Ensuring your players graduate — which sets them up for life after basketball — is a form of caring. Not that other coaches don’t but getting that degree was important to Knight.
Bob Knight has passed.
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You never know when your number is going to come up.Father Time forgets no one. Those of us who grew up watching him coach at Indiana know that a legend is gone. Time is running short for all of us
That's why I got rid of my phone.
Yea. I'm not a big fan of this getting old thing. But it beats the alternative for sure.Father Time forgets no one. Those of us who grew up watching him coach at Indiana know that a legend is gone. Time is running short for all of us
He was an ASSHOLE, RIP.
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Of course, that was certainly one very real part of his persona.
I’m just saying there was more there that didn’t often get publicly displayed - but which was also a very real part of his persona.
Beyond that, I always loved that he called Michael Jordan the best player he’d ever seen play basketball…in the summer of 1984 before he’d ever played a single game in the NBA. That was quite a thing for him to have said, considering the players he had seen play.
No...the players/students accomplished that. Guarantee you Bob didn't take any tests for them. Bob "caring" only because of the reflection it would have upon himself.
With all due respect being a good basketball coach doesn't excuse the fact he was a pitiful human being. If Hell exists, perhaps they do bury him upside down so he can watch the flames getting closer.....
Not B.S. he even admitted he never got over it. He said the 75 team was better than the 76 team.
How much time you got? Look i get it, I do. Knight was an asshole. No doubt. But also one of the most generous people on the planet. He dontaed his entire TV/Radio show income, to help build libraries...When Landon Turner was paralyzed in a car accident, Knight helped pay for his expenses, then asked his good friend Red Auerbach to draft Landon---And he did.
Look at his former players....What they have become.
Asshole for sure...Bullying?. Sure.,..I guess. But I'll listen to the dudes that played for him, and how 99% of them speak very highly.
Not gonna defend the dumb shit he done. You cant. But Knight was , could be a very kind, generous, welcoming person. Met him a few times---And you'd simply thought you were tallking to the dude down the street.
I’m not gonna act like I liked him but he definitely knew the game of basketball and I still hated to see this! RIP
Same place he touched over half the posters in this thread. The guy was an asshole.
No one has disagreed. He was. He was also a very giving, kind, caring person. But of coursem since you know him so well, off the court---you already knew this....right?
Read about Ryan White, and what Knight did for that family.
So. He had the best team and didn’t win. It’s happened to us more than once. He went undefeated the next year. Save the drama.
The rivalry with IU ended with his tenure. Just wasn’t the same.
Plenty....
What he did for Landon Turner.
Donating his shoe contract, TV and radio money, to help build libraries at IU, and across the state.
How he heloed AIDS victim, Ryan White from Kokomo; This at a time where AIDS paitients weere trated very, very poorly.
Dude at times, complete ass clown. Shit he said was dumb as ****, and even embarrassing. But the guy was also very charitable, very kind, cared, and helped those less fortunate a lot.
Why are you here? We don’t want to hear that crap. He was a terrible person. We saw him in action for decades.
Wow....Really? When did tha that happen? Never seen that before.
That fukin changes shit. Man, glad you opened my eyes.
Thank you.
Really? You saw him off the floor?
So then you know about what he did for Ryan White? Landon Turner? Steve Downing?
Cool.
Why are you here?
Wow....Really? Somebody needs to open your eyes. You trying to convince people Bob Knight wasn't an Asshole. Good luck with that.
Seems like an apt time to post this.
Guessing you’ve never played or worked in college sports. A coach has a lot of impact on his/her players’ academics, i.e., punishments for skipping classes, tutors, etc. The ones who don’t care are the ones who have kids flunk out…because there are no consequences for blowing off school. I’m not dismissing Knight’s flaws, there were many. But he still oversaw the program, and regardless of his “why” he made sure his players went to class. That’s an indisputable fact, and I respect him for that. The choking/cussing/shenanigans? Not so much.
Probably in the throat.
Remember when he lied about our UK players not going to class??
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At one period in time Joe Hall at UK, Denny Crum at UL and Bob Knight IU, it was a golden age of basketball in this area that I don't think we'll see again, I was fortunate enough to see these teams at their best.
Yeah I had a dude down the street in my neighborhood just like that. Used to throw lawn chairs at the neighborhood children and choke people to make them the best they could be.
But his Christmas decorations in 1976 were far and away the best in the whole town so we all decided to ignore how much of an insecure asshole he was and call him a genius. Future assholes really looked up to him.
I can relate all my friends have passedFather Time forgets no one. Those of us who grew up watching him coach at Indiana know that a legend is gone. Time is running short for all of us
You seem to be quite the authority on assholes. Lots of experience will do that to a loser like you.
First class asshole who built his coaching legacy on the backs of borderline (and quite probably fully over the line) abuse of his players.
Tell me what exactly did he do to contribute to the success of his players in the classroom. Did he threaten them with playing time or laps around the gym? Very noble indeed. How bout we give the players credit for doing what is expected.
There are thousands of coaches, admins, support staff, etc who do the same exact thing for students and athletes every day at all levels of competition without being an abusive toxic human being.
I offer condolences to his family and those close to him. And every human being on earth is messy and has good and bad traits. But the guy was not a good guy. He was a sociopathic narcissist and he literally displayed it on camera for everyone to see.
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