OT: Bobby Knight on IU hierarchy: "I hope they're all dead"
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I may not necessarily agree with everything Coach Knight does or says, but damn you always know where you stand with him.
not sure I agree with his 16 year grudge, but I certainly understand his sentiments.
Like him or not, he's an entertaining piece of work.
Always admired him and in this day of "political correctness" I find his crusty nature refreshing. On more than one occasion I used his slogan about "bury me upside down....so my critics can kiss my ass."not sure I agree with his 16 year grudge, but I certainly understand his sentiments.
Well, Coach Knight's main antagonist at IU, Myles Brand is dead. If Bobby wants to dance on his grave, he should call me and we'll make it a twosome.
i am a Knight fan too. Not sure I love the quote. I do think it is typical ESPN crap to have the article say that Knight was caught choking a player. That isn't particularly accurate, at least to imply he was choking in anger or with intent to injure or whatever.
If you played sports in the 60s you probably had a coach who grabbed you by the face mask or shoulder pads and kicked you in the ass. I never saw a coach hurt a player (with the exception of his feelings). The world has changed and we can do a thread on if it is for the better.......Coach Knight was unable or unwilling to change and as a result he became unemployable. Knight reminds me of General Patton. He certainly had many flaws and didn't fit in to a peaceful world. But, I think we were probably fortunate to have him when we needed him.
I believe Bobby and Joe had a mutual admiration.
Probably similiar to Paterno, many players 'hated' him when he was coaching them because both coaches pushed, prodded, and were tough on players to get the most out of them both on the field/court but also both Knight and Paterno held players to a higher standard outside the field. And most of those players as they got older and into the 'real world' really appreciated all the life lessons they were taught and how it helped them out and molded them into better persons.
IMO there never was a great coach who set out to be popular.
I don't recall what else Brand did good or bad, but as president of the ncaa years ago, he cited Penn State as a model athletic program.
I always liked Coach Knight in spite of - or maybe because of - his flaws.
And Dan Patrick is still a tool.
This the same group that got mad that a Florida coach was yelling at a kid last year. LOL
Knight kicked his own son, choked a kid, and threw chairs multiple times., He was a good coach, but a bully and a POS.
I think it was shortly after PSU joined the big ten and Knight was driving in the area when he decided to make a surprise visit to Paterno (don't think they had met before). I think I recall Paterno relaying that Knight mentioned that people thought he and Paterno were very much alike.
Brand made that comment on PSU's campus where he was delivering a speech on what a wonderful job he was doing as NCAA president.
Brand is the person who brought us the NCAA;'s vaunted APR and GSR metrics and passed them off as true academic reform, making him both an idiot and a hypocrite.
And they are nothing alike.. Joe helped kids and won with class. Knight was a bully.
Joe should have slammed the door on Knight.
Apples and oranges, Professor.
War and a voluntary basketball game? Is that what you are comparing? Come on, dude.
What you do in the heat of battle is a just a wee bit different than what you do while practicing on a basketball court, wouldn't you say?
Well, Joe never threw a chair onto the field, but he and Knight did have similarities. Indiana graduated their players. Knight once was very critical of Calipari much in the same way that Paterno was of Switzer and Sherill.
And they both liked Rene.
He should have had Rene Portland and her sons kicked out of the arena. God knows Parkhill or Dunn wouldn't do it.
That was about the only thing he and Joe had in common, but lets put some of that on the players and pat them on the back. Coaches IMO get way too much credit for that, but its the players who have to adapt.
Knight was a bully, remember him choking the kid?
My little league coach said worse things than that.
I will never forget when scumbag Eskin many years ago had Charles Barkley on his live remote and a patron in the audience went right up to the mike and said, "God Bless Robert Montgomery Knight". Obviously referring to the General cutting Barkley for the Olympic team in '84 when a junior at Auburn. His reasoning was Chuck had no defensive skills at the time, and he was correct.
The guy is a jerk and treated people like crap. Total and complete embarrassment at times. I mean really who throws chairs across basketball courts. Who grabs players by the throat. Who berates player after player for everyone to see and hear. The guy is indeed an idiot. Just the next grumpy old man.
Everyone should get a trophy and all scholarship
players should get equal playing time! Don't you dare yell at my child or correct him(her) when they're wrong.Praise him,pant him on the back(oops can't do that)tell him how good he is! I'm really worried about this country in 20 years,even 10 years for that matter.Is this the same attitude that made this country what it is? Pitiful, I'm just glad I played and coached when I did!
players should get equal playing time! Don't you dare yell at my child or correct him(her) when they're wrong.Praise him,pant him on the back(oops can't do that)tell him how good he is! I'm really worried about this country in 20 years,even 10 years for that matter.Is this the same attitude that made this country what it is? Pitiful, I'm just glad I played and coached when I did!
Fake news alert!!!! All some are saying is Knight is extreme and basically an arrogant idiot. Not saying tough love or a tough direct motivator isn't good. But go push some more fake news. Alls good.
What's happening in this country at the present time isn't fake news!We(Americans) were physically and mentally tough for 200 years!We never backed down,we got knocked down but we got back up.Our parents didn't make excuses for us,our parents didn't fight our battles and we didn't get a trophy for showing up.
Oh, Lord. Here we go again with the "I walked to school uphill, in my bare feet, no jacket, both ways", Bullsh1t again.
In addition to what you said, your generation could also walk down the street and tell a black person, "Move, N1gger!" You could beat the sh1t put of fagg0ts and get away with it.
Your generation was also quiet about spousal abuse and child abuse. Your generation stood by and allowed it to continue.
Your generation could care less about drinking and driving, too.
Tell me again WHY your generation was so great? You could beat the sh1t out of kids playing a game and get away with it? Convinced yourself you were making men out of boys?
More like you were making sons just like their fathers: alcoholic wife beaters that would beat their kids, too, discriminate against blacks and gays, and drink and drive.
You're proud of that?
There was a chance that Knight would have become the PSU coach when he left Army. I think he and Joe knew each other back then.
You've got more issues than I can count!
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