I had a friend that had Muscular Distrophy, she loved him, I asked to send a autograph basketball. She cried, when she received the basketball.He also donated to our library.
@@richardmiller5818can I see some videos on your coaching style of your championship teams? Honestly I don’t see a difference between Bob Knight and my dad. I promise I will out work you I’ve been with my wife for 20 years I’ve had the same job for 20 years I feel very successful. My life is easier because of it. I don’t use this method on my son because honestly I can’t get that fired up 😂 I just noticed your channel spends time talking about others so I guess we’re different that way.
@@danielhetue6968 He's very mellow now. The local reporter in Bloomington I think speaks to him regularly and he's mellow Bob Knight, but he's still adamant about the Hoosiers playing stern defense.
Indiana in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s was just different. Back then, if you went to a game, you would hear fans compliment role players for blockouts, screens, and assists. Knight's knowledge and aura became a part of Indiana. Even when a player occasionally taunted or excessively celebrated, we KNEW Knight would bench him for it. He would allow people in wheelchairs to sit closer. Open practices were either free or discounted if you brought a can food item to help the hungry.
Every recruited player knew what it would be like playing for Bob Knight. It would be no surprise. Same thing as signing up with the Marines. Both institutions made men great men. He made them successful and great just like him.
Like him,hate him,he always gave you an honest take on any topic. His time as a young coach with whatever influence he had on coach "K" left an indelible mark that will live on for generations.
It's absolutely criminal that the basketball court at IU is not named after coach Knight. Yes, he's a hard ass and yes, he yells a lot... but, look at the guys who have played for him. He created not just good basketball players, he created good human beings... who graduated. I hope that something is done while he is still alive. 3 National Championships deserves that respect.
There will never be a Bobby Knight ever again on this planet. The whole world is changing and not for the better! College sports has been RUINED with all the transfer BS and all the money they are throwing at the players for the side stuff. I just can't believe the times we are living in. It's tragic and unfathomable. I think Knight is lucky he died. He doesn't have to be around anymore to see this s#$t!
My high school coach was a Bobby Knight type. In EVERY WAY. He was the greatest. And retired as one of the most winningest basketball coaches in state history.
Bobby was the real article. Isiah tells a great story how he was recruited. Another school came to the house and brought a suitcase of money. Isiah's mom closed it and said my son isn't for sale. Knight brought no money and told isiahs mom that he'll offer 3 things. He's going to get an education, he's going to be a gentleman and that he would teach Isiah everything he knows about basketball. Mom said you're going to Indiana.
I remember 12 years old I remember meeting Isaiah's High School coach wonderful Dude man Gene Pingatore element J some guys like Bobby Knight actually care more about kids than anybody even though he was rough and tough he wanted to make sure they leave Indiana with an education discipline and the mind for success and he did just that Isaiah Thomas's proof of that Michael Jordan is proof of that but he coached him when he when he was the head coach of the Olympic team the only dude that could make Michael Jordan cry 😂😂but hey look how Jordan turned out
16:08 "On the day Indiana won its second national championship . . . " That happened in 1953. It was not in 1981. This may be why Coach Knight has disdain for reporters. Maybe even possibly justified.
And just to reinforce this disdain, only 14 seconds later at 16:22 the banners of Indiana University's NCAA championships in 1940 and 1953 are shown. ESPN is at best a subpar news organization.
Being from Terre Haute, Indiana Bobby Knight will always be my favorite basketball coach. Rest in peace and I will see you in Heaven in the loving name of Jesus Christ.😊
If I had to pick 1 coach with a week to prepare for a championship ..with players of equal ability on both sides....I would choose coach Knight because he believed that his system would win..He was the best..it's THAT simple
Players not rising up to the National Athen. I guarteed not only would he throw the player off the team - he'll tell them get off the campus. Mr. Knights - Bo Schembechler-. - Woody Hayes - were all maniacs at time - but they let there athletes know that the world doesn't owe them a living because they because they could play football or basketball. You go to school to get an education. Many athletes say they don't have know how to read - because I'm going to make money in the millions. But you still have to know how to read a contract.
No doubt he was a great coach, and he's done a lot of good things for people and his players. He has done a lot of good things besides win 3 national NCAA 🏀 titles, which he says there's a lot of other things that were more important to him than those titles. His behavior and the way he treated people made all the good be overlooked.
