Bob Knight’s beef with Indiana was the result of an “emperor” losing power 

The lengths people will go to defend someone they don't know personally will never cease to puzzle me.

Bobby Knight is the prime example of what you can get away with in college sports if you're good at your job

I can’t think of a single thing Bob Knight didn’t have beef with

This isn't beef, this straight criminal

I was a massive basketball fan (still am), age 12 growing up in a small town about 45 minutes east of IU. My dad was obsessed with college basketball, calling it "real basketball". While I was a massive NBA and Reggie Miller fan. I always disliked Bob Knight, and even at my young age I could tell he was an unhinged coach. This story was huge local news here in Indiana, and I remember so many people defending him and downplaying all the stuff he did. Basketball, especially college basketball was royalty in Indiana. It was like one of my first times as a kid at seeing a large number of people get presented with actual facts, and them still passively ignoring them, all for the sake of their favorite team. This was probably my first time realizing the power of celebrity, and how some people really do become invincible. Or how we set standards or have a base set of morals we have for other people, that can be switched off if you happen to like that person, or attach your identity to a team. Ah I will stop rambling, this video brought up so many memories though. lol It was very well done and really explainedit all in a nice summarized way without leaving out anything important.

The player he choked during the Indiana practice is Neil Reed, he was my P.E. teacher my sophomore year of High School, his class of one of the few I actually liked, sadly he passed away from a heart attack in 2012 that was the summer before my senior year. R.I.P Mr. Reed

this is insane. he was an abusive tyrant for 30 years, faced mild consequences after years of being let off easy, and then disowned the school and wished death upon everyone responsible for the next 20 years. guy deserves no respect

Bob Knight is a classic case of three things: (i) the level to which people will forgive offenses of a reprehensible person if they have a particular talent that can be exploited, and (ii) the level to which power can be accumulated over time, to a point of being unchecked by anyone, even those technically in positions of authority above you, and (iii) the inability of a person to adapt to the world around them, growing ever indignant of change, and ever intractable in their stubbornness to repel change. Had he not been successful, and at Indiana in particular, he'd have been a vagabond coach along the likes of Larry Brown (but with repeated firings rather than resignations).

Bobby Knight was basically the Suge Knight of NCAA Basketball.

This wasn't a beef between Knight and Indiana U. It was a beef between Knight and being a decent human being.

Bob knight is indianas abusive ex that they just can’t let go of. Defending him is gross and unnecessary

The fact that THOUSANDS of students protested after ALL the stuff he did says a lot about them

I love every Secret Base video, but I LOVE a Clara Morris narrated Secret Base video. Funny, insightful writer with charisma and natural delivery.

My favorite part of Saturday, thank you Clara and co !!

Reed was a P.E teacher in my school, he was always one of the cool ones. One time in Senior year he found me and my friend ditching weights class and just told us to scram back to class instead of reporting us. RIP Mr. Reed.

That's the problem with being a tyrant. Once you can no longer dominate, you get kicked to the curb with the same lack of mercy you showed. Edit: RIP

If Indiana were still winning, he wouldn't have been fired. People are insane.

The donkey in Purdue gear is low key hilarious

“Nobody ever explained that to me”. ZERO TOLERANCE. Really 😅

Clara Morris will write and narrate my nonexistent storied sports career

Be careful Clara... You might get death threats from these delusional fans holding on to their success from 40 years ago...

The defense of an abusive coach reminds me of Penn State students protesting removing a statue of Joe Paterno for covering up extensive child sex abuse by his assistant coach.

“The Last Days of Knight” is an outstanding documentary and does an excellent job of highlighting what a terrible human being Bobby Knight is. Neil Reed deserved better.

The most important part of his 2020 comeback, Purdue won that game.

Love that last part by Clara, tells you more than anything how passionate fans would go to defend him, even if they weren’t even alive when he was fired

lmao the kind of coach you hope runs into someone like Latrell Sprewell xD

I put these on sometimes for background noise, as the video goes on, I'm thinking "How did this guy have his job for so long? Was this the 50s?". Imagine if this guy wasn't coaching young men on scholarships and had to deal with grown men who had leverage against him. He'd get his ass beat before the 2nd practice.

