Billy Gillispie caps off horrible day for Kentucky coaches

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August 27, 2009

Last night, Billy Gillispie was driving in his Mercedes at 2:45 a.m.
What’s the old saying? If someone’s driving a Mercedes at 2:45 in the
morning, they’re probably drunk? That’s not it. But anyway, Billy
Gillispie might well have been: Someone reported seeing the car driving
erratically, and
Gillispie was taken to a jail for suspicion of DUI in Franklin County,
about 20 minutes west of Lexington, where Gillispie apparently still
lives.

Gillispie’s mugshot, right, pretty much tells the whole story. Except it doesn’t.

There are numerous questions here, like, for one, why on Earth was
Gillispie driving his own car at 2:45 a.m., especially if he had been
drinking? What’s wrong with a cab? Heck, hire a limo. Gillispie’s
tenure at Kentucky may have ended poorly, but it was a pretty nice
little cash haul for the Texas coach; what’s wrong with paying someone
to drive you? Most people yearn for that sort of upper-crust treatment.
Take advantage, Billy Clyde.

(Another question is why on Earth does Gillispie still live in Kentucky, but I suppose that’s for a different time.)

Anyway, it’s Gillispie’s third suspicion of DUI charge, so he might not
have a choice in driving preference for very long. And it capped off an
utterly hilarious day on the Kentucky basketball homefront, a day when
Rick Pitino unnecessarily took to the airwaves to lecture the media
about ethics and Ted Kennedy. All of which is couched, of course, in
the offseason that saw John Calipari flee from a institutionally
punished Memphis program to … Kentucky. Who in the Commonwealth is ready for basketball to start already?

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