Just another reason Bob Knight is a tool!

[lroberts]

It all comes down to what your standards are I guess. I have yet to see anyone defend him or make excuses for him except IU fans. I guess they are blinded by those three rings. It reminds me of older UK fans that try and convince me that Rupp wasn't a racist, despite the mountain of evidence to the contrary.

As far as Wikipedia's reliability, it is more accurate than most anything that is put on the baord, particularly the Bob Knight page that has sources cited for the gun incident in Texas.

lroberts do you realize what your logic sounds like? "He is just a poor misunderstood person and really means well. He didn't mean to shoot his buddy, it was his buddy's fault." I guess it was his buddies fault for Knight not purchasing a hunting license.

I do understand my logic. Knight has done a lot of good things, and mixed in are some not so good (and even just plain dumb) things. The good FAR outweigh the bad IMO. The media does a great job of portraying the bad, but omitting the good. Is some of that brought on by Knight, yes. As far as the shooting accident, yes it was the other hunters fault. Could it have been avoided.....yes.....probably by both sides. The other hunter admitted that he broke line, what do you not get about that? If you read my post carefully you would have noticed that I said he should have had a license...there is no excuse for that and I didn't make one.

[kyfanatic]

I do understand my logic. Knight has done a lot of good things, and mixed in are some not so good (and even just plain dumb) things. The good FAR outweigh the bad IMO. The media does a great job of portraying the bad, but omitting the good. Is some of that brought on by Knight, yes. As far as the shooting accident, yes it was the other hunters fault. Could it have been avoided.....yes.....probably by both sides. The other hunter admitted that he broke line, what do you not get about that? If you read my post carefully you would have noticed that I said he should have had a license...there is no excuse for that and I didn't make one.

Well then explain how he "accidentally " shot a woman in her yard at a dove shoot in Texas in a field next to a subdivision,this after the woman's husband yelled at Knight twice to tell him to watch where he was shooting only to be cussed out by the IU hero?
Why did IU fire Knight in the 1st place if he was so wonderful? So,do you agree that if Rape is inevitable that you should lay there and enjoy it? Bobby Knight was,is,and always will be a Walking,Talking Rectum.

[jcb]

As far as the shooting accident, yes it was the other hunters fault. Could it have been avoided.....yes.....probably by both sides. The other hunter admitted that he broke line, what do you not get about that?

I "get" that totally. Take off your crimson-colored glasses, and maybe you'll "get" the fact that if another hunter breaks line on a bird hunt, you don't shoot in that direction; you tell the guy to get back in line. It's the most basic, fundamental law of gun safety; know what is in your line of fire. Responsible hunters hunt all their lives and never come close to breaking it.

There is no excuse for shooting someone else on a bird hunt. You're the one with the gun, you decide what is a safe shot and what is not. An unsafe shot does not become a safe shot because someone else "broke line".

[lroberts]

"Could it have been avoided.....yes.....probably by both sides."

Did you not see that I said this??? It was an accident....accidents do happen in bird hunting...especially when someone doesn't do what they are supposed to and expected to do. Should Knight have seen him make the mistake, maybe, I wasn't there and neither were you. All I know is that the guy took responsibility. My opinion on this has nothing to do with being an "IU" guy BTW.....I am much more level-headed than that!

[jcb]

"Could it have been avoided.....yes.....probably by both sides."

Did you not see that I said this??? It was an accident....accidents do happen in bird hunting...especially when someone doesn't do what they are supposed to and expected to do. Should Knight have seen him make the mistake, maybe, I wasn't there and neither were you. All I know is that the guy took responsibility. My opinion on this has nothing to do with being an "IU" guy BTW.....I am much more level-headed than that!

I did see that. I also saw this in the previous sentence, which renders "could have been avoided by both sides" meaningless:

As far as the shooting accident, yes it was the other hunters fault.