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02-08-2020 03:24 PM
Just saw former coach Bobby Knight being shown lots of love at the Indiana basketball game today. Standing ovation. He had quite a fiery yet successful coaching career. Sad to read he is in in declining health and has difficulty with his memory. He will turn 80 next October.
02-08-2020 03:42 PM
It was the first time Coach Knight has been back in Assembly Hall since he was fired in 2000. It was wonderful to see the former players there too. I had tears in my eyes when he came out. This past summer Coach & his wife moved back to Bloomington and he's seen around town eating quite often. I'm thankful for Quinn Buckner & Randy Wittman for being instrumental in getting coach back today. Former Purdue Coach Gene Keady is also at the IU/Purdue game. And, both he & Coach Knight will be honored at the Pacers game this evening.
02-08-2020 03:45 PM
I don't wish suffering on anyone. But Bobby Knight was a volatile man. He cursed at reporters, threw a chair across a court, chocked a player, and slapped another. He even kicked his own son during a game. He was verbally abusive to players as well. Knight was a successful coach but not a great person. I don't think I could stand up an applaud him.
02-08-2020 03:57 PM
I would hope my alma mater wouldn't tolerate a coach with that attitude. I am sure he is loved by many, but he is not my idea of what athletics should embody.
I, however, wish him no ill will.
02-08-2020 03:58 PM
@liliblu wrote:
I don't wish suffering on anyone. But Bobby Knight was a volatile man. He cursed at reporters, threw a chair across a court, chocked a player, and slapped another. He even kicked his own son during a game. He was verbally abusive to players as well. Knight was a successful coach but not a great person. I don't think I could stand up an applaud him.
Thank you.
He's one of the many stories we hear about where horrible people
who are ill or declining in health & suddenly we should forget
every wrong-doing they've ever done.
Nope.
Doesn't work that way.
I, too, couldn't stand up and applaud him. He's a creep.
02-08-2020 04:02 PM
Bobby Knight was a mean coach. However, hearing him as a commentator on a few games, he does know his basketball!
02-08-2020 04:11 PM
We are big Purdue fans (Boiler Up!) but even I had tears in my eyes. Not because I am a Bobby Knight fan, but because he looked frail and aged. He showed up and his players and the crowd were happy.
I'm happy Purdue won!
02-08-2020 04:56 PM
I don't think being old and frail gives a mean, nasty coach a pass.
He was horrible and abusive to his players and I recall when he kicked his own son.
No pity from me.
02-08-2020 05:05 PM
@Love my grandkids wrote:I don't think being old and frail gives a mean, nasty coach a pass.
He was horrible and abusive to his players and I recall when he kicked his own son.
No pity from me.
I didn't say I gave him a pass. I said I am not a fan. The only pity I have for him is his visible declining health.
But where was IU when he was abusive, kicking, throwing chairs, screaming? Looking the other way? That seemed to be a theme back then (I'm thinking of a certain church)
02-08-2020 05:49 PM
As a Purdue fan, I witnessed a lot of Knight's bad behavior. IU fans would always say, "yeah, but how many national championship flags hang in Mackey Arena?" As if that excused the chair tossing and abuse. . .
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