OT: Knight Returns
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Bob Knight is the greatest college basketball coach in history. He won championships without top quality NBA talent like other coaches. Look at the rosters of his 3 championship teams. Outside of Isiah Thomas there is no one who did much in the NBA with only Quinn Buckner being an everyday player.
With the turnovers IU had and the late first half run Purdue went on Miller needed to keep his team in the locker room and get on their asses about how they were playing. It didn't help since they lost.
Bob Knight met with the current IU players in the locker room before the game.
Miller wasn't tone deaf, he played a role in making that celebration of the 1980 team happen.
Ok, regardless of pregame, I guess getting their asses chewed at halftime of this singular game was more important than a lifetime memory.
... Who won three national championships during his tenure. And without Larry Joe Bird. More than we have in our history.
At a high school team camp in the Poconos in the mid- to late-60’s, was coached for a week by Bobby Knight and then Fordham coach Johnny Bach. Defensive and conditioning drills run by Knight were enough that even the most eager camper had thoughts of heading home early. This was no vacation.
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I actually attended a two day, one man clinic with Coach Knight up at Marist in the fall of 1986.
What an eye opening, great experience.
What an eye opening, great experience.
I think he’s kind of a jerk, but the guy could coach. When he was at Texas Tech, he had a reality show on ESPN for a walk on spot on the team. Lot of cool footage of him teaching fundamentals and I was blown away at how clear and concise he made all the concepts he was trying to teach.
Different generation. He was born in 1940 and his whole young life he must have been coached by WWII vets where the whole generation went through boot camp and understood discipline. Knight played at Ohio State for a coach who was a veteran from the Air Force.
The boot camp mentality was all over America for generations.. and I think the Mike Rice scandal was a product of it. Clearly.. it is almost gone completely.
Very well put!!
My high school basketball coach was a vet of Okinawa and a former Paris Island D.I. No lie.
Tying these two together, I was at a Hoop Group basketball camp about 20 years ago where Rice coached, and his station was always a bizarre (but tough in a good way) throwback.
A couple of other Knight notes. In 29 years at Indiana zero NCAA sanctions.
Also players who stayed for 4 years graduated at a rate of 98%.
ANY coach would love to boast about that.
Also players who stayed for 4 years graduated at a rate of 98%.
ANY coach would love to boast about that.
