Bobby Knight Returns to IU
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Oh wow. Somehow I missed that. That’s pretty ****ed up.
Terrible disease. My wife's grandmother passed from complications of the disease. It eats your mind. The stroke that my father in law had, damaged the part of the brain that deals with logic---Somewhat similar to dementia. He has spells like that. More than once, he has become, "red in the face" with me, and my wife, for little things. THings that never before would he have ever reacted like that.
I mean, LOOK at Knight. He looks lost. Confused at times. Look at when he was chanting, "DEFENSE", pumping his fist. I mean, he's never done that----Ever.
Disease is a monster.
If a guy is an asshole, and then later gets a horrible disease, is he still an asshole?
It's fair to remember him as the asshole right? Just not current asshole, that's the disease.
It's fair to remember him as the asshole right? Just not current asshole, that's the disease.
Probably...I'm not the biggest Knight defender....He did some shitty things. But, well, he also did a lot of good. Most that many don't even know about. Doesn't change the bad. But, I mean, things aren't always a one way street.
Agree, they're not, but somethings are out of the ordinary....when coherent.
I knew his stories back in the day (early 80's, Go Jackson Co.), heard his stories before my time, saw the stories of shooting towards neighbors and accusing players of not going to class/not say UK/Calipari on the air.
Meaning the guy had a passionate pride. He's been a loose cannon for a very long time.
He knows basketball, and he's taught a lot of his disciples about everything he knows.
Is it unfair to put K flying off on his own student section on Knight. Or is it familiar?
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The Bob Knight that we all knew and had very definitive opinions on was not there Saturday. I don't think I'm out of line in saying that Bob Knight would have sent any overture to be in Assembly Hall right back into whoever made the offer's throat.
...and that made Saturday less cathartic and more a sad final chapter for Bobby Knight and IU. It sure wasn't Muhammad Ali lighting the Olympic torch for the '96 Olympics.
...and that made Saturday less cathartic and more a sad final chapter for Bobby Knight and IU. It sure wasn't Muhammad Ali lighting the Olympic torch for the '96 Olympics.
Did anyone here read the Playboy interview I posted? I'm telling you, it is MINDBLOWINGLY insane... the best bit of Knight I've ever seen.
I remember reading it in college. I think I read it like 17 times since those were the days of Playboys being what you read in the bathroom.
I'll have to check it out again because I completely forgot about it but I have a feeling that everything I know about Knight today is what comes from that article of 20 years ago.
I read it when it came out too... at one point Knight is literally in the front seat of the car trying to attack the reporter in the back seat and take his tape recorder away... it's just mind blowing. But VERY Knight... crass and dickhead and aggressive and abusive, but also at times so charming and insightful and thoughtful.
Playboy and Maxim were a staple of every 18-23 year old's bathroom circa 1995-2005. The guys that didn't have them were usually Mary's.Wait,you guys read playboy articles.
Bunch of olds ITT. Surprised they know how to use a ****ing computer or cell phone.
Internet porn is a hell of a motivator. the first things I looked up on the internet, I'm still ashamed of.
What would happen today if at the end of a game, a coach slaps the winning coach on the back of the head?
There were a lot of coaches that were abusive towards players back in the day, you just didn't hear about it. Knight was on tilt away from the court. Football was a lot worse than basketball lol
There were a lot of coaches that were abusive towards players back in the day, you just didn't hear about it. Knight was on tilt away from the court. Football was a lot worse than basketball lol
I remember seeing that issue . . . but I never read any of it. Too busy blistering it.
Sorry, I’m still used to just looking at the pictures whenever it came to playboy. Don’t tell me that after 42 years on this earth, I’ve finally found the 1 guy that really did read it for the article’s?
Always, ALWAYS the first thing you would do is look at the pictures. But then you'd have an 80 page magazine laying around for 30 days so what else were you supposed to do with it? Playboy had some really good articles and interviews back in the day. The people they talked to were a real who's who of guy related entertainment. Athletes, coaches, sports announcers, action movie stars, etc.
In the 1970's - 1980's, yeah I could see people buying Playboy just for the nude pictures. Porn was hard to come by without being a creep so Playboy in the mail made perfect sense. By the late 1990's and into the 2000's, if you were buying Playboy just for the nudity then YOU were the creep. By that time porn was already easy to come by so if you were all the way down to including Playboy into your collection you had some serious issues.
I had some serious issues.
My first PO box was a town away, just so I could get porn delivered and it not come to my mom's house. That poor old postal lady. A lot of the mags would come in black wrapped plastic sheets, but the mag would slip up and down and you could clearly see what they were.
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