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Tubby SMith didn't leave the program in great shape. He left it in a
SHAMBLES. Recruiting was bust, fans were accepting that we would
sneak into the NCAA and be a first round victim. ANd he elft the program
in such poor shape that a losing season was all but a certainty.
Blast Gillispie all you want, at least he WAS able to get Patterson
to go ahead and sign(which he wouldn't go ahead and do for Tubby).
And he got some mileage out of Bradley and Crawford hsi first
season. He was a disaster, but an 11th year of Tubby would have
been WORSE.

Jodie Meeks was really a bust. LOL. Patterson was going to Kentucky anyway. Lucas was coming but didn't due to Tubby leaving. Gillepie signed players early and all the Tubby haters was going ooh and aah "what great recruits". Now one of those players couldn't make it at Western and the other one is a star at Asbury. Whohoo what good recruiting. Anybody thinks that at anytime in his career that Gillespie did as good or could have done as good as Tubby is either a lunatic or baskeball illiterate.