Happy Birthday Billy G!

(thanks to Mike Rutherford at Card Chronicle for the pic)

Well, that game Wednesday night was ugly. I retract my last post.

The defense was ridiculous, the turnovers were awful. Poor Patrick Patterson and Alex Legion are the two early leaders on this team, and they're freshmen.

Give it up to Ramel Bradley. At times, he looked like "Bad Ramel." But for most of the night, he was "Good Ramel." And that problem has been around before Billy G graced us with his presence. There are too many "Good" and "Bad" fill-in-your-favorite-player's-name-here. The inconsistency is the most frustrating thing a UK fan can go through. Another example: Tuesday night--"Good Joe", Wednesday night--"Bad Joe." Crawford is the epitomy of Wildcat inconsistency. Not the happiest of birthdays for Coach G, who turned 48 Wednesday.

But credit the Gardner-Webb Bulldogs. This was not a fluke. GW was ready--UK was not. Billy G claimed responsibility for the loss. I'm glad he did. Who knows if it's his fault, really, or not. But the bottom line is, when a team looks ridiculous for the first four minutes of the game, and trail 14-0 in a blink, I'll put that on the coach.

But the Bulldogs went Princeton on the Cats, and it worked. The backdoors, the crisp passing, the solid three-point shooting, the I-don't-give-a-damn attitude as the little six-footers penetrated their way to the hoop.

Is it true, with this year's squad, that as Mark Coury goes, so do the Cats?

Somewhere in Minneapolis, there's a guy named Tubby, silently laughing.

But, that all being said, I do have faith that Gillispie will turn this around. But, they may just have to play the freshmen all year. Maybe even Mike Williams too. I saw heart from those guys.