Bob Knight appears to be slipping

Can we go back to knight slipping into permanent oblivion?

 

Well, this happened.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/SPORT/02/22/connecticut.basketball.penalty/index.html

As someone who has lived in CT for most of his life, I can assure you that Storrs is not a selling point. It's in the middle of farm country. It's gotten better, mostly bc the school has become better bc it attracts better students than it did when I was graduating from high school -- and that's bc of the success of the men's and women's basketball programs.

But still, it's not a place I'd have ever wanted to go to college. I like cities.

 

I always thought he got players because they liked how he chewed gum on the sideline with his mouth wide open like some kinda' Goddamned cow.

 

Storrs has got to be the hardest place to get to that is still somehow considered to be within the Acela Corridor. Inconvenient from Boston, Providence and even Hartford.

 

Still just 15 minutes from Tahoe, though.

 

Yup, 35 minutes east of Hartford, 20 minutes from I-84. Just brutally remote for the main hub of a state school. But hey, it's geographically central or some such shit...

 

There's doubtless some tale of 19th century political skulduggery that explains where UConn was located instead of somewhere along the Connecticut River.

 

Late in 1880, brothers Charles and Augustus Storrs donated land and money to start an agricultural school in Connecticut. More than 130 years later, the University of Connecticut has become one of the top 20 public universities in the nation.

History | University of Connecticut

 

Lots of those land grant schools aren’t conveniently located.

Cornell. Penn State. UMass Amherst. The University of New Hampshire. Purdue. Virginia Tech. Etc.

 

Pullman might be the leader in the clubhouse.

 

Purdue is actually right off of I65, halfway between Indianapolis and Chicago.

 

And Storrs is midway between New York and Boston. When you think public research institutions, you don’t think of West Lafayette, Ind.