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Re: How will you remember the General?

Hoosier4Life — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:10:44 -0000

I guess we're supposed to view every article to find where you said that. Hopefully, your buddy, Clifford, reaches down and eats you, so we don't have to read of your stupid posts anymore.

Re: How will you remember the General?

WCZ — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:23:32 -0000

What if Kelvin Sampson does get canned at the end of this season? Imagine Assembly Hall next fall: "My God! That's Bob Knight's music!"

Re: How will you remember the General?

tom — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:54:37 -0000

or perhaps the fact that you don't know when to use "then" and "than"

Re: How will you remember the General?

Phil — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:22:09 -0000

You know what hurts the value of my degree even more then bob?

Idiots like you.

Sigh.....

Re: How will you remember the General?

Hoosier_Hound — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:45:13 -0000

I said I would have fired him over six months ago.

Re: How will you remember the General?

Ryan_Btown — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:35:12 -0000

I'll remember him as an asshole in the press...a stubborn old man who held grudges...A stubborn man who won't say "when I was at Indiana," and instead says, "when I was in the midwest."

But I'll also remember him as a Hall of Fame coach, a friend to almost every player that played for him, a friend to many of the coaches around the league, a guy who recruited fairly, graduated players, and basically built the library that I study in.

But most of all, I'll remember him as the guy who when my mother sent a letter and a card for him to sign for my 10th birthday, returned it, signed, in less than a week.

Re: How will you remember the General?

Frank — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:33:23 -0000

An article by Pat Forde? Are you kidding me? I guess you didn't realize the Coach Knight and Pat Forde did not get along very well during Pat's time at the Louisville Courier Journal, so yes, Pat Forde has an axe to grind with Coach Knight. I'm sure Lou Henson would also have "great" things to say about Coach Knight.

Re: How will you remember the General?

Frank — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:14:49 -0000

I don't understand all of you posters who have so much hate for a man that you never really knew. Life is too short...let go of all the hate.

Re: How will you remember the General?

TomP — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:06:23 -0000

You must have had a coach/adult chew your ass early in life and now, you are all bitter about it. Just relax and let all the hate go.

Re: How will you remember the General?

jd — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:58:29 -0000

How do you know he wasn't an asshole? Did you interview all of his players and everyone who ever knew him?

Re: How will you remember the General?

Hoosier4Life — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:50:22 -0000

What are your feelings about Kelvin Sampson and the negative attention, disgrace and ridicule that he is bringing to the university via his NCAA recruiting violations?

Re: How will you remember the General?

NYHoosier — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:45:53 -0000

Why are you so upset about someone associating you to a man you did not know? Larry Bird is known as the Hick from French Lick, so should I be ashamed if someone wants to call me a hick simply because I was born and raised in Indiana? While I do not condone all of his actions, the view that you see via the media is negatively distorted because it makes for a more interesting story (especially in the ESPN highlight world that we live in today) than all the good behind the scenes actions taken by Coach Knight. If you want a real perspective on how he treats individuals, ask Scott May, Quinn Buckner, Dick Vitale, Roy Williams, Coach K, Digger Phelps, etc. as I bet they have a very different opinion than you because they actually knew him.

Re: How will you remember the General?

HoosierSmitty — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:43:57 -0000

A great article? In my opinion Forde's words were callous and rang untrue. This read like an article written by someone looking to get some publicity or with an ax to grind. I lost a lot of respect for Forde with this article. Maybe that's because I grew up loving Knight and IU basketball - I'm certainly biased in that regard. While there is plenty of truth to what he wrote, I don't feel like you can just flat out characterize Knight in that way, ignoring all the good things he has done. People on a blog...go for it, but I just don't think that was a good piece of journalism by a seasoned writer with more ability than that.

Re: How will you remember the General?

Al Rolley — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:16:43 -0000

"YOU'RE A JOKE"!!!

Re: How will you remember the General?

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:11:30 -0000

I don't buy the 'You either love him or hate him' argument. He's a polarizing figure.

I love the way that he coached. I hate the way that he treated the media. I love the way that he helped build IU's library and help kids graduate. I hate the way he constantly contradicted himself, holding himself to different standards then his kids. (Pat Forde wrote a great article about this.)

