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WASHINGTON -- I am rather sorry that Myles Brand has passed on to his reward. Brand is the fellow who, as president of Indiana University, gained enormous respect among liberals for ruining the basketball program of that basketball-loving university in that basketball-loving state. He fired basketball coach Bob Knight, one of the sport's greatest coaches, for a minor altercation that was an obvious setup. Knight had donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the institution and overseen an athletic program that insisted on academic seriousness from its players, as well as competitiveness. Under Knight, IU won three NCAA championships and...
The Politically Correct and Altercationists Anonymous
Maybe two incidents will show how different Knight really is. In 1987, Indiana won the championship on a last second shot. In the aftermath of the victory, when everyone else was celebrating you can see Bobby Knight berating an official. Under the circumstances that's incredible!
Years later, Steve Alford, who played for Bobby Knight became the coach at Iowa, while Bobby Knight was still coach at Indiana. At some point in this period, Knight viciously denigrated Alford in the press. Amazing, considering that...