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Message: [QUOTE="Husky25, post: 2468876, member: 2839"] All due respect, Dub, but There is a huge difference between how the transfer of power occurred at UConn and Indiana. Ollie was Calhoun's hand picked successor, someone who he would be able to mentor along the way. If Calhoun saw something in him he deserves the benefit of the doubt. According to ESPN in 2005 (back when they were a marginal UConn ally), Knight says he did not think too highly of Davis, but there was no way Indiana was going to take Knight's recommendation, given the way they parted ways. [URL='http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/news/story?id=2018104']"I stayed at Indiana six years too long because of the administration. The administration handled a lot of things poorly," Knight told Sporting News Radio on Saturday, after his Red Raiders upset Gonzaga to reach the Sweet 16. [B]"I was working for an athletic director [former IU AD Clarence Doninger] that didn't know his [expletive] from third base. [/B]I ended up staying because of the kids that I liked and the people I did like rather than focusing on the real negatives there." Knight, who coached at Indiana for 29 years and won three national championships, was fired in 2000 for violating a "zero tolerance" behavior policy by grabbing the arm of a student who he said greeted him by his last name. Knight sued two years later, claiming the university violated his employment contract. The lawsuit was eventually dismissed. ... "They created that for themselves," Knight said in the Sporting News Radio interview. "The guy that's coaching there [Mike Davis] is a guy that [B]I told Pat [Knight, his son and assistant coach] we were going to replace at the end of the season. [/B]There's no way that I would have kept the guy any longer than that. [But] That's their [Indiana] problem."[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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