I played high school sports for a coach very much like Bobby Knight - for good and bad. There's the tired old image of coaches who "so inspire their players, they would run through a brick wall for him". In the case of my relationship with Coach Kane (RIP, Killer), that old cliché is true. Was it because I liked him? No, not really. Was it because I respected him? I certainly respected his authority and knowledge of the sports he coached. But there was much about him I didn't respect at all. I was afraid of him. I was afraid of his temper. I was afraid of the thought of him thinking less of me. Is that a useful or admirable way to teach? There are better paths, I'm certain. Am I grateful to have had the experience? Unequivocally, yes. Would I want a coach to treat my son the way he treated me? Absolutely not.
He was awesome. The way young men need to be coached. Life is frickin hard. Prepare men to be men. To be husbands and fathers. This pussified world produces a bunch of whiners, complainers and believing they are all entitled. I grew up in the 70’s and most of my coaches were like him. One time I complained to my dad. He said suck it up and get over it. You want to play you want to be tough you want to be mentally prepared then stop complaining and work.
All his good attributes are excellent, but that doesn't mean you get a pass when you blow up on people publicly. And He was entertaining, but a poor example of an adult. Civil society requires adults to act like adults and not like temper tantrum children
@@MrAitraining Acting like a child is not a trade-off! Cussing people out at press conferences or on the sidelines has nothing to do with how good he does orher stuff. If we all cussed people out in temper tantrums what kindof world would that be? If you reread my comment I differentiated his attributes from his BEHAVIOR! Behavior is becoming an issue in this country, look around! And his behavior was unacceptable! Im a longtime Knight fan, and as I aged, I got more embarrassed by him - as my own behavior in social settings improved. I quit cussing people out as I matured. He should have improved behavior with age also. He did not.
Fair assessment, but what's interesting to me are all of the coaches or people who pretend to be and are seen as nicer people in society. Once a kid leaves their program they wouldn't have anything to do with him at all and many coaches who fit into that category would be given credit they don't deserve for being a better person than Bob Knight. More than not many people are self serving hypocrites who only care about themselves. The Landon Turner example was a great one. One thing that wasn't mentioned was that Knight raised 500,000 dollars to build a wheelchair accessible home for his former player. And oh by the way he kicked in 60,000 dollars of his own money towards that house. Almost anyone else in Knight's position would have said oh that's too bad and kept on moving. Most of what this world is about is how things are interpreted. Taking it all into account with all l have learned about Bob Knight l would have to say that the good far outweighs the bad. His greatness is etched into history.
@@gregoryphillips3969 Yes. Also Isiah Thomas has said many times that the players had to go to school, go to real classes and get real grades and that Bob Knight never cheated. ie: paying players which almost every other school was doing back then,.
@@MrAitraining Thank you. People want to talk about John Wooden. I would encourage those people to take a long look at a gentleman named Sam Gilbert a UCLA booster who showed up in the early 1960's. There were players like Larry Farmer who was on an HBO special talking about whatever players needed whether it was clothes, money, cars, help with medical situations etc. players got it from Gilbert. Wooden started winning national championships right around 1964 when Gilbert showed up. UCLA right after Wooden left was sanctioned by the NCAA for recruiting violations and for at least 1 year was not allowed to participate in the tournament. So this is not something l am making up. Knight never had any recruiting violations and Wooden would not have been able to win with the same talent Knight had. Wooden started at UCLA in 1947/48. He didn't win a national championship until 1964. Knight in his second year at Indiana had his team in the final 4. By Knight's 5th year he had the undefeated season with probably the greatest team of all time arguably. He did all of this without cheating. Between Knight and Wooden, l will take Knight every day of the week.
Getting the best out of a human being by fear and intimidation is incredibly old school. Same thing happened to me and my colleagues in the United States Marine Band. Doesn't work.
As far as pure outright knowledge of the game and knowing how to coach winning basketball, particularly at the collegiate level, damn few knew more about the game than Coach Knight, and that's me giving the devil his due. It's just a shame the man who was probably as knowledgable as anyone who's ever coached never brought or even attempted to bring one ioda or one second's worth of class to the sport while coaching for so many years. It was always controversy with Bob Knight, never class. I know Knight had a firery temper and was not just passionate, but probably overpassionate at times in his coaching style when it came to winning. But even those two things cannot nor do not explain away his arrogant ability to take being an outright asshole and as big of a jerk as possible to another level entirely for so many years on so many occasions. And while I'm not, nor will I ever be an Indiana Hoosier fan, I respected Bob Knight's ability as a coach. But I absolutely loathed what he brought to the game on a human level night after night into so many arenas across the country for so many college players to see. A great coach, but a piss poor example of what a role model in a coach should've been for not just his own players, but for so many other players at so many other great programs that he coached against. Many of those players I'm certain probably in awe themselves of the giant shadow he cast as an icon of the sport himself.
