a) I’m not feeling Bobby Knight, and, being from Indiana, can tell a few personal stories.

b) I feel the I’m not feeling you blog.

:-)

I can’t argue Bobby Knight’s last scene. Fuck is the most versatile word in the English language.

I’m not feeling Bobby Knight, and, being from Indiana, can tell a few personal stories.

Please do share.  And, to be clear, I think Bobby Knight is an asshole but is fascinating in a car crash-kinda way.  Other things or people I’ve been fascinated by during certain periods in my life: 9/11 Republicans, the Manson family, marzipan, PUMAs, and how much people cry on The Next Food Network Star.

Probably not much different than what is in the book (I’ve not read it) but a close friend worked in his program at IU for five years. I heard a few eye-witness accounts of what the team practices were like; a lot of vehemence (probably like what’s in the video above) and humiliation, usually targeting a weaker player. Apparently this was Knight’s way of making an example of how a player shouldn’t be. To Knight’s credit, however, I’m almost certain he never waterboarded anyone; at least I never heard those stories.

By the way, I went to Purdue, so I was required to hate the fucker. I saw the undefeated team (Buckner, May, Green, etc) play at Mackey Arena, guess it was early ‘76. I confess I was in complete awe of that team. Knight hadn’t turned into an animal by then, or at least he hadn’t gone public with his ugly personality.

Who isn’t enthralled by 9/11 republicans, puma, and Coach Knight? 

A few years ago he got into an argument with the Chancellor of Texas Tech (or president or somebody) at a salad bar restaurant in Lubbock and threw lettuce at him.

On a positive note, the Knights quietly brought our library out of the bronze age.  I think he donated/raised about 300k.  I heard he did a lot at IU, too. 

Bored Guy
Texas Tech University ‘02

I went to and played at Wake Forest during…let’s just say the Timmy D era.  And I remember we were I believe it was the sweet 16 in Tuscon, AZ.  And Indiana was in the same region.  Every team gets like 45 minutes on the big board to practice, walk through or whatever…mostly JUST WALK-THROUGH.  But ole Bobby had to go hard…overrunning the time, eating into ours; and yelling obscenities at players for god knows what!
In my personal opinion, it wasn’t for anything major like:
dropping passes, missing lay-ups, defensive lapses, not boxing-out.  I thought it was a joke frankly…they went into their locker room, which most teams didn’t need because it was a “walk-through” we thought nothing else of it.
Until we hop into our charter and about half-way back to our hotel (which was about 3 miles at least from the campus arena) we see all these cats with cheesy red IU sweaters and Khakis WALKING on the side of the road.  Now I don’t know if they walked the whole way or not but I wouldn’t have walked ONE STEP!

In the end I can’t say much they made it out of the region…it was downhill for him after that season though, and we lost to the lane flopping guards of Stanford (rivaled only by Argentine futbolers)

...not too bitter

MH, I fixed the link. 

Great story.  Thanks for sharing.  That rocks that you played for WF. Hey, if we take on Instaputz in a basketball game, can I get dibs on you for first draft now?

Oh yeah, Manamongst, those who dared defy Knight in any way were either kicked off the squad or forced to quit. Suffer the humiliation or be gone. And there were many who left the team. I always questioned the big Knight supporters (almost everyone in this redneck state) why success had to have such a cost; dead bodies in his wake everywhere. They didn’t care what the cost, just like the current admin who hired Samson.

There was another famous coach from Indiana, who didn’t have such a downside. His name was John Wooden. Although, come to think of it, Wooden was an All-American player at Purdue, which explains much! :)