GOAT. I was a fan and follower since vhildhood.
I have never seen a person do more good under the radar, but get absolutely savaged by media. He didn’t care, though, and that made it even better.
His counterpart at Texas Tech at the time, Mike Leach, was the closest thing to Knight as a football coach.
Sadly we’ve now lost both of them.
I know there can be a fine line for a coach between being tough and being an embarrassing spectacle, but I really believe Knight’s legacy as a coach was diminished because he was on the wrong side of that line too many times.
It’s probably because people didn’t know about the good he did under the radar, because he did it under the radar.
But on the other hand,a chair throwing incident got wide publicity, and painted him in a negative light.