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I give a lot of credit to Milton Knox for being at practice Thursday. I heard great things about his character during the recruiting process, and saw it first hand Thursday.
Knox said his father, Milton Sr., suffered a minor heart attack Wednesday and underwent bypass surgery.
"I was with him all night at the hospital,'' Knox said. "They said he is going to be all right, and were even talking about him coming home early.''
Milton Jr. easily could have bagged practice, especially knowing he is playing on the scout team, but chose to take part in it anyway.
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This is Brian Dohn's sixth season covering UCLA after spending 4 1/2 years covering the Dodgers for the Daily News and other Los Angeles Newspaper Group papers. He graduated from Rutgers, where the first college football game was played in 1869. Sure, the Scarlet Knights suffered for a long time, but now RU is doing what Jerseyans always thought was possible. Winning at Rutgers also proves winning is possible everywhere else in the nation, so underachieving coaches better be careful. Now, if only men's hoops can turn it around.
May Mr. Knox have a speedy recovery and I hope to see him in the parent section many times this year. UCLA loves Pacoima too!
thanks for the post brian. ucla leads the city (at least) in guys with character, and has a lot more than are written about. it is truly what makes ucla a special place. i always appreciate that you take notice of some cases, and write about them. thanks again, it helps make you a special writer too.
classy kid and very well brought up - we're lucky to have him. a bruin through and through and a star 2 years out.
Thanks Brian. Blog postings that discuss the high character of our kids is always nice. Best wishes to the Knox family.
Nice story.
But bloggers please spare me the 'ucla has all the character guys' nonsense. Colleges throughout this nation have fine character guys on their teams as well. Out of 100 kids how many do you think are "bad" on average? A small percentage. Unfortunately, they often get most of the pub'.
And to play football at this level one has to have discipline, fortitude, bravery, persistence, patience, and willing to put in hard work. That is character. And that is your average football player.
Do you have it?
to those bloggers whose names belie their actual posts, you might refrain from commenting on issues of character here. if there were no bloggers here who claimed your exact quote, and if you are inclined to misquote others, it actually puts you in a bad light. we have no need for that type of misquote here.
It was a certain blogger's quote that set me off: "ucla leads the cty (at least) in guys with character." A knock on every other college in Los Angeles that plays football is pretty parochial and conceited thinking, wouldn't one agree?
Just saying.
My hats off to the Kid...
TRUTH - Maybe he was merely giving UCLA credit as he sees it (or wants to see it), and NOT necessarily knocking other L.A. colleges. Or, maybe TRUTH is just SOFT and WHINEY, which is why you manipulated the original comment/quote to help firm up your position on your high-horse...
My goodness. The post was about a kid's father having a heart attack, and it turns into another session of complaining and bickering. It is quite disgusting. Show at least a morsel of class, please.
Sorry, my bad.
regardless of anybody else's character, this kid is amazing. first i read this, and then his most recent comments about redshirting (though this is obviously more impressive) and you can't help but cheer for him. best of luck to his family as well.
I think it would have shown more character if Milton had been at the hospital with his dad, taking care of him.
but a football practice is obviously more important than family.
One of my biggest disgust with the media is their need to focus on only on the negative and rarely print or post stories about people who demonstrate the quality of their character and act in a way that make us proud of them. Kudos to Brian Dohn for this post and articles like the one on Brigham Harwell.
The ONLY TRUTH is that some people have ISSUES and are to pre occupied searching for something to be negative
about so they can remain in their negative world
i hate to comment on this post 3 days after the fact, but i felt that i had to, in order to tell tyler durden that he's a horrible person.