Remembering Bob Knight | Coaches, Players on the Passing of Legendary Indiana Coach
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- Former players and Big Ten coaches remember legendary Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight.
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Bobby knight is my favorite coach from the big ten and I'm from Michigan
I grew up 45 minutes from assembly hall in the 80s and 90s. He will always be OUR GUY. Indiana has never recovered from firing him
One of the greatest coaches of any sport ever...The last old school coach...R.I.P Coach Knight...
He was a belligerent jerk... tolerated by Indiana because he won.
I grew up in Southern Indiana in the 80s. I absolutely loved Indiana Basketball and Coach Knight. Rest in Peace Coach.
Prepare for LIFE through the Education of Basketball..Prepare to be your best is the education I got from Coach.
THE General
Condolences to Bobby Knights family and friends, Indiana University and their fans from a Wisconsin Badger fan!!!!
Though I'm a fighting Illinois fan it was Coach Knight who made me love Big Ten Basketball ❤
Rest in Peace Coach Knight
Fighting back the tears all day on this loss.
a real legend i my home state of indiana he will be so missed
15 minutes into this, and you got me almost crying 😢. I loved watching him coach basketball.
And the stories about who he was off the court are even better. It's funny how you hear former players say that he was demanding but not mean or cruel in practice. He just expected a high standard which he should if the school is paying for your education and you represent it.
I could read the story of Landon Turner again and again. Former player of Knight's who he rode hard because he would party all week instead of focusing on basketball and frustrated Coach Knight to no end because he "couldn't think past tomorrow" and Coach thought he'd be a top five NBA draft pick if he applied himself. Turner was paralyzed in a car accident in 1981 and Coach left a fishing trip to be with Turner and his family and stayed with Turner for most of the four months he was hospitalized recovering. Knight also organized a fundraiser that raised $400,000 to pay for Turner's medical bills and became a father figure to him.
Best part though was when Knight's good friend Red Auerbach who Knight was selling Turner on with the Celtics drafted him with the last pick in the 1982 NBA draft as a symbolic gesture. Just class all around.
@@christophergargaro959 OMG! I don’t remember that one, so thank you so much for sharing that.
Coach. The General. Legend. Thank you, Coach Knight for everything that you did for Indiana basketball. 3 banners, should have been 4, but TV Ted Valentine and his whistle in 1992 wouldn't allow it. Coach Knight ran a clean program (no major NCAA violations) in an era before social media when it would have been much easier to get away with them. A great Coach, an even better man. Old school, and he loved America. My kind of guy. Thanks, again Coach. Rest In Peace... Robert Montgomery Knight 1940-2023.
Talked with Coach Knight after Indiana beat Wisconsin in Madison. He schooled kids asking for autographs, lifted the spirits of the aunt of one of his current players, and finally told me how excited he was to help a former point guard Jimmy Wisman find a job in Chicago. Knight was a teacher and an inspiration to many. He used his gift from God to the fullest!
Not surprised. I always loved the guy even though I never met him. And was bummed out when he was let go at Indiana. But understood why. Was so excited when he broke the wins record at Texas Tech on January 1st, 2007.
Thanks Coach Knight. Gone but never forgotten.
From a Michigan fan whose family was relocated to Indiana in the mid-90s, RIP Coach Knight.
As a kid that grew up in Indiana in the 70's I can tell you we knew this all along. Every father wanted his kid to play for Bobby Knight. He didn't need 3 future NBA players on the team to win a championship. He just turned them into a well oiled machine as they progressed through the program.
Advance a couple decades to the 90's and the man-to-man defense that he loved and the lack of a run and gun offense that capitalized on the 3 that was starting to become the new way along with the one and done and Bobby became a little less relevant.
That fact and the fact that parents were creating cupcakes for kids that had no chance of holding up to the pressure of perfection on the court and actually making good grades in class that Knight demanded started the downhill trend for Coach and college basketball.
