RIP Bobby Knight

 
This one hurts thavoice. I don't blink an eye when someone dies I don't know but Coach Knight, man this one gets me in the feels.

Every IU game was on local TV as a kid and didn't miss a game. Learned how to set the VCR timer so I could tape the Bob Knight show when I went to church on Sunday.

Still have all but the first round of the 1987 championship in tape.

Started this decades ago after hearing of what rhe undefeated Dolphins playwrs did.
i do it more sinple...vut buy a 24oz coors light when the CBB sesson starts and drink it the night the last indefeated team gets beat.

When he was forced out of IU, I went as well and tried to get on board with his former player Woodson as the coach.

So many great stories about Coach and I feel we need more tough nosed people like him. He donated endless dollars, helped so many of his former players over the years.

Neat Lil local story....he interviewed for the Celina HS hoops coach back in the day.....but when told he also had to coach another sport he turned it down.

Coach Knight IS Hoosier basketball.


Rest easy Coach, we'll miss ya.
 
Stirred not Shaken said:
Wasn't a Knight fan but he was IU bball.
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He was such an egomaniac, he would’ve crashed IU Basketball with him. Look at his last 5 seasons at IU, never made it past the 2nd Round in the Tournament. The game passed him by, but he didn’t care, he was going to keep doing things his way.
 
Omar said:
He was such an egomaniac, he would’ve crashed IU Basketball with him. Look at his last 5 seasons at IU, never made it past the 2nd Round in the Tournament. The game passed him by, but he didn’t care, he was going to keep doing things his way.
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You 2 had a lot on common. BK was fired and kicked out of IU.....and were banned from your High School.
 
Had his quote RE getting benched on my wall.
The beat motivation is your butt on the bench. Butt meets bench. Bench retains butt. Butt sends signal to brain to play helluva better.

One of my favorite games of the year was Senior Night in Bloomington. The local ft Wayne station would always carry the post game Senior night festivities When they carried the game.

The yrs thar ESPN or CBS National game picked it up i was disappointed because they didn't show the postgame.


In closing,
When my time on Earth is gone and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down and my critics can kiss my .
 
Thavoice said:
When my time on Earth is gone and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down and my critics can kiss my .
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I was just coming on here to ask "if they were going to bury him upside down?" Most would have understood the question but I thought some may have been offended if they didn't know that quote.

I was always a big fan of his. Nobody is perfect but he did some great things. Interestingly, he got his start coaching at Cuyahoga Falls High School after graduating from college.
 
I got to see him when they came played Purdue but no unusual dramatics. I enjoy how he and Gene Keady became such good friends.

I like this story from Steve Kerr:
"We ran into each other, in 1986, I was playing in the world championship. He was doing television commentary," Kerr explained. "We had lost a game, and he came to our practice and pulled me aside and basically went on a tirade. I had never met him before. ... He said, 'I want you to take those bleeping bleep teammates of yours and bleep bleep and tell them to bleep bleep.' And I said, 'Yes, sir, Coach Knight.' Then I went to the players, and I said, 'Hey, Coach Knight just encouraged us to play well tonight!' And that was it. He was terrifying, I'm not going to lie."
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eastisbest said:
I got to see him when they came played Purdue but no unusual dramatics. I enjoy how he and Gene Keady became such good friends.

I like this story from Steve Kerr:
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Speaking of Purdue....I first heard this in the middle 90s and instill love it. Not safe for work

 
Knight was a great coach. He also became a cautionary tale of how things can go wrong when a coach becomes larger than the institution itself, such as himself, Woody Hayes, Joe Pa who brought negativity to their schools at the end and even Bowden, Bear Bryant, Darrell Royal and others who simply became less effective as they aged but were too powerful to be told to retire. Not many legends go out on top and still at their peak like John Wooden and John Madden.

Back to Knight, though. He was such a great coach in a sport…college hoops…when the coaches were the stars and were synonymous with their programs. It’s a phenomenon we may never see again with how quickly coaches come and go anymore. Jim Boeheim and Knight’s protégé, Coach K, are are possibly the last of that breed.
 
