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<blockquote data-quote="SuperintendentChalmers" data-source="post: 1545272" data-attributes="member: 535862"><p>Lou was not a grudge-holder. He appreciated when Knight said nice things about him and gave him a rocking chair before his last game at IU. I saw a few interviewers later on try to goad Lou into ripping Knight, but he wouldn't and both guys had nice things to say about each other when they faced off in an NMSU-Texas Tech game. Knight was also complimentary of Lou in his book.</p><p></p><p>Originally, Knight respected Lou's dedication to basketball and invited him to be one of the coaches chiming at the '84 Olympic team tryouts in Bloomington. When we started winning games against IU fairly regularly, suddenly Knight started whispering about how Lou was dirty. Knight's awful behavior that triggered the "classic bully" comment was apparently prompted by what he saw as the Illinois SID overzealously pushing for individual B1G honors (Henson for COY, Deon for FOY) in a year when the team had played so well but couldn't go to the NCAAs. </p><p></p><p>When the probation had knocked our program back to where we weren't a threat to IU, Knight was fine with Henson and said those conflicts were not about Lou but what some of our assistants were doing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuperintendentChalmers, post: 1545272, member: 535862"] Lou was not a grudge-holder. He appreciated when Knight said nice things about him and gave him a rocking chair before his last game at IU. I saw a few interviewers later on try to goad Lou into ripping Knight, but he wouldn't and both guys had nice things to say about each other when they faced off in an NMSU-Texas Tech game. Knight was also complimentary of Lou in his book. Originally, Knight respected Lou's dedication to basketball and invited him to be one of the coaches chiming at the '84 Olympic team tryouts in Bloomington. When we started winning games against IU fairly regularly, suddenly Knight started whispering about how Lou was dirty. Knight's awful behavior that triggered the "classic bully" comment was apparently prompted by what he saw as the Illinois SID overzealously pushing for individual B1G honors (Henson for COY, Deon for FOY) in a year when the team had played so well but couldn't go to the NCAAs. When the probation had knocked our program back to where we weren't a threat to IU, Knight was fine with Henson and said those conflicts were not about Lou but what some of our assistants were doing. [/QUOTE]
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