Newspapers taking shots at us?

[Vlyrock]

http://www.statesman.com/sports/content/sports/stories/other/04/07/7bohlsgillispie.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=54

even uses "pooooor aggies". Think he trolls message boards too much?

[Burnetaggie99]

Fu Kb

[Slotback]

Well I just wasted 3 minutes reading that tripe.

[Mole]

Keep dreaming that Kevin Durant is coming back.

[Aggie By Default]

I hate that SOB !

[blackgloves]

again.... lets see whos "pooooooor" blah blah blah after our next hire

Bill $$ wont go down like that, hes gonna hire a good coach

[whitelightnin_23]

f-em...

[SHAG69]

f-em...

AMEN

[CoolaidWade]

wtf is this article? I know it's the Austin rag but is it really needed? Jesus. You figured fbcg leaving us is the next coming of Jesus with those people.

http://www.statesman.com/sports/content/sports/stories/other/04/07/7bohlsgillispie.html


Here's some salve for your considerable — no, gaping — wounds today, Aggie fans.
Kentucky raided your school and stole your basketball coach.


That's right. Big Blue could have had any coach in the country. Well, that's not exactly true because the small pool of coaches willing to subject themselves to 24/7 scrutiny for the chance to say they are coaching at the same place Adolph Rupp did was shrinking by the minute.
Nevertheless, Kentucky came to College Station to find its next coach. Your coach.
And that, Texas A&M, is the lone consolation for what transpired Friday. In every other way, you lost big-time.
Let's go to the scorecard.
Kentucky hired Billy Gillispie after Florida's Billy Donovan and Texas' Rick Barnes said no.
Make no mistake that Barnes was Kentucky's man after Donovan rebuffed the Wildcats' overtures. I promise you that Barnes could have had the job if he wanted. He's already turned down Indiana and UCLA and turned away inquiries from NBA teams. He's happy where he is.
Not only do the Aggies not have Gillispie back, the Longhorns keep Barnes, who has a decent chance of getting Kevin Durant back. Barnes still puts the chances of him staying at 50-50. Expect a decision perhaps as early as next week after he visits with his family during the Wooden Award festivities in Los Angeles this weekend.
And the Aggies still have Fran.
Pooooooor Aggies.
A&M no longer has the second-best gameday coach in the Big 12, right after Bobby Knight.
Gillispie didn't go back on his word, but had just agreed to a lengthy and lucrative extension at A&M.
Gillispie did A&M wrong, but his missteps over the last two weeks should remind all of us that coaches inherently lie or fudge the truth. And there's little loyalty these days. Had Bob Huggins unpacked all his bags before picking up and leaving Kansas State for West Virginia? The ink wasn't even dry on John Calipari's contract extension at Memphis before he was flirting with Arkansas.
Gillispie will win big in Lexington, but he's way too thin-skinned and prickly for that address.
You can expect to see brusque comments from Gillispie on a regular basis. It's not so much that he is surly or offensive, but he has an arrogant condescension about him that many Wildcat fans will gleefully embrace and secretly covet. But it cuts both ways.
That said, here's betting Gillispie wins at least one national championship at Kentucky — maybe more — unless his boot-camp philosophy and defense-first mind set scares McDonald's All-Americans away.
A&M basketball may return to its previous role of Big 12 doormat, but I'm not seeing it. Athletic director Bill Byrne is too proud, too competitive and too driven to allow any erosion of the tremendous inroads that Aggie basketball has made during Gillispie's three seasons.
The Aggies have no clear successor to their throne, but you can bet Byrne will look hard at Doc Sadler, coach at Byrne's former school, Nebraska.
Sadler, from the same Bill Self family coaching tree that begat Gillispie, would be an excellent choice. He's a sound basketball man but a better person. You could say Sadler is Gillispie without the ego, but I'm not sure he's quite the level of coach Gillispie is.
Otherwise, Byrne might look at Nevada-Las Vegas' Lon Kruger and Gonzaga's Mark Few, and ought to look hard at Pittsburgh's Jamie Dixon. And Creighton's Dana Altman is always available. At least for a day or so.
All is not lost, however, Aggies. You always have . . . women's basketball?
kbohls@statesman.com

[Aggie By Default]

already discussed
http://www.aggiefans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18350

[CoolaidWade]

Didn't see that thead. Well add me to that list: F*ck you, Bohls. Good journalism there. I'm glad your sports page doubles as an editorial.

[bobcatfan06]

Bohls is a fool. He is so far up UT's a$$ it's unbelievable. He even rags on Texas State when we do something good because we aren't UT. He's trash.

[WesTxAg]

it's funny to me that their journalism school consistantly gets beat by small schools like mine...i think you'll find it shows in the above article:laugh:

[Pflugerville Ag]

Bohls is a fool. He is so far up UT's a$$ it's unbelievable. He even rags on Texas State when we do something good because we aren't UT. He's trash.

Sure, that article is crap, but Bohls writes stuff like that to get a reaction. He frequently bashes t.u. and says that A&M is better just to piss off Longhorns.

[Mezentius]

Bohls is a putz. Always has been and always will be. He didn't even get the coach we're going after on his list.