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Pulled over in Anderson County, per reports from various news outlets. When he was pulled over, at 2:45 a.m. mind you, apparently he told police he had been golfing with his passenger, Charles O’Connor, 42. He also refused to take a breathalizer or blood alcohol test. I can’t fault Clyde for not wanting to cooperate with the tests, though. I mean, when you tell the cops you’ve been golfing at 2 in the morning, I think you’ve proven yourself plenty drunk enough to skip the sobriety tests and head straight for the back of the squad car. I’m sure there will be more soon. Stay tuned.
Update: Now with video! (courtesy of WLEX)
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August 27th, 2009 at 7:11 am
I guess this should bring an agreement between UK & BCG pretty quick!!
August 27th, 2009 at 7:16 am
Officer should’ve called UK officials and bribed him…. No DUI no money from UK….. or DUI and continue with lawsuit… lol
I guess when you bite the hand that was feeding you, you can’t find people to drive you home as easily…. What about all the times UK cops let him off the hook ?
Go back to Texas Clyde !!!! We owe you NOTHING
August 27th, 2009 at 7:41 am
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…uhhhh…..AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
August 27th, 2009 at 7:42 am
Why is it everytime Ricky P does something stupid to get UofL in the headlines, we have something stupid happen to steal the spotlight? And while the Memphis thing or this isnt really about UK…it is in the media.
August 27th, 2009 at 7:45 am
Better get all you can get Billy G! Gonna be hard to find a job now!! C YA
August 27th, 2009 at 7:48 am
Golf isn’t a tough enough sport unless you play in the dark while drunk.
August 27th, 2009 at 7:54 am
Is Malones gonna hold a Fundraiser to Bail Clyde out?
Stick with Dr. Pepper Clyde, Dr. Pepper Clyde…………
August 27th, 2009 at 7:56 am
Golf at night? That gives a whole new meaning to “Driving Under the Influence”. LOL!
August 27th, 2009 at 8:05 am
Nice one #6. When he got thrown in jail this morning, Bubba commented on his unbelievable passion and said that he tried very very very very very hard to defend himself.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:06 am
Maybe Billy and Ricky were meeting to go table hopping.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:06 am
Going crazy in front of the media, or getting a Dewy while trying to negotiate a contract settlement … BCG, “All in boys!”
August 27th, 2009 at 8:07 am
Lol, Hilarious! Sadly if he didn’t take a sobriety test then he didn’t really get a DUI & his lawyers will be able to get him off with minor charges.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:07 am
someone needs to tell Mr. O’Conner how this works. Clyde is the famous coach. O’Conner should be driving and laying on the floor listening to Gillispie have sloppy, after hour relations at Golden Corral.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:09 am
Beisner, the cops didn’t find the hookers in the drunk. They were headed to Perkins!
August 27th, 2009 at 8:09 am
drunk=trunk
August 27th, 2009 at 8:09 am
Golfing, that was the best u could come up with? A perfect example of a man who is doomed to make bad decisions. Be it gameday practices, not going to Rotary, shunning former players, or drinking and driving and using midnight golf as an excuse, bad decisions are BCG’s calling card. That sound you heard last night in L-burg was six mil and a career being flushed down the toilet. I knew something like this would happen. I had the same feeling when Otis bought a car on Andy Griffith.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:10 am
Wasn’t his other DUI in Texas? He could be looking at mandatory jail time here. What say you law dog?
August 27th, 2009 at 8:16 am
I hear Scypher was the passenger in the car.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:19 am
I heard he’s being held on 6 million dollars bail. badump, bump.
Thanks, I’ll be here all night.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:19 am
I’m shocked. You can get a drink in Anderson County?
August 27th, 2009 at 8:24 am
Oh Billy, Karma is a motherfather!!!
