Everyone - and I mean - EVERYONE - should watch this.
This is part of the origin story of WHY Kentucky fans should forever save the most bitter acrimony, sports hatred, pure disgust and loathing for Indiana University. To this day, Indiana fans continue to emulate and reflect the kind of upbringing they had with Knight.
"Bobby Knight, showing the true coach he is, refuses to shake the hand of Joe Hall, turns, walks into the dressing room...."
and Cawood, with his now FAMOUS quip :
"well I am sure coach Joe Hall could care less, or IF YOU'LL PARDON ... GIVE A DAMN."
No other moment could encapsulate that shame and pathetic excuse for behavior more than that for coach Knight and Indiana fans everywhere, for all time. And Cawood's words are all we need to point to to show the world Kentucky stands tall.
I actually saw my very first game of my entire life at Bloomington the year before. The experience scarred me and left me bitter towards all things Indiana ever since. They have given me no reason to change. And I went with a family that was predominantly Hoosier fans living in and around Corydon and in New Albany. Dad, my brother Bob and myself were the ONLY Kentucky fans in the family (on his side). Without my Aunt Naomi and Uncle Cleffie wearing IU red, and being with a host of other Hoosier family to attend those games, I seriously wonder what would have happened to us. As it stood, I was still scared and appalled at the kind of hatred shown.
Raw, naked, unreasoning, unreasonable, and without question, the worst place I have ever seen games at.
This is the era in which I was born and brought into Kentucky basketball. I think back as some of my most earliest vivid memories of life these very games. Where I was, or if I was listening to Cawood (often, as most of us, were listening to him ... )
I go back every few years and watch my video library of Kentucky basketball. This game was Hall's greatest victory, he said so. That's good enough for me.
I'm not going to be like Bobby Knight extending his middle finger and saying **** YOU to Coach Hall.
After the game, an Indiana administrator asked Hall to make peace and walk off the court with Knight as a symbolic gesture.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/16...hen-joe-b-hall-and-bob-knight-became-enemies/
“I sure will,” Hall remembers saying. “We’ll walk right over there behind those stands, where I will kick his ****ing ass.”
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/16...hen-joe-b-hall-and-bob-knight-became-enemies/
About this time, Knight approached with a middle finger pointed skyward.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/16...hen-joe-b-hall-and-bob-knight-became-enemies/
“**** you,” Hall remembers him saying. “Then he turned and ran off. That was just the end, totally, of our friendship. I said, ‘I’m through with him.’ ”
This is why we should FOREVER be through with them. But this series renews next year. Let them PLEASE hire Will Wade and step onto the court with Kentucky for that game. That's my personal preference if we have to play them again. Just hire Will Wade. He epitomizes that STRONG ASS Indiana tradition.
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Go Big Blue !
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