Dan Patrick-Who was your big rival back then? Bob Knight-Whoever we were playing on that given day was our biggest rival!!! I didn’t care much of how he treated his players, but that was a brilliant answer to the question!!! He definitely was a stickler to detail!!!
Great coach , couldn’t be successful in the snowflake generation of today . He developed successful people that graduated and were good citizens. All the best coach .
At different times in the '80s and '90s when I was a CBB fanatic, each of them had a time when they were my favorite head coaches, too. The thing that was similar for these two old-school legends was neither was flexible enough to adapt to the changes in the game. Bobby Knight's X's and O's acumen was great, but there was an argument that he could've modified his coaching philosophy and moved from his motion offense and man-to-man defensive concepts -- like Coach K eventually -- did to make better use of the changes in the rules and players. Recruiting and relationship with his players were also aspects of his coaching that not only did he try to stay the course in and NOT change his tactics, but in each of those elements he gradually got worse in over time and got worse results.
Explain to us Great Wonder how Knight should’ve “modified his style of play”. Please tell me the advice you’d have for the basketball genius that is Bob Knight. Also, you’re right, Knight never changes “tactics” in recruiting players or in his relationships with them. Why? Because with recruiting Knight never tried to recruit every Mcdonald’s all-American in the country, he was interested only in young men he felt could work well within his system. Knight never got the players year in and year out that Dean Smith got. Knight was still more successful in winning championships and graduating players than Smith ever was. But Smith can say he had more kids turn pro👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Yippy! As far as his relationships with players, yeah, that never changed because Knight wasn’t and isn’t a fake. He was who he was. That’s admirable, not flawed.
i hope to hear this tomorrow.. i find it interesting that you have a bobby knight doll/puppet behind you to the right while you talk to him.. he really seemed to have a great deal of respect for you.. i can understand how he may have hurt you over the years, but as vitale said, he had a heart of gold deep down.
Great coach, probably not appealing to today's crowd. He reminds me of my high school football coach. When I joined the military, my drill instructors had nothing on him.