August 27th, 2009 at 8:27 am
Can’t wait for that dash cam video to come out. Officer, “Sir, can I see your drivers license.” Billy G.,”Can you repeat that I couldn’t hear you.” Officer, “I need you to step outside the car sir.” Billy G., “I’m Billy Gillispie and I can get you an autograph picture of the worse lose in Rupp history.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:28 am
LEX 18 just had some nice video of him in the transport van. I’m not feeling you Billy.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:30 am
Does anybody know if the jail he was taken to posts the mugshots online? I am dying to see what he looks like drunk at 2:45 in the morning after playing golf.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:34 am
What the hell was he even doing in KY…doesn’t he get it? Last place on earth he should be drinking again…and driving. What a moron. He deserves all the hell this will bring and more.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:36 am
He was playing golf at Champions Trace at 2:30 pm yesterday . . . that’s 11 1/2 more hours of drinking before the arrest. He is being held in Franklin County jail according to radio.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:39 am
This will be the last chapter in his book.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:39 am
https://www.vinelink.com/vinelink/searchResultsAction.do?searchType=of fender&siteId=18000&searchWhere=state&doc=500&agency=210&id=&lastName= gillispie&firstName=billy&dob=&ageRange=0&methodToCall=search
August 27th, 2009 at 8:40 am
As funny as this is, we’ve had way too much negative press for current and former coaches lately.
Based on the current pattern, Tubby Smith should be popping up in a Girls Gone Wild video in T-Minus 2 months.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:40 am
Link indicating his incarceration status . . . they will send you an email, if you want, when he is released.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:41 am
Unfortunately for BCG, he and UK were closing the deal. Now, not sure how that will affect his chances at a settlement.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:44 am
Unfortunately for Billy G the lure of the Wild Turkey Trace Golf Course in AC was just too tempting.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Maybe they settled and it just hadn’t come out yet. So Billy G. went out to celebrate. Its five o’clock somewhere.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:53 am
#12, you’ve obviously never defended a DUI case in Anderson County. They are vicious, often asking for jail time on a first offense (if there are past offenses even though not within 5 years). I’ve represented people on DUI charges in 20+ counties in Central Kentucky and Anderson is the absolute LAST place that one would want to be charged with that offense.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:53 am
Wonder if BCG got whipped playing golf at 2 am
August 27th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Sounds like the rest of the state needs to follow Anderson counties example.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:57 am
Somewhere, Dario Franchitti is laughing and pointing out that he had the good sense to not be drunk when he got pulled over in Anderson County.
The newspaper used to run DUI photos in the district court log every week, but stopped not long before I went to work there a few years a go. Maybe they’ll make an exception this time.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:57 am
Isn’t refusing a breathalizer automatic 6 minths license suspension. He really didn;t need to take one, come on, shorts and loafers with no socks screams shit-faced drunk!
August 27th, 2009 at 8:57 am
Somebody go put Tubby in a padded cell, since all the other ex-UK coaches are going nuts.
August 27th, 2009 at 9:00 am
This is one good reason why so many fans liked Tubby Smith. You will not see him in Porcini’s or Franklin Co. jail.
August 27th, 2009 at 9:00 am
What a hoot! I guess (when you don’t have your personal driver anymore) life’s a bitch! It couldn’t have happened to a nicer person…
August 27th, 2009 at 9:01 am
Refusing to be tested means that he will face a pre-trial license suspension but he can file for reinstatement. Most people end up pleading guilty and the pre-trial suspension time is credited against whatever their eventual license suspension turns out to be (30-120 days on first offense w/in 5 years).
August 27th, 2009 at 9:01 am
Ricky P you have been reraised!!
August 27th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Man, he is HAMMERED:
http://www.state-journal.com/news/article/4656128
August 27th, 2009 at 9:02 am
This is actually pretty sad. He is like that crazy ex girlfriend from Waynes World.
August 27th, 2009 at 9:06 am
WLEX video.
http://www.lex18.com/player/?video_id=1364&zone=2&categories=2
August 27th, 2009 at 9:09 am
I love how the officer didn’t hold the door open for him. Didn’t look like Billy was expecting the door to come back at him that fast.
