DeAndre Liggins: If Gillispie had stayed it would have been “time to move on”

Larry Vaught spoke with DeAndre Liggins after UK’s final practice today and Liggins said that he had already made the decision to transfer prior to Billy Gillispie being fired.

Once Billy G was out and Coach Calipari was in, though, DeAndre changed his mind. Liggins is excited about the freedom that Calipari’s offense gives to players. Liggins was recruited by Calipari while he was at Memphis, and called it “fate” that Coach Cal ended up coming to UK.

There was some thought that DeAndre Liggins was one of the candidates for leaving the program to make some space on the roster, but I think this pretty much puts that to rest.