Coach Knight made a non-partisan appeal to the gathered crowd saying, “I don’t give a damn about the Republicans and I don’t give a damn about the Democrats either”.
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Knight, the former IN basketball coach, also called Trump an honest politician and predicted Trump would be one of the greatest presidents IN history. “You know who they said wasn’t presidential?”
According to Knight, Indiana will play a large part in determining the direction of the country based on how voters cast their ballots. “You older folks remember this”. And here’s a man who would do the same thing because he’s going to become one of the four great presidents of the United States.
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“If you people will do this, if you will do this, you will be having our government take its first step toward what all of us want America to be like”, Knight said, per Easley. “And that guy they told all these people that wanted to say, ‘You’re not presidential, ‘ that guy was Harry Truman”. Basketball hoops dot the landscape across the state, from suburban backyards around the biggest city Indianapolis to out of the way places like Knightstown where Cruz stopped on Tuesday. “It will always be something I will cherish”. That event is set to start at 6 p.m. and will feature former IU basketball coach Bob Knight. His Hoosiers won three national championships, and his 1976 team remains the last team to have a ideal season.
