RIP Neil Reed / University values

csdad
Tue, 07 Aug 2012 08:19:30 +0000

It’s not just about choking one player. Knight is a repeat offender. Probably at least 50 examples of abuse of adolescents cited in that one book alone



…although I would never engage in some of the extremes that Knight did, to say there are “50 examples of abuse” is absurd. Did anyone happen to watch the Olympic segment last Friday on the 1996 gymnastics team? Kerri Strugs was talking about Bela Karolyi, her coach. She said “I didn’t like him, he wasn’t nice…but he wasn’t there to be a father figure or friend, he was my coach & his job was to get the best out of his athletes” The players at IU knew what they were signing up for. Now as grown men, if asked was their experience playing for Knight worth 50 incidents of “abuse”…what do you think they’d say?