And we begin the show today talking about what everybody in the great state of Indiana

is talking about, but not only the state of Indiana, the entire country.

And that is the passing of Bob Knight, the Hall of Fame coach who guided Indiana University's

men's basketball program to three NCAA national championships passed away after a series

of recent illnesses.

He was 83.

There are certain people, and it is very rare in society to find these people, but they

are bigger or they become bigger than the thing that they do or the institution that they

are a part of.

And I'm going to tell this story, which I think is the best possible description of what

I'm talking about about how Bob Knight in many ways was actually bigger than IU basketball

itself.

So I was very little, I don't know, four, maybe five years old.

And this was the height of the Indiana high school basketball fever.

It was in and around the time that, you know, Damon Bailey was playing and Eric Montrose

and all of these guys, you know, who became Indiana high school basketball legends.

And it was at a time where if you had high profile high school basketball names, playing

of any sort, you could, you could fill up any high school basketball stadium.

Obviously that no longer exists today, they have totally, the IHSW has totally ruined

it with class basketball.

And it's a fraction of what it once was.

But this, so this is what, like I said, late 80s, maybe early 90s, I don't know the exact

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