Knight hired as analyst by ESPN for NCAA Tournament

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anybody who questions Knight's away from the court demeanor may want to speak to Landon Turner as to what type of man Coach Knight is.
 
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doozer said:
hopefully this just a weak attempt at a joke and not what you actually believe. you could not be more wrong if it is.
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Please explain exactly what I'm wrong about.. I must assume you are a close personal friend of Bobby Knight. I will admit I'm not and can only judge what he does by what is reported ad nauseum in the media for years.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
actually, no. just speaking from experience.
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I know you have a working relationship with the man from previous conversations, thus the funny smiley. I would also support people I know better than what the public profile presented tends to reveal. That being said the profile he has presented to the public over the past 15 or so years makes me tend to not be so positive about the man. Maybe I should've listened to my mom when she told me "If you don't have anything nice to say about someone, don't say anything at all"...
 
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doozer said:
yeah, i know. i have no reason to think that my parents would lie to me about it.

my great aunt and uncle are donors and my parents alumni to IU, in addition to other friends and family that went there. they would always take me with them to alumni/donor functions. it's not hard to see why IU people were so loyal to him despite his public persona.
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doozer said:
anybody who questions Knight's away from the court demeanor may want to speak to Landon Turner as to what type of man Coach Knight is.
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here's two examples.

like i've said already, i've met Knight several times and not once did i ever see him act like the Knight on TV. the saying don't judge a book by its cover applies here.
 
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doozer said:
here's two examples.

like i've said already, i've met Knight several times and not once did i ever see him act like the Knight on TV. the saying don't judge a book by its cover applies here.
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That's fine and I understand your loyalty. But maybe Knight should've realized that a lot of the public has no other way to judge him except by his public personna that he engineered himself...
 
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hmanvolfan said:
I know you have a working relationship with the man from previous conversations, thus the funny smiley. I would also support people I know better than what the public profile presented tends to reveal. That being said the profile he has presented to the public over the past 15 or so years makes me tend to not be so positive about the man. Maybe I should've listened to my mom when she told me "If you don't have anything nice to say about someone, don't say anything at all"...
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I understand his public persona and can't argue with someone who takes it at face value.

All I can really tell you is that he is surprisingly different from the guy the media presents. He is a very thoughtful guy and is genuinely concerned for those around him, no two ways about it. The self-centered ogre on TV is a long way from the true man. Again, I understand where the impressions come from and RMK does little to dispel those ideas. I think he's comfortable in his own skin and with the enormous number of close friends he has made over the years.

I'm not here to minimize the well publicized bad boy incidents. I'm here to say that 3 or 4 incidents have been used to villify a man who has done more good than most will ever recognize, because he's not going to spend his time blowing his own horn. I truly don't think he wants anyone blowing that horn.
 
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hmanvolfan said:
That's fine and I understand your loyalty. But maybe Knight should've realized that a lot of the public has no other way to judge him except by his public personna that he engineered himself...
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thing is, Knight doesn't care what his public persona is. he knows his way and his way only. so i guess as a supporter we should just feel the same way, but often times he is displayed as a monster by the people he mocks.

Knight didn't make it as far as he did because he could act like an idiot sometimes; he made it because he is an intelligent person, motivator, and basketball coach.

there's so much more to him than what you see on TV is all i'm trying to say.
 
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crazyguy said:
:huh:
I completely disagree, for me-outside of tennessee football, the masters is tops..."54 minutes of coverage per hour..."
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I know this makes me seem unpatriotic, but for me watching the British Open and Wimbledon top everything except Tennessee football.
 
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ok I lied. The Olympics top both The British Open and the Masters. But counting both summer and winter, that's only every other year. I considered entering therapy for how addicted i was to women's curling two years ago.
 
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Olympics are probably the best. especially swimming and downhill skiing/snowboarding.

i'll watch any womens sport if the participants are hot.
 
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these women curlers weren't that attractive. Of course, I had just moved to Hampton Roads to start grad school classes which were at night and I was still searching for a job. I had nothing else to do when I woke up but watch women's curling. For whatever reason the men's curling they would show in the evenings wasn't that exciting.
 
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