Thank you for starting this thread Spartacus, I like TheVoice is Indiana born and bred, IU basketball fan and grew up with Coach Knight. Such a unique individual and clearly the heart and soul of Indiana basketball. There certainly was plenty of reasons him to have dissenters. He didn't like the media and many of them didn't like him and continues to work him over even in retirement.
I think it's kind of ironic that today, he's passed and we're conjuring up all these memories, good and bad that even with all that, how much more pure college sports was then than now. Today big time college sports is all about boosters, TV money and student-athletes getting everything they can - some warranted and alot not.
Knight's players graduated, Knights players rarely got in trouble and there was NO shenanigans with boosters and cheating. How different is that than today? There was one person in charge of the IU basketball program and that was Bob Knight. Programs don't operate that way anymore.
My feelings of Knight and IU's program was this. Players recruited themself to IU, Knight didn't send out invites to his program and he wasn't going to grovel for a player to come to play for him. And Knight's players knew this. There isn't a long history of great NBA players from IU who played for Knight because his style was team oriented. He didn't care about developing you for the NBA. He's goal was to win games and graduate players, that's it. Steve Alford and Damon Bailey, two of the best Indiana high school players ever...EVER, could had gone to about any other school in the country. There was no recruiting war, no reveal. They committed to Knight and IU way before they had to.
 
People can take it or leave it with this comment but I don’t really give a F but…..Bob Knignt and myself were taught basketball from the same coaching tree (Fred Taylor).

My grandpa played baseball and football (one season) for OSU and was recruited by Taylor to play baseball for them when Taylor was still an assistant baseball coach as well as the head basketball coach. Taylor would invite my grandpa to his basketball practices as well and take him aside and teach him the ins and outs of the game.

Bob Knight when on to coach at Army where he tutored Mike krzyzewski.

My grandpa went on to coach HS basketball and led one of his teams to the final 4 (I don’t remember which season).

My grandpa knew Coach Knight very well and considered him a good friend in college, same for Jerry Lucas. Lucas even remembered my grandpa when I met him at a church function back in 2003.

My grandpa then taught my Dad the game of basketball to which my Dad then taught me.

So there you have it, pretty interesting that Bob Knight and Mike krzyzewski were taught basketball from the same coaching philosophy as myself.

Fred Taylor = Best coach in OSU basketball history.
 
Spartacus1987 said:
People can take it or leave it with this comment but I don’t really give a F but…..Bob Knignt and myself were taught basketball from the same coaching tree (Fred Taylor).

My grandpa played baseball and football (one season) for OSU and was recruited by Taylor to play baseball for them when Taylor was still an assistant baseball coach as well as the head basketball coach. Taylor would invite my grandpa to his basketball practices as well and take him aside and teach him the ins and outs of the game.

Bob Knight when on to coach at Army where he tutored Mike krzyzewski.

My grandpa went on to coach HS basketball and led one of his teams to the final 4 (I don’t remember which season).

My grandpa knew Coach Knight very well and considered him a good friend in college, same for Jerry Lucas. Lucas even remembered my grandpa when I met him at a church function back in 2003.

My grandpa then taught my Dad the game of basketball to which my Dad then taught me.

So there you have it, pretty interesting that Bob Knight and Mike krzyzewski were taught basketball from the same coaching philosophy as myself.

Fred Taylor = Best coach in OSU basketball history.
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Coach Knight donated so much money and helped so many without fanfare. Read today that he paid for Taylor's medical bills and rent when he was extremely sick.

Forget rhe player but one lost his scholly for a year. Coach ran into him yrs later, asked him how much that cost him and wrote him a check.
Talked the Celtics to draft Landon turner after he was paralyzed in a wreck. There were like 12-15 rounds back then.

The stories we know are endless of how he went about and beyond for his players later on life.

