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Bob Knight (B1G Champion, National Champion, CBB HOF, R.I.P.)

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Are you proud that Bobby Knight is a Buckeye?

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Knight honored

OSU inducted 12 into its athletics hall of fame, including former Browns offensive lineman Dick Schafrath and Walsh Jesuit High School product Mike Vrabel, OSU’s defensive line coach. But former Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight, recognized for lifetime achievement, stole the show and called it his greatest honor.

“I thought about this last night. I went back over things I was appreciative of, but really none more than today,” he said. “When people respond as these people have to me, they know you’ve worked hard to get something done. Not that you’ve won a lot of games, but I would hope they think that I did a lot for a lot of kids. That was what I tried to do.”

Knight recalled when he and basketball teammate John Havlicek played catch in Ohio Stadium.

“Havlicek and I played football in high school,” Knight said. “We used to have to run. I’ve caught passes in here by the hour. One time Havlicek actually threw the ball from the goal line, I caught it on the 30-yard line on the other end of the field. I came back and I said, ‘There are a lot of people who would have been amazed at how far you threw that. I was truly amazed at what a helluva catch I made.’ ”
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Bob Knight selling his championship rings, Olympic gold medal
By Houston Mitchell
October 16, 2012

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Bob Knight, shown in 2009, says he decided to sell some of his memorabilia after realizing how "nuts" some collectors are: "Look at how much they would they pay for Babe Ruth's cap or Honus Wagner's card." (Tom Strickland / Associated Press)

Hall of Famer Bob Knight is selling his NCAA basketball championship rings and Olympic gold medal via auction to pay for his grandchildren's education.

?John Havlicek and I were just talking one day about all the stuff we had accumulated over the years,? Knight told the Associated Press. Havlicek, who had a Hall of Fame career with the Boston Celtics, and Knight were teammates at Ohio State. ?As we talked we decided the money could be very useful to put our grandchildren through college.?

The auction, run by Steiner Sports Memorabilia runs through Dec. 5 and will feature Knight's rings from his three NCAA championships when he was coaching at Indiana ? the undefeated 1976 season, 1981 and 1987 ? and the gold medal he won as coach of the U.S. Olympic team in 1984.

?Sports people are nuts,? Knight said. ?Look at how much they would they pay for Babe Ruth's cap or Honus Wagner's card. I guess these are people who want to own things, things that are the results of what someone else did in sports. I was very pleased there was a market for something like this that my grandkids ? I have two grandsons ? and my wife has a niece and nephew, who would get good use out of this.?

Is there anything Knight won't part with?

?I have some things Ted Williams gave me,? Knight said. ?He was very special to me, so I will never part with those things.?
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Ohio State takes jab at Indiana with pregame message from Bob Knight
By Jeff Eisenberg | The Dagger ? Sun, Feb 10, 2013

Just before tipoff of Sunday's Big Ten clash between Ohio State and Indiana, the Buckeyes took a memorable jab at the visiting Hoosiers.

The video board at Value City Arena played a taped message from Bob Knight, the onetime Ohio State player who became the face of Indiana basketball while leading the Hoosiers to three national championships from 1971 to 2000. Said Knight to the delight of the Buckeyes crowd, "I used to coach a little bit, and there's nothing better than Ohio State basketball."

According to Indianapolis Star columnist Bob Kravitz, the quote from Knight was from a speech the former Indiana coach made years ago at halftime of an Ohio State game. In that case, give the Buckeyes credit for finding a clever time to use it to pump up its crowd and rub salt in old wounds that have yet to heal at Indiana.

Knight has severed all ties with Indiana since former school president Myles Brand controversially fired him 13 years ago. The final straws were a series of incidents that included an Indiana freshman accusing the coach of grabbing him by the arm and ex-player Neil Reed alleging Knight choked him during practice.

Indiana officials have since made repeated but unsuccessful attempts to mend fences with the man who brought the Hoosiers 11 Big Ten titles and won a school-record 661 games.

