Former UK point guard Derrick Jasper has confirmed to the Las Vegas Sun that he will join Billy Gillispie’s program at Texas Tech University as a graduate assistant.
Jasper also says that some of the reports about his exit from Kentucky (he transferred to UNLV) and his relationship with Gillispie were “blown out of proportion a bit.”
He does admit, however, that news of his new gig at Tech is “kind of shocking to some people.”
Here is an excerpt:
[QUOTE]When he decided to transfer, Jasper cited a want to play closer to home, though many speculated that the relationship between him and Gillispie had deteriorated after the guard came back from the injury too soon. Jasper chose UNLV and spent his redshirt season in 2008-09 rehabbing all over again, but he said that he doesn’t hold any grudge against his former coach, whose lackluster two-year run at UK came to a close a year after his departure from Lexington.
“I think that was blown out of proportion a bit,” Jasper said. “We had a good relationship. It wasn’t bad. It was me wanting to get closer to him. I wouldn’t be going back to work for him if I didn’t believe he was a good guy.
“A lot of (the return from the knee injury) was just me trying to get back early enough to help my team. That’s all in the past now. I’m just looking to the future.”
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