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Mischaracterized? It was a direct quote. He may have not have meant it but he said it. Same may be said about the wishing of IU admin being dead. I doubt he truly hopes one gets run over by a bus today, but he has always decried his disdain for the media but always went out of his way to be the center of attention ( the funny face clip, the bull whip, the rape statement, the burry me upsidedown clip, the chair toss). I always found it interesting that he immediately became part of the media once he quit coaching. He did great things for IU basketball, but he could very easily have been so much greater if he had an ounce of self control.

Several players have begged him to come back, be at reunions, etc. Who does he think he is affecting by not showing up? Everyone involved in his dismissal is gone or as he prefers, dead. Unless you wish people dead, think rape should be enjoyed, he is not just saying things people think. He is not just normal unfiltered honesty, he is abnormal, vindictive, petty and never wrong unfiltered honesty. Again, all it is done is make me respect him infinitely less and in my honest, I think the pain he is experiencing from his self induced absence is well deserved. C'est la vie

It's pretty simple. Knights an azzhole. Great coach ,bad person, period. People point to his charity work or the fact he does things for past players but that doesn't mitigate the inappropriate, mean-spirited behaviors. Even bad people have friends, have emotions, or do decent things, if not you are Hitler or Kim Jong Un. Plenty of people are charitable without acting out as he does. I was there as a freshman in '87 and for a long time really backed him, but if you step back and take off your IU sweater, would you ever think he is a good guy, or would you send your son to be coached by him? There are plenty of great coaches that are tough and help grow kids to men without the abusiveness of RMK. And his going out of his way to be mean or petty, even to the point of hurting his ex-players just makes him seem a smaller and smaller man.