Bob Knight Article by Feinstein

[Fenway]

washingtonpost.com

 

[Paul]

I always liked Bob Knight, good coach! If there were more coaches like him, the NBA wouldnt be a bunch of thugs

 

[Fenway]

Maybe so. Feinstein is a great writer. He covered Knight when he wrote A Seaon on the Brink.

I met Coach Knight once when I was a student at IU and he was very friendly to me.

 

[Dave]

I'm not a fan of Bob Knight. But I respect his accomplishments.

 

[465guy]

I don't like the guy and he has been a mediocre coach at best for the past 15 years or so now.

 

[PistolPete]

I'm a huge fan of the General. He had some indiscretions but he graduated players and his almost every ex-player would go to war for him.

 

[Josh Ward]

I've been a Bob Knight fan my whole life. Ask his former players about the true Coach Knight, not the media......

 

[Vaquero11]

I prefer the approach Brad Stevens takes. I don't think the bully tactics work these days. I was a fan though.

 

[IndyDave1776]

I am not particularly interested in basketball (or sports in general) but one would have needed to live in a cave to evade the shadow in Knight. First, I believe he suffered from moving from mainstream to the margins not because he changed, but rather because the world did. He gave the appearances of not being the most pleasant individual in ways including and especially his temper. On the contrary, he did know how to teach discipline and (as I am given to be a critic of teams that have schools) saw to it that his players did well academically where lesser coaches would not have cared so long as they could stay on the team without flunking out. I am satisfied that Myles Brand approached him as a holy grail target in his own personal manifestation of 'revenge of the nerds' which I believe went deeper than the person of Knight, but still Knight was one of the most iconic heads that could be mounted on the wall, leading to the zero-tolerance decree that did not specify what Brand refused to tolerate. In the end, he was left as a relic of a bygone time. I can sympathize with him in this regard. I find myself feeling the same, and he was starting his third season at IU when I was born.

 

[Colt556]

This thread is 5 years old! Anyway, I loved Knight and I think Brand was out to get him at any cost and Bobby had his fill of it and left IU. Brand was awarded, eventually, for getting rid of Bobby by being named President of the NCAA. Knight lives on though and was loved by his players and fans. He made sure his players were clean, went to class and gtaduated. When Landon Turner was paralyzed in a car accident Bobby bent over backwards making sure he was cared for and had a position at IU. If Turner hadn't been hurt and Isah gone Pro IU very well could have repeated their National Championship that year.

 

[nipprdog]

I prefer the approach Brad Stevens takes. I don't think the bully tactics work these days. I was a fan though.

5 year old thread revival!

22 more posts to go.

 

[shibumiseeker]

Maybe so. Feinstein is a great writer. He covered Knight when he wrote A Seaon on the Brink.

I met Coach Knight once when I was a student at IU and he was very friendly to me.

I met Coach Knight when I caught him poaching on my property. I didn't recognize him and with pistol in hand clad in nothing but long underwear and boots I confronted him. He was very polite and nice to me. It took me a minute to connect his name withhim being coach, and even then I wasn't impressed not being a basketball fan.

Turns out he was hunting my neighbor's property and wandered onto mine. He asked if I'd like tickets to a game. I turned him down. I sent him a liability waiver and he hunted my property off and on the next few years.

This was 1989. True story.