Jay Bilas remembers Hall of Fame coach Bob Knight | Get Up 

As someone who grew up in Indiana and a Hoosier fan, it was amazing how Coach permeated sports and popular culture. His ethics about what it meant to be a leader and a team were complicated and divided opinion. My uncle played college basketball in the state and didn't care for Knight and neither did I after some of his behavior in the late 90s, but everyone respected his basketball brilliance. His approach is old school. It would be interesting to dive into more of what that mentality means. I loved watching the Hoosier teams of the early 90s.

Thank you, Jay, I've respected you from your playing days through your analyst days.I 'm a Bloomington resident, have been a Hoosier all my life, and want to say thank you for those good words. I, and Coach, couldn't expect any less from you. Much respect.

While I'm a die hard unc basketball fan I still have respect for coach Bob knight who was a good coach while he had controversy in his career his career wins 902 wins 6th all time Somehow amid his controversy he was a basketball coach who worked hard for army and Indiana and Texas tech he was a legend

as a boilermaker i’m sad for the knight family and friends

Do people know the story of how Knight and his former captain at Army, Coach K, fell out? After K had been coach at Duke for several years and gone to multiple Final 4's, his team was playing in the upcoming national semis against Indiana (1992). A reporter at a press conference asked K a question like did he wish he could call Knight for advice on strategy for the upcoming game? K said that he had been coaching for a good while and was capable of coming up with his own game plan. Knight took that as a personal insult, and after Duke won the game he gave K a perfunctory handshake and brushed past him. K was devastated. He tried to repair the relationship many times, including asking Knight to introduce him when he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. But Knight still couldn't get over it. Years later there was a reunion of an Army team and Knight wouldn't even acknowledge him. Coach K told his family that's it, I'm finally done with him.

I heard that Bobby Knight & Bill Parcells were roommates in West Point in the 60’s

Jay 100% right on... for me, Bob was someone i really respected... and admired.. (except seat belt part)

Jay summed it up perfectly. People are entitled to think what they want about someone. That’s the problem with this world. Especially when it comes to MJ-LeBron debates etc

HAD to show him throwing the chair though 🙏🏾. True Legend, Coach, Icon in College Basketball 💯. R.I.P. Denny Crum (Louisville). These are a couple of my All-Time favs ❤️❤️❤️

Well said Mr. Bilas! Well done guys.

THANK YOU, JAY BILAS!

The best to ever do it

Bilas on Knight's former players at Army - "they revered him". Like Coach K, who told his family a few years ago after Knight shunned him at a team reunion that he was finally done with him?

R.I.P. Bob Knight- General Started coaching @ Army 1976 last team Undefeated 3 National championships Indiana Coached USA to an Olympic Gold 1984 God bless

RIP RMK!BEST COACH EVER!

Other than Hoosier fans and I get it, if it’s your guy you view the world through rose colored glasses, everyone else living in the real world will remember Coach for his lack of self control and bullying everyone with whom he disagreed. When you have a temper you can’t or won’t control it negates all the good things you might do for others or achieve. Same for Woody Hayes. Did SO much in the area if philanthropy that will never be known or remembered. Just a coach that was always in trouble for blowing his top.

My boyfreind was recruited by Coah Knight in the 70's and though he went to FSU he always loved Kingight as a teacher, coach, and a man for all seasons and sometimes without reSON BUT THOUGH HE IS not for everyone as a woman i think he was great for young men.

Love the Doc Councilman reference.

Dang did they cut the segment video off, where's the rest of it

Prepare for LIFE through the Education of Basketball..Prepare to be your best is the education I got from Coach. Just ask Micheal..Be like Mike..I LOVE you both...Prepare yourself to achieve your best at anything...Be like "KNIGHT"!!!

Everyone needs to STFU about, “how will his controversies be portrayed when it comes to how he will be remembered?” I’ve heard that line or something like it, 500 times today. 2 words for you. WHO CARES. Get over it. Every single one of us have done things in life we aren’t proud of. Don’t FOR A SECOND think that you’re better than someone just bc your “dirty little secrets” haven’t been brought to light. Remember the man for what he was. He was greatness. Period.

