The good ole days
I was in South Bend that day watching the game on TV with my dad. I didn't like all those free throws for PU but dad got a kick out of BKs antics.
I sometimes wonder how things would have gone if RMK had left on his terms somewhere around 1994. Maybe even taken the New Mexico offer in '88. He has said he started to sense that the tides were changing and he had stayed at IU too long.
Would it have been one more decade of mediocrity or would we have found another winner without the "curse" of his firing hanging over the program? It's always best to leave on a high note. Very hard to tell when that moment is in real time though.
I was sort of tired with Coach after the chair. Then he won another title and I was immediately back on board!
Absent injuries he would've won another, or two. (And absent the corrupt, IMO, TV Teddy Valentine.)
I was in South Bend that day watching the game on TV with my dad. I didn't like all those free throws for PU but dad got a kick out of BKs antics.
We were in the coach's office after a walk through, waiting on the bus to an away game. A dozen or so of us crowded around a small B&W portable TV. The room erupted when Knight threw the chair, and just like that, there were about 25 people in the room with others trying to get through the door.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
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Yeah, I was at that game. A lot of people applauded but most of us were just standing there in shock. Never believed I’d see something like that in a sporting event.
Hell, if DeVries would just get a technical everyone would erupt and would probably applaud him
If it lit a fire under the team's ass, absolutely.Hell, if DeVries would just get a technical everyone would erupt and would probably applaud him
I could be wrong, but I vaguely recall reading once a long time ago that Knight really didn't get a large number of technicals compared to his peers.
I bet you're right. It's just that Bobby's technicals were often TECHNICALS.If it lit a fire under the team's ass, absolutely.Hell, if DeVries would just get a technical everyone would erupt and would probably applaud him
I could be wrong, but I vaguely recall reading once a long time ago that Knight really didn't get a large number of technicals compared to his peers.
Yeah, I was at that game. A lot of people applauded but most of us were just standing there in shock. Never believed I’d see something like that in a sporting event.
I was there, too, and your description of the crowd matches my recollection. People cheered, but there was a general shock in the crowd that was still there after the game concluded. It was a head shaking moment, to say the least, and what followed over the next few days was equally bewildering. Not a great moment for Knight or IU.
I bet you're right. It's just that Bobby's technicals were often TECHNICALS.If it lit a fire under the team's ass, absolutely.Hell, if DeVries would just get a technical everyone would erupt and would probably applaud him
I could be wrong, but I vaguely recall reading once a long time ago that Knight really didn't get a large number of technicals compared to his peers.
That, and all the non-game stuff amplified it. Puerto Rico, hunting accident, bullwhip, donkey, Connie Chung, at least a dozen interactions with reporters, Neil Reed, the Luke Recker injury triple tech game, the Russian exhibition, the kbury me upside down speech, Lou Henson, and probably a dozen other stories I've forgotten.
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