“Wiping himself and showing the team the toilet paper.” That is a wow and disgusting moment

I was an IU student from 2012-2016, but I’m originally from California, so I had no stake in the game. The way I saw it, he was a nut job whose firing was inevitable and a good move for the university. My convictions were hardened after the whole Mike Rice thing at Rutgers. However, I was one of the only ones who felt this way. Most people I spoke to, from the IU or Bloomington communities, still defended him and viewed him as the wronged party. The failings of the university in basketball were because he was fired (ignoring the lack of success in the late ‘90s). People still went wild when he’d come up on the big board before games, either as a photo or the clip of him throwing the chair. Then the opinion of him slowly started to change. I had heard that for a while, he hadn’t even come to Bloomington. But he slowly started to probe, having speaking events off campus. People started to see him as a crazy grudge-holding old man when he refused to come to Guyton’s Hall of Fame ceremony. That perception was amplified when he didn’t come to the ceremony for the 1976 team, despite literally everyone wanting him to. Even his son tried to tell him to come back. He also stumped for Trump in southern Indiana during the 2016 election, which turned off some of the IU and Bloomington population (Bloomington is possibly the most liberal city in the state). When he finally came back, a lot of the people I spoke to were a bit apathetic, like it was too little, too late. When Woodson, a Hoosier legend under Knight, was hired, that completed the healing. Now Bobby has attended practices. Meanwhile, Guyton is a trustee. Yet I’m sure most people still view him as a god there, ignoring all the things he did.

I just watched the ESPN doc on Knight, crazy coincidence that this come out so soon

Indiana fans are clowns for not disowning this guy. Knight never apologized and never tried to make things right. Fans accepted him back just because. Makes them look just as bad as him.

Nothing like a middle aged man who enjoys screaming at 18-22 year olds with abuse of authority

IU's relationship with Bob Knight is similar an abusive parent. No matter what that parent does (choking, punching, screaming), the kid still does everything to receive the love of said parent

It goes to show in sports, as long as you are winning, fans will put up with damn near anything

Have Knight coach Latrell Sprewell. We can take bets on who will get choked out and when it will happen.

Great video. A reason why he was this way goes back to his time as a college basketball player at Ohio State. He used to watch the football practices when Woody Hayes coached the team because he admired him. A lot of the stuff you saw with Bobby Knight, you saw with Woody Hayes. Supposedly he was warned not to follow Hayes' example too closely because eventually he was going to go too far, which is what happened when he punched an opposing Clemson player in the 1978 Gator Bowl and got fired as a result. As a matter of fact, you should do a Rewinder on that Woody Hayes incident.

I was a junior at IU the year that they went undefeated--the last team to do so--and he was infamous even then. He would veto concerts at Assembly Hall---even though he had absolutely no authority to do so---because he thought all the hippies would scar the arena's hardwood floor, which was covered by thick pads and tarp. President Ryan and AD Ralph Floyd let him get away with it. He rear-ended a student at a stoplight and blamed the kid for not getting off the light quickly enough. The student was given a ticket for reckless driving. Even the Bloomington Police were in his back pocket. There is no bigger fan of IU basketball than I, but I celebrated the day he was shown the door.

Well written. I used to be a Knight apologist in my youth but as I've grown, I just see him now only as the bully he is.

You can do an entire mini series on Bobby Knight Beef

I love Clara Morris!!! She is the absolute best and is now the face of this channel when I think about it😂😂😊😊

You know it's a good-ass video when the commentator straight-up calls one of the people involved a "monster" 2 minutes in.

can we appreciate how the music makes all of Secret Bases videos that much more intriguing to watch??

What kind of moral bankruptcy do you have to have to justify this man's behaviour in the name of sports?

Current IU student and IU basketball fan. I never really understood why people look past all this, but I can confirm many people in the area still very much so treat Bob Knight like royalty for some reason.

Hell yes. Great pick for a beef history. Makes me wanna throw a chair

Let's be honest. If in the last couple years before his firing he won a couple championships he'd never have been fired.

