I'll credit Dylan Sinn of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, my old newspaper home, for pointing this out. But you know what Marian University hiring Pat Knight as its new basketball coach means, among other things?
It means Pat Knight will be coaching in the Crossroads League, an NAIA powerhouse. And that means Knight's Marian teams will be playing Huntington University on the regular, because the Foresters are also in the Crossroads League.
And you know what that means?
It means Pat Knight, the son of Bob Knight, will be coaching against Huntington's Kory Alford, the son of Steve Alford.
Who of course played for Bob Knight at Indiana. And who got crosswise with him later on when Steve was coaching Iowa, and Knight supposedly snubbed him (although maybe he didn't). And it became his whole thing where Knight supposedly resented Steve because he thought Steve was angling to be his successor at IU, even though Steve was never actually doing so.
Anyway ...
Anyway, the Blob being the oddly wired creature he is, this immediately made me proclaim the following: "It's like 'Creed II' come to life!"
"Creed II," of course (or maybe not "of course" if you're not into movies), is the film in which Adonis Creed, the son of Apollo Creed, fights Viktor Drago, the son of Ivan Drago, who killed Apollo in the ring in "Rocky IV." Creed the son gets his ass kicked by Drago the son, and then comes back to beat him in the traditional Big Climactic Fight That In Real Life Would Have Been Stopped Long Before The Hero Rallies To Win.
"Why, that's the stupidest, most trying-too-hard analogy I've ever heard!" you're exclaiming now.
Yeah, well. I suppose that's true if you consider Pat and Kory won't be out there at midcourt trying to cave in one another's skulls, or looking to avenge their fathers, or probably won't have any feelings about it at all other than their shared bond with IU basketball. But if you ignore all that ...
"It's still stupid!" you're saying.
Man. You guys are no fun.
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