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From: bch@mcnc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Class Act of the Week
Message-ID: <1145@alvin.mcnc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 12:08:39 EST
Article-I.D.: alvin.1145
Posted: Fri Feb  7 12:08:39 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Feb-86 07:48:25 EST
References: <1103@mcnc.UUCP> <10100008@iuvax.UUCP> <1137@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> <1270@pucc-i>
Reply-To: bch@alvin.UUCP (Byron C. Howes)
Organization: North Carolina Educational Computing Service
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In article <1270@pucc-i> afb@pucc-i (Michael Lewis) writes:
>In article <1137@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP>, bch@mcnc.UUCP writes:
>
>      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. 

No. We're not talking about integrity.  We're talking about concern for
players -- both yours and opposing.  While we're at it, what evidence do
you have which impunes Jim Valvano's integrity?

>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*?

So.  I'm a rabid UNC fan.  Dean Smith doesn't cheat either (or do you
also have secret knowledge which impunes his integrity.)  Degrees are
an issue.  I don't expect that Valvano's percentages are as good as Knight's.
Nor are they as poor as Tarkanian's.

>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.

Again, degree's are not what we're talking about.  Stick to the subject.

(For those who were offended, I meant to cast no aspersions on Coach Knight.
I hold him in very high regard as a coach and as a teacher.  I do mean to
cast aspersions on those people, whether Bobby Knight fans or not, who 
insist on demeaning other coaches and teams without evidence for reasons
having nothing to do with basketball and who refuse to recognize any good
in any but their favorite coach and team.)
-- 

						Byron C. Howes
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