Billy Clyde

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Sananag
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Should we bring him back. I liked his toughness on players. Got the most out of guys like Law and J.J. Also doing well at Ranger juco.
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BCG is one of the Top 3 coaches in the history of Texas A&M across all sports. But he is not coming back here. Let it go.
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Let it go.

LesterHaze
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BQ_90 said:

LesterHaze said:


BCG is one of the Top 3 coaches in the history of Texas A&M across all sports. But he is not coming back here. Let it go.
Across all sports? What a stupid thing to say

What data do you have to support your negative, snarky comment directed at a fellow Aggie? Just curious?
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BQ_90 said:

LesterHaze said:


BCG is one of the Top 3 coaches in the history of Texas A&M across all sports. But he is not coming back here. Let it go.
Across all sports? What a stupid thing to say


Please name 4 coaches that had an immediate positive impact on a program with 2 star athletes like he did.
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LesterHaze said:

BQ_90 said:

LesterHaze said:


BCG is one of the Top 3 coaches in the history of Texas A&M across all sports. But he is not coming back here. Let it go.
Across all sports? What a stupid thing to say

What data do you have to support your negative, snarky comment directed at a fellow Aggie? Just curious?
Yet you provided no data to back up your claim.

Pat Henry, Evans, Blair, G, right now are better coaches in the history of A&M, if we talking across across all sports,

Expect snarky comments you post wild, stupid things
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Philip J Fry said:

BQ_90 said:

LesterHaze said:


BCG is one of the Top 3 coaches in the history of Texas A&M across all sports. But he is not coming back here. Let it go.
Across all sports? What a stupid thing to say


Please name 4 coaches that had an immediate positive impact on a program with 2 star athletes like he did.
That's not what he posted.
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Everybody from local insiders to national media are saying top target is Buzz Williams. Both Luicci and Croome yesterday in different conversations insinuated that Woodward thinks he already has his guy. So let's see what happens when Virginia Tech's run in the NCAA tournament ends.

If Buzz falls through for some reason, then there will be actual mystery to this coaching search. But right now there isn't much mystery on what the Plan A is.
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BQ_90 said:

LesterHaze said:

BQ_90 said:

LesterHaze said:


BCG is one of the Top 3 coaches in the history of Texas A&M across all sports. But he is not coming back here. Let it go.
Across all sports? What a stupid thing to say

What data do you have to support your negative, snarky comment directed at a fellow Aggie? Just curious?
Yet you provided no data to back up your claim.

Pat Henry, Evans, Blair, G, right now are better coaches in the history of A&M, if we talking across across all sports,

Expect snarky comments you post wild, stupid things


Maybe Lester should have added in sports people actually care about. When was the last time A&M had a coach hired away to what is the top coaching job in a particular sport?
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AgsNguyen said:

BQ_90 said:

LesterHaze said:

BQ_90 said:

LesterHaze said:


BCG is one of the Top 3 coaches in the history of Texas A&M across all sports. But he is not coming back here. Let it go.
Across all sports? What a stupid thing to say

What data do you have to support your negative, snarky comment directed at a fellow Aggie? Just curious?
Yet you provided no data to back up your claim.

Pat Henry, Evans, Blair, G, right now are better coaches in the history of A&M, if we talking across across all sports,

Expect snarky comments you post wild, stupid things


Maybe Lester should have added in sports people actually care about. When was the last time A&M had a coach hired away to what is the top coaching job in a particular sport?

Probably wouldn't have helped any. I think there's a reason he played the flute.
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AgsNguyen said:

BQ_90 said:

LesterHaze said:

BQ_90 said:

LesterHaze said:


BCG is one of the Top 3 coaches in the history of Texas A&M across all sports. But he is not coming back here. Let it go.
Across all sports? What a stupid thing to say

What data do you have to support your negative, snarky comment directed at a fellow Aggie? Just curious?
Yet you provided no data to back up your claim.

Pat Henry, Evans, Blair, G, right now are better coaches in the history of A&M, if we talking across across all sports,

Expect snarky comments you post wild, stupid things


Maybe Lester should have added in sports people actually care about. When was the last time A&M had a coach hired away to what is the top coaching job in a particular sport?


Well I responded to what he said, not what others mean or say or want.

MBB is the only sport we have where we are considered a second tier program. Esp when BCG was here.

Let's see what the AD does with the hire. That narrative can be changed now because we have resources that we've never had in our history.

I'm not knocking BCG time here, without him we don't have high expectations in MBB. He layed a foundation. We haven't really capitalized on that since.
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Billy Gillispie had some of the best players in the history of A&M basketball either already on the team or signed when he took the job. He certainly made chicken salad out of it, but lets not act like we had a team of 10 2 stars or whatever horse**** we want to make it now.
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JJxvi said:

Billy Gillispie had some of the best players in the history of A&M basketball either already on the team or signed when he took the job. He certainly made chicken salad out of it, but lets not act like we had a team of 10 2 stars or whatever horse**** we want to make it now.


