RIP Bobby Knight

[HanSenSE]

Knowing what I know of Indiana's media scene, Knight's death (6:15 p.m.) would have severely tested, if not broken, the press schedule for some pretty big papers around the state. Certainly for many of the sports sections.

It's a stop-the-presses moment if there ever was one, but who knows whether anyone has the power to make that call anymore?

Something I missed when my last paper went to design hubs, being able to get late-breaking news in. I've told the story before of the night of Matt Cain's perfect game. I had my one chance at an interview with a local Olympian that might. And, since the game was near his home, let the other half of the department work from home covering an all-star softball game. Laid out 70 percent of the front before I went to the interview because what could happen, right? Took an all-nighter (it was a pm), but redid the page on the fly to give Cain's game the proper play. All I could think when we went to the hub is we'd have a 10-inch story with a mug - maybe.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

On the day Jim Valvano died, I called Parkhill up for his reaction. He was who he was ... straight-forward, insightful and respectful.
With all the college basketball jerks I've dealt with over the years, never have forgotten Parkhill was the opposite.

Should have come to NCSU's campus the day it occurred. We were out in a courtyard between a bunch of dorms. Could have heard a pin drop. And none of us were students when Valvano was working the bench.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Before YouTube, the Bob Knight Indiana golf show profanity outtakes video was a VHS bootleg that probably 10,000 people had yet thought no one else did. First time I saw it was in Florida long ago, our bureau editor was from Illinois and had a copy.

The co-host was IU's golf coach, as mild-mannered a guy as you'd ever find. In one of the outtakes Knight says something like "Sam, can I ever get out of the forkin' bunker?" and Sam says "fork no you can't." That cracked Knight up pretty good.

NSFW, obviously. Also, keep in mind that Knight died on All Saints' Day.

 

[YMCA B-Baller]

Knight's health has not been good for some time. Every Indiana outlet of any size which purports to covey IU should have had something in the can.

I know of at least two that did for sure.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Bob Knight was my dad

 

[swingline]

Bob Knight was my dad

That was really good.

 

[Starman]

Bob Knight was my dad

It was really good, and it could also be applied to the question of why do some people like Fatfork: Nobudduh tellz him whut ta dew. He duz what he wantz and nobudduh kin dew shirt about it.

 

[Starman]

That's fine and I'm a sneering punk too and nobody likes a little idiot contrarism and reflexive oppositional defiant disorder more than me, but you know what? In a functioning society, you can't just do whatever the fork you want, you have to follow rules and laws and shirt.
And if anybody's got to follow rules, if average schmucks like you and I have to follow rules, then silver spoon rich forks like Fatfork and big time basketball coaches like Bobby Knight should follow the rules too.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

It was really good, and it could also be applied to the question of why do some people like Fatfork: Nobudduh tellz him whut ta dew. He duz what he wantz and nobudduh kin dew shirt about it.

I thought he did a nice job of addressing that with the very last sentence. And yes, until November 2016, we all understood what it took to be part of a functioning society. Now 60-some million people don't want to do that anymore.