Some cool UK links that will keep you up-to-date with what is going on with UK Sports and the Calipari Situation:
*Kentucky Court asked to rule on Gillispie's Contract
*UK President Todd knew of Memphis Allegations
*Meeks may stay in the draft if he is a first rounder
*Could their be a UK/Memphis matchup in the near future?
*Derrick Rose Ripple Effect
*Memphis scandal shouldn't stick to Coach Cal
The Floyd County Times – Well, it’s official. Wheelwright has its very own annual festival now that the inaugural Coal Camp Days Festival went off without a hitch.
In fact, the first festival for the city fared far better than that, most agree, hosting upwards of 1,000 visitors during the two days the event covered Memorial Day weekend.
From Saturday, May 23, to Sunday, May 24, Lisa Perry, director of the Wheelwright Historical Society, said not only did some 1,000 people take part in all Coal Camp Days offered, but there were also no incidents one typically sees during such a gathering in the region.
“We had a two-day festival with hundreds and hundreds of people in which there was no fighting, no major injuries and no arrests,” Perry said laughing. “Everybody had a good time and I had a lot of people stopping me and wanting to make sure we were going to do it again next year.”
This has ended up being one of the busier two-day periods from a news perspective that we have seen in some time. Much has been written everywhere about the Calipari news, but I still think long-term that the Billy Gillispie lawsuit will stay with us longer. Because of that, I thought it might be good to look back at a piece I wrote the day after Gillispie was let go from UK. It is a good refresher on why the Clyde era ended and how the lawsuit rubs some (including this guy) the wrong way:
So its now completely over. With his Saturday morning press conference in Lexington, the Billy Gillispie era ended for the Big Blue Nation. Its hard to know exactly how Gillispie will be noted in the grand history of UK basketball. This is a program that went nearly 45 years with two coaches and now has had 2 in three years. Of the six coaches in the modern era, 4 won national championships, one was successful before probation, and then there is Billy. In thirty years, how will we look back on the two tumultuous years the man from Texas had as head of the monster known as Kentucky basketball? We likely wont know that for some time, but what we do know is that for the second time in three years, UK will be back on the search for a new basketball coach. However this time, the search will be much different….more deliberate, less centralized and even more crucial. The Gillispie era has ended but the all-important search for his replacement has just begun.
However before we completely close the book on Gillispie, I do think it is important to recognize how we got here. No matter what Digger Phelps, Michael Wilbon or any other national talking head may say, this decision had little to do with wins and losses. This was simply the case of an individual who was not well-suited to be the basketball coach at Kentucky. While he had moderate success on the floor, off the floor he was a Matt Doherty-like disaster. He never felt comfortable doing the things it takes to succeed here and his authoritarian personality rubbed almost everyone in the wrong way. If you win at Bobby Knight in the 1970s-like levels, you can act that way….but if you win Bobby Knight in the late 1990s-like levels, you cant.
PlayStation 3 owners are getting a little economic relief from Sony with the announcement that six high-profile titles have hit Greatest Hits status. In addition to the boxes getting a makeover emblazoned with that exciting text, it also means that they’ll be available for the dirt-cheap price of $29.99. The new addition to Greatest Hits are Army of Two, Battlefield: Bad Company, Devil May Cry 4, Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction. If you’ve been looking for another excuse to pick up some of these games that you may have missed, it doesn’t get much better than this one. Courtesy of Game Informer
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