On a cold fall evening just a few weeks ago, Ron Washington unleashed a torrent of expletives and positive reinforcement on a veteran group of Texas Rangers that was just hours away from the first pitch of Game 7 of the World Series.
On a presumably cold winter’s night in Bloomington back in 1991, Bob Knight unleashed a torrent of expletives and threats on a young, talented group of Indiana Hoosiers that spent most of the year in the top 10 and that was a year away from a Final 4 appearance and two years away from spending the majority of the season ranked as the top team in the land.
At the time each man was speaking, he was unaware that his words would ever leave the locker room, but they did.
In this post, a tale of the (secret) tape if you will, I am going to break down these two locker room speeches, which while similar in diction could not be more different in tone.
