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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef
That's my point, successful coach = free pass. I'm not saying anyone should be fired for any of these particular/individual offenses, but I get tired hearing "graduates players", "won national championships", "players love him" as the basis of determining whether or not these acts were right or wrong.
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I do not consider the issue as a free pass. The media has been talking about this to infinitum. We are even talking about this and I do not recall when other less successful coaches did similar things that we even talked about it. This suggests to me that the media and many people who will never like Knight will always bring things like this to the forefront of all issues that need to be discussed in our society. This is not much different than what happens to Bonds or Sammy Sosa. You cannot get them on what the record shows, so you create a story and start talking about right and wrong, but you have no evidence to nail them to the wall. Just like Bonds, he has never failed a test or never had a smoking gun found directly at his feet, but we have speculated and want to take action based on what we "think" happen. The same thing is with Knight. The player did not have a problem with the action nor did his parents that saw the play live and in the arena. But the self-righteous media (who never played much of anything in most cases on that level) want to start telling all of us what is right and wrong and what should or should not happen.
Let me let the people who never played sports in on a little secret. Stop comparing what would happen in a classroom to what happens in an athletic event. Since I cannot recall that I have ever heard much foul language in a classroom (there might have been a teacher or two, but I do not remember for sure) but I hear foul and abusive language all the time from the participants and fans all the time at sporting events. But instead of getting outraged about this, we get upset at Coach Knight.
Peace