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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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Hell yes I am proud Bobby Knight is a Buckeye He kicks much ass and does it the right way. You need to be mentally tough to play for him, but I think that is a good thing. If Matta-who was my 1st choice from the beginning,before he even put his name in the ring-was not available, BK would definitely have been my 2nd choice.
 
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Damn proud to call Bobby Knight a Buckeye. He is one of the best coaches of all time. Anybody that knows anything about basketball will tell you this. Bobby Knight attained his fame after leaving tOSU- but that just counts as another success story of our fine University to prepare young men and women of today to become the leaders of tomorrow. That goes for athletics, for coaching, for business, or any other field.
 
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I remember an interesting take on this from one of Woody's former players. The man was asked about the inevitable Woody-Knight analogy during Knight's final meltdown at IU. In response, he brought up the incident where Knight flew into a tantrum in front of the AD's secretary, picked up a vase off her desk and threw it at her, exploding it against the wall behind her.

The former player's take on this was that not only was Woody completely incapable of such actions off the field but that also he would have been the first one to walk up and coldcock any petty bully he caught acting in such a manner. That to me encapsulates the difference between Woody and Knight. Off the field, Woody was one of the most gracious, kindest and gentlest souls one could hope to meet. Knight was simply the same petulant bully.
 
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Bobby Knight is an unbelievable man and coach. I have read his autobiography and have an even greater respect for the man. He is a little over the top sometimes but he really cares about the kids he coaches, and he graduates kids like very few others. Damn straight I'm proud he is a buckeye.
 
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I don't think anyone has said he does not care, but some of his antics off and on the court have been questionable to say the least. He has had a great impact on many lives, but I am sure he has impacted a few negatively also. He is who he is. He will not change. Old School to a fault.
 
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I have nothing but respect for Coach Knight, and have always loved to hear him speak of Coach Hayes. The one thing that Coach Knight learned from Coach Hayes and based his entire career upon was the notion that his main goal in bringing a student-athlete to his University was to make him the best possible "man" when it was time for him to leave.
 
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Like someone else said, I link Knight to Indiana before I link him to Ohio State. But I'm not upset by what he does the way so many other people like to be.

He may act like a goof on the court. Actually since leaving Indiana, has he been in the news, much? I think a majority of the news was inflated by the media. They wanted stories so they wrote stories. It got pretty boring. Now that he's no longer at Indiana, maybe the media no longer cares. I don't know. (Maybe they do care, but I don't, so I haven't heard anything.)

Anyway, here's how I see it: If the guy was such a bad coach, how did he get players to go to Indiana? I would think that if he treats his players badly, he wouldn't be able to attract the players that would win him games. Since he won games, he must not be such a bad guy. And, from what I heard, he was HUGE on discipline. I remember that many years, his teams would make more free throws than their opponents would even attempt, throughout the season. He had a better-than-average graduation rate, and I don't remember hearing anything about his players getting in any trouble with the law.

So he yells (or yelled) at players, media, officials, etc. So what? Like I said, if the players didn't like him, they could transfer, or just not go to Indiana. They knew what they were getting into when they agreed to play for him.
 
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NJ-Buckeye said:
Valid.. I was referring to EFFORT... you are most certainly correct...
Click to expand...

No argument there he certainly works himself as hard as he does his players.

Now in his defense one thing that I think that is criminally under reported is that a lot of the BS he's pulled with the media is completely intentional and meant to draw attention away from his players.

That is quite admirable IMO and it's a shame that it seems to go unrecognized.

Bobby is a great coach and a good man who is a teacher of men beyond just being a basketball coach. He "gets it". But like us all he is tragically flawed...
 
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