I'm so glad he had that reunion in 2020 and came home...where he belongs.

Coach...legends never die...we re gonna miss you.
 
I'm surprised at how much positive press Bob K is getting with his death. I thought they would crucify him.

Remember when he said, "When I breathe my last and my time on earth is past, I pray they bury me backside up, and my critics can kiss my asse"? Lol.

I thought we would hear a lot more from the critics.

But the way I see it, this was a great man who accomplished great things and helped many people. He was also a flawed man. But there's nothing wrong with setting those flaws aside at this time.
 
IVCguy said:
I'm surprised at how much positive press Bob K is getting with his death. I thought they would crucify him.

Remember when he said, "When I breathe my last and my time on earth is past, I pray they bury me backside up, and my critics can kiss my asse"? Lol.

I thought we would hear a lot more from the critics.

But the way I see it, this was a great man who accomplished great things and helped many people. He was also a flawed man. But there's nothing wrong with setting those flaws aside at this time.
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Only POSs like Omar on this site takes shots at a man st the time of his death.
 
Omar the Dbag is a little wuss who never played ANY HS Sport and still lives in his mothers basement! Talk to Coach Kinights former Players, from every place he coached. They loved the guy! Sure wish he would have choked Omar the Dbag! Omar the Dbag ripping him for that because he a little smart mouth punk that Knight would have definitely choked if he had the chance! Omar the Dbag&Biatch Boy!

The General was a Coaching Legend and a very good person that just wasn’t into childish bs and non sense! Sports sure could use more of those guys and gals these days!
 
Smarty2022 said:
Omar the Dbag is a little wuss who never played ANY HS Sport and still lives in his mothers basement! Talk to Coach Kinights former Players, from every place he coached. They loved the guy! Sure wish he would have choked Omar the Dbag! Omar the Dbag ripping him for that because he a little smart mouth punk that Knight would have definitely choked if he had the chance! Omar the Dbag&Biatch Boy!

The General was a Coaching Legend and a very good person that just wasn’t into childish bs and non sense! Sports sure could use more of those guys and gals these days!
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He was a washed up a hole with a massive ego. Everything you need to know is evident on how the 94-00 seasons ended. He wasn’t going to change, things were going to end badly no matter what.
 
Spartacus1987 said:
People can take it or leave it with this comment but I don’t really give a F but…..Bob Knignt and myself were taught basketball from the same coaching tree (Fred Taylor).

My grandpa played baseball and football (one season) for OSU and was recruited by Taylor to play baseball for them when Taylor was still an assistant baseball coach as well as the head basketball coach. Taylor would invite my grandpa to his basketball practices as well and take him aside and teach him the ins and outs of the game.

Bob Knight when on to coach at Army where he tutored Mike krzyzewski.

My grandpa went on to coach HS basketball and led one of his teams to the final 4 (I don’t remember which season).

My grandpa knew Coach Knight very well and considered him a good friend in college, same for Jerry Lucas. Lucas even remembered my grandpa when I met him at a church function back in 2003.

My grandpa then taught my Dad the game of basketball to which my Dad then taught me.

So there you have it, pretty interesting that Bob Knight and Mike krzyzewski were taught basketball from the same coaching philosophy as myself.

Fred Taylor = Best coach in OSU basketball history.
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Knight had a very high reverence for certain people in his life. Fred Taylor, Clair Bee, Don Haskins. Knight was an only child to older parents and had little contact with his father, he was alone quite a bit. He was extremely close to his grandmother and he had a soft spot for the elderly. According to Taylor, Knight constantly complained about his lack of playing time when he was a player at Ohio State, but back then players rarely if ever transferred. I think that his start in coaching with the Army was perfect for him getting his feet off the ground and to cement that his ways were effective.
 
Still haven’t heard a good reason why he’s the greatest coach of all time, if he couldn’t get past the 2nd round the last 6 years at IU. To me, his unwillingness to change Offense was more of an issue than his abrasive nature.
 
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