Tom Penders Wears Out Welcome. Billy Clyde Gillispie In?

by Barking Carnival Staff on Mar 22, 2010 2:35 PM CDT

One of the funnier things heard throughout the course of our 2nd half swoon was that we weren't better off then when we had Tom Penders, who was now the head coach at Houston. Hey, we both did go out in the first round. Tom Penders WAS the coach at Houston. Apparently, ole' Tommy wore out his welcome at Cougar High and as of yet, there was no Luke Axtell to berate.

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Why do Texas teams keep firing me?

Still, this is an extremely strange story. Penders had just lead the Cougars to the NCAA tournament for the first time in 18 years by winning the CUSA conference title. He had a .611 winning percentage, he won 18 games or more six straight seasons (a school record), and he won more games in those 6 years than the three coaches that preceded him.

Who the hell is Houston to expect more? I thought Texas fans had the market cornered on entitlement? Something doesn't smell right in clutch city and it's not the water. I predict a more scintillating story to come out soon replete with booze, women, and power struggles. Should be a hoot.

But Cougar High won't allow the circus to end there. Rumors abound that our little friend, Billy Gillispie, is high on the list for possible replacements. Nothing says fun like Billy Clyde in the state where he was arrested first! Still, Billy Clyde, when sober, can recruit and this could be a bad thing for a now struggling Rick Barnes and Texas. Houston police, this man may be coming to town. You've been warned:

One drunk for another?

Thoughts? What impact on Texas basketball with Billy?

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Eh, if Billy can prove that he can stay sober long enough to recruit, win a few games, and shot that he’s ‘turned his life around," he’ll quickly get hired somewhere bigger and better.

The way I see it: 1) UH hires a dud ’up-and-coming" assisstant/over the hill big time coach and goes to hell, or 2) gets a good up-and-coming assistant/rebounding coach who is gone within 1-2 years. They then follow up with #1 because the odds of 2 happening again are about the same as getting struck by lightning twice.

Until UH can get it’s average attendance over 3300, no one worth a damn will come to coach there or stick around. Penders only averaged about 4500 attendance in his best year. They are destined for suckitude and/or coach raiding until they put butts in the seats. The same is probably true of the football program.

by 06_UT on Mar 22, 2010 2:50 PM CDT reply actions

Billy would kill at UH.

by coloradoag on Mar 22, 2010 3:15 PM CDT reply actions

I’ve heard that cougar high is concerned that Houston-area kids won’t want to play his style of basketball.

If they hire John Lucas, does that free up a scholarship for us next year?

by nordberg on Mar 22, 2010 3:43 PM CDT reply actions

Actually, Houston went out in the second round.

by Caradoc on Mar 22, 2010 3:47 PM CDT reply actions

The Gnome isn’t on scholly.

Barnes has nothing to woory about because we aren’t going to schedule UH…we’ve nothing to gain by doing so.

by Confused and Dazed on Mar 22, 2010 3:52 PM CDT reply actions

Caradoc,

They lost in the first round to the Terps. 89-77.

by Patrick Bateman on Mar 22, 2010 3:52 PM CDT reply actions

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/college/6923499.html

For you fucking Schadenfreude guys. Penders could not hold Barnes jock except this past season but thats the breaks. The “running” Horns were fun to watch and with no expectations to boot.

by skymonkeyhorn on Mar 22, 2010 3:52 PM CDT reply actions

“The Gnome isn’t on scholly.”

He wasn’t this year.

by nordberg on Mar 22, 2010 4:00 PM CDT reply actions

I wish I still had access to the post I made on Hornfans when Penders was hired by UH about he and BCG getting into a game of drunk driving chicken on the Beltway.

by sizzlechest on Mar 22, 2010 5:45 PM CDT reply actions

BCG likes to party. I anticipate good times for him at UH. He’s got Telephone Road and Etta’s, both within crazy crackhead walking distance.

by ghostofagroundgame on Mar 22, 2010 5:54 PM CDT reply actions

I like to party.

by Sailor Ripley on Mar 22, 2010 6:26 PM CDT reply actions

… if UH wouldn’t meet Penders’ demand for a stocked bar in his office, what makes you think Gillespie would take the job?

by VirginiaLonghorn on Mar 22, 2010 6:52 PM CDT reply actions

In that picture Billy Clyde looks like a pederast on Death Row.

by GiordanoBruno on Mar 22, 2010 7:13 PM CDT reply actions

Who the hell would go to work without a stocked bar in the office?

by Eddie Sutton on Mar 22, 2010 7:15 PM CDT reply actions

You tell em’ Dad. I needed a stocked bar in the office and mini bar in the training room!

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