In 2009, Indiana inducted Knight into its athletic hall of fame but he declined to attend despite multiple written invitations from athletic director Fred Glass. Indiana coach Tom Crean has also reached out to Knight to no avail, even hiring former player Calbert Cheaney onto his staff.
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Bob Knight?s ESPN Contract is Up at Season?s End, and Almost Everyone Thinks He?s Done at ESPN
Jason McIntyre February 18th. 2013

Bobby Knight, the legendary Indiana basketball coach who has been an ESPN college basketball analyst since 2008, most likely will not be retained by the network when his contract is up at the end of the season, multiple sources told me.

ESPN confirmed his contract is expiring after the season, but a spokesman would only say ?no decisions have been made? about Knight?s future. The spokesman said Knight has a few games left in the regular season, perhaps an opening round NIT game, and the former coach will contribute to ESPN?s postseason coverage from the studio or perhaps on-site.

A call to Knight?s cell phone went unanswered. Of the five people I spoke with who are aware of Knight?s situation, four think ESPN won?t extend him; a fifth believes maybe it is Knight who will decide he?d rather walk away.

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Coach Bobby Knight on Why He?s So Unpleasant
Interview by ANDREW GOLDMAN
Published: March 1, 2013

Your book, ?The Power of Negative Thinking,? presents what could be considered an anti-Pollyanna vision of the world. I have to agree that eternally optimistic positive thinkers are incredibly annoying.
When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ?It will be O.K.? I would wonder, How the hell is it going to be O.K.? The worst word in the English language is ?hope.?

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Do you think you inherited this outlook from your family? I?m wondering if you were hugged a lot and told you could be president if you put your mind to it.
My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, ?If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.? I?m glad you asked me, because I don?t think they put this in the book. It?s supposed to be dedicated to my grandmother. Damn it ? I?m going to call them.

I?m surprised to hear that your dad was quiet. I assumed he was very loud.
No, no, no, no. I don?t think my dad ever raised his voice to my mother or to me, ever.

Then where did the yelling come from?
A big part of teaching is being emphatic. Maybe I?m right or wrong, but part of my approach was that when I said something, the kids understood exactly what I meant and what I wanted.

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Re: Knight has had an up-and-down tenure at the Worldwide Leader, and bottomed out this season with an embarrassing moment at Vanderbilt when he struggled to decipher the shot clock from the game clock, and announcer Rece Davis had to explain it to him.

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Knight appeared to fall asleep on the Gameday set in 2012 and I don?t believe he has been back since. Knight turns 73 in October, right before the start of the next college basketball season.

Just sayin': Everyone reaches a point somewhere in their career where they should retire.

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Over the past few days, there's been some questions about whether guys like Andrew Wiggins and Jabari Parker are ready for the NBA. Wiggins scored four points in a loss to Stanford, while Parker struggled to a 4 of 14 performance against Mercer.

While both players are going to be top-three NBA Draft picks and are certainly ready for the league, not everyone agrees

Legendary head coach Bob Knight is one of them, and he says he wouldn't draft a 19 or 20-year old.

"If I were involved with the NBA I wouldn't want a 19-year-old or a 20-year-old kid, to bring into all the travel and all the problems that exist in the NBA," Knight said on Mike and Mike Tuesday morning. "I would want a much more mature kid. I would want a kid that maybe I've been watching on another team and now he's 21, 22 years old instead of 18 or 19, and I might trade for that kid."

Knight also went on to discuss the college-NBA system -- and he said that it's as if the NBA "raped" college basketball.

"On top of it all, the NBA does a tremendous, gigantic disservice to college basketball. It's as though they've raped college basketball in my opinion," Knight said. "Major League Baseball has the best idea of all. Three years before they'll take a kid out of college, then they have a minor league system that they put the kids in. I'm sure that if the NBA followed the same thing, there would be a lot of kids in a minor league system that still were not good enough to play in the major NBA."

Entire article: http://www.cbssports.com/collegebas...0/bob-knight-nba-has-raped-college-basketball
 
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