Tarleton’s state coach Billy Gillispie was put on temporary administrative leave while the university is investigating an anonymous complaint, the school announced on Friday.
No details of the nature of the complaint was immediately available, and there is no calendar over the duration of the survey. The associate coach Glynn Cyprien took over as an interim head coach.
The school said that it would not comment more.
Gillispie faced allegations of ill -treatment of the players while he was coach of Texas Tech in 2011 and 2012. He resigned from his functions of the raiders – invoking health problems – in September 2012. The resignation came a month after the school declared that it had investigated the affirmations, which arise from the players of Texas Tech expressing the concerns about the way they were treated by Gillispie.
Questions about the style of coach of Gillispie were also asked during his stay in Kentucky, including the treatment of players and staff of the athletics department. He was dismissed in 2009, with the Kentucky sports director saying that Gillispie “was not the right choice for the program”. A rules of $ 3 million on its dismissal was later reached that year.
Gillispie, 65, is in his sixth season in Tarleton State, the longest of his five sequences of coach in five divisions, which also include time at UTEP and Texas A&M.
He was 78-74 in Tarleton State, including a file of 25-10 in 2023-24 and an appearance at CIT. He went 226-182 in 13 seasons as a chief coach with four appearances at the NCAA tournament.
Cyprien is a long -standing university assistant with stops that include UNLV, Oklahoma State, Arkansas, Kentucky, Memphis and Texas Tech.
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