I had a friend that had Muscular Distrophy, she loved him, I asked to send a autograph basketball. She cried, when she received the basketball.He also donated to our library.
RIP Bob Knight he wasn’t for everyone but the man was a coaching legend.
He bullied his players
@@richardmiller5818can I see some videos on your coaching style of your championship teams? Honestly I don’t see a difference between Bob Knight and my dad. I promise I will out work you I’ve been with my wife for 20 years I’ve had the same job for 20 years I feel very successful. My life is easier because of it. I don’t use this method on my son because honestly I can’t get that fired up 😂 I just noticed your channel spends time talking about others so I guess we’re different that way.
He was an abusive, vulgar mouthed, arrogant person. But Indiana tolerated him because his teams won.
My favorite basketball coach of all time. Rest In Peace.
RIP Bob Knight. You were the greatest coach.
I met coach Knight and his wife on April 3rd 2020 and they were extremely nice.
The older he gets the more he mellows down. Did he swear by saying a single bad word when you met him and his wife a couple of years ago or no? Lol
@@danielhetue6968 He's very mellow now. The local reporter in Bloomington I think speaks to him regularly and he's mellow Bob Knight, but he's still adamant about the Hoosiers playing stern defense.
@@danielhetue6968 Bob Knight has always been a nice guy.
Indiana in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s was just different. Back then, if you went to a game, you would hear fans compliment role players for blockouts, screens, and assists. Knight's knowledge and aura became a part of Indiana. Even when a player occasionally taunted or excessively celebrated, we KNEW Knight would bench him for it. He would allow people in wheelchairs to sit closer. Open practices were either free or discounted if you brought a can food item to help the hungry.
Every recruited player knew what it would be like playing for Bob Knight. It would be no surprise. Same thing as signing up with the Marines. Both institutions made men great men. He made them successful and great just like him.
Like him,hate him,he always gave you an honest take on any topic.
His time as a young coach with whatever influence he had on coach "K" left an indelible mark that will live on for generations.
ESPN lost out when Roy left. This was about as good interview of The General as I have seen
RIP Coach Knight. Thank You for the memories.
Bill Parcels said it best and this is how Knight coached. Sometimes orchestrated anger gets the attention where it needs to be.
We need more Bob Knights in today’s public school system. Kids are coddled to the maximum extent. From elementary through high school.
RIP coach Knight….a legend
Legend but bad Attitude
@@richardmiller5818 bad attitude? ......You obviously know very little about Bobby Knight
It's absolutely criminal that the basketball court at IU is not named after coach Knight. Yes, he's a hard ass and yes, he yells a lot... but, look at the guys who have played for him. He created not just good basketball players, he created good human beings... who graduated. I hope that something is done while he is still alive. 3 National Championships deserves that respect.
yeah, there's nothing wrong with yelling out when it aligns with you're truly decent and good hearted!
The court is already named after Branch McCracken, IU's coach of their first two national championships in 1940 and 1953.
There will never be a Bobby Knight ever again on this planet. The whole world is changing and not for the better! College sports has been RUINED with all the transfer BS and all the money they are throwing at the players for the side stuff. I just can't believe the times we are living in. It's tragic and unfathomable. I think Knight is lucky he died. He doesn't have to be around anymore to see this s#$t!
RIP Bobby, you were a great coach, a great man and very misunderstood. The world sure could use more Bobby Knights.
My high school coach was a Bobby Knight type. In EVERY WAY. He was the greatest. And retired as one of the most winningest basketball coaches in state history.
Sounds like Coach Gary Duncan.
When has anyone in the media showed humility and publicly apologized?
My uncle played for him said he was impossible to please……… RIP bobby knight
If more men were like bob knight the world would be a better place
We'd all be dead if more men were like bobby knight, so yeah, maybe the world would be a better place.
I seriously doubt that.
Coach a knight was a great coach and good man.. may he rip
His strength was his toughness... and his weakness was his toughness.
Yes!
Greatest coach in College basketball history. No one comes close. RIP Coach Knight.
