Gillispie's DWI

Billy Gillispie has always been a nice man, as far as I'm concerned. But I said it back then, and I still believe, Billy was plastered the night he was hauled in for DWI in Downtown El Paso He got off because he was the UTEP basketball coach, and he had a good lawyer.

His story was he got lost leaving a bar, which is located less than a 5-iron shot away from the Don. He was looking for a party and wound up being stopped while going the wrong way on Texas Avenue Downtown. It's especially sad now because Gillispie was stopped for DWI again, this time in wee Thursday morning in Kentucky, where he is the pariah as the ex-Kentucky coach. He was fired after the past season, mostly because he couldn't hob-knob with the bigs and also because he wasn't winning enough. No breaks for Billy there, especially since he's in a legal battle to get some Kentucky money he thinks owed him.

This is at least the third time Billy has been in DWI trouble. Recall the same thing happened while he was an assistant at Tulsa. He got off that one, too.

He's probably going to need some help turning his habits around. He still has a lot of friends in El Paso. Maybe he can get his El Paso lawyer to represent him in Kentucky and go 2-0 in beating the rap?

This time I don't think so.

Comments

[Jefe]

Party on coach!

[shyminer]

he'll get what he deserves, if this was some unknown getting stopped a third time for DWI??? the key would be thrown away!

[small-media-large]

I recall that some years ago Don Haskins was also pulled over for DWI. What ever became of that arrest?

[John Franco]

I could care less about Billy G. He left the UTEP basketball program high and dry and showed what kinda of a coach he really is, tying for the most losses in Kentucky basketball history. I suggest he start calling cabs with all those millions those idiots at Kentucky threw at him.

[lobodave]

Had someone, the administrators at Oklahoma, UTEP or even earlier, had ensured some consequence to this kind of activity, maybe he'd be in a different place today.

We continue to see too many free rides for the privileged.\

[Pick Ax]

Can we get back to talking about Miner football?

If not, anyone know what happened to Stefon Jackson? I would imagine he would have caught on with an NBA team by now, at least Europe. Anyway, he has too much talent not to do anything.

Pick Ax

[bob]

Gillespie: Dork

Jackson: El Paso times reported that he signed with a team in Turkey