Bobby knight doing his best Donald Trump impression

Bobby Knight was a disgraceful bully that verbally and physically abused his players, coaches, fans, and referees. He was allowed to get away with it because he was a highly successful coach. Should have been fired 20 years before they actually did it. He's very similar to Woody Hayes!!

It's kind of sad to think that Knight might never have had consequences if the on court performance of the team stayed top tier we kind of see echoes with how urban meyer was able to employ awful abusers and assaulters and not have repurcussions and how many people protested when Joe Paterno was fired after Sandusky's evil crimes were revealed

This sort of thing is what happens when Winning is more important than Treating People With Basic Dignity.

I loved this episode. No one ever openly talks about this when you’re a fan of IU basketball, merely whispers or offhand comments.

The perfect example of an abusive Narcissist mixed with genius basketball IQ

Some NCAA fan bases are flat-out embarrassing. I still can't get over the behavior of Penn State football fans after the Jerry Sandusky scandal.

On the list you put grabbed a players jersey in the 70s?! I don’t think there’s anything wrong with grabbing a jersey to get attention. That isn’t hurting a soul

As long as Indiana was winning Big 10 and NCAA championships, the university was willing to put up with his behavior. When the Hoosiers started being less successful, the university was looking for a reason to get rid of Knight, and Bobby handed them the reason on a silver platter.

That's what's wrong with these kids! How dare they not want to be choked or disrespected?! Those kids are the definition of soft. We need more tough coaches like Bob Knight! Sarcasm. I'm all for coaches and people in authority holding their students/players accountable, but putting your hands on people is unnecessary. Mr Knight should be happy none of those young men introduced him to a nap.

Bobby Knight will go down in the end as one of the greatest embarrassments in sports history. He talked about making his teams disciplined and never had any himself. He was cruel to staff and members of the university throughout his career. And when he was called out for his appalling behavior he lashed out with even more cruelty. He is THE example of how winning is above all else in college sports and also the reason why this kind of behavior should never be tolerated ever again. He is a dinosaur. Let him and his ways be as extinct as they are.

Clara Morris is so damn good at this. 🐐

I used to be really good friends with his grandson. He told me personally a lot of the allegations against him were true and the university of Indiana let him get away with it until the stories got bigger and bigger. He also said his grandfather was really upset when ESPN sabotaged him in the documentary after working for them for many years. As he got older and suffers from dementia, his family thinks the media wanted to attack him when he can’t even defend himself anymore.

What a great day, Secret Base posted!

I don't know what I'm happy about a brief History a brief History involving bob Knight or that Clara is doing the commentary 😍😍😍👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

Reminds me of how Paterno was treated at Penn State and what eventually happened because of it

He ran a great furniture store. If you bought a sofa, he would throw in a chair.

Bro was pushing kids into trashcans 🤣🤣

Seems to me that the turning point for Indiana Basketball was their opening game of the season , when they lost to coach Pete Bell and his Western University. Of course that Weatern team DID have freshmen Shaq & Penny Hardaway to go along with Ricky Roe’s shooting, and they still had Tony playing his senior year (this was before the truth of Tony’s point shaving during his freshman year came to light). Indiana never really recovered from that, being that their best player at the time was Calvert Cheaney.

Lou Henson was the anti-Bob Knight. They coached together for over 20 years during the peak of the Illinois-Indiana rivalry. While Knight had more accolades, Henson is still revered today while Knight is increasingly remembered as the shitbag he was. Some guys are overly competitive or passionate, and we give them a pass like Jordan. However Knight time and time again just went too far.

Wow he brought a whip to his team, all Hell naw! I remember the rape comment, him wiping his butt showing the team. He was definitely a pos

Former Duke Coach K's mentor was Bobby Knight at Army.

"Allegedly shoved an LSU fan into a garbage can" is hilarious tho

A dry aged Kobe wagyu steak worthy of a beef history. Legendary feud between Bobby Knight and IU administration. The chair is still one of my favorite moments.

Knight is a top 5 coach in college basketball history, that never committed any violations (that we know of), graduated his players and got the absolute best out of there abilities. But the guy, his temper and his ego, was out of control and enabled for too long at that University. He got what he deserved.

