Tarleton State has positioned males’s basketball coach Billy Gillispie on short-term administrative depart because the college investigates a grievance, ESPN reviews. Gillispie is getting into his sixth season with the Texans. Assistant coach Glynn Cyprien will function performing head coach in Gillispie’s absence. The college has supplied no particulars in regards to the nature of the grievance and has not provided a timeline for a way lengthy the investigation will take.
Gillispie, 65, has confronted a profession marked by controversy and well being considerations. His tenure at Texas Tech (2011-12) included allegations of participant mistreatment, together with forcing injured athletes to follow, and he was reprimanded for exceeding NCAA follow limits.
In September 2012, he took an indefinite medical depart after hospitalization for heart-related signs and resigned later that yr, citing well being considerations. Earlier, throughout his time at Kentucky (2007-09), Gillispie was dismissed after two seasons amid considerations over match and contractual disputes following a marketing campaign by which the Wildcats missed the NCAA Event for the primary time since 1991. He later settled a lawsuit with the college for practically $3 million.
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Regardless of these challenges, Gillispie has a historical past of success on the court docket. He first gained nationwide consideration at UTEP, the place he led the Miners to a convention title and an NCAA Event berth in his second season, engineering one of many greatest turnarounds in NCAA historical past. At Texas A&M (2004–07), he produced three consecutive 20-win seasons and twice earned Huge 12 Coach of the 12 months honors, constructing a repute for recruiting high expertise and revitalizing struggling applications.
Three years after his departure from Texas Tech in 2012, Gillispie returned to Ranger Faculty, his alma mater, the place he served as head coach and athletic director. His tenure there included NJCAA sanctions for utilizing ineligible gamers.
He was employed by Tarleton State in March 2020, serving to information this system throughout its transition from Division II to Division I. Gillispie owns a 78-74 (.513) general document in 5 seasons at Tarleton, together with two postseason appearances within the CBI and CIT.
Gillispie’s placement on depart comes because the Texans put together for the upcoming season with the primary sport at SMU on Nov. 3.