A basketball team that executes effectively will always beat one who doesn't that has more talent. That's the beauty of the game and why Coach Knight was so successful. He stressed the little details that so often go overlooked fundamentally. Same with the name on the front of your jersey is what counts - not the name on the back.
Icon, legend, GOAT - all these terms apply simultaneously to Coach. RIP - there will never be another. Thank you for everything you did for basketball.
That’s why IU never wore names on the back of their jerseys.
I'll never forget watching him chuck a metal fold up chair on the court - this guy was fearless for his teams. We need more like him today.
Lol..Ugh NO we don't...He mentally and physically abused players and NOBODY needs that
Loved him while I was an IU student. Appreciated his genius and loved watching his teams play a game that I love. Great teams made of good players. Rest In peace, Coach Knight.
I remember watching his show on Sundays with the late Chuck Marlowe. He taught me things about the fundamentals of the game. I would go outside and practice what he taught after the show. I remember watching him explain how to do the chest pass and bounce pass. I still to this day at the age of 63 remember going outside and practice passing the basketball, always making sure my thumbs were pointing down after I released the ball just like Coach Knight had taught me. What an amazing coach. A huge part of Indiana basketball died yesterday. Thank you Coach Knight for everything you did for the game, for the state of Indiana, and for this 63 year old little boy growing up. Words just aren't enough..
I will never forget how coach knight treated, disrespected his player Neil Reid.
Neil passed away in 2012.
@@Bigbirdreese1600 Neil Reed passed away due to a congenital heart defect. It has nothing to do with Coach Knight or his time at Indiana University. He was teaching high school at the time of this passing. How about the over 90% of the players that adored him, and he would do anything to help them? Neil Reed? Gimme a break. Clueless..
Rest in peace native son.
I’ve never been a Big 10 fan, always a Big East guy… but coach Knight was simply the best to ever do it.
Same here.
@@nymike06 That's a great testament to how far his basketball prowess reached all parts of the country. New York knows their basketball.
@@dabneyoffermein595 Thank you!
How in the world could you not highlight the last undefeated basketball team in NCAA... I mean it's been almost 50 years that is seems to me a significant accomplishment
Whether you rooted for his teams or against his teams, he will be greatly missed. He’s on the Mt Rushmore of Head Coaches in all of college sports.
Absolutely. Wooden, Coach Knight and Coach K are the pinnacle.
Important detail around 13 minutes for people who focus Knight's controveries: the man set a rule following standard for his program higher than what the NCAA expected. He earned all his success by being the cleanest coach in the league.
I was there when it all started ... my first year as a student in Bloomington was Knight's 2nd year as coach ...
I was a gym rat and I played pickup games with guys from that undefeated '76 team ... I knew a few players who also told me stories about Knight ...
Having said that, CBS should have booked an interview with ME because the eulogies I've heard in the past 24 have all been mush ...
@@douglascarlson9006 And what can you tell us?
Also, the year Purdue got caught cheating, and IU came in second the Big Ten should’ve gave the Big Ten crown to IU but refused! Crazy!
@@robbyphillips1758Purdue never cheats.
If you call it clean to bully and intimidate refs, abuse and bully players, treat media members poorly, demean women… the list goes on.
A great coach who will be missed. Thanks for your time at OSU and Indiana. Rest in peace!
RIP Coach Bob Knight. I loved watching your IU teams do well here in Missouri. You were indeed a one of a kind, and better yet a great mentor. RIP Coach Knight!!!!
RIP Coach Knight
Coach Knight's legacy .... winner, basketball genius, and a mentor who helped his players become better men. Kids today need a Coach Knight.
I grew up watching coach knight every Sunday the pre game show on channel 4 then the game ect...the 🐐 IMO RIP
Thank you so much for this video. So so many memories I have of him as a fan. My heart is truly broken. I’ve been thinking of him a lot the last couple of years because I missed watching him coach basketball. Rest in peace big guy, you’ll ALWAYS be Indiana’s coach!
