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Indiana University's stunning decision to fire Bobby Knight presents Harvard with an historic opportunity to revitalize its Athletic Department--by hiring him as the men's basketball coach. Though current head coach Frank Sullivan has conducted himself as a perfect Ivy League gentleman and vastly improved the team during his tenure, Knight can bring Harvard to a new level. The simple, sad fact is that the Crimson has never won an Ivy League championship, consistently falling victim to the triumvirate of Dartmouth, Penn and Princeton...
This solution should satisfy both sides of the Bobby Knight debate. For his supporters, Knight receives a chance to a bring an athletically prestigious Division I school to a place it has never been. Taking Harvard to the Big Dance would cement his Hall of Fame credentials as an accomplishment on par with anything Dean Smith or John Wooden has done...
...Knight has publicly stated that he would coach basketball tomorrow if offered the right position. Realistically, however, it is unlikely that the Harvard job fits his criteria, and it is even less likely that he would be offered the job in the first place. On the other hand, hiring Knight would, for once, put the fear of God into Princeton...
...KNIGHT AT THE MUSEUM
...Naughton, president of the Poynter Institute, one of the nation's largest journalism think tanks, and Hodding Carter III, president of the Knight Foundation, a large foundation that supports a number of programs related to journalism, also actively supported Giles's candidacy...