Don’t get me started. I have a special place in my bladder for Myles Brand; as university president, he wrecked my alma mater, Indiana University, before he went on to wreck the NCAA. It wasn’t the debasement of Bob Knight that made me mad. He took a school that had national standing in Chemistry, Music, Business and Medicine, and trashed it. My degree has less value thanks to him.
The whole “Native American” thing was just more of “Brand X.” If I recall, his wife was a professor of “women’s studies.”
He was the epitome of everything wrong with academia.
Being from Indiana originally, since Bobby Knight was fired on 9/10/2000, I haven’t’ really wanted to watch IU Basketball since then. Kind of funny, if Coach Knight ran for POTUS, I would vote for him as soon as I could LOL. The zero tolerance policy developed by Myles was a sham and window washing.
I have a theory, I am sure the NCAA CEO position was a payoff to Brand to fire Knight, IMHO.
On Bloomington, when I was an undergrad at U. of Evansville, I took quite a few trips to Bloomington and to this day still like the town, politics aside.
> It wasn’t the debasement of Bob Knight that made me mad.