OutKick's Dan Dakich is applauding Indiana University for finally doing something it resisted for more than two decades. Bob Knight is getting a statue at IU.
"Bob Knight finally getting a statue at Indiana University," Dakich said in a reaction video. "And the reason I say finally and good news might surprise some people."
Not sugarcoating his own history with Knight, DD made it clear this is not about rewriting their past.
"It’s been well documented that, at the end of our relationship, I had no respect for Coach Knight," he said. "It had nothing to do with Indiana or playing at Indiana for him or coaching with him. It was how he treated me, went behind my back, tried to backstab me at ESPN to get my job."
Dakich said personal grievances should never have erased Knight’s place in Indiana history.
Welcome remarks from fans as NCAA basketball coach Bob Knight, who took the Indiana Hoosiers to three NCAA national titles, returns to Assembly Hall, Saturday, February 8, 2020, in Bloomington. (Photo by Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
"The reason it's good news is that Bob Knight represented the best in all of us back in the day," Dakich said.
"I understand a lot of you are going to say that’s crap. He did this, he did that. That’s fine," Dakich said about Knight's criticism, which, of course, stemmed from people who were never part of the program.
"This is why I say all of us. The people that played for him, coached with him, managed for him, the people inside the program. It was our thing."
Dakich described the Knight era as a closed, loyal culture that outsiders never understood.
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