Bobby Knight has passed away
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I personally watched this guy throw a folding chair across a basketball floor during a game. He was one of kind. RIP Bobby.
I watched it as well! In real time!
I as well. Live on TV. I knew Ted Kitchel, he was gone by then. But Ted told us quite a bit, so I got addicted to watching Bobby and his antics. He was an odd duck. Some of the crap he pulled on the players and around IU was pretty crazy.
I don't look at that as ever defining the legacy Bobby Knight left at IU though. It's sad that the media was out to hang Bobby Knight and this was the incident used to destroy an incredible coach.
Through my many years, I've watched many coaches having uncharacteristic displays of impassioned angst and loosing it that they soon regretted. In particular, I remember OSU football coach Woody Hayes punching the opposing team player after intercepting the ball. That so-called punch, if you can call it that, ended his career and legacy at OSU. Michigan head basketball coach Juwan Howard did the same when he threw a punch and hit a WI assistant coach. There was even a previous altercation that Howard was involved in. The precedent of Howard's inappropriate acts compared to Bobby Knight and Woody Hayes was far worse. Yet, Juwan Howard was not immediately fired, but suspended.
Bobby Knight did far less than that....
After a technical foul called on Bobby Knight, the players all went to the other end of the court and this is when coach Knight threw a plastic chair across the gym floor with no one near. By the time the chair reached the other side of the gym, it's momentum had greatly slowed and was stopped by waiting hands. The media used it as a feeding frenzy that ended Knight's career at IU.
It's a damn shame.....the University of Indiana has never been the same without him.
Me too, against Purdue.
"When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!"
Bobby Knight
Rest in peace good sir!
Greatest no bullshit coach ever..
Baffling I guess.
Knight had Altimeters, too bad what an entertainer!
Clueless, don't follow sports of any kind. I had a college prof tell me that if my IQ was 30 points lower that I would probably be into it..
I had a teacher tell me is my IQ was 30 points higher, I would be a toad! I don't think she was impressed with my grades! KEK
Now look, you're a frog! So close.
This is the type of sanctimonious comment that pegs you as a leftist.
because this person does not sportsball?
I couldnt care less if the poster watches sports. I dont watch any sports myself. The comment was sanctimonious bullshit. Hurr durrr Im smarter than anyone who would watch sports. Fucking leftist talk. You dont like it dont fucking watch it but dont accuse people of stupidity just because they do. Which btw includes the majority of Americans. The comment was the definition of sanctimonious and your butthurt response twisting the meaning of what I said says a lot about you.
ok. sorry you take shit too personal. but realize some people just dont find sportsball entertaining. also, by your comment here, do you feel better than people like me? again, sorry you are so butthurt yourself you need to project on to me in your anger. says a lot about you as well.
I didnt take it personally. How could I when I dont give a shit about sports? I was calling bullshit on a bullshit statement.
Bar for being into is only 20 iq points so.... you squeaked by.