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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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well it was said on espn a few minutes ago that knight planned on retiring after this year. the reason he resigned was so his son could take over mid season, so that for next year he was already respected by the returning players and had a good vibe for the recruits he himself will bring in.
 
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gefootball10;1083808; said:
well it was said on espn a few minutes ago that knight planned on retiring after this year. the reason he resigned was so his son could take over mid season, so that for next year he was already respected by the returning players and had a good vibe for the recruits he himself will bring in.
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Not to mention that TT has a new Prez and according to Digger Phelps this may have been a move to protect his son.....
 
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And so that is it.

As one of the people here who has watched Knight as a Buckeye player and coach, I am filled with a sense of contradiction and of something that slipped away.

No doubt many will note that he shared Woody's temper and many of his values. Others will point to the contradictions (Forde at ESPN already) of a man who demanded that others adhere to values from a time gone by but then sometimes appeared to ignore those same values in his own life. Those contradictions are what define him to many.

He is defined in my mind as a Buckeye. A player on our great national championship team during the heyday of Fred Taylor's reign.

I hope that this does give his son time to settle in and get his coaching staff ready for next year. And I hope that Bobby Knight can rest and look back on the successes in his career. How I wish he had learned more from Fred Taylor about managing his personal behavior and it had ended differently and that his personality had not obscured his coaching genius.

Go well, Bobby Knight.
 
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Knight calls it a career
Legendary coach quits at Texas Tech; son will take over
Tuesday, February 5, 2008 3:15 AM



Associated Press
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Tony Gutierrez Associated Press
A succession plan has been in place since 2005 for Pat Knight to take over the coaching duties at Texas Tech from his father.




LUBBOCK, Texas -- Bob Knight left when he wanted to this time. Almost a decade after he was fired by Indiana, the school he led to three national championships, Knight walked away last night from college basketball.
The Texas Tech coach, known as much for his brilliance as his fiery temper, abruptly resigned and handed over the team to his son.
"He's ready," successor and son Pat Knight said during his weekly radio show. "He's tired."
It was a stunning midseason move by the winningest men's coach in major college basketball, who gave no hint a change was coming. Pat Knight, a Red Raiders assistant, was appointed his father's successor in 2005.



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Bob Hunter commentary: Knight still packs a punch, even heading into retirement

Tuesday, February 5, 2008 3:14 AM
By Bob Hunter


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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Throughout his coaching career, Bob Knight didn't see eye to eye with quite a few people.



Bob Knight's resignation as Texas Tech basketball coach triggered a flood of memories: brittle memories from the days when he was the ornery and almost-unbeatable Indiana coach. It's ironic that Knight would retire during the week of an Indiana-Ohio State game because he made the rivalry what it was. OSU fans were crazy to beat him and seldom did. Throughout the 1970s and '80s, the Buckeyes were always good, and because of Knight, usually not good enough. Knight's success, combined with his petulant behavior and his status as an OSU graduate, could be maddening to those on the Ohio State side.
He was as egotistical as he was brilliant, as funny as he was nasty, which is saying a lot. My mind conjures memories of a visit to his house with then- Dispatch sports editor Dick Otte, who covered Knight when he played basketball at Ohio State and counted him among his close friends. Knight was having some kind of party and showing a tape of the most recent Bob Knight Show on his VCR. He wanted everyone to see how he had dressed up a donkey in a Purdue blanket, introduced it as the Purdue athletic director and proceeded to ask it a series of embarrassing questions. The Big Ten didn't like that. Knight didn't care.



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Knight snapshot

Tuesday, February 5, 2008 3:13 AM




? Winningest men's coach in NCAA Division I history with 902 victories in 42 seasons ? Went 662-239 (.735) in 29 seasons as coach at Indiana, with three national championships (1976, 1981, 1987) and 11 Big Ten titles
? Coached last undefeated men's team in NCAA Division I (1976, 32-0 at Indiana)
? Was in seventh season at Texas Tech. Went 138-82 overall, 12-8 this season
? Coached six seasons at Army (1965 to 1971), went 102-50
 
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[quote='BusNative;108426;7]Unfortunately, he didn't elaborate, and I didn't press the issue. His family is very close to the TT athletic department, and I'm sensitive to that fact.[/quote]
Thus simultaneously puting to rest any unfounded rumors that 'BusNative was actually BuckCrazy! :wink2:
 
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I had the opportunity to be out today and ESPN radio did nothing but slam Bobby for hours.
" His legacy will be bad"
" Bobby was a hypocrite"
They never said one good thing about Bobby. :mad1:
 
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BucyrusBuckeye;1084376; said:
I had the opportunity to be out today and ESPN radio did nothing but slam Bobby for hours.
" His legacy will be bad"
" Bobby was a hypocrite"
They never said one good thing about Bobby. :mad1:
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It is Espin, so, take it with a grain or twenty of salt.... :biggrin:
 
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College Basketball just won't be the same without Coach Knight.

The wins speak for themself. The guy, to me, was Coach Hayes on the hardwood. Maybe everything wasn't as everyone would like them to be. Garbage from the media and outside sources pissed off Coach Hayes and they did the same with Coach Knight.

Leave the guy alone, let him Coach and mold his players, let him be a father figure to them and watch them graduate and become something in life other than Professional Athletes, and then years later listen to the players talk about what a great influence he was on them becoming "men." That pretty much sums up the legacy of Coach Hayes and Coach Knight.

And, by the way, Coach Knight is by FAR the greatest interview in the history of sports.

Peace.
 
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Tom Archdeacon: Much more to Knight than a harsh image


By Tom Archdeacon
Staff Writer

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Here's a Bob Knight story:
It was a January game in 1992 ? my first trip to Assembly Hall since I'd moved back up here from my sportswriting days in Florida ? and I was in for a surprise.
I'd ridden over to Bloomington, Ind., for the game between Ohio State and Knight's Indiana Hoosiers with fellow sportswriter Marc Katz.
When we picked up our passes, Marc got his on press row. Mine had no seat number, just "Southeast Corner" written on it.
The usher pointed me to the top of the arena, where ? behind a four-foot wall ? I found a lone metal chair with my name on it.
I had to stand to see the court and fans teased me about having really ticked somebody off. Then it dawned on me. Just before I'd left Miami, I'd written a column taking Knight to task for what he'd said about Puerto Ricans ? " ... The only thing they know how to do is grow bananas," ? in Sports Illustrated.



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