RIP Coach Knight

[JSHoosier 20,450]

https://www.insidethehall.com/2023/11/02/video-quotes-mike-woodson-calbert-cheaney-xavier-johnson-and-trey-galloway-remember-bob-knight/

Good read.  Even if you didn't follow basketball you knew he was a legend, the man became a cultural icon.

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 8,793]

Skip talks a lot about the bad but Irvin and Johnson talk about what they understood from a players perspective and his hard coaching.

Also, Irvin says he was coming to Indiana to play football and wanted to play basketball but Sam Wyche left.

[JSHoosier 20,450]

55 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Skip talks a lot about the bad but Irvin and Johnson talk about what they understood from a players perspective and his hard coaching.

Also, Irvin says he was coming to Indiana to play football and wanted to play basketball but Sam Wyche left.

I've watched some of the reaction videos and when you hear people that actually knew him, not just players but opposing coaches like Izzo, talk about him then it paints a different image of him then the volatile coach people often think of.

 

[Certified Sunshine Pumper 9,408]

If people want to see the "bad" about Coach Knight. That's on them. 

The good outweighs the bad 100-1. 

[Class of '66 Old Fart 85,555]

Nice tribute from Michael Lewis at last night's BSU game.

 

[Henryville Hoosier 975]

https://x.com/themoplady/status/1720100317403001115?s=46&t=VCm-eVsdhHni-5V2WFoDBg
 

[ap2345 8,286]

1 hour ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Nice tribute from Michael Lewis at last night's BSU game.

 

 I love it. I know I will be wearing a plaid jacket a few times this basketball season in honor of Coach Knight. I’d love to see coaches all over the country wearing plaid jackets or Red sweaters this season. 

[JSHoosier 20,450]

https://www.si.com/college/indiana/basketball/marian-university-athletic-director-steve-downing-honors-legendary-indiana-basketball-coach-bob-knight-with-scholarship

 

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 8,793]

3 hours ago, JSHoosier said:

I've watched some of the reaction videos and when you hear people that actually knew him, not just players but opposing coaches like Izzo, talk about him then it paints a different image of him then the volatile coach people often think of.

 

Media people hate him. Plain and simple. Most anyways. But you can tell when people actually knew him with how they speak of him. I don't think Irvin or Johnson really knew knew him but they clearly understood him because of the other coaches they had. Those are the refreshing takes. We all know his flaws, the good just outweighed more than some people want to admit.

[Dave from Dayton 3,328]

1 minute ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Media people hate him. Plain and simple. Most anyways. But you can tell when people actually knew him with how they speak of him. I don't think Irvin or Johnson really knew knew him but they clearly understood him because of the other coaches they had. Those are the refreshing takes. We all know his flaws, the good just outweighed more than some people want to admit.

Oh, I don't think that hate is the right thing to say that media folks hate Coach Knight.  I think that people use words or thoughts triggering hate to get some emotional response.  It gets more attention than love or being nice.

That results in more activity on a site or on an article.  For instance, Dakich used inflammatory and negative words to get attention.  Politicians use hate as a motivator.  

So if a sports writer implies hating Knight's dark side, that gets more $$$ than making nice.

Plus, as Mark Twain said (and I post this out of context with revisions):  It takes no preparation to be in the opposition.

[JSHoosier 20,450]

Here's the patch

[southsidehoosier 5,064]

Didn’t know DP lived that close to Bloomington and tried to get Coach back to the the Hall

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 8,793]

1 hour ago, southsidehoosier said:

Didn’t know DP lived that close to Bloomington and tried to get Coach back to the the Hall

Watched that today on lunch. Thought it was a good segment. People act like they know Knight just because they seent he bad the media put out there. They don't know sh!t.

[OliviaPope40 6,622]

https://x.com/dpshow/status/1720150028373627368?s=20

 

Edited November 3, 2023 by OliviaPope40

[Class of '66 Old Fart 85,555]

A Thank You from Pat Knight

https://www.bobknight.com/knight-family-thank-you

[Joe_hoopsier 977]

Why isn't Tim ever mentioned?

[Uspshoosier 46,334]

 

[JSHoosier 20,450]

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2023/11/03/bob-knight-sage-steele-shares-story-ex-indiana-basketball-coach/71442488007/

IU grad Sage Steele with her own Bob Knight Story.

[str8baller 5,517]

22 hours ago, Uspshoosier said:

 

When this commercial came out both Metallica and Knight would’ve been considered past their primes…and correctly. Yet that commercial seems like a long time ago to me. Time flies…

[Hoosier DaDa 2,744]

On 11/3/2023 at 6:40 AM, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Skip talks a lot about the bad but Irvin and Johnson talk about what they understood from a players perspective and his hard coaching.

Also, Irvin says he was coming to Indiana to play football and wanted to play basketball but Sam Wyche left.

Listening to Skip go on about that cheater John Wooden STFU!