Love the Clara content, keep em coming

After seeing all the Indiana students protest Knight’s firing, maybe they should have dressed up the donkey in Indiana apparel instead of Purdue.

I'm a simple man, I see beef I click

I’m currently working as an intern in Indianapolis & recently had a Bob Knight debate with a coworker. It amazed me how an otherwise very logical and intelligent person had no problem handwaving and minimizing his abuse and aggression due to IU basketball fandom.

what a legend

Always enjoy a secret base video and one where we hear from Clara. Didn't know any of this Indiana basketball history. Really surprised that 20 years later they still were so excited to have this couch come back with all of that. More so his extremely long beef with the school rather than all the stuff he did while at the school, unfortunately.

It’s just how we are culturally in the US. Character is nice to have, but winning/being successful is really the only thing that truly matters. And if you’re good enough at what you do, there’s very little you can do wrong. People will make all sorts of excuses all day for you and attack the messengers. He only got canned because he fell off.

Oh this is a Beef History I've been waiting years for.

Bobby Knight is a good example of someone who I like, but don't respect. Meaning, I was always entertained by him but I KNEW he was a bad person even when I was young enough to know who he was. He always smacked me of someone who needed help. Perfect example of a lolcow who happened to be successful. Cuz trust me, Knight has everything necessary to be a lolcow.

As someone who grew up in Indiana with Purdue fans for parents, I never heard anything but good things about Bobby Knight. My dad watched the game where he threw true chair when it was on tv. He was a really really problematic person, but if you win basketball games in Indiana, Hoosiers will love you forever and ever

Something y’all didn’t mention is that one of his players, Mike Woodson, is the coach now. That’s part of the reason that He came back, is because the Crean and Miller instructions had effectively forced a “Bob Knight” call back, so they went with Woodson. And he’s been a huge reason that Knight’s reintegrated with IU B-Ball.

Feels like this episode was less a beef between Knight and Indiana, and more Knight vs The very concept of accountability.

ahh yes, the famous Chair Jordan

After Indiana Fired Him He Went To Coach At Texas Tech !!! HOW CAN YOU LEAVE THAT OUT ????

Great video as always. It's unfortunate that the investigations only started once the basketball team struggled. It makes you wonder, if Indiana had continued to be a top 10 program and win national championships would there ever been an investigation? Could he have just kept abusing players for another decade?

The fact that he is still loved today by so many is shocking. With people getting offended so easily and for him to do criminal stuff, yet still be a hero is the most incredible thing ever

Nobody ever explained what "zero tolerance" means is an incredible thing to say on TV

I swear Bobby Knight use to scare the hell outta me back in the late 80s early 90s glad he was NEVER my coach😳

I was a student at IU when he came back for the 2020 game (which we lost lol) and I was definitely excited and most people I knew were too. I think it had a lot to do with people hearing about Knight from their parents, and only getting the good parts. None of us even remembered him getting fired or looked further into why. Nowadays though, anytime I see pictures of him at practice (apparently he was going every week for the 22-23 season) it's like this weird figure that the program doesn't want to shun, but doesn't really want to be in the spotlight. I'm sure the new approach has to do a lot with one of his players being the HC and the new president who desperately wants to seem "cool".

How could you be a fan of this guy? I'm a blazers fan and if damning news like this came out about my childhood heroes it would change every thing. Kind of like how Utah fans feel about Stockton and Malone now a days.

If ANYBODY was ever in need of anger management.....this was the poster child.

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Untouched until the success vanishes...classic USA.

Thank you so much!

rip to a great coach and a horrible person

John Stamos in that Disney show plays an angry coach who got fired for throwing a chair. The character seems to be loosely inspired by this coach.

Sorry, double post: I also wanted to point out that Michael Lewis, the player who did the most to smear Neil Reed’s reputation and defend Bobby Knight, went on to a successful coaching career and has never publicly apologized for his verbal attacks on Reed.

lol you handled that with class! love the outro!

The lengths people will go to to defend and worship a clearly-awful person...