Kevin Bacon trivia question of the day: Who was the athletic director that gave Billy Clyde his first head coaching job?
Answer: Hal Mumme. Yes, THAT Hal Mumme.
When Copperas Cove had an opening for a head coach, that school’s athletics director, Hal Mumme hired Gillispie. “My ex-wife was such a good drill-team coach, they didn’t want to lose her, so they had to hire me,” Gillispie jokes. “That’s why Hal made me a head coach.”
Forget small world, this is downright claustrophobic! Even without that gem, it’s a must read article on Billy Clyde and his basketball obsession.
In my recent (and all to frequent) travels to the Catspause and Aggie forums I’ve run across more than a few threads listing Billy Gillispie “facts”. If you’re a fan of the Chuck Norris facts that made their way around the interweb, you might get a kick out of these. Below is a collection of the best from both forums with a couple of my own mixed in:
Billy Clyde Gillispie Facts:
- In a recruiting fight between Coach K. and Billy D., BCG wins.
- BCG met every high school coach in America. Twice.
- BCG does not go recruiting because the word recruit infers the possibility of failure. BCG goes signing.
- If you can see BCG, he is recruiting you. If you can’t see BCG you may be only seconds away from from signing a LOI.
- When Ricky P. goes to sleep every night he checks his closet for BCG.
- There are no recruits on mars. BCG checked.
- BCG invented text messaging.
- BCG didn’t leave his Christmas tree up until June. He rescheduled Christmas so it didn’t interfere with his recruiting.
- BCG does not sleep. He waits.
- Archeologists unearthed an old english dictionary dating back to the year 800 AD. It defined “victim” as “one who has encountered BCG”
- The coaching population divides into two groups, those who fear BCG and BCG.
- There is no list of recruits at other schools. Just a list of prospects BCG has allowed them to talk to.
- BCG’s blood type is B+. Blue Positive.
- There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, BCG lives in Lexington.
- If at first you don’t succeed, you’re not BCG.
- BCG is 1/8th Basketball. He ate one 2 years ago.
- In High school, Billy Clyde was voted “Most likely to make Rick Pitino cry”.
- Billy G taught Chuck Norris everything he knows, and Chuck to this day refers to him as coach.
If you haven’t guessed it by now, KY fans are pretty fired up by the hire of BCG.
