Comments on: Lute Olson Stepping Down At Arizona[UPDATED]

By: JBowling

JBowling — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:31:09 +0000

Thanks Wilf. I can relate to HeelYeah in the fact that holy water surely would make K melt.

By: Wilf

Wilf — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:16:05 +0000

Absolutely agree with JB and especially HeelYeah.

By: Tar Heel Fan

Tar Heel Fan — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:38:35 +0000

Ginyard already had surgery. He was at media day this past Fridayin uniform but using crutches and the foot was heavily wrapped. My estimate from the day of surgery put eight weeks at around December 3rd.

By: HeelYeah

HeelYeah — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:32:13 +0000

I see Knight as a great coach and teacher who has a fatal flaw. He is certainly his own worst enemy, and an idiot sometimes. However, I think that makes him human. Coach K is not human, but evil incarnate.

I like to apply the fishing and beer standard here, where I could see myself fishing and having a beer with Bobby Knight (at least on one of his good days). I could see myself pouring holy water water on Coach K and watching him melt, but that’s about it.

By: JBowling

JBowling — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:02:43 +0000

I don’t have a problem with Knight. He is what he is and kids still chose to attend college there as opposed to going elsewhere. My HS gym teacher was like that, and he got the best production out of me. It just matters whether you are disciplined or not enough to handle it. Some of these kids are pansies too, and need kicks in the butt. I have had my moments where that was the case, and the same goes for some other kids I went to school with. I am grateful that we have a coach who knows how to get the best out of kids, has a demeanor at times like Knight (but only when necessary), yet is humble most of the time & has a good sense of humor to boot. What can I say. UNC is a big tent college & we have enough of everything to satisfy most kids looking to bring their sports abilities to college.

By: keithunc

keithunc — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:04:48 +0000

Also has Ginyard already had his surgery? If so the eight week rehab started when?

By: keithunc

keithunc — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:23:41 +0000

From what I can tell about the Coaching fraternity is the Apple does not fall far from the tree. Knight and Krachfricfcski are one in the same Mean, arrogant B-holes while Dean and Roy are almost one in the same as well, the proverbial light of our life’s.

By: Tar Heel Fan

Tar Heel Fan — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:04:37 +0000

You are right. Knight just strikes you as old school and temper prone. K seems diabolical in a way, has the whole business/leadership crap going on so a lot of the good stuff Dick Vital et.al fall in love with is just a facade for the machinations underneath.

By: C. Michael

C. Michael — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:00:24 +0000

True… but to me there seems to be a big difference their personalities. Knight has a bad temper problem, but with K, there seems to be something more sinister and subversive. It could also be that I am only capable of viewing K with my Carolina Blue glasses on, and if he were the coach at a non-rival school, I might have no issue with him at all.

By: Tar Heel Fan

Tar Heel Fan — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:47:08 +0000

“but at the same time, he ran a clean program and graduated his players”

So does Coach K…