BIG Bob Knight fan here and I TOTALLY agree with Scott Ferrall of CBS Sports, he said. "How can you back stab a guy that made your career?" "EVERYTHING he has in his career he owes to Coach Knight" and now wants to badmouth him..."If life under Coach Knight was so bad, why did he stay there the whole sixteen years?" NOBODY stays at a place they don't like for sixteen years! He is just bitter that was not named the coach at Indiana after Coach Knight was terminated, something that Coach Knight would have had no control over.
Who cares if you're a Knight fan. He is an ahole! Nepotism- his son was terrible. His true colors are world known. By the way, the Hoosiers suck. That dead program can't get Mr Indiana Basketball to stay in the state. Butler, Valparaiso, Ball State maybe could even beat your ass. IU is 4th or 5th best now in the state, Bobby had something to do with that as well. His tramp stamp is still hang8ng over the program. Have fun barely creeping into the tournament sometime to come.
@@stevebaker4082 That ahole put IU on the national map, 3 titles, never cheated, and didn't lie, made men out of hundreds of boys who wouldn't bad mouth him!
"NOBODY stays at a place they don't like for sixteen years!" This is a stupid non sequitur. People stay in jobs they do not like for decades for a variety of reasons.
Dan Dakich is a total fraud since he's been away from ESPN all he does is be critical of coaches & why they a dirt in his words. Bob Knight, Bob Huggins, Coach K, among plenty of others now he's right on some but personal grudge has destroyed his credibility.
I was good friends with a couple of assistants to Coach Knight during his last few seasons at Indiana. One of them joined the staff the year after Dakich left. He found the transition to Indiana basketball, at times, to be a little shocking. We had some interesting conversations, and one time when we were hanging out, he told me that several people in the Indiana program told him that during Dakich's last season, that Knight treated him pretty much like dirt. He said that apparently Knight would frequently, in practice when a player made a mistake, stop practice and start screaming at Dakich: "Goddamit, Dakich! You recruited that stupid son-of-a-bitch. Get down and give me pushups!" And Dakich would have to hit the floor, in front of the team and everyone, and do pushups. I've sat in on about 30 of Coach Knight's practices, and at his best, he is fantastic--a great coach who praises far more than he criticizes, and who is an excellent and creative teacher. But there were times, way too many times, when he was simply an egregious, spoiled cunt, for no justifiable reason whatsoever.
I appreciate Coach Dakich being honest and forthright on Bobby Knight. I cannot even muster the strength to call him a coach. A real coach doesn't throw everyone under the bus and make himself/herself out to be immune from all criticism!
When you get abused you eventually have to stand up for yourself. When he talked about his wife it was nice. Every guy who marries up knows it was because he tricked her.
Knight is a coward masquerading as an angry bastion of traditional values. He just happened to grab some students by the neck to get their attention. He figured that at 6'5" and a former college basketball player, he was athlete enough to beat up an ordinary person. he would not have done it to a formidable-looking strength athlete, and if the little guy turned out to be a hard-hitting boxer, or wrestler, he was relying on his basketball team members to bail him out. I would happily do a benefit pay-per-view with that piece of refuse.
He owes nothing to Knight, certainly not to keep quiet about perverse assaults such as throwing a basketball into his face. You are a really sick fuck.
Bob Knight is an aging drill sergeant. He is not strong enough to protect himself anymore. Dakich is living the old jocks dream because of Knight. So bad mouthing him publicly while Knight is old and frail shows his true nature of wanting to be the man...while never really being the man.
"Bad mouthing?" Oh yeah; that barely literate term that demands anything you do not like not be mentioned. You have a twisted mind, thinking the sickening abuse Knight visits on everyone is all right, but mentioning it is not.
It is totally unlikely that Dakitch would not have been a success through basketball without Knight. he was a big scorer in high school, whose top game netted 49 points. He could have gotten scholarships from any number of schools, and as a career .517 field goal shooter, would have been allowed to take far more shots than Knight allowed him. He also has brains, and a likable personality, unlike Knight. He would have been totally okay without that piece of excrement.
It wasn't "protecting" himself. He would get people blacklisted. Thats how he protected himself. He's a bitter, old scumbag and the game passed him by after '87
I know Dan and I know Coach Knight , yes coach Knight can be abrasive but he always stood by his players I knew Landon Turner his father worked with me at Ford Indianapolis plant when Landon had his accident Bobby did everything he could to help his family , my family had season tickets for IU I’ve seen the best and worst of Bobby but he always was there for his Kids , I meet Mr Knight several times we talk about fishing baseball and Ted William. Who also loved fishing Bobby introduced me toTed Willams . Bobby would play golf on charity tournaments at IU I ve been team up with him at least 4 times and we talk baseball and about family , I’ll always support Bobby Knight Dan does have a mouth and it does get him in trouble,
Sounds like Dan doesn't want to coach anymore. Why would he if you're working for ESPN, having your own radio show, and you're married to Lee. Sounds like he's just enjoying his family life. I enjoy his radio show, and his TV commentating.