Bobby was the real article. Isiah tells a great story how he was recruited. Another school came to the house and brought a suitcase of money. Isiah's mom closed it and said my son isn't for sale. Knight brought no money and told isiahs mom that he'll offer 3 things. He's going to get an education, he's going to be a gentleman and that he would teach Isiah everything he knows about basketball. Mom said you're going to Indiana.
I remember 12 years old I remember meeting Isaiah's High School coach wonderful Dude man Gene Pingatore element J some guys like Bobby Knight actually care more about kids than anybody even though he was rough and tough he wanted to make sure they leave Indiana with an education discipline and the mind for success and he did just that Isaiah Thomas's proof of that Michael Jordan is proof of that but he coached him when he when he was the head coach of the Olympic team the only dude that could make Michael Jordan cry 😂😂but hey look how Jordan turned out
Right it😅
What a beautiful man. Im gonna miss him, and the world needs more Bobby Knight. BIG TIME!
Beautifully articulated! Thank you!
Thanks for posting, Galen. Great stuff.
16:08 "On the day Indiana won its second national championship . . . " That happened in 1953. It was not in 1981. This may be why Coach Knight has disdain for reporters. Maybe even possibly justified.
And just to reinforce this disdain, only 14 seconds later at 16:22 the banners of Indiana University's NCAA championships in 1940 and 1953 are shown. ESPN is at best a subpar news organization.
When GOD make Mr. Robert Knight, he threw out the mold. Thank you
"I could have killed, pillaged, sold drugs for about 2,000 dollars." Lmao that he has his potential crimes calculated out monetarily.
😂😂😂
Being from Terre Haute, Indiana Bobby Knight will always be my favorite basketball coach. Rest in peace and I will see you in Heaven in the loving name of Jesus Christ.😊
Bob knight was a national treasure
February 7, 1997
If I had to pick 1 coach with a week to prepare for a championship ..with players of equal ability on both sides....I would choose coach Knight because he believed that his system would win..He was the best..it's THAT simple
Perhaps The best ever!
everlasting bobby
Players not rising up to the National Athen. I guarteed not only would he throw the player off the team - he'll tell them get off the campus. Mr. Knights - Bo Schembechler-. - Woody Hayes - were all maniacs at time - but they let there athletes know that the world doesn't owe them a living because they because they could play football or basketball. You go to school to get an education. Many athletes say they don't have know how to read - because I'm going to make money in the millions. But you still have to know how to read a contract.
Lots of athletes WANT to be coached hard. It's pretty rare that coaches are that invested or willing. Someone's momma will speak up.
Love Knight he beat my favorite player and team UNC. My best coaches were Knight and coach Smith
I could have played for him. I had an Italian father; it would have been a breeze.
Bobby Knight was too tough for the military……
Can you imagine him dealing with todays college game?
True American Treasure.
No doubt he was a great coach, and he's done a lot of good things for people and his players. He has done a lot of good things besides win 3 national NCAA 🏀 titles, which he says there's a lot of other things that were more important to him than those titles. His behavior and the way he treated people made all the good be overlooked.
❤
I played high school sports for a coach very much like Bobby Knight - for good and bad.
There's the tired old image of coaches who "so inspire their players, they would run through a brick wall for him".
In the case of my relationship with Coach Kane (RIP, Killer), that old cliché is true. Was it because I liked him? No, not really. Was it because I respected him? I certainly respected his authority and knowledge of the sports he coached. But there was much about him I didn't respect at all. I was afraid of him. I was afraid of his temper. I was afraid of the thought of him thinking less of me.
Is that a useful or admirable way to teach? There are better paths, I'm certain. Am I grateful to have had the experience? Unequivocally, yes. Would I want a coach to treat my son the way he treated me? Absolutely not.
I’d love to know what his all time NBA and college starting 5 would be.
Bob knight,Dean Smith, John Cheney and John Thompson , Bob Lester Great coach's
And Tom Izzo
Ol Dem danny patrick on his best day couldn't carry Roy's jock.
The head butt reenactment is ridiculous. Firestone is a clown
What year!?
Thomas’ high school coach Pingatore was the same type as Knight
There were a lot of Knight disciples in the 80s. I’m sure a lot of kids got terrorized for their egos too
He was awesome. The way young men need to be coached. Life is frickin hard. Prepare men to be men. To be husbands and fathers. This pussified world produces a bunch of whiners, complainers and believing they are all entitled. I grew up in the 70’s and most of my coaches were like him. One time I complained to my dad. He said suck it up and get over it. You want to play you want to be tough you want to be mentally prepared then stop complaining and work.
