Doug Gottlieb played basketball for OSU and now is an ESPN college basketball analyst, here are some clips of his chat yesterday...

Q: Can you put into perspective just how impressive Billy Gillespie has been at Texas A&M and are his Aggies a legit contender come March?

A: Perspective? How about this- in 1998 I played against A & M for the first time in G. Rollie WHite---their old gym---there were at most 1300 fans in attendance---until last year, the Aggies had never won a Big 12 tourney game---and now they have the best team in Texas, they have signed the best player in Texas and they have a legit shot to win the whole thing.

There was a very intresting thread about recruuting at Illinois under Bill Self....

Q: Apparently you have p'd off the Illini faithful with comments you made today over the radio. Thank you for giving them something else to whine about. I like you....

A: All I said is that I love Bruce Webber the man and the basketball coach, but he is trying to be the first in a long line of coaches to truly do things the right way in Chambana---and they are not getting it done in recruiting....there in lies the question, with so many people expecting Illinois do go down the wrong path, do you penalize Webber for doing it the right way and not winning as many games?

Q: Are you implying that Bill Self cheated while at Illinois?

A: No. But Lou did for years. It has been well documented that Bill had a couple dozen minor violations.
There is a perception at Illinois---from recruits more than coaches, that there was something not on the up and up---
That leads to expectations from in-state recruits....it is unfair to say they falt out cheated, but there was that perception back in the day