Tuesday, November 14, 2006

A quick break from football


No worries, the break from football will only be momentary. College Basketball has tipped off and that means Bobby Knight is on the floor again. It took just one game before he hit the headlines. Apparently, he lifted a players chin, told him to hold your head up and don't worry about your mistakes. People are making a huge, ridiculous deal about it. Good grief, the player himself and his families are wondering what the big deal is.
Now with that being said, Bobby Knight's past does warrant close scrutiny. You can't expect to not be looked at differently when you have a track record like his. It's like the "bad kid" in class that doesn't understand why he continues to be singled out for misbehavior. If you've built a reputation for it, then people will start watching you more closely.

Personally, I think Bobby Knight is a good basketball coach. I don't condone many of his actions or many of the things he has said. He has provided me with quite a few laughs. Who can forget when he was asked about possibly coaching in the NBA? He responded with "if there was a show about frogs mating on channel 3 and the NBA on channel 4, I would watch channel 3 everytime even if it came in fuzzy." His comments never cease to surprise me, and I love the way he just won't respond to dumb reporter questions.

Here is a compilation of Sportcenters top 10 Bobby Knight soundbites. Pretty funny with lots of bleeeeeeps. My favorite is highlight number two where he makes fun of the "gameface." Coming in a close second is number 3. He loses it on a reporter and then within seconds calmly looks at the camera and states "now back to the game."

Secondly, check Gray's Blog for more on this. The Ohio State/Michigan hype is out of control. Big game, yes. But I heard a hilarious mockery of it on Talk Radio this morning. The ad said "The cure for aids, and the fight against poverty all take a back seat this Saturday, because the biggest event in all of history is going down....Ohio State/Michigan."

Thirdly, If you haven't seen Stranger Than Fiction yet, in my opinion it's a must see. Great Cast and great story. Once you get over the weird plot, it's a cool story with good humor and good acting. Without giving anything away, it makes you realize, if a Divine author is writing my story, then every detail and circumstance in life has beauty and meaning. I have no idea if the writer is a Christian or not, but I think it hints at some great truths about God's sovereignty and man's responsibility. Maybe I'm way off...if so...feel free to disagree.

3 Comments:

At 8:55 PM, Blogger Alex said...

i've been looking for that sportscenter clip for a long time...beautiful

 
At 3:32 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bobby Knight is as close to a perfect coach as one could find in today's society.

-Charles

 
At 9:36 PM, Blogger kurt said...

...lots of people forget that Coach K, one of the greatest coaches ever, is a Knight disciple...

...on the other hand, John Wooden doesn't like Knight, which says a lot...

...I think Knight goes over the line sometimes, but in an age of TO, Vince Carter, and other "me first" players, I'll take a little too much discipline over too litte...

 

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