August 27th, 2009 at 9:14 am
He should lock his liver in a bathroom stall until it gets some toughness.
August 27th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Maybe he was night putting with his buddy Mitch Comstein…
August 27th, 2009 at 9:17 am
what makes you madder?
The fact that Tubby simply quit the last three years he was here? or
That BCG is simply that big of an idiot?
August 27th, 2009 at 9:20 am
Somebody get Cutler over to Frankfort. I’d love to watch him chase Billy to his car when they release him!
August 27th, 2009 at 9:20 am
This is way too funny, good thing Alec Cutler wasn’t trying to scoop this one cuz Clyde could’ve also been cited for speeding.
August 27th, 2009 at 9:21 am
what a dumbass! he cracked at UK and has now officially lost his mind.
August 27th, 2009 at 9:22 am
50 - C., the fact that we have to wait until September 19th for a home football game.
August 27th, 2009 at 9:22 am
Actually I’m wondering what his handicap was? Stupidity, or Wild Turkey
August 27th, 2009 at 9:25 am
#48 - Cobb - LMFAO
I hear he pulled a fast one by not signing the ticket
August 27th, 2009 at 9:30 am
http://www.state-journal.com/news/image_popup/1455994
August 27th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Does Golden Tee count as “night golf?” If so, I could have been arrested about a hundred times during my time in Lexington.
August 27th, 2009 at 9:32 am
#48 - too funny
August 27th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Pitino, yesterday : “Just change the channel…just read something else”
Pitino, today : “Thank you, Billy Gillispie. Thank you.”
August 27th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Thank god he had on a Dallas Cowboys polo. I wouldn’t put it past the drunk to still be wearing at UK shirt.
August 27th, 2009 at 9:38 am
I wonder how much my Billy Gillispie signed bottle of Makers Mark will be worth now?
August 27th, 2009 at 9:43 am
When asked by the cop what he was doing, Gillispie replied he was honoring Ted Kennedy, then tried to reference 9/11, the holocaust and the spanish inquisition
August 27th, 2009 at 9:45 am
62) You might want to make sure the contents are still in the bottle.
August 27th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Sad day for the Commonwealth…Cal, Pitino and now Gillispie all getting dragged through the mud.
62. It’s probably worth more empty..you can claim he drained it.
August 27th, 2009 at 9:47 am
“Ricky P, you have been check raised, my friend”
August 27th, 2009 at 9:49 am
“Well I simply went out there and got whooped today,” former coach Billy Clyde said while commenting on his most recent DUI arrest.
August 27th, 2009 at 9:49 am
How drunk did the passenger (Charles O’Conner) have to be to:
1. Not be driving Billy around instead of Billy doing the driving
2. To be arrested as well yet he wasn’t even driving
August 27th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Somewhere Dusty Mills is laughing his ass off
August 27th, 2009 at 9:55 am
69 - and then he took an order from the drive-thru
August 27th, 2009 at 9:55 am
45 - “I don’t even own A gun, let alone multiple guns that would necessitate a gun rack”
August 27th, 2009 at 9:57 am
He’s FREE on his way home to Louisville. LOL
August 27th, 2009 at 10:32 am
I bet he gave him a 20 dollar bill and his discount card to the UK athletics online store and said ” We can let this slide.”
August 27th, 2009 at 10:44 am
He looks like he got whupped.
August 27th, 2009 at 11:03 am
[...] Another question is whether Gillispie actually thought telling officers he was out golfing — at 2:45 a.m. — was a surefire alibi. Apparently so. [...]
August 27th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
34) No I haven’t defended anyone in court. I’m not a lawyer..I just know some lawyers who have told me they can get anyone off of DUI charges as long as you kindly Decline any Sobriety tests. Then again, I don’t know any Lawyers who practice law in Anderson county. Matty Jones, whats your take on this: What will Billy G end up with when its all said and done?