Antoine Wright for one year. Joe jones and Acie...that's about it as far as special players. He recruited No nba all star in that list of three.
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You clearly don't remember right.

When Gillispie got here we didn't even have a team, he. got permission from the Ag dean and took the Meat Judging team and put them in uniforms and coached the hell out of them all summer and turned them into a tournament team.
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There was nothing special about Acie until BCG got ahold of him.
Jones had the tools but was unguided
AW might as well have been playing street ball
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EXCELL said:

There was nothing special about Acie until BCG got ahold of him.
Jones had the tools but was unguided
AW might as well have been playing street ball

My bad, I guess Gillispie really is the greatest coach in the history of A&M sports then. I think "guiding" Joe Jones probably gives him that extra bump, especially to get past coaches that won national championships here.
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What if we hire Buzz and he adds BCG to the staff?
The conversations will be uncomfortable, but we all have to get comfortable with being uncomfortable for progress to be made.
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Buzz has a nationally ranked team.

Maybe Woodward might consider coach with no. 1 team in country whose
pay is about 1.5 mil less than Buzzzzzzzzzz.
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BCG is currently nursing his way through a kidney transplant to save him from a life on dialysis after suffering acute renal failure from years of untreated hypertension. He isn't in a position to coach here or anywhere else and an AD would be an idiot to hire him.

Woodward isn't an idiot...


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In December, Gillispie, 58, was diagnosed with kidney failure. Within six months, his doctor told him, he would need to begin dialysis unless he had kidney a transplant. Gillispie later learned there were more than 100,000 people waiting for a healthy kidneys, and about 4,000 people a year who don't get them soon enough die.
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When BCG arrived at Texas A&M, the basketball program had a sub .500 all time record dating back to the early 1900's. Apart from a very few bright spots over the many decades, Aggie basketball was consistently the butt of office jokes. Yes Billy inherited a few nice players from a 0-16 team the year before, but he coached every one of them up in a huge way. He also took some absolute scrubs like Marlon Pompay and made contributing defensive gems out of them. He took a job that nobody wanted and went 70-26.

When Gillispie left for Kentucky, Texas A&M basketball was at the absolute peak of it's 95 year history and had become a desirable coaching and playing destination.

Definitely in my Top 3 TAMU coaches all time.
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Bc not interested.
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Tango_Mike
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What is it with people on this site always wanting to trot out retreads?
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The turnaround from Melvin Watkins to the way our team competed and won games once BCG got here was more dramatic then with any A&M coach I have ever witnessed in my lifetime.

Gig em.
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BCG was a great coach here. Anybody that says different has an ax to grind. He was a full throttle all the time guy. Aggieland loved him. Many got their feelings hurt when he chose a hot blonde(Kentucky) over a bunch of brunettes(a&m). Made it even worse he crawled out of bed and left us in the middle of the night and was on TMZ(ESPN) the next morning with his new babe. I know it hurt at the time but look at us we are fine. What he did for Aggie Basketball is comparable to Jackie and you guys know it.
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Why do people ask for another mental/physical case? Let the man just live his life.
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I sincerely wish this guy would stop starting threads
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Had no idea BQ90 was such an ass hole.

I agree with OP. BCG took a team of low ranked players, that went winless in conference the year before, and made players out of them. He made them competitive and put a dead and lifeless program on the map. Have other coaches had more success? Absolutely. How many have impacted their sports like he did during such a short stint?

Disagree and that's fine... but for ****s sake, be civil. Its retorts like yours that makes this place insufferable at times.
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What makes this place insufferable is people posting stupid things like BCG being a top 3 coach acrosss all sports at A&M.
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BCG was named a national finalist for coach of the year twice at A&M, and then left for a top 5 job in the sport. What other coach from Aggieland is comparable to that sort of success? I'll give you Gary Blair...but who else?!
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BQ_90 said:

What makes this place insufferable is people posting stupid things like BCG being a top 3 coach acrosss all sports at A&M.


But you claim G and Evans? Now that's funny.
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jmcfar_98 said:

BQ_90 said:

What makes this place insufferable is people posting stupid things like BCG being a top 3 coach acrosss all sports at A&M.


But you claim G and Evans? Now that's funny.

Yes their careers at A&M are better than BCG. He just wants here long enough.

If this list is most impactful coach in short amount of time then BCG is tops on that list.
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Bear Bryant?
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BCG was great here but his awful stint with TTU is worth considering.

He had a meteoric rise from high school coach to a basketball Mecca like Kentucky in a 10 year period. He has come full circle and will finish his career near where he started it

The ship has sailed.
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SilverTongueDevil said:

BCG was great here but his awful stint with TTU is worth considering.

He had a meteoric rise from high school coach to a basketball Mecca like Kentucky in a 10 year period. He has come full circle and will finish his career near where he started it

The ship has sailed.
If he was somehow able to win an NJCAA title, I think his story would make for a hell of a movie. As you mentioned to go from HS coach to UK in roughly 13 years is unreal. Then consider his ugly downfall, to finding peace at Ranger, it really is almost full circle and quite a story.
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