Bobby Knight Passes Away

[Carolina Speed]

Legendary Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight dies at the age of 83.

 

[todder]

Remember when he said "I want to be buried upside down, so everyone could kiss my $$$".

 

[HaywoodZarathustra]

His idol was William Tecumseh Sherman, a war criminal if ever there was one.

 

[white lightning]

R.I.P. and condolences to the Knight Family.

 

[Bucky]

I shall toss a chair at my worksite to honor him. Definitely a hot head, but the man knew how to win and make an impression!

 

[The Hock]

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.

 

[white is right]

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.

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]

His idol was William Tecumseh Sherman, a war criminal if ever there was one.

I hate to hear that. No doubt Sherman was brutal on Georgia especially. If so, I'm sorry I started the thread.

 

[Brad Holmeboy]

Coached six White first-round picks.

Coach K had 11 and Dean Smith eight.

 

[icsept]

I was shocked when I heard he only coached one NBA all-star, Isiah Thomas. He made the most with the least.

 

[Brad Holmeboy]

I was shocked when I heard he only coached one NBA all-star, Isiah Thomas. He made the most with the least.

And changed his life dropping an "n bomb" on him in practice, "you just wanna be just another .. from Chicago like your brothers?"

 

[Phall]

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...

voxday.net

Decent reflection in my opinion

 

[NikoDuke]

^^ absolutely fantastic write up..