute to the 27 turnovers?
This crew is not ready for prime time, obviously. The SEC will be a disaster. The best case is that Patterson will continue on the path to a mediocre season (certainly that’s the road he chose on Friday), have no reasonable NBA prospects, and realize that maybe another year on the Farm Team might be in his best interest.
Then, with the franchise in the stable, we’ll see if BG can devote his full attention to the business at hand and make the most of the “top 10 recruiting class.”
It will be Year Three, after all.
Mark wrote:
Here’s a serious question that someone should ask Gillispie. Does his game day practices negate the depth on his roster? It was certainly obvious to me on Friday night which team had spent a lot of energy earlier in the day and which had not.
