"all your flaws show up when you lose and flaws are ignored when you win"
Hence the Bob Knight era at IU.
Got a little bit of "inside info." tonight
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Hence the Bob Knight era at IU.
You don't have to kick them off the team, just don't play them. They will leave on their own. Problem solved.
You might imagine that to be the case, but Knight’s refusal to meet with Brand made Brand’s job easy. And, I’m sure you’ll recall, there was precedent for all of this. Brand was prepared to fire Knight the previous May but chose not to after the two of them met face to face. Born from that meeting was Zero Tolerance, a protocol Knight publicly praised. Who knows if a September meeting would’ve produced a different outcome for IU and BK, but his refusal to be a part of such a meeting was, in effect, his resignation. So, the “convenience” was courtesy of Knight, not the invention of Brand.
Even better make them walk the steps during practice so they aren’t even involved
They will both get less than what we got for Sampson’s phone calls.
I don't recall anyone in an official capacity making that comment in public. It was a common refrain from rivals for years.
It's cool when people post like they can see the future. If you can see the future, you should try to make money by betting on horse races or something.
I remember Knight's introductory speech at Texas Tech. "This is the best I've felt in a red sweater in six years!" (in reference to Brand's administration). If Brand had cared for IU, he wouldn't have switched jobs so suddenly after making the call. Knight still cares. What Knight doesn't care about is seeing an outsider who doesn't appreciate our basketball heritage come in and f++k it up! We still deal with remnant attitudes from Brand's administration today. Today we sit in anger of what we've become as Knight is nearly done.
You mean, like Bob's rival's in the press. It's what they wanted us to believe.
But your narrative seems to point the finger at Brand for insisting that Knight behave, which makes no sense. Knight could’ve and should’ve acted like an adult and he would’ve left IU on his own terms. He spun out of control and caused his own departure, which was sad and unfortunate, but also deserved.
That said, I’m glad he finally decided that enough was enough and chose to return to AH. It was a special time yesterday, especially for those of us who saw his entire career at IU.
Hey Knight was a young coach who can from Army he was mid-major who turn out to be pretty good right? LOL The guy who is coaching Rutgers came from a mid-major also I'm not to happy the way thing or going but at least one more year of Archie maybe he will turn it around i hope.
Knight had success from day one. You can clearly see archie is over his head but only if your willing to accept reality.
We’ll probably never know what it was about Myles Brand that Knight so despised, what pissed him off so much. With another IU President and/or athletic director, disaster may have been adverted and subsequent IU basketball viewed in better light.
I think we’ve always known. Brand asserted his authority and that was in conflict with Knight’s belief that he was accountable to no one, and certainly not to an outsider president whom he believed didn’t “get” IU athletics.
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