Texas Tech players expressed concern about the way they are being treated by second-year coach Billy Gillispie during a meeting with athletic director Kirby Hocutt this week, multiple players told ESPN.com.

The players initially were called to meet individually with members of the compliance department about the number of hours they were being asked to practice.

It's safe to say that Billy Gillispie's days of coaching at Texas Tech appear to be numbered. Shane Keyser/Getty Images

After the meeting with compliance officials, players met with Hocutt as a group.

Associate athletic director Blayne Beal, who is in charge of communications, confirmed the meeting took place with Hocutt and the returning players.

Beal also said the school was informed early Friday morning that Gillispie was hospitalized in Lubbock at University Medical Center. Beal said he didn't know why the coach was hospitalized and had no further details on his condition.

Multiple sources told ESPN.com that he was being treated for high blood pressure.

Hospital spokesman Eric Finley told The Associated Press that Gillispie was in satisfactory condition Friday.

Beal said Sunday that Gillispie remained hospitalized. Beal said Gillispie's status remained unchanged.

Gillispie told the Lubbock Avalanche Journal that he thought he was having a heart attack or stroke when he called 911 on Friday and said it was the worst he had ever felt.

Gillispie, 52, didn't return a call or a text message seeking a response.

Beal and Hocutt met Friday to discuss the player matter and issued this statement through Beal:

"We are aware and are looking into concerns within the leadership of our men's basketball program. Student-athlete well-being is our top priority and a matter that we take extremely seriously at Texas Tech. Texas Tech is devoting its full resources to look into this matter."

Compliance officer Jennifer Brashear declined to comment.

Hired in March 2011 to replace Pat Knight, Gillispie went just 8-23 (1-17 Big 12) in his first season in Lubbock.

He previously was the head coach at Kentucky, Texas A&M and Texas-El Paso and a former assistant under Bill Self at Tulsa and Illinois.

"Compliance wanted to know what's going on," said one returning player who requested that his name not be used. "(The meeting) was about a lot of stuff that goes on in practice, everything within the program, the way we're being coached, the relationship we've got with our coach, practice hours and stuff like that."

The player said that Gillispie is a "good coach, teacher and mentor, but he's not the most personable person, not the coach you can go and talk to. He breaks you down. But he doesn't build you back up. It's hard to play for him when that happens every day. You feel like you're getting torn down and you can't get back up."

The player said there were a lot of "mental games" being played.