There will never be another human being like coach Knight, coach, you are sadly missed.😂
Great coach Rip😢😢
Wooden and Knight are both in the GOAT discussion. They had vastly different management styles. They also butted-heads. Both were brilliant teachers w/ 2 key ingredients: knowledge and honesty
HBO did a comprehensive special on John Wooden. He started coaching at UCLA, l believe in 1947. Seventeen years later he won his first national championship. Wooden's winning streak of national championships just happened to coincide with the arrival of San Gilbert a very wealthy booster who did whatever it took to get great players to come to UCLA. After Wooden left the UCLA program was put on probation.
Bob Knight arrived at Indiana in 1971 l believe. Within a few years he had Indiana in the final 4. By 1976 only 5 years in Knight won the national championship with his team that went undefeated, the last team to do so in college basketball. Knight won 3 national championships and 11 big ten titles without ever having a recruiting violation. I think that Knight is a better coach than Wooden for this reason. Knight obviously would have won with the players Wooden had. But it would be very hard to say that Wooden would have won with the players that Knight had. For his first 17 years Wooden had the kind of players Knight had and Wooden couldn't win until Sam Gilbert showed up and all of the sudden you had some of greatest players in the history of college basketball landing at UCLA.
Remember it took Wooden 17 years to win a national championship and this only happened after Sam Gilbert appeared on the scene.
Bingo-Knight was the greatest of BB coach of all-time, maybe the greatest coach/teacher in any sport of all-time.
@@michaeloboyle8863 YES!
@@gregoryphillips3969 Excellent point and very well said. Thank you.
I loved you and respected you since I was 7. I always saw the love you had for your student athletes and I knew they were students first. They were your family and I will always view you as an additional grandfather to me.
Love ya Coach! I'll never forget getting hit by cokes u threw up in the stands. Lol at the Hoosier classics when I was a very young girl. Rest in peace Bobby!❤
True coach
Go Hoosiers!! 🏀💯
RIP to The General.
Btown…. Great years. Great town. Great coach. BHSN85. Peace Love
As a Purdue fan we loved Knight and will miss him deeply he was a True Legend of all times
Those Keady and Knight teams always had great games. Keady was a good coach.
R.I.P. Bob Knight. One of a kind.
Amazing how so many uneducated people think of Coach Knight as an insecure bully. That is wrong on all counts . He was a hard liner with a genius mind , and an accomplished man who demanded the RESPECT he deserved. Thanks for the good times and great memories Coach Knight . It was Indiana basketball that ignited this Michigan born boys love of sports and competition. REST IN PEACE brother. They broke the mold after you sir.
Legend
At 71, having led a wonderful life filled with family, kids, friends, success and experiences. But I reflect and can honestly say that amongst the most passionate and fulfilling events was my absolute love of Hoosier basketball and Coach Knight. Thanks for the memories coach. You are the best
Respect
Rip
Coach Knight
As a Chicagoan i appreciated Coach Knight. Sorry for the family's loss and LL 🙏🙏
As a lifetime fan of Indiana Hoosier basketball, I loved seeing all the games he coached when I was a student at IU in the 1980's. He was such a legend and leader on campus and his legacy will live on forever. RIP Coach Knight. Thanks for the 3 National Championships and all the memories.
Great tribute. RIP Coach
Izzo and Knight...they epitomize B1G basketball.
Gene Keady... not so much.
Man, I loved watching Coach Keady when I was a kid. I'm an OSU alum, but damn did that guy have some good teams back in the day!
Great video. Thanks Coach Izzo. As always a class act.
That was very special indeed. Most never saw that side of BK
It's worth noting that Indiana hasn't won a national championship since Coach Knight's departure.
Will definitely miss him he was the standard for coaches and was a great teacher of the game and had very high IQ for the game look what he said about Michael Jordan before he played In the NBA and his graduation rate at Indiana and no NCAA violations I loved the big ten back in those days being from Milwaukee and routing for the Wisconsin Badgers the big ten was loaded with talent and was so competitive. RIP coach will miss you 🙏🏻
The General RIP
RIP 🌹 Sir!