Also believe Great coaches can coach just about anything

Bob Knight and fishing

I have to say, I was thoroughly disgusted at the behavior of the Around the Horn cast of reporters today...they were literally salivating to take shots at Knight's legacy...all of them sounding like tiny children complaining that the bad old man was mean to them. The guys not even cold yet, and they're ripping into him, now that he's no longer a threat...even Tony had to do a kind of mea culpa for the panel at the end...in direct opposition, Mike and Tony later handled the whole thing with the utmost class and honesty on PTI...

I've always known about the undefeated season, but the Showtime documentary really showed how difficult it was to achieve it, even in 1976. Kentucky made it to the Final Four undefeated a few years ago and Gonzaga was in the title game with an undefeated record, but Indiana did it in the Big Ten, not a weak conference. Still, my memories of Bobby Knight are mostly from all the coverage that surrounded him when he got fired by Indiana, so I always think of the choking video whenever his name comes up. There was also the ESPN film, A Season on the Brink, which reinforced that image of him.

Knight's death made me think of Neil Reed, his former player he choked, dying of a heart attack at age 36.

Complex, petulant, kind, astute, unpleasant, emotional, loyal, mean, brilliant, and irascible.

RIP COACH NIGHT PRAYERS 🙏 FOR FAMILY & FRIENDS

Knight won 3 ncaa national championships 🏆. You can’t deny he was a coaching savant. But let’s keep it a buck. I don’t care about the chair 🪑 throwing. It was the abuse of his players that was unacceptable.!! May he R.I.P

Knight, years ago on the Dan Patrick show about Myles Brand and the rest of the administration at Indiana that fired him: “I have absolutely no respect whatsoever for those people. I have no interest in ever going back to that university. “I hope they're all dead.” Another Knight quote: "I want them to bury me face down, and my critics can kiss my ass." Good riddance.

RIP Bobby

When I found out Bobby Knight died I got emotional I cried.

Isaiah should have zero say in the legacy of Bobby Knight. He was an NBA player and superstar. He got no hard coaching. Jay is being diplomatic and weak as typical. Bobby Knight was a narcissist and he choked and abused college athletes. He should be remembered for that as well

Tough guy. Great coach no doubt. However, he lost Larry Legend and never realized this guy is so good it’s scary. IU won in 1976. Imagine 77, 78 and 79 with Larry Legend. He never reached out to him… just a shy poor kid. A bit arrogant I believe. Just making a point as many do not want to remember this.

Really tried to pass his ABUSIVE coaching ways. Literally had a 30 for 30 on this bully of a coach. Knight is the example you can get a way with anything long as you win. You should have FUN playing basketball as a STUDENT-ATHLETE. Not literally FEAR your coach, for your LIFE making basketball decisions you’re supposed to enjoy.

Knowing Knight with perfect 20/20 hindsight, I would still crawl on broken glass to play for him.

Jay Bilas clearly has no morals.

Let's also add a little footnote to how abusive this man was to SOME of his players! 😂😂😂. #fact . America you are a JOKE🙌

Hah!! Micheal says he loves a challenge and be number one. Dean Smith and Bob Knight both Champs as player and coach. SMITH, KNIGHT, Jordan? Your training is not complete..lol

He was indeed a rarity: A very successful arrogant, pompous bully, but a violent and vulgar bully nonetheless.

Jay as a Tarheel fan, I have a lot of respect for you as an analyst, even if you are a dOokiE. But you do yourself a disservice, trying to push this narrative that Knight is worthy of all this faux praise. You and ESPN and every other news outlet, sport show, etc... pushing this narrative, is nothing more than HYPOCRISY at the highest level!

He was horrible, worshiping guys like knight is how kids die in football practices (heat). He was embarrassing on so many levels. He was a bully.

When my time is gone and my activities are past my critics bury me upside down can kiss my ass.