True this, he wasn't fired, but resigned. It doesn't look good to the outside world, the judgmental, when a man is fired, especially if...no, I won't go there, only because I told myself I wouldn't. Bob Knight was given the opportunity to resign or be fired. Bob Knight lived by his convictions and never wavered. This is what he was all about. Knight was man enough not to take the coward's way out.
Mike Davis firing
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No offense to my attorney friends, of which there are many through the years and seemingly on every street corner now, but I really hope this next athletic director isn't an attorney. Their decision making is viewed through a lens clouded by the legality of too many complicated issues. Let's get a more regular, genuine glad-hander on the golf course, a people person more like all of us and one who works his ass off, all the while with a smile.
Bob Knight loved working under the directorship of Bill Orwig. Bill was a born and raised mid-westerner who played basketball and football, a Michigan man, who later coached at the collegiate level as an assistant and had a prior athletic administrative job at Toledo before taking over the reigns at IU. If only we could be lucky enough to hire another Bill Orwig. If only we had but the left over candy and nuts of Christmas, we'd still be eating, along with visions dancing in our heads, the way IU basketball used to be, not there, yet, for us to see.
Interesting you should say this, because Davis is now coach at Detroit Mercy, and one of his players is Brad Calipari who is a grad transfer from Kentucky with 2 years of eligibility left. Mom goes to a lot of the games and dad gets to an occasional one when his schedule permits. I'll bet Davis may feel a little differently now.
Nice research that clearly shows the beauty of the Internet. On social media, there always seems to be someone in the know to help clarify things as they really are.
Right cause he knew how to beat Purdue and it’s still true today...you take them off the dribble!!! All day
Are you two posters the same guy? Which one of you is the winningest coach in Ohio high school basketball, both girls and boys? Which of you is in the Ohio HOF?
Are you even allowed to have two screen names?
I am Rotonda Jim. I rarely post and probably used the name Rotonda in the past. I am the winningest coach at Cleveland John Marshall for girls and also coached boys for 4 seasons and freshman boys for 9 years and yes am in the Ohio Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame. But no I am far from the winningest coach. I was lucky enough to coach many amazing athletes including Desmond Howard before he transferred to St. Joseph's in his junior year. I am a 1969 IU grad and knew Mike Davis pretty well and did attend his practices and clinics yearly. Coach Knight just ignored me.
Davis was in a very tough situation. I liked him but he wasn't a great coach and his sidelines behavior was sometimes embarrassing. Nevertheless, he did catch lightning in a bottle in 2002 and nearly pulled it off. The Duke win was a top 5 moment for the program. And anyone who says he did it with RMK's team is incorrect. That was two years after RMK was gone.
Well, you are posting as "Rotonda", not "Rotonda Jim". That is strange.
Congrats on the coaching career, btw.
Congrats on the coaching career, btw.
Well, that’s wrong. Every player on the floor was recruited by RMK.
Nice to know where you’re coming from. Your agenda on this topic is pretty transparent.
Not only should the next AD not be an attorney, more importantly he should have an athletics background.
It might be safe to say that was as much due to a particular period of inept Purdue years as it was to the "genius" tag that characterized Mike Davis' tutelage while here at IU.
They gave Davis an interim year because of that. Why he got the gig permanently after a 1st round flameout is a better question. But, that wasn't any worse than coach Knight had done in the previous 5 seasons...
As a lawyer I have no idea why anyone thought glass was qualified. AD departments have legal counsel on staff to handle compliance and legal matters. I played a D1 sport and am a law grad from iu and have no clue how to run an athletics dept. hire a guy with AD experience. Hell hire a guy with success in an AD office.
You misconstrued or I didn’t convey what I wanted to. I just meant that he was thrown into a tough spot without any leadership experience and many of us had never heard him talk. He seemed shy and uncomfortable and I admire how he stepped up.
If I recall correctly, one of Davis’ biggest missteps was that he failed to capitalize on the NCAA title game appearance and finished 2nd or 3rd on nearly every big name recruit.
He pissed off the Indiana high school coaches and he got little help from them. He even pissed off coach Sparks from VU when he came with Carl Landry on a visit. Sparks said he would never recommend one of his players to play for Davis.
He wasn't ready to run a program like IU.
The decision making process of the IU Board of Trustees has certainly been perplexing with some of these hires. Is the talent pool low, or what?
Is Harry Gonso still on the Board of Trustees? I thought he was smarter than that.
I haven’t kept up. I’m like the guy who bitches about the president but didn’t vote
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