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Michael Roop's avatar

In the summer of '89 Coach came to little Hamilton HS one evening & spoke to 800 IU fans(a packed gymnasium).

This was courtesy of our AD Brian Miller who was an IU basketball manager in the middle 70's.

Coach spoke for an hour or more.

I was on the HHS basketball coaching staff and wanted to get Coach Knight's signature and received much more. I stood a few feet away from Coach & AD Miller and listened in.

Mr. Miller handed Coach a check for his speaking engagement. Immediately Coach folded up the check and put it back in AD Miller's jacket saying

"use this for your athletic department"

That's the Coach Knight that I was privledged to see in person & who raised money each year for the library fund!

Thank you Coach Knight!

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Greg Platt's avatar

Another memory made just tonight was the fact that my first call after finding out was to my dad. We don’t agree on much. We text a lot but rarely talk on the phone. But this, this was something to bond over. And it’s these types of sentiments with fathers, and grandfathers and mothers and grandmothers that I’m seeing repeated time and time again that make him such a larger than life figure in the lives are so many.

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