Billy Gillispie Isn’t the Only One Locking Up 8th Graders

Three Idiots on Sports found this 5/8/2008 on thebiglead.com [flag]

Kentucky basketball coach Billy Gillispie is taking a pounding this week because he offered a scholarship to an 8th grader . Today’s piece in USA Today skews negative , and it seems like a hot topic that we’ll see Doug Gottlieb and Jay Bilas arguing over in a matter of hours. But let’s not castrate Gillispie for this - how soon we forget that a few years ago, UCLA’s ... [link]

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