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From: afb@pucc-i (Michael Lewis)
Newsgroups: net.sport.hoops
Subject: Re: Class Act of the Week
Message-ID: <1270@pucc-i>
Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 09:53:08 EST
Article-I.D.: pucc-i.1270
Posted: Tue Feb  4 09:53:08 1986
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References: <1103@mcnc.UUCP> <10100008@iuvax.UUCP> <1137@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP>
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Summary: comments on Knight

In article <1137@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP>, bch@mcnc.UUCP writes:
> >I am sure that is why he is playing a convict on a college basketball
> >team.  If you think he is doing it for Washburn's sake and not W's you
> >live in the wrong century.
> 
> First, Washburn has paid his debt to society and is not, therefore, a
> convict in the reasonable sense of the word.  Second, if Valvano put
> wins entirely first, he would have reinstated Washburn last year. 
> Finally, at the risk of taking a cheap shot (or at least cheaper
> than yours) it is difficult to see how anyone from Bobby Knight land
> has any business complaining about any other coaches behavior.  

      I'm from "Bobby Knight Land", and I'd like to say that Bob Knight has
more *integrity* (which is what we're talking about) in his left big toe than
Valvano will ever have.  By the way, I'm from Purdue, where the coach (Gene
Keady) also doesn't cheat and also wins a lot of games.  I wonder what 
percentage of Valvano's players over the years have *gotten degrees*?
Knight may smash a few offending chairs and punch a few rude Puerto Rican 
cops, but nobody plays ball at IU if they can't get a degree there.  The
same holds true at Purdue.

     The recent fantastic performances by Michigan State's Scott Skiles have
again caused me to have contempt for the NCAA's priorities.  I can't understand
why a guy that has *multiple* arrests and convictions (I believe the number is
two or three, no more) for Driving While Intoxicated and Posession of Marijuana
and Cocaine in "small amounts" is allowed to play, but Steve Alford has to be
suspended for the Kentucky game for appearing in a calendar for a charity.

     **RULES ARE RULES**

     Michael Lewis @ Purdue University