STEPHENVILLE, Texas -- After a frustrating home loss, men's basketball coach Billy Gillispie sits in his office in a hallway of the 3,000-seat Wisdom Gym on the campus at Tarleton State University. It's late, he's disappointed, and he tells both of the reporters on hand that he wants to "hurry up and get this over with," then appears to be physically pained by the lackluster questions.
That might sound like what you'd expect from the Billy Clyde Gillispie experience, another scene of a Division I coach who hates losing more than he loves winning. But tonight, he has more important people waiting.