RIP Neil Reed / University values

Bogney
Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:47:07 +0000

Re no. 21: I think it would depend on the player and how good the team was when that player played. Players might put up with more for a great team if they buy in to the notion that such aggression is necessary. Knight had a lot of very good teams. However, not every championship coach is as harsh as Knight was, so his methods do not appear to have been necessary, they were just his way. Great players stopped coming to IU and IU stopped winning as much because of Knight’s reputation as a bully. What do you think his players would say about his handling of the Reed transfer and portraying Reed as a liar? I would hope they would be shocked and embarrassed that Coach Knight would stoop so low to protect himself from his own folly.