Never qualified for the Dance in ten years as a head coach, had a losing record four of the final five seasons and the two games he was interim coach for Indiana they were one and done to a lower seed in the big ten and NCAA tourneys. So seems by the metric that people measure doing well as a coach he fell decently short of.
Bobby Knight had numerous faults that are well documented but the countless stories of praise players to this day have for him says that he wasn’t the devil guys like this may portray him to have been. From all indications despite his many shortcomings he always stood by his players and helped them how he could when he could. Simply even looking at the number of guys he coached that got degrees is such an opposite of what you become accustomed to seeing from a program that competes at the top level especially in todays era of the one and done. But it’s always skinny when you see dudes like this who speak badly on the person once they’re at a stage of life where that person no longer benefits them. He was content to work for somebody he believes was so terrible for 12 years after playing for him because of what he says was a promise to get the Indiana job. Doesn’t say a lot about ones own personal character that they’ll stick around and co-sign behavior they speak against later when they believe they can benefit and only once they decide they won’t lose anything they then begin to have issues. Doesn’t say a lot for ones self-respect to live a life that way but to each their own.
@@gocatgo74123 "horrible player" who "sucked as a coach?" What have you done? Did you have a field goal shooting percentage of .52% in major college basketball?
Lewis Medlock ya. Must’ve been awful to play so much on a top team in the country. Just because you don’t like someone doesn’t mean you can take away their abilities and accomplishments. You must be bitter about not being able to make it. Hope you’re alright
@@andyinoregon The Knight cult doesn't even come close to the cults of political leaders and celebrities. Not even close. Every coach has a "cult" or a loyalty base whether they're as bitter as Knight or as charming as Calipari.
Bobby Knight Versus Peter Nagy I had a personal run-in with Knight myself. m 1975 I was a graduate student in telecommunications, looking for a press pass to the women's basketball game that night. Making a wrong turn led me to a cubby hole, where Knight stood right over 7 foot Kent Benson who was sitting on a stool like a supplicant from a Greek tragedy. Knight was beating him deeper into the stool with every word of what was an almost inaudible scream. At first I thought I should get out of there, but the imp in me decided to test his well-known temper. I therefore asked him where in the building I could obtain a press pass. He muttered something in just about the same tone he had been using against Benson. The only word I could understand was "upstairs." The imp still ruled, so it pulled me back after just a single step away from the surrealistic scene. "Oh yeah," I shouted, "where upstairs." That flipped Knight's switches all the way on. He rushed over to me, his fists flailing awkwardly, and roared, "JUST GO UPSTAIRS." Having pushed him far enough, I thanked him, and left. Fortunately, he did not grab me by the throat to "get my attention."
you did that to yourself. you never said what building you were in? and what area of the building? I know all the areas that the basketball team used like the back of my hand, so I'm just curious. thanks for the story, I have no doubt it's true.
@@harpoon_bakery162 What you allegedly know like the back of your hand is incorrect. I walked into a dank storage closet Knight was using as his torture chamber. It was about 12 feet long and perhaps seven feet wide with various kinds of folded tables and chairs in its far end. You apparently do not know the back of your hand, or much else. You really have some serious cognitive deficiencies if you think that what I did was enough to precipitate a bluff charge, with a clear assault to follow if I had said anything else. Knight grabbed more than one person for calling him "Knight." He had to have the title as a sign of respect -or fealty- to his Exalted and Twisted Highness." An average person with a fuse as short as his would have spent half his life in prison for assault. He also would have ended up having his head handed to him a few times. So would you. Nevertheless, please do not let anyone, or anything keep you from being the sputtering idiot you are.
@@Nagy50Magyar -- what are you talking about? i said i'm curious to know where it was and so I'm genuinely curious, and I never said ANYTHING about questioning your story, not one thing. Check my comment and then check yourself before you go off on someone. You either are having a bad day or this is a very dark part of your past or something. And what part of "I have no doubt it's true" did you misunderstand?
@@harpoon_bakery162 No, I did not speak rashly. You said I did it to myself. The issue is not your questioning my account; it is judging me as the guilty party. I brought nothing on myself, and justified or not, I give the likes of one Bobby Knight little chance in a physical assault on me. You have serious cognitive problems. I did not mention the building in which this transpired only to streamline an already long post. It was the Athletic and Convocation Center. I am also having a great day, not a bad one. I just take very little shit these days. That makes my day even better.
@@Nagy50Magyar "The imp in me decided to test his well-known temper" and later "The imp still ruled", if you don't think that's deserving of a statement like "You did it to yourself", then I got nothing else for you. If I happened into Knight in those days in that frame of mind, I honestly would have ished my pants. So I have to give you credit for living on the edge.
