If all goes as planned, an extremely familiar face will be in the Reed Arena crowd Saturday when Texas A&M hosts Kentucky. Billy Gillispie told The News on Wednesday that he plans to attend the game, at the invitation of Aggies coach Billy Kennedy, a longtime friend. Gillispie said Kennedy extended previous invites earlier this season.
“Actually, I'm playing golf [in College Station] on Friday,” Gillispie said. “I said, ‘Who are y'all playing Saturday?' They said, ‘Kentucky,' and so I said, ‘I think I'll go.' But it's no big deal.”
No big deal? As college basketball fans are well aware, Gillispie coached Texas A&M from 2004 to 2007 and Kentucky from 2007 to 2009.
Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter's Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.