Billy Clyde Gillespie

[TUFan1981]

To me, this is easy. Proven winner. No more drinking. Healthy again. Hungry for another chance. He’d have us playing big time basketball within 12 months. Please do it Rick!

 

[TULSARISING]

To me, this is easy. Proven winner. No more drinking. Healthy again. Hungry for another chance. He’d have us playing big time basketball within 12 months. Please do it Rick!

 

[TUFan1981]

What’s your point?

 

[TULSARISING]

What’s your point?

I was trying to ask if this is the guy you are talking about , would be entertaining as hell to have him here

 

[I.I.]

It would be the most interesting hire in basketball for sure. Eddie Sutton type risky. Both fired from Kentucky.

 

[TulsaRulzOSUdrools]

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It would be fun to go drink and have a cig with him at the buc.

 

[rusty-c]

It would be fun to go drink and have a cig with him at the buc.

After the transplant, and I believe before, he’s been off the bottle. He’s not likely the answer for us, but everything points to him being a changed man.

 

[Lumpuckeroo]

It would be fun to go drink and have a cig with him at the buc.

Not wise to offer drinks to an alcoholic

 

[StoopsBros]

 

[Original TULSAFAN]

Do it! It's the right choice. He will win.

But TU is NOT bold - in anything. Not a single creative mind from where I sit.

 

[Tulsa_]

It is the right choice.

Assuming he is sober now. Get a mentor/monitor and its all good.

 

[dlsnid]

I like it he has been a winner everywhere he has been

 

[TU 1978]

A better choice than the bourbon swilling SFA coach…

 

[Henry Kendall]

I can’t believe I’m actually recommending this, but go to Billy Clyde’s wikipedia page. Read the whole thing. It reads like a mini-novel. As much as I love the guy and will root for him always, hard pass for our job.

 

[I.I.]

He and Eddie Sutton followed the same pathway, except Billy's medical conditions were much worse. He still may have been the best ever recruiter at the University of Tulsa. But he was 35 years old then with unlimited energy.

 

[Barlass]

We should have him play a road game here. Not hire him as our coach.

 

[Li'l Eric Coley]

I love Billy Clyde more than most, having hung out with him a few times some 100 years ago. But I don't think he's the answer now. Ten to 15 years ago, absolutely. I remember he showed up at the CUSA tourney toward the end of the Woj era and we made sure to let him know that the job should be his if Woj were let go.

 

[Tulsa_]

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He beat Air Force by 20+ (we lost at home)
He lost @Gonzaga by only 9
He beat LAMAR twice.
AND BEAT SFA by 8

 

[Lumpuckeroo]

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He beat Air Force by 20+ (we lost at home)
He lost @Gonzaga by only 9
He beat LAMAR twice.
AND BEAT SFA by 8

Coach Lutz of Corpus Christi on the radar

 

[rusty-c]

Coach Lutz of Corpus Christi on the radar

Sure appears to be the case.

 

[Lumpuckeroo]

Sure appears to be the case.

Steve Lutz - excellent recruiter at Creighton and Purdue