I’m sure you’ve read the report about Alex Legion possibly is leaving the Wildcats. Update: UK Athletics official statement. Of course, Coach Gillispie now has to find somebody else to anoint Patrick Patterson’s shoes with holy oil.
Alex’s recruitment prior to the Wildcats was strange. In truth, Billy Gillispie didn’t actively pursue Alex for the 2008 class — Legion was granted release by Michigan due to a coaching change, and Billy was able to catch Alex before anyone else could. Of course, those anti-UK folks out there (especially those who recruit against UK) will spin this into “Oh! Billy couldn’t even keep Alex Legion at UK for longer than 6 games.”
They’ll also revel that rumor has it that several of the players are unhappy with the way the coach treats them. Given that we have several devout Christians on the team, one of which who is reported leaving (Legion), I wonder if the coach’s salty language and his rumored wild lifestyle has rubbed folks the wrong way.
And with all this turmoil going on within the team, how the hell are our boys supposed to play against Indiana on Saturday? Out of all games this year, this is my Big Rival, and I want us to win. Badly.
Regardless, all this rumoring and speculating has re-raised my Big Blue Blood Pressure. Once something is confirmed, we’ll be sure to comment on it 5 days after it happens, as we are prone to do here at FireBilly.com. Stay tuned!
(Oh, by the way, if you couldn’t get on the site earlier today, sorry about that; evidently with Legion leaving, our site got swamped. By the way, did you know we were smart enough to register firegillispie.com too?)
Update 10:27 PM EDT: The official UK Athletics announcement confirms that Legion is transferring. We have no idea at this time how this affects his NCAA status and his & the school’s obligations concerning Alex’s National Letter of Intent — since Alex has played less than one year.
I’m glad the kid’s leaving…read this article about his crack head momma
http://www.kentucky.com/158/story/189453.html
and if he listens to this nutjob….then we are much better off without him!
GO BLUE AND GO BILLY G!
Ms. Legion’s spiritual beliefs are… strange. However, I guarantee that crack cocaine isn’t part of the rituals. And I find that comparing her to a crack addict is appalling, because I think I know what other qualities of Ms. Legion you considered when deciding such an insult was apt.
I can understand (and share) your perplexed feelings for Annette, but I don’t think the events of the last 4 days illicit such a derogatory assessment about her.
I think billy is on crack for starting porter and harris over Legion. What a joke that was. Porter is probably a good kid but he produces more turnovers than Arbys. I am disapointed in UK fans for being so nice to Dicky V last week. He should have been booed off the air after what he said about us last year when Smith left. Bottom line, we’re not going to be much of anybody until we get Meeks and Jasper back. We need a point badly.
give me a break with all the politically correct bullshit Gimel! i say she’s a crackhead!
This is all for fun anyway….chill out man with all the “appalling” crap and take a damn joke about a woman with a few screws loose. You disappoint me, sir!
Hey Gimel,
I just now finally understood what you meant in your post…
“because I think I know what other qualities of Ms. Legion you considered when deciding such an insult was apt.”
Until now, I thought you were appalled that I was not being “P.C.” about drug addicts. Now I realize you are trying to read more into my comment than is there. So, NO you don’t know anything about my thoughts when I made that post. I was just making fun of some lady who is obviously crazy by calling her a crack head.
It’s people like you that always look to point the finger at racial crap, when it’s not even there, that keep racism around!
What a Moron!