Carolina Speed
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Legendary Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight dies at the age of 83.
Bobby Knight Passes Away
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HaywoodZarathustra
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His idol was William Tecumseh Sherman, a war criminal if ever there was one.
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R.I.P. and condolences to the Knight Family.
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Ornery old guy is gone huh? Great coach. A winner who could be self defeating at time. He sure left his mark. He always insisted on team basketball.
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His legacy will be complicated similar to Woody Hayes because of his violence towards his players but he had the interest of his players at heart(his blow ups aside) as he was blunt about the futures of most of his players and insisted on them being student-athletes to prepare for life after Indiana and later Texas Tech.
I don't think he ever was involved in any of the shenanigans that swirled in college basketball for decades with under the table payments so it's amazing what a consistent winner he was. Sad news...
Carolina Speed
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I hate to hear that. No doubt Sherman was brutal on Georgia especially. If so, I'm sorry I started the thread.
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Coached six White first-round picks.
Coach K had 11 and Dean Smith eight.
Coach K had 11 and Dean Smith eight.
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And changed his life dropping an "n bomb" on him in practice, "you just wanna be just another .. from Chicago like your brothers?"
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The Last Lesson of Bobby Knight - Vox Popoli
An intriguing epitaph of the late, great Indiana basketball coach: Knight was an almost Shakespearean character: brilliant, thoughtful and tragically flawed. In the late 1980s, he happened to show up on a rare evening when high school recruit Calbert Cheaney had a bad night. He upbraided his...
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Decent reflection in my opinion
