I'll admit that I was completely surprised Friday morning when I finally got up. Billy's leaving???? Say what? I had just finished reading the night before on the Aggie Athletics website that he had agreed to the new deal. Since many of us here are life-long Texans, we all know that many deals here are made on the basis of a handshake and a promise.
He didn't want to stay at A&M, fine. I knew he wouldn't stay forever although I had hoped that the possiblity of becoming A&M's version of Coach K would have been enough to sustain him for awhile. He only called Joseph Jones and Josh Carter found out about it from ESPN. Is this the way of men? Is this the type of man that you really want around the young people--leading them, molding them into future citizens? The way he left proved to his teams, his recruits, the Aggie family and the Kentucky basketball nation that anything that comes out of his mouth has a 50/50 chance of being a lie. Heck, he even lied to one of his recruits by telling him that he would be back at A&M. This is not the way of Texans, or at least not any Texan that I care to know. Kentucky is welcome to him. These are the people who would fire God if He weren't productive enough.