I've lost a lot of respect for Bob Knight.

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Vercingetorix

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"There is no coach in college sports that’s a better example, in my mind, of what coaching is all about and what it should be and how things should be done than Jimmy Tressel. He has done a great job at Ohio State, not because he’s won a lot of games, but because he has won a lot of games doing things the absolute right way. And I think that he would be at the top of the heap when it came to picking guys that did things the way they were supposed to be done. There isn’t anybody who is better in that regard than Jim Tressel is."

Knight was critical of the “obscure” rule before proclaiming that “God himself” couldn’t know every rule in the NCAA rulebook. As a former college coach, Bob Knight seemed to be striking out at the absurdity of some of the NCAA rules. Knight then went on to say that Tressel shouldn’t even be suspended for the two games and fined the $250,000.
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Absolute garbage from a guy whom I held in high esteem. Disappointing.

Jim Tressel Gets Support from Bob Knight and Rich Rodriguez | WaitingForNextYear
 
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I bought this up in the thread about OSU apologists. Is he saying this because he likes Ohio State, or does he actually believe this?
 
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My thoughts...

I had a bunch of Krystals for lunch and now I have to go take a Bob Knight.
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I believe that Bobby Knight has rationalized a few things that turned out badly.
 
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Well I'm sure Bob Knight isn't losing sleep over the fact you lost respect for him....He's made a career out of pi$$ing people off
 
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BUBear said:
Just questioning the high esteem part.
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Just about every one of Knight's issues has been a temperamental overreaction as part of Knight's general expectation of excellence -- from himself, from his players, from referees, from everybody. Knight has always been a man of uncompromisingly high standards and zero hypocrisy. That's incredibly rare in the modern world of cynicism, halfassedness, rationalization, and buffoonery.

Which, of course, is what makes his comments about Tressel so disappointing and repugnant.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Just about every one of Knight's issues has been a temperamental overreaction as part of Knight's general expectation of excellence -- from himself, from his players, from referees, from everybody. Knight has always been a man of uncompromisingly high standards and zero hypocrisy. That's incredibly rare in the modern world of cynicism, halfassedness, rationalization, and buffoonery.

Which, of course, is what makes his comments about Tressel so disappointing and repugnant.
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Bobby Knight
Bobby Knight, the infantile college basketball legend, is up to his old, tired tricks. The psychotic coach, who was exiled to Texas Tech after being run out of Indiana University, had his wrist slapped this week for a bizarre run-in with Chancellor Dr. David Smith at, of all places, a Lubbock salad bar. Details of Knight's tirade Monday are contained in the below February 2 memo written by Smith, which Texas Tech's general counsel provided in response to an open records law request. The university also released a draft memo to Knight from Gerald Myers, Tech's athletic director, noting that he would be reprimanded and suspended for three games. Anticipating that discipline, the school prepared a draft press release announcing Knight's brief ban. But before the suspension could be announced, Myers apparently changed his mind, pleading with Smith in a February 3 memo that Knight's suspension would be "detrimental to a positive resolution of the issues involved." When Tech's disciplinary action was announced Tuesday afternoon, the suspension had evaporated. Until next time, the enabling continues.
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This incident occurred from Chancellor Smith paying (hey) Knight a compliment. Click on the link to read Chancellor Smith's Open Records Memo...it's classic Bobby.
 
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BUBear said:
Bobby KnightThis incident occurred from Chancellor Smith paying (hey) Knight a compliment. Click on the link to read Chancellor Smith's Open Records Memo...it's classic Bobby.
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I was a bit confused at first because your link went to some jacktastic handwringing article about how awful it is for a coach to grab a kid's chin. Oh the humanity.

Once I scrolled down, though, I found what you were talking about. It was interesting reading until I got to the point where the writer claims that what he said to Knight was this:

What seems to be the problem. I only wanted to commend you and and provide some positive feedback when I am certain most of the time we all seem to hear only the negatives.
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Which is so laughably Not An Actual Sentence That Anyone Would Ever Say To Anyone Else, Out Loud, Verbally that it leaves the reader with the impression that there's no telling what this guy said to set Knight off.

Knight has an awful temper, and he is a bully. No question. To my knowledge he's never significantly injured anybody. I'm pretty sure I don't have to like everything about his character to admire his heretofore uncompromising commitment to principle. Which, unfortunately, he has now significantly compromised.
 
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Knight is from northeast Ohio (Orrville) and has known the Tressel family for a number of years. One wouldn't expect him to go ballistic and trash SV over this.

For what it's worth, Jim Tressel was also the former athletic director at Youngstown State, so the idea that this is something extremely obscure that he couldn't have known about simply doesn't hold water.
 
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Ohio Vol said:
Knight is from northeast Ohio (Orrville) and has known the Tressel family for a number of years. One wouldn't expect him to go ballistic and trash SV over this.

For what it's worth, Jim Tressel was also the former athletic director at Youngstown State, so the idea that this is something extremely obscure that he couldn't have known about simply doesn't hold water.
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I wouldn't expect him to go ballistic and trash a personal friend over it; I'd expect him to shut the hell up and have as little comment about it as possible. Since it's not even his sport, it shouldn't have been that difficult to just say nothing. Instead, he went out of his way to go on record as saying that Tressel is a paragon of coaching virtue and that he shouldn't even have been suspended the two games. Garbage.
 
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regardless of Knight's thoughts on the matter. I still expect the NCAA to hammer Tressel, and vacate wins from last year
 
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Vercingetorix said:
I wouldn't expect him to go ballistic and trash a personal friend over it; I'd expect him to shut the hell up and have as little comment about it as possible. Since it's not even his sport, it shouldn't have been that difficult to just say nothing. Instead, he went out of his way to go on record as saying that Tressel is a paragon of coaching virtue and that he shouldn't even have been suspended the two games. Garbage.
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Eh, he's taking up for a family friend.

I don't agree with what he said, but he seems like the kind of guy that would go to war for a good friend.

He's just doing what he does.
 
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