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Welcome to my blog http://www.skegley.blogspot.com/ . CAVEAT LECTOR- Let the reader beware. This is a Christian Conservative blog. It is not meant to offend anyone. Please feel free to ignore this blog, but also feel free to browse and comment on my posts! You may also scroll down to respond to any post.

For Christian American readers of this blog:


I wish to incite all Christians to rise up and take back the United States of America with all of God's manifold blessings. We want the free allowance of the Bible and prayers allowed again in schools, halls of justice, and all governing bodies. We don't seek a theocracy until Jesus returns to earth because all men are weak and power corrupts the very best of them.
We want to be a kinder and gentler people without slavery or condescension to any.

The world seems to be in a time of discontent among the populace. Christians should not fear. God is Love, shown best through Jesus Christ. God is still in control. All Glory to our Creator and to our God!


A favorite quote from my good friend, Jack Plymale, which I appreciate:

"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."

Thanks Jack!

I must admit that I do not check authenticity of my posts. If anyone can tell me of a non-biased arbitrator, I will attempt to do so more regularly. I know of no such arbitrator for the internet.











Sunday, April 20, 2008

Kentucky Basketball- Coach Billy Gillispie

Graford, TX is a small town about sixty miles west of Fort Worth/Dallas. At around five hundred population, the high school was too small to field a football team, so this small town in Texas, where everything is normally bigger, focused on high school basketball. Billy's dad and mother (Wimpy) divorced a few years ago. He has sisters. Dad is a truck driver.

Billy was point guard (he now calls the position lead guard) at Graford HS. Billy grew up tough and got tougher. After finishing college and coaching HS and JR, college and becoming an assistant to coach Bill Self at Tulsa and Illinois. Billy's first head coaching on the Division I level was at Texas El Paso. He brought that school success in three years, in fact they knocked off the Harlem Globetrotters 288 game win streak there, and moved to Texas A & M where he performed further miracle seasons for two years. Kentucky hired him last year after their season ended and coach Tubby Smith moved to Minnesota.

During the 2007-2008 season, it was nearly a miracle that they had enough players each game due to injuries. In spite of that, the Wildcats finished second in the SEC East ahead of FL (last two years NCAA Champions) and Vandy.

The Tornado Tourney (SEC) in Catlanta proved eventful for a Georgia team which had won only two games during the last seven weeks of the SEC season. The tournament was moved to GA. Tech's much smaller gym due to tornado damage to the Georgia Dome. Georgia beat UK , Miss. St. and the two other top seeded teams to win the SEC Tournament Championship in three days play.

We Kentucky basketball fans look forward to the 2008-2009 UK basketball season. Billy wants very much to bring NCAA Championships back to our university and we believe he will do it soon. We are certainly indebted to AD Mitch Barnhart and President Lee Todd for bringing coach Billy Gillispie to Kentucky.

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