I loved some things about him, but hated other things. Overall, I think there's no question that his good outweighed his bad, but it's not as black and white as "love him or hate him"

Re: How will you remember the General?

Hoosier_Hound — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:04:22 -0000

I wouldn't say he devalued anyone's degree. But as a fellow alumnus who loves Indiana University unconditionally, I have a problem with anyone who brings negative attention to my school. As an important and prominent figure at IU, where the men's basketball coach is arguably the most important and prominent position, Coach Knight brought more than his share of negative attention, disgrace, and ridicule to the University. He obviously brought positive attention, success, and championships as well. But his routinely embarrassing actions as the coach of IU did more damage than he was worth.

Re: How will you remember the General?

Hoosier_Hound — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:54:05 -0000

The floor is already named for Branch McCracken, otherwise known as the coach who won championships at Indiana without being an asshole.

Re: How will you remember the General?

Hoosier_Hound — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:50:25 -0000

I won't remember Coach Knight to fondly. He was and still is an asshole, and he would tell you so himself, probably using more colorful words and gestures. Coach Knight did a lot of great things for Indiana basketball, wins and championships and respect and tradition. But how you do things also counts, and he went about coaching while he was swimming in a bath of mud which he slung around at anyone who didn't line up behind him.

Coach Knight did things his way, and he made sure you knew it. That is how he'll be remembered, and quite frankly, I think that's how he wants to be remembered. He won't be remembered like Coach Wooden, Coach Smith, or other who are thought of only fondly. He probably won't even be remembered as a winner first and an asshole second. To a lot of people, he'll simply be that old asshole basketball coach. Based on how he lives his life, he deserves to be remembered just that way, too.

Re: How will you remember the General?

tom — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:07:50 -0000

so how much has your degree gone up in value since knight left???

did your salary increase dramatically after he was fired?

that comment alone tells me what hurts your degree...YOU.

Re: How will you remember the General?

tom — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:01:30 -0000

you people saying knight hurt your degree are pathetic. that's the lamest thing i've ever heard. i suppose knight is responsible for you ed, too?

really, take responsiblity and stop blaming other people if you can't get a job.

Re: How will you remember the General?

Mike_D — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:37:16 -0000

Nope....another IU grad here whose degree has been devalued by Bob.

....and Bob's still a giant douchebag.

Re: How will you remember the General?

RW — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:02:22 -0000

Bob Knight is Indiana Basketball, as Damon Bailey said when he left Bloomington he took a part of Indiana with him. Many people say love him or hate him, I say the haters never look for anything other than the negatives. I, like many of you have had numerous personal encounters with the man and none have been negative. He also took the time for a photo, to sign something, or to even walk down to court level with my brother and myself to show us the floor. He is the best and always will be! He set the standard in what we expect at Indiana, we write in complaints about what we are lacking these days well look at what we were used to: toughness, pride, tradition. He is very complex but a lot of us are, just not constanting in the public eye.
I heard him once quote Lincoln and pretty much summarizes all of the why leave now stuff: "When it comes time for me to lay down the reigns of this administration and I am left with one friend and that friend lies within myself I will be satisfied." Hail to the General, Hail to the Dragon. Go Hoosiers

Re: How will you remember the General?

Jay — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:25:23 -0000

The Purdue donkey Jack S. clomping onto Knight's weekly TV show set! My gosh that was funny. Can you imagine anyone in the Big Ten doing that now? Neither can I, which is too bad.

Re: How will you remember the General?

Displaced Hoosier — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:59:03 -0000

I actually don't have an undergrad degree from IU (and no, it's not from Purdue, either). I just feel like the guy was a poor representation of how one should conduct himself in a public setting. I never appreciated being automatically associated with the guy and the way he acted publicly. As a tactician, few, if any, have been better. As a man of integrity on the subject of academics, I applaud Coach Knight. As an example of how treat other individuals, I can think of few people in sports that demonstrate a more pathetic example of how to conduct yourself publicly. Unfortunately, he never realized this fact. As a result, we're reduced to debating his place in basketball history. Continue to take cheap shots as much as you want, but it's not going to change my opinion or make me think that I'm "pussy" for stating an unpopular (at least on this board) opinion.

Re: How will you remember the General?

Cream&Crimson — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:38:00 -0000

Timmy, isn't it time for you to break out your Barbies and have a tea party?