Basketball lost a great coach....

[healer677]

Since we're in the season for NCAAB I figured I'd chime in on Bobby Knight. For all the things he represented (or I thought he represented) -I was never a Knight fan, I thought Bobby Knight was what was wrong with college basketball.

I was wrong.

Dan Wetzel wrote an article on Yahoo Sports that changed my mind.

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/news;...vbYF?slug=dw-knight020408&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

After 902 career victories Knight decided to call it quits. The man was just tired. I guess tired of the travel, the refs and the media -constantly waiting for another Knight moment. What many didn't know was that Knight was a coach with integrity. A coach who cared about the rules, cared about his boys graduating and cared about winning.

As we get closer to March Madness it's somewhat sad to think that Knight might not even step foot on the hardwood again.

 

[shack]

Since we're in the season for NCAAB I figured I'd chime in on Bobby Knight. For all the things he represented (or I thought he represented) -I was never a Knight fan, I thought Bobby Knight was what was wrong with college basketball.

I was wrong.

Unless you didn't like him because you thought he was a cheater, nothing in that article should change your opinion of him. The boorishness, the choking etc. etc. were and are still there.

Because he didn't cheat at recruiting does it wipe out all his other outrageous and uncalled for antics?

 

[Herodotus]

Not to mention quitting on all those kids he recruited midway through the season.

Buh-bye Bob "Do as I say, not as I do" Knight.

 

[blueline]

Because he didn't cheat at recruiting does it wipe out all his other outrageous and uncalled for antics?

Hey, that chair got what it deserved............

 

[maurice93]

Bobby Knight was a disgrace to college basketball.

 

[maurice93]

BTW, the article is one of the biggest farces I have ever read. Absolute farce.

Yes, he did not recruit well.... and it was not because he was not willing to cheat. It's because he was not willing to put an effort (alot of coaches recruit well without cheating). His extent of recruiting was living off his name, and was not willing to get out there and work the recruiting trails.