Mark Story of the Lexington Herald-Leader sounds off on why UK shouldn't fire Billy Gillispie:

With a record of 37-24, Gillispie's UK teams have done an un-Kentucky-like amount of losing so far.

Still, the quickest way to make sure a great basketball program stays in long-term decline is to get into a cycle of constantly changing coaches.

After the great John Wooden retired at UCLA, that school switched head men five times in the next 14 years. Three of those coaches each made it only two years. Even now, 34 years since Wooden won the last of his 10 NCAA titles, UCLA has never had a coach last a full decade as its head man. It is only in the past three years under Ben Howland that UCLA has fully returned as a consistent national power. There is a lesson in that.

However unhappy the Kentucky fan base is with Billy Gillispie in this moment, it would be counterproductive to fire a coach after only two years.

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