Firestone asks some stupid questions
I'm glad he beat ucla but this dude was kind of rough with everything around him. Isiah learned from him winning comes first no matter what it takes .
All his good attributes are excellent, but that doesn't mean you get a pass when you blow up on people publicly. And He was entertaining, but a poor example of an adult. Civil society requires adults to act like adults and not like temper tantrum children
He is what he is, If you don't like the bad then you wouldn't get all the good. It's a package and he's done far more good than bad,.
@@MrAitraining Acting like a child is not a trade-off! Cussing people out at press conferences or on the sidelines has nothing to do with how good he does orher stuff. If we all cussed people out in temper tantrums what kindof world would that be? If you reread my comment I differentiated his attributes from his BEHAVIOR! Behavior is becoming an issue in this country, look around! And his behavior was unacceptable! Im a longtime Knight fan, and as I aged, I got more embarrassed by him - as my own behavior in social settings improved. I quit cussing people out as I matured. He should have improved behavior with age also. He did not.
Fair assessment, but what's interesting to me are all of the coaches or people who pretend to be and are seen as nicer people in society. Once a kid leaves their program they wouldn't have anything to do with him at all and many coaches who fit into that category would be given credit they don't deserve for being a better person than Bob Knight. More than not many people are self serving hypocrites who only care about themselves.
The Landon Turner example was a great one. One thing that wasn't mentioned was that Knight raised 500,000 dollars to build a wheelchair accessible home for his former player. And oh by the way he kicked in 60,000 dollars of his own money towards that house. Almost anyone else in Knight's position would have said oh that's too bad and kept on moving. Most of what this world is about is how things are interpreted. Taking it all into account with all l have learned about Bob Knight l would have to say that the good far outweighs the bad. His greatness is etched into history.
@@gregoryphillips3969 Yes. Also Isiah Thomas has said many times that the players had to go to school, go to real classes and get real grades and that Bob Knight never cheated. ie: paying players which almost every other school was doing back then,.
@@MrAitraining Thank you. People want to talk about John Wooden. I would encourage those people to take a long look at a gentleman named Sam Gilbert a UCLA booster who showed up in the early 1960's. There were players like Larry Farmer who was on an HBO special talking about whatever players needed whether it was clothes, money, cars, help with medical situations etc. players got it from Gilbert. Wooden started winning national championships right around 1964 when Gilbert showed up. UCLA right after Wooden left was sanctioned by the NCAA for recruiting violations and for at least 1 year was not allowed to participate in the tournament.
So this is not something l am making up. Knight never had any recruiting violations and Wooden would not have been able to win with the same talent Knight had.
Wooden started at UCLA in 1947/48. He didn't win a national championship until 1964. Knight in his second year at Indiana had his team in the final 4. By Knight's 5th year he had the undefeated season with probably the greatest team of all time arguably. He did all of this without cheating. Between Knight and Wooden, l will take Knight every day of the week.
Need more Roy Firestone's and less dan patricks. More Bob Knight's and less Lincoln Rileys
Too bad Isiah didn't follow Bob Knight's advise after he left the nba.
Getting the best out of a human being by fear and intimidation is incredibly old school. Same thing happened to me and my colleagues in the United States Marine Band. Doesn't work.
As far as pure outright knowledge of the game and knowing how to coach winning basketball, particularly at the collegiate level, damn few knew more about the game than Coach Knight, and that's me giving the devil his due. It's just a shame the man who was probably as knowledgable as anyone who's ever coached never brought or even attempted to bring one ioda or one second's worth of class to the sport while coaching for so many years. It was always controversy with Bob Knight, never class. I know Knight had a firery temper and was not just passionate, but probably overpassionate at times in his coaching style when it came to winning. But even those two things cannot nor do not explain away his arrogant ability to take being an outright asshole and as big of a jerk as possible to another level entirely for so many years on so many occasions. And while I'm not, nor will I ever be an Indiana Hoosier fan, I respected Bob Knight's ability as a coach. But I absolutely loathed what he brought to the game on a human level night after night into so many arenas across the country for so many college players to see. A great coach, but a piss poor example of what a role model in a coach should've been for not just his own players, but for so many other players at so many other great programs that he coached against. Many of those players I'm certain probably in awe themselves of the giant shadow he cast as an icon of the sport himself.