Posted on 11/01/2023 4:14:56 PM PDT by pissant
Mixed feelings about Knight. Tough love approach was good up to a point and made for some great teams but he went over the line at times. I like Kentucky and one of Knight’s great teams gave us an early season drubbing in the 70s. But when Knight’s undefeated Hoosiers were upset by Kentucky in the tournament, Knight wouldn’t shake Coach Hall’s hand.
Kentucky coach John Calipari says you have to be really careful with the tough love coaching today. Some kids rise to the challenge but some come from fatherless environments, are oversensitive and will shut down and maybe transfer. I wouldn’t have wanted to play for Knight, too intense.
Many years ago I was part of a Boy Scout contingent that was at a conference at University of Indiana. As fate would have it I got to meet Bobby Knight. Very nice guy.
Remember with disgust the dickhead who fired him, Myles Brand. Bobby outlived the prick by 14 years. RIP Coach Knight, the Patton of basketball.
People where I lived would run a chair up their flagpoles at tournament time. We used to go to the games and go eat at the Janko’s The Little Zagreb for great steaks after the game.
I believe it was something like 98% of his players graduated from college. He made sure they went to class and made sure they took hard classes, none of the BS players take today so they can pass.
you beat to it... but I will throw one anyway.... loved watching him
Watching him was usually more entertaining than watching his teams..RIP
Purdue grad here. He’s the only good thing from that shiddy skool.
There was another guy who did that in football as well. They both got treated like manure at the end of their careers - both by the media and their own universities.
Smart man and a great basketball coach.
One of the greatest basketball minds of all time.
He was a horrible person. F him.
Yes, RIP.
I think of him as the General Patton of BB coaches.
Myles Brand gutted IU. I assume he was a product of the politics of the time, and you know what happens when democrats get on a roll. Brand made it clear that diversity was the priority, not academic excellence, and he ran what had been one of the outstanding public universities into the ditch. IU has yet to recover.
Bobby Knight yelling a reporter: “I’ve forgotten more about this f***ing game than all you people combined are ever gunna know.”
LOL you remembered.
I’m actually sad, he was a great coach and ran a squeaky clean program. While his temper got worse liberal IU set him up to fail.
Lots of you may not know he was a conservative.
Finally I know it’s just conjecture but really he should have 4 NCAA championships under his belt. His best guard Scott May played against Joe B Hall and the kentucky wildcats for the championship with a broken arm. They still lost just by a few baskets and were undefeated for that year besides that.
Then a less sure thing was in the 90s when his excellent big man Alan Henderson suffered a blow out knee, they might have won that year. Between the 2 I think he could have had 1 more almost surely.
I sure had some truly great times sitting with family and friends and watching the Hoosiers play another one over some beers. Wether or not IU won you KNEW it was going to be a good game as he just coached competitive teams.
RIP 😭
Steve Alford.... socks, shorts, swish...... Coach was awesome.
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