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Wake me when we fix this mess
- Sep 5, 2014
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The curse?
A curse for canning a coach whose ego caused him to lose touch with reality?
So I was actually there at the game Saturday.(son is there) Rumors were flying that morning he would be there. IU’s team is a lot like UF. Flashes of brilliance but underperforming and frustrating. While everyone was into the game with about 6 min in the half the crowd was restless and just wanted to get to halftime.
They introduced like 20 old players and it reminds you how great that program was. Quinn Buckner, Isiah Thomas, Randy Whitman, Steve Alford on and on. Everyone is cheering but waiting for the General.
The time comes they do a video and everyone starts to go nuts. Then he is brought out to the court and people go nuts for about 5 seconds and then realize he is not well. It was a hushed reverence as he shuffled on the court held up by Buckner. People were stunned he was so feeble.
My sons friend works in the Sports Info Dept and knew he was coming but could not talk about it. Apparently they said they want him back but under no circumstance could he have a microphone.
So at some point he quiets the crowd and does a cheer with the students, showed some spunk and the crowd went crazy.
My first IU game. Basketball is religion there. Assembly Hall is just a wow to see. They know the game. There was some close calls ref made that most crowds could have booed the refs, but they did not when the call was right. Replay confirmed those calls but the crowd knew already. They are in a bad 10 year run and it is killing them. They hope with Knight returning, moved back to Bloomington, the curse is lifted.
Certainly off topic, but it’s basketball season and it’s slow around here. Please allow me.
I think any discussion about the best coaches of all time has to include this guy. Knight’s problem was always the intensity and the over-the-top temper, witness the embarrassing chair-throwing incident at Assembly Hall in 1985 and the Indiana firing in 2001 after he roughed up a player.
Bobby Knight is, was, always will be an SOB. I love him for it.
But he was a great coach, with over 900 wins and leader of the ‘84 Olympic gold-medal team after he booted Charles Barkley in favor of Michael Jordan.
I have to admit, I hadn’t thought about him in awhile. The video of him needing assistance onto the court yesterday at Assembly Hall caught me off guard. He’s apparently suffering from dementia and God knows what else. He’s 79.
Good to see him enjoying himself with his former players, including Isiah Thomas in this tweet. Hang in there, Coach.
In addition, I always thought he was probably a helluva bowler.
And rat face loved the man.What's sad about Knight is how he pushes away those close to him. He and Mike Krzyzewski didn't speak for 10 years — until Krzyzewski called Knight and said, "Coach, I wouldn't be going into the Hall of Fame if I hadn't played and coached for you. You're the only person who should give my induction speech."
Even Knight couldn't resist that.
But he could resist phone calls from members of his 1976 team, the last team to go undefeated in college basketball. Several called to plead with him to return last year for a 40th anniversary celebration at IU. No way, Knight said, was he ever returning to Indiana. So, he didn't go. Guess who suffered the most? Robert M. Knight.Knight's not going back to Indiana. He has gone to Purdue — to again make his point about IU — just as he made a point of letting the world know that he spent time with Dean Smith in Chapel Hill in the summer of 1992 but never called Krzyzewski because Krzyzewski had committed the apparent cardinal sin of beating him in the Final Four that spring.
May have been a good coach but was a pathetic excuse for a human being...........His former players from that unbeaten team begged him to come back. Fans would have loved him back. But he was too selfish and self centered to do it. Now that he is about gone mentally they brought him back. Feinstein's book on Bobby was generous but gave us a glimpse of the guy.Outside of my immediate family, no single person has had a greater impact on my life than Coach Knight. I have the ultimate respect for him as a coach and a mentor, but even more so as a dear friend. For more than 40 years, the life lessons I have learned from Coach are immeasurable. Simply put, I love him.
“As a coach, no one has more passion for basketball. No one understands its history or serves it more earnestly. And certainly, no one prepared better or taught the game at a higher level. While this is a tremendous loss for our sport, it is something Coach Knight wanted at this point in his life and as he's consistently done, he handled it in his own way.
My biggest regret for bob knight was that he never got the opportunity to coach latrell sprewell
Cannot stand the guy and never could. And I don't think he's very smart. He may know basketball but he's pretty ignorant of pretty much everything else. And I don't find his tactics funny at all. It's him trying to cover up for his inadequacies.
But hey, that's just me.
I think the posters here would be well served by watching the movie Hoosiers. As you said, basketball in Indiana, and esp Bloomington, is a form of religion.
Looks like none of his former players referred to him as bro.