RE: Bird to IU?

[Mark Estepp <EsteppJM@appstate.edu>]

My remembrances are that Bird was harassed by the center (was it Kent 
Benson?) and his hanger-ons.  I've read somewhere that Bird loved to paste 
his team in the NBA whenever they played because of it.




At 06:08 AM 9/11/2000 -0700, you wrote:

>Anyone think LB might be interested in going to IU?  It could be a way for
>Larry to rub it in the face of Knight and the others who ran him out of IU
>20 year ago...
>J. Mark Estepp
>Chair, Department of Technology
>Appalachian State University
>esteppjm@appstate.edu
>http://www.acs.appstate.edu/dept/tech/
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
>
>Who are these folks who ran LB off 25 years ago? He left because he was 
>home sick, away from for the first time for more than a week, and couldn't 
>handle the size of the campus etc. Sure Knight could have been a little 
>more open, but from everything I have ever read, other than being 
>recruited, mainly by assistants,  and a few passing meetings the 2 had 
>virtually no contact to each other. Ask Larry, he was run by his own 
>insecurities, not Knight or his staff.
>
>Thanks,
>Greg

J. Mark Estepp
Chair, Department of Technology
Appalachian State University
esteppjm@appstate.edu
http://www.acs.appstate.edu/dept/tech/