The only people who didn't love or at least RESPECT Knight are weak minded and overly soft individuals- Knight truly was, is and always will be Indiana basketball- the GENERAL!! RIP Coach 🙏 ❤
11 B1G titles in 29 seasons at Indiana. In other words 37% of the time between 1971-2000, Indiana was B1G league champ. lol
Knight spoke the truth about Sleazeball Calipari.
Rip Mr. Knight, you were a true basketball HERO!!
I used to say there were two basketball coaches I would never want to face if I made a mental error on the court. One was Pat Summit. The other was Bobby Knight.
I don’t see any controversy. Anyone who grew up and played ball in the 70’s and early 80’s had coaches exactly like this. He was a product of his times and a different world…a world that I am so glad I grew up in. RIP Coach.
I agree..a little mental/physical discipline never hurt anyone.
I remember being overseas in the Army in the early seventies. Indiana was the greatest game on the radio. Because of that, when I came home I went to IU! I am a doctor, today, partly because of Bob Knight.
Robbie makes a great point. With all of his success he only had one NBA All Star. That’s elite coaching!
😢 RiP coach Knight you will be missed
the GOAT as far as coaching basketball...didn't need boosters, agents like other great coaches have needed at some point in their careers to win games...look at his 89 big ten champ roster, go to wikipedia page for that team, 4 names have their own page on their roster, the illinois team for that year has 9...that is scary, won more with less
Hmm. Goat? At being a narcissist.
Greatest coach ever lived
The great controversial, Hall of Fame coach, Bob Knight passes away. I always liked Bob Knight, but he did some things I hated. Like the "whip" incident. But my favorite player, Isaiah Lord Thomas, played for him & held him in high regard...that was enough for me. Coach Knight teams were always prepared & played tough. That's what I would like remember about the Hall of Fame coach.
Look up Alfred Kinsley and you will agree that Coach Knight was the least of the problems at Indiana. RIP Coach Knight
Lol that wasn’t an “incident.” His players bought him that whip & it was all staged. Clearly u didn’t know that.
Bobby Knight saved Isiah Thomas’s life. Likewise he helped form countless young black men into leaders who led their communities later in life. Yet we get caught up in stupidness.
@@johnvillella1087 👏👏
I grew up worshiping iu and coach my dad loved him as well he was complicated
Be sure to watch the Bob Knight golf outtakes video where he throws the club halfway across Indiana 😅
As a life long Illini fan I always hated Indiana. After growing up and realizing what an Icon Bob knight was I have come to respect him. Loss an Icon.
My High School Basketball Coach was similar in coaching style and Philosophy. The most impactful things I learn that have been useful for me in the last 20 years after High school are :
1) learning to put the needs of the team 1st. Teammates 2nd. Self third and be happy doing it.
2) Preparation and Practice
3) Self Pride in effort and doing your best. If you come up short in your quest it's OK has along has you gave it your best effort. Overcoming the fear of losing or looking bad and trying new things.
I agree..things sorely missed in this day of instant gratification "me" world.
Shocked they didn't interview Gene Keady
I am under the The legacy of the James Naismith Coaching Tree!! Yes I can trace my roots from Naismith to Phog Allen to Dean Smith to Larry Brown to Doug Moe to David Moe and Jeff Linder and then Me. Yes!! Having worked under Jeff and David at the same time in D2. Bob Knight was a guy I grew up wanting to be like Both him and Bill Parcells are guys I always wanted to be like. Coach K who was under him at Army, Coach K coached on the 88 and 87 Olympic team and pan am squads and my almnus Ron Slaymaker was coach K's asst on the 87 squad. Yes!! I have a long history of this game. And learned alot thank s to Slaymaker. Bob Knight did more for the game than people think. Slaymaker and Moe both told me that as a coach make sure your kids graduate and make sure your kids have class as citizens . They learned that about Bob Knight. Knight always made sure his kids went to Class carried themselves well while in school and did well for themselves. I absolutely love Bob Knights teaching
They’re right about the coaching personalities in the Big Ten in the 80s. It was awesome. Only better characters during that time was Pro Wrestling but these were real people. So many good memories. They forgot mention Bill Frieder and Steve Yoder, they both looked like sweaty tax accountants. 😂
The best coach to ever walk the courts. He beat the fab-five of Michigan, Michael Jordan's tarheels, and Shaq's LSU tigers with average players. He didn't have to buy players to win. He simply coached them.
