[EKUAlum05]

Welcome to Lexington Billy Donovan......

I truly feel Donovan is about to be the next UK Head Coach. The key now is for the duo of Barnhart and Todd to be VERY smart in how they handle this situation. If UK fires BCG and there is any lag time in the announcement of a new coach then the chances of keeping current recruits is slim. If Donovan (or for that matter any other marquee name coach) is named immediately it really helps our chances of keeping Hood, Orton, and Tucker on board as well as Ferguson and Ross-Miller for the future.

Jimmy Dykes surprisingly made a statement that summarizes my opinions on BCG. He said, and I paraphrase, "There is no doubt this guy can flat coach. It's whether he can handle all that takes to be the focal point of the Kentucky program."

I said it earlier this year after a game. It wasn't so much his on court coaching I took issue with. it was the way he treated media and fans. D_ick Gabriel is the epitome of a UK media man. He is deep in the UK program and you rarely hear him speak out. When he made his comments this week that BCG was gone that spoke volumes and drove the nail in the coffin of this thing. Maybe had BCG treated Mike Leach (all-class and Gabriel's buddy) a little better then maybe Gabriel doesn't speak out.

I feel with 100% certainty we are having a coaching change and an A-list coach is on his way in. I will say that if it takes until April to make an announcement then that might mean that Calipari is also in the running.

I wish BCG well. He will wind up somehwere and will be a very successful head coach, probably even coaching in Final 4's. UK simply was not the right fit for his personality.