Butch Carter Interview

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For me the Hoosier Hysterics podcast is excellent when they speak with IU past players, and this time they got an extraordinary one.

Butch Carter was a team captain, a true lockdown defender, a multi-year starter on some great IU teams, and a teammate of Isaih, Woody, Whitman, Tolbert, Benson, and many others.

He came from the projects, is next level smart, is a pretty serious guy, and became an outspoken NBA head coach and an extremely wealthy businessman.

He couldn’t tolerate Coach Knight, yet he stayed four years and reveres certain aspects of RMK. He feels shunned by the program yet loves it as deeply as ever.

This is a two hour interview that starts at about the 53 minute 30 second mark, and is incredibly compelling from start to finish.

Enjoy:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6auvfKqsVWm4b62J2olnLu?si=9eVlXnKvTiesqL-uURYecg&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A42MrbSHFT1R9bPzrtXncwB&t=9884

[Kentuckysucks 2,207]

Butch can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

https://www.espn.com/ncb/news/2000/0414/481352.html

 

 

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37 minutes ago, Kentuckysucks said:

Butch can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

https://www.espn.com/ncb/news/2000/0414/481352.html

 

 

That’s what makes this interview so compelling. Butch Carter doesn’t pull any punches and is not a fan of people that let what he believes is misconduct slide.

Butch had his own moral barometer at a very young age. To say that RMK was a genius but was flawed in ways that he couldn’t forget or forgive?

That’s Butch Carter alright.

[WayneFleekHoosier 48,092]

I didn’t know this history well.  I thought the interview was compelling. I didn’t know Butch was Chris’ big brother.  I guess I was rather clueless about this era.  Definitely a smart, confident guy.  Has an edge. Maybe a bit of a know-it-all. Intriguing interview.  In general, I think the hysterics excel in some of these type interviews.  

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56 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

I didn’t know this history well.  I thought the interview was compelling. I didn’t know Butch was Chris’ big brother.  I guess I was rather clueless about this era.  Definitely a smart, confident guy.  Has an edge. Maybe a bit of a know-it-all. Intriguing interview.  In general, I think the hysterics excel in some of these type interviews.  

Because of this interview I am watching this game for the outright B10 championship:

Butch Carter and Woody’s senior night. The crowd was nucking futs like few crowds in Assembly Hall history. The big second half IU comeback was epic.

Butch had a tough game shooting the ball, until he got fouled with IU down 2 and 0:07 left in the game. They tried to ice him, but Butch had been through too much to be nervous. Two of the biggest free throws in IUBB history.

And then with 12 seconds left in overtime and IU up one, Butch Carter goes to the line for a one and one. And he looked pissed that they thought he was a good choice to be fouled with the season on the line. 2-2 again. Cold blooded.

[steubenhoosier 835]

I drove to, of all places, Lubbock, Texas to watch the first round NIT game between IU and Texas Tech in 1979. We won, and went on to win that tournament on a last second shot by Butch Carter over hated rival Purdue. We stormed Showalter Fountain as if we had just won a natty. Butch was revered on campus for the rest of his time at IU because of that one shot