I went to IU as an undergrad, and one of the main reasons was to be there for the IU basketball experience. Unfortunately, Coach got fired about 3 weeks into my first semester.
He had his part in BLUE CHIPS
I heard that Bobby Knight & Bill Parcells were roommates in West Point in the 60’s
Parcels was on his coaching staff at Army i believe
@@jeffdover6845 👍🏾
They were friends and helped each other out in their respective ports: Knight helped Parcells out on the football field; and Bill helped Bobby out on the basketball court.
Was one of several reporters who interviewed coach Knight the year they won a national title, 1987. It was in Cincinnati and they beat Duke, which I believe had Danny Ferry, and LSU, which had Nikita Wilson. It was the scenario where Coach banged his fist on the table and the phone flew up. Got a good photo of Steve Alford cutting down the net. I was two years out of college (Ohio University). Coach Knight gave Curry Kirkpatrick of Sports Illustrated a nod when he was on his way to the podium. I never realized how tall coach Knight was. Sad to see him leave this earth.
Sure I’m a fan of his. He is college basketball and put the Big 10 on the map. I have the book “ Knight Fall “ and the author Phil Berger is the typical media negative Nancy picking away at him. But he writes a book about him.
bardo had it way wrong on the indiana run to the championship in 1987, their lowest point total in that tournament was 74, the final game against syracuse, prolly the worst 40 minute game they had in that 6 game stretch..in the 2nd round game against auburn they scored a season high 107
I think in hindsight Syracuse was just that good.
I had no idea he played for Ohio State
He was a great player for us, too. Loved him.
@@beckyblack2333Indeed! I'm originally from Columbus and I appreciated the Big Ten Network showing Bobby Knight's interview with "the dean of central Ohio sportscasters, Jimmy Crum" during the 1960 national championship run. I like thinking of how, as a player under the great Fred Taylor, Bobby Knight would watch football practice with Woody Hayes. It's a shame they didn't mention that in this broadcast. Of course, I realize that they only had one hour.
And, now, all four of my all-time favorite Big Ten head coaches have died, all with Ohio State connections: 1. Woody Hayes. 2. Earle Bruce. 3. (Dare I say) Bo Schembechler. (Woody and he remained friends, and that's enough for me.) 4. Bobby Knight.
It's a testimony that Bobby Knight is the only basketball coach on that list. It's a testimony also to Woody Hayes that-in a manner of speaking-Earle Bruce, Bo Schembechler and Bobby Knight all came from his coaching tree.
This is quite a loss to "this great university of ours", as Coach Hayes said in his 1986 commencement address.
It's interesting to note that, although I never had the opportunity to meet Bobby Knight, yet in my family we always called him "Uncle Bobby", such was the respect we had for him.
Bob Knight and John Thompson, the HOF coach at Georgetown, came to be good friends and coached against each other twice (1-1). In one of those games, Big John walked down the sideline and lit into one of his players with profanity that may have even made The General blush. As he passed by Knight, Thompson muttered under his breath "Bet you never heard THAT combination (of words) before!"
Did they bury him face down?
The greatest player bobby knight ever coached knocked him out with a huge punch after 10 minutes in the first practice then quit the team.
Bobby Knight had the balls to tell Larry Bird he wouldn't amount to anything.
Couldn't stand his ego!!!
Knight, to his credit, later admitted that he handled Bird all wrong. He admitted he failed to understand that Bird came from a very poor background and was very insecure about having no money and not used to a big campus enviroment like Bloomington. Bird, like most others, came to respect Knight as he matured
As much as I Think Knight was the best coach of sports all time, I must say he would have won three more National Championships if he did not go fishing every morning and not pay attention to the great Larry Bird who left IU because of no attention from KNIGHT ...
