Ole Billy Clyde Gillispie is still coaching college basketball at the age of 62, roughly 13 years after his tenure at Kentucky came to a… disappointing end.
Now at Tarleton State, which is located in Stephenville, TX, and recently saw its men’s basketball program bump up from Divison II to Divison I, Gillispie hasn’t done much to change his coaching ways. He’s still the same intense, tough-loving, basketball-obsessed human being he was before he arrived in Lexington and even after he left.
If you would like some proof, look no further than the man himself.
Tuesday morning, ESPN’s Dave Wilson dropped a longform feature on Gillispie where the head coach said he believes he can build a national champion at Tarleton State — yes, a Divison I national champion.