[outdoorsman43]

I agree with the fact that Gillispie is a very stubborn coach, but he has done some impressive things with only two players worth bragging about. All the other players are either very young and have yet to develop into the players everyone expects them to be or players that have little talent and players coaches before Smith would have never recruited.

Kentucky is not a top 25 team, they'll more than likely make the NCAA tournament and will more than likely be knocked out early in the 1st or 2nd round. Fact of the matter is, Gillispie is a recruiter and a young coach, who has only coached D-1 basketball for 6 seasons, so he is still learning.

Like someone said above, we are Kentucky. We are going to get everyone's best game, especially at Rupp. So I'm not going to blow this SEC loss out of proportion because in time UK will be atop the conference once again when Gillispie gets his players in here.

Most of you guys are still spoiled fans that think UK should perform like the '96, '97, and '98 teams did. Well guess what, those where 3 of the best teams to ever take the floor in NCAA basketball history. Not one team since '98 has been as good as those teams where.

So lets all be patient and let Billy Gillispie recruit and get Kentucky back atop the NCAA with UNC, Duke, UCONN, and UCLA.

You make a lot of great points and I agree with you for the most part that Gillispie is the man for the job as of right now.

Although, I do agree with TorQQue about switching up the defense though and the spreading of the minutes between players.

Those two things really bother me as a die-hard Kentucky fan and I wish I had answers.