Coach Knight' s Take on Calapari

**Tedcyclone** · 12-18-2009, 11:32 AM

to answer mr knight's question...

Calipari still coaches b/c college sports are the most corrupt form of business in the world besides the government. If you bring in cash you can get away with anything

**jbhtexas** · 12-18-2009, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by bostinelosd

The sad thing is that..can anybody do anything about it?

The U.S. Congress has held hearings in the past regarding the non-profit status of the NCAA. Somehow, the NCAA always manages to escape with its non-profit designation intact.

**Clark** · 12-18-2009, 12:44 PM

Originally Posted by jbhtexas

The U.S. Congress has held hearings in the past regarding the non-profit status of the NCAA. Somehow, the NCAA always manages to escape with its non-profit designation intact.

That's rich. The most corrupt organization in America (Congress) holding hearings on the second most corupt organization (NCAA). I think the odds of money being exchanged is about 99.99%

**LeSchmick** · 12-18-2009, 12:48 PM

Knight criticizes Calipari - CBK News - FOX Sports on MSN

Interesting read.

**LeSchmick** · 12-18-2009, 12:49 PM

**** just saw the other thread. My bad

Mods can you merge?

**CyBelieve** · 12-18-2009, 01:08 PM

As long as coach's can stay one step ahead of punishment with the NCAA they will continue to cheat. Sanctions almost never follow a coach (Ron Sampson, Lou Holts, etc). They put the school on probation but if the coach who caused the problem is somewhere else, they don't get in any trouble. I would love to see the punishmment go to the violator where ever they are. If they are at a new school, they serve the punishment and too bad for the other school.

In my opinion, the violators would either stop or quickly be out of work!

**PGreen ISU '92** · 12-18-2009, 02:07 PM

Great article! Prominent college basketball coaches and sports talk personalities need to get vocal about Calapari and about the dark side of Men's College Basketball in general. I saw Calapari interviewed on PTI a couple of weeks ago and I was really hoping Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon would call him out. Instead, they totally kissed his butt. It was absolutely disgusting. ESPN has the power to clean-up college athletics with some hard hitting investigative reporting; however, they seem all too eager to sit back, glorify the cheaters, and profit off of the dirty money.

**CYKOFAN** · 12-18-2009, 02:08 PM

I lost a lot of respect for Knight when he tried to or threatened to sue Indiana for getting canned when anybody else would have been canned several incidents earlier. And even though he was probably trying to set his kid up for the job, he basically quit on his T-Tech team halfway thru the season, so to me he's pretty much a hypocrite.

**JP4CY** · 12-18-2009, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by CYKOFAN

I lost a lot of respect for Knight when he tried to or threatened to sue Indiana for getting canned when anybody else would have been canned several incidents earlier. And even though he was probably trying to set his kid up for the job, he basically quit on his T-Tech team halfway thru the season, so to me he's pretty much a hypocrite.

+1 Because it doesn't look like it was for medical or retirement reasons. Now he is on ESPN all time.

**PGreen ISU '92** · 12-18-2009, 02:15 PM

Say what you want to about Knight but Calipari and his type are the ultimate scum!

**copenhagen** · 12-18-2009, 02:25 PM

vagabond allowed to coach? Atleast Indiana got rid of Sampson. Those two are quite a pair. I hate to see NCAA bb and fb trying to be turned into the NBA and NFL.

**Torks Pub** · 12-18-2009, 02:42 PM

Originally Posted by CyBelieve

As long as coach's can stay one step ahead of punishment with the NCAA they will continue to cheat. Sanctions almost never follow a coach (Ron Sampson, Lou Holts, etc). They put the school on probation but if the coach who caused the problem is somewhere else, they don't get in any trouble. I would love to see the punishmment go to the violator where ever they are. If they are at a new school, they serve the punishment and too bad for the other school.

In my opinion, the violators would either stop or quickly be out of work!

Ron Sampson? He's a good man here in Ankeny. I think you mean Kelvin.

**Clark** · 12-18-2009, 03:38 PM

Originally Posted by CYKOFAN

I lost a lot of respect for Knight when he tried to or threatened to sue Indiana for getting canned when anybody else would have been canned several incidents earlier. And even though he was probably trying to set his kid up for the job, he basically quit on his T-Tech team halfway thru the season, so to me he's pretty much a hypocrite.

How does that make him a hypocrite? If he was calling out someone for grabbing a player, that would make him a hypocrite.

By ALL accounts Knight ran a very clean program and was one of the best at getting his kids to graduate.

**oldman** · 12-18-2009, 04:00 PM

Originally Posted by iccyfan

No doubt Knight has a great basketball mind but he could never control himself and was always so arrogant. Throwing the chair across the court, kicking Pat Knight as he sat on the bench, strangling Neil Reid... it's difficult for me to see him speaking of integrity when he showed so little respect to others...

A guy should be able to kick his own kid.

**CYKOFAN** · 12-18-2009, 04:50 PM

Knight always tries to come accross like a tough guy and a "never quit" kind of guy. Then when he gets canned by Indiana for several episodes of acting like a spoiled 2 year old he cries about suing Indiana. Sounds more like something a sissy would do. Then as I said earlier he quit on his T-Tech team. Sounds like a hypocrite to me.