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Freeze warnings are now out way, way south of the border.
Bob Knight has apologized.
ESPN analyst Bob Knight apologized Tuesday after making erroneous statements over the weekend about the academic record of Kentucky’s basketball team.
At a speaking engagement in Indiana on Saturday, Knight criticized the policy allowing players to go to the NBA after one season and incorrectly said that during the 2009-10 season, the starters on Kentucky’s NCAA tournament team did not attend class during the spring semester.
“My overall point is that ‘one and dones’ are not healthy for college basketball,” Knight said. “I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.”
not really an apology to the issue. ESPN set it up and let Knight apologize for making it personal.
It’ll let it blow over but it is not an apology for the offense
Bobby Knight has and will always have it out for UK and especially for Coach Cal! Too bad Knight really fell off the deep end in his coaching career and people only remember him for thrown chairs and choking his own players…
The Sporting News reported that Bobby Knight and Cawood Ledford had a disagreement. Hadn’t heard about that one.
Didn’t really expect any apology, so a half-hearted one is better than nothing I suppose.
He does need someone to teach him the term “slander” and also when to “shut the heck up”.
UK should respond as thus:
We at UK appreciate Bobby Knight recognizing that he should not have made this personal. But it seems that ESPN failed to print the part of the apology for the blatantly erroneous statements made toward our players.
What do any of us expect out of bobby knight? When questioned about Coach Tressel at OSU, he stated that “Jimmy” represented everything that is good and right about ncaa athletics. When he was informed that “Jimmy” had already come clean about the multiple lies he had told, bobby said “well I am not completely conversant in the topic.” If that is the case, why is he talking about it? He is a blow hard, and one of the worst case examples of what is the “old boy” network. I personally think that is employment at ESPN shows the network’s own bias, and the fact that they are not true representatives of sports in America as they claim. How he is in the HOF is beyond me. Anyone who throws a chair while a kid is shooting free throws should have been fired, he wasn’t, should have been banned from all ncaa activity, he wasn’t, and dang sure not let in the HOF!!! He is even more upset that his boy, Pat, lost his job at TX Tech, nad they hired an ex-UK coach to get the program back to a winning one.
Go CATS!!!!!!
I think the UK President and Athletic Director should approach the people who make the decisions for the SEC as far as TV contracts are concerned and inform them that ESPN is not welcome to be at any of their games either at home or away for SEC games. Neither have the privilege to show highlights of any of those games untl they make Knight to personally apoligize to those players and the school for false accusations. I would also ask ESPN to ask him for his resignation.
That’s a BS apology. He only “apologized” for making it personal again Kentucky. Nowhere in his statement does he admit that his statement about last year’s UK starters not attending class in the spring semester was false. Why even bother with apologizing?
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