What a crock...Bird left for family reasons. I know..my brother played for Bird's high school coach. You have no idea what you are talking about..so shut up on the subject.
Hah!! Micheal says he loves a challenge and be number one. Dean Smith and Bob Knight both Champs as player and coach. SMITH, KNIGHT, Jordan? Your training is not complete..lol
No none of these legacy coaches would ever stand a chance on any of professional team in this day and age. So anyone under the age of 50? Don't want to hear from you. You don't understand these coaches. You ruined the sports culture and you don't deserve to enjoy these memories
This was back in the day when coaches and fans actually played the sport.
Not video games and fantasy sports sitting in their mama's basement eating hot pockets pretending they're jocks 🙄
Who? Who is Bob Knight?
Addressing those who want to criticize Coach Knight, and that's fine, but 40 years from now, when dawn Stanley passes away, are you gonna bring up that she thought it was a good idea for men to take the place of women on her team?
He was a dinosaur, how many top players went to Indiana… Scott May and Isaiah 😂
He didn’t need top players to win
How many coaches have won 3 national titles? How many schools had top players and didn't win it all?
Well what about Larry Bird.
Bob Knight was an innovator regarding how long a Big Ten School can coverup the antics of a horrible person.
Penn State, Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern, and the Ohio State have much to be grateful for this trendsetter of placing the institution over the safety of the student athletes!
Well done Bob!!!
You need a Hurt Feelings Report, Lamb?
Just a guess... do you have purple hair? You obviously know very little about Coach Knight to call him a horrible person. You should take the time to educate yourself about things Coach did for some of his ex players before making such a hateful, ignorant comment. Shame on you.
Sorry, Jadlow😂
Good Riddance!
The exact karma and enegy is headed directly towards you, best of luck.
Let's be honest, this guy was a fkn bully ...he may have been a good coach, but his bullying tactics and the way he treated people was fkd up. He made a player walk home from the airport in the winter ..that's abuse..and Big Ten is celebrating this bully....smh
It's called discipline. Something that we could use a lot more of in this world.
@@Jay-im8jn fine line between discipline and bullying. Coach K players are very disciplined yet he didn't bully his players....and I would agree,people or players today could use some old skool discipline, but Bobby was a bully. Explain him bullying the AD , Members of the media etc...... and making Steve Alford walk home from the airport in the winter....that's called being a fkn bully.... gtfoh
The player in question was Steve Alford, and I have to believe that Bob Knight told the bus driver to give him a lift home, but not tell Alford that he (Knight) told the driver to do that.
Bob Knight was a bully and a control freak, a yeller and a screamer, a coach that wanted complete control with no one getting between him and his players. I can understand that.
@@jamesanthony5681 explain why he bullied the media, Indiana administration, referee's, choking his players..... Call a spade a spade..he was a bully to his players as well....
@@jamalammar9745
I can't explain it. And I'm not excusing it. He wasn't perfect.
But he gave his time to helping former players with medical problems, teaching classes at IU (unpaid), giving back to the community, other charitable works, etc. That's not mentioned in many of the comments that I'm reading.
I have more respect for Bob Knight than some of the slimy, two-faced coaches over the years that spoke of doing the right thing for their players, those so-called student-athletes, yet sat by and allowed them to take money under the table and skip classes.
As for the incident with Alford and making him walk home from the airport in the winter, don't believe that for a second. Knight TOLD the driver to make sure he got a ride home. Think about it: If something had happened to Steve Alford on the way home - a mugging, beaten up, possibly killed, etc.,, then Bob Knight's coaching career would have been finished at that point. Done. Give him credit for that at least. He wasn't a stupid man; in fact, he was extremely bright.
What a jerk. RIP bully.
Assembly Hall will be rowdy come opening day. 🫡
Jerk Basketball game Larry Bird Indiana State many more years