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Saturday, March 23, 2002
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At this point perhaps I should say a few words about Bob Knight. Clearly a man people love to hate, I just can't help but respect him. It's not just the winning thing. He's a basketball genius, that is for sure. But he has done and said some terrible things. The most famous are the chair-throwing incedent (I was at IU at the time and I may have even been at that game, I just can't remember), and the more recent choking incedent. He's also said some really stupid things on the radio and on television during interviews.
What's to like?
What I can't help respect is the fact that he runs such a clean program. He will drop players from the team if they are doing drugs or even if they just aren't going to class. He regularly graduated the highest percentage of players of any basketball coach in the Big Ten. He demanded that his players attend classes. His basketball program was never in trouble for cheating or for his players' cheating.
So you can say a lot of bad things about Bob Knight. But you can say some good things as well.
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In case you didn't know, I'm a big IU fan. Basketball fan, that is. I follow their football team as well. But it's basketball I love. When I first entered IU in 1981 (shouldn't say the year?) I didn't even know they had a basketball team. My dad knew. He's a big sports fan. But I didn't. About my junior year I met a guy who was really in to it and he conned me into getting season tickets. I went to almost every home game. And I was hooked. Then during the 1986-1987 season, while I was in Japan, they played very well. They only lost 4 games. And they went on to win the NCAA tournament. I remember listening to the game on a short-wave radio in Nagoya.
But the team hasn't done so well since then. And perhaps this is a good time to point out that their coach was Bob Knight. Knight has done some really stupid things during his time as coach at IU. And I think he also slowly lost interest in what he was doing. He was really just mad all the time. He still won a lot of games, of course. Over twenty almost every year. But he'd invariably lose the first game of the NCAA tournament.
Two years ago IU finally got fed up with Knight and got rid of him. It may have been the best thing to happen to him. He is now coaching at Texas Tech and in one year he has them playing better than they've ever played. They won over twenty games this year (they had a 9-19 record last year) and just about got to the Big-12 tournament's final game. But again he couldn't get them past the first game of the NCAA tournament. It's like a curse.
I had been hoping that IU would play badly this year. To show the people who wanted to get rid of Knight that there would never be good basketball at IU again. Pretty petty of me, right?
Now IU is in the final four of the tournament. They just beat Kent State, a very good team,
to get there. There's something interesting about that, as well. Kent State is in the Mid-American Conference, which includes my dad's school, Miami University. Usually only one team gets to go to the tournament from the Mid-American Conference. In comparison, the Big Ten (IU's conference) usually sends five teams. Frequently Miami University, my dad's team, is the team from the Mid-American Conference that get's to go. And they always lose in the first game. This year's Kent State is really good. Probably the best team the Mid-American Conference has ever sent to the NCAA tournament. And it showed in their game against IU. Even though they were down as much as 20 points for most of the game there was always the sense that they could come back.
But IU beat them and is now headed to the Final Four for a game against Oklahoma. Oklahoma is in the Big-Twelve conference. That's Texas Tech's conference, by the way. Texas Tech beat Oklahoma 92-79 in January.
I love college basketball.
8:36:30 PM #
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Indiana 81
Kent State 69
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I'm blogging from Comp USA. Perhaps they are feeling the pressure from the Apple Store. I can get online there. And now here as well.
4:18:15 PM #
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This is a test post from my new Radio Poster layout. I've decided to try the window-as-weblog approach. So I've got a post pane, a preview pane, and a weblog pane. I can write my post, preview it, set my weblog information, and post. I've also got a place for a glossary, which I think is the key to this product.
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I'm having a dickens of a time designing Radio Poster. I just can't quite seem to get it to all hang together. First is the problem of what role the document window should assume. Should it be thought of as the rought draft of one post, or as the compose window for a particular weblog. If it is a post, then it should "go away" after the post has been sent. You'd have to make a new document to make a new post, but you could save it and reopen it later. If, on the other hand, it is a weblog composer, then it would not "go away" after a post, though it might clear itself automatically. I suppose if I went the document-as-weblog route I could still allow the user to save the state of the compose portion of the window as part of the state of the rest of the window. That way you could save rough drafts of a post and come back to work on them later. And the rough draft would also contain the information you'd set for the weblog (such as username, password, etc.).
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I still don't see anything on Scripting News about the OPML Coffee Mug. I wonder if Dave is hoping we've forgotten?
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2002
Will Leshner.
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3/23/02; 7:32:19 AM.
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