Bobby Knight has thrown his last chair

[Saraste]

Passed away at the age of 83.

[oldgoldy97]

Legend. RIP

[majestik101]

Now he can choke Neil Reed in heaven.

R.I.P.

[duwal]

feared something might be going on as past month he stopped signing TTM. RIP to an entertaining guy

[ninjacookies]

Now he can choke Neil Reed in heaven.



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[TheHeel]

Guy was a bully. I got nothing else to say about him.

[bradjames12]

With how he looked coming back to the IU basketball floor a few years ago I'm honestly surprised it took this long.. his health hasn't been good for quite some time..

[the mesiah]

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[Boo]

https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1571562

[mikejones]

RIP. Hoosier Daddy.

[pingbling23]

Old school coach. Basketball needs more of them. RIP

[jdandns]

Bob's not gonna like it...

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[williemayshayes]

As a Hoosier who lived in his prime, he was as loved as anyone in the state. I'd say a greater influence than Peyton Manning. As disliked he was by Purdue fans, his motion offense and defensive philosophy was copied by thousands and thousands of coaches across the state and country.

Yesterday, my 7th grade girls were practicing cutting and screening away from the ball, a staple in the basics of his motion offense.

He's remembered for the chairs, whips, tirades, etc and that's fair, but he's also responsible for more basketball philosophy/strategy than any other coach in history.

[BostonNut]

RIP.

He would have been "cancelled" in a nano-second in today's powderpuff world.

[Noles939913]

I always though this was a wild stat about Knight:

“Knight's coaching also included a firm emphasis on academics. All but four of his four-year players completed their degrees, or nearly 98 percent. Nearly 80 percent of his players graduated; this figure was much higher than the national average of 42 percent for Division 1 schools.”

[21Pittsburgh58]

I always though this was a wild stat about Knight:

“Knight's coaching also included a firm emphasis on academics. All but four of his four-year players completed their degrees, or nearly 98 percent. Nearly 80 percent of his players graduated; this figure was much higher than the national average of 42 percent for Division 1 schools.”

Wait. He bullied his student athletes to get smarter and set them up for the real world if basketball didn't work out?

Those same student athletes that knew EXACTLY the type of coach they were getting when they signed their intent?

What a bully!

This was not directed at you because that is a WILD statistic! This was to the poster who called him a bully with nothing else to say. Good, your opinion on him is noted (and pathetic).

RIP Coach Knight

[asujbl]

It would be an honor if my kid got coached by Bobby Knight

Blowout is ridiculous

[h00perstar34]

He did say to bury him upside down for his haters when his time on earth had passed lol

Good guy, great coach. My high school coach who passed 3 years ago looked like him, had his same maneurysms and the red sweater to match, literally Bobby Knight to a tee.

Sad day.

[Noles939913]

Wait. He bullied his student athletes to get smarter and set them up for the real world if basketball didn't work out?

Those same student athletes that knew EXACTLY the type of coach they were getting when they signed their intent?

What a bully!

This was not directed at you because that is a WILD statistic! This was to the poster who called him a bully with nothing else to say. Good, your opinion on him is noted (and pathetic).

RIP Coach Knight

Here’s a pretty good quote:

“In 1984, after coaching Michael Jordan on the gold-medal-winning U.S. Olympic team, Portland general manager Stu Inman called Knight for advice on the upcoming NBA draft. Knight counseled Inman to take Jordan, calling Jordan the best basketball player he had ever seen. Inman told Knight the Blazers already had Clyde Drexler and needed a center. Knight responded, "Then play Jordan at center."

[nbahobbyaddict]

Old school coach. Basketball needs more of them. RIP

Yes well said.

[Retired hobbist]

RIP.

He would have been "cancelled" in a nano-second in today's powderpuff world.

He was cancelled twenty years ago but that was after decades of doing similar incidents.

Didn't Rutgers have a coach who yelled expletives at his players and he got cancelled a few years back?

Back to Knight he will be known for his bad acts as much as the fact he was a winner and had integrity as far as I know he never was involved in shady payments to players or street agents when that has been going on in one form or another since at least the 50's.