courtside Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Houston Chronicle reporting Billy Gillispie will stay at Texas A&M and turn down Arkansas. He will now make $2 million a year at A&M and construction starts Monday on $20 million practice facility. A lot of speculation...just speculation...is headed to Chris Lowery now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moytoy12 Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Good move in your opinion? I know nothing about the details of either situation, but i think i would have stayed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3star_recruit Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 It's astounding that a coach with such a short resume is being considered for a position that pays more money than his mentor Bruce Weber makes. Talk about the stars being aligned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
courtside Posted March 28, 2007 Author Share Posted March 28, 2007 Well imo, sure. He wsn't being considered for UK. So it was pretty much Arkansas or A&M. Money?....$2million...same as Rick Barnes...check Facilities?...new $22 million dollar practice facility and anything else he needs, check. Arkansas has more tradition and is more of a hoops school than A&M. But he built the A&M program himself...lots of ego pride in that. His entire roster is from Texas and 4 of 5 recruits next year are from Texas.(Tulsa is the other) He has lived almost his entire life in Texas, with a few short stops elsewhere. In the near future, A&M is already ahead of most of the Big 12 at this point. He would have to leap-frog more teams in the SEC. Can he win a National Title or go to Final Fours at A&M? yep, why not? If the Arkansas opening was actually UK....then I think you might have had a different story. He has revitalized or started a few programs already, ...at this point I think he just wants to win big. Obviously he will need to continue to win at high level to draw fans and get some people interested in something other than football...but no reason to believe he won't win at high level, and that is a good challenge for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
courtside Posted March 28, 2007 Author Share Posted March 28, 2007 >It's astounding that a coach with such a short resume is >being considered for a position that pays more money than >his mentor Bruce Weber makes. Talk about the stars being >aligned. Billy never coached on staff with Bruce Weber...so I suppose that would not make Weber his mentor. Most of Gillispie's career has been in Texas...he did coach as assistant from 00-02 under Bill Self at Illinois before taking the UTEP job.(and Tulsa for a couple of seasons under Self). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3star_recruit Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 I'm talking about Lowery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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