4 years later Zion is up to his neck in strippers and injuries. Needs to lose weight. Misses to many games. Was hoping Zion was going to dominate but he just can't stay on the court. 😮
One of the best Hoops interviews ever. Brutally honest and funnier than hell. Thanks DP.
BIG Bob Knight fan here and I TOTALLY agree with Scott Ferrall of CBS Sports, he said. "How can you back stab a guy that made your career?" "EVERYTHING he has in his career he owes to Coach Knight" and now wants to badmouth him..."If life under Coach Knight was so bad, why did he stay there the whole sixteen years?" NOBODY stays at a place they don't like for sixteen years! He is just bitter that was not named the coach at Indiana after Coach Knight was terminated, something that Coach Knight would have had no control over.
Who cares if you're a Knight fan. He is an ahole! Nepotism- his son was terrible. His true colors are world known. By the way, the Hoosiers suck. That dead program can't get Mr Indiana Basketball to stay in the state. Butler, Valparaiso, Ball State maybe could even beat your ass. IU is 4th or 5th best now in the state, Bobby had something to do with that as well. His tramp stamp is still hang8ng over the program. Have fun barely creeping into the tournament sometime to come.
@@stevebaker4082 That ahole put IU on the national map, 3 titles, never cheated, and didn't lie, made men out of hundreds of boys who wouldn't bad mouth him!
"NOBODY stays at a place they don't like for sixteen years!" This is a stupid non sequitur. People stay in jobs they do not like for decades for a variety of reasons.
Dan Dakich is a total fraud since he's been away from ESPN all he does is be critical of coaches & why they a dirt in his words.
Bob Knight, Bob Huggins, Coach K, among plenty of others now he's right on some but personal grudge has destroyed his credibility.
Dan just posted a video pretending he loved him so much.
I was good friends with a couple of assistants to Coach Knight during his last few seasons at Indiana. One of them joined the staff the year after Dakich left. He found the transition to Indiana basketball, at times, to be a little shocking. We had some interesting conversations, and one time when we were hanging out, he told me that several people in the Indiana program told him that during Dakich's last season, that Knight treated him pretty much like dirt. He said that apparently Knight would frequently, in practice when a player made a mistake, stop practice and start screaming at Dakich: "Goddamit, Dakich! You recruited that stupid son-of-a-bitch. Get down and give me pushups!" And Dakich would have to hit the floor, in front of the team and everyone, and do pushups. I've sat in on about 30 of Coach Knight's practices, and at his best, he is fantastic--a great coach who praises far more than he criticizes, and who is an excellent and creative teacher. But there were times, way too many times, when he was simply an egregious, spoiled cunt, for no justifiable reason whatsoever.
I appreciate Coach Dakich being honest and forthright on Bobby Knight. I cannot even muster the strength to call him a coach. A real coach doesn't throw everyone under the bus and make himself/herself out to be immune from all criticism!
When you get abused you eventually have to stand up for yourself. When he talked about his wife it was nice. Every guy who marries up knows it was because he tricked her.
Knight was a real coach hall of famer
Knight is a coward masquerading as an angry bastion of traditional values. He just happened to grab some students by the neck to get their attention. He figured that at 6'5" and a former college basketball player, he was athlete enough to beat up an ordinary person. he would not have done it to a formidable-looking strength athlete, and if the little guy turned out to be a hard-hitting boxer, or wrestler, he was relying on his basketball team members to bail him out. I would happily do a benefit pay-per-view with that piece of refuse.
As an IU fan, this is the first time I’ve seen Dan Dakich come across as likable.
I am surprised to read this. To me Dakitch seems to be a very humorous, engaging individual.
Compared to his boss?...
Ive always thought he was a dick
I enjoy listening to Dan Dakich...great interviews!
Dan owes so much to coach knight. He needs to be quiet and stop with the negative stuff.
He owes nothing to Knight, certainly not to keep quiet about perverse assaults such as throwing a basketball into his face. You are a really sick fuck.
I like knight. But Dan owes him nothing.
Bob Knight is an aging drill sergeant. He is not strong enough to protect himself anymore. Dakich is living the old jocks dream because of Knight. So bad mouthing him publicly while Knight is old and frail shows his true nature of wanting to be the man...while never really being the man.
Bob knight brings this on himself. A nasty old man that won't let anything go
@@allensaunders449 More Knight hating wimp asses who could never be the man he is!
"Bad mouthing?" Oh yeah; that barely literate term that demands anything you do not like not be mentioned. You have a twisted mind, thinking the sickening abuse Knight visits on everyone is all right, but mentioning it is not.
It is totally unlikely that Dakitch would not have been a success through basketball without Knight. he was a big scorer in high school, whose top game netted 49 points. He could have gotten scholarships from any number of schools, and as a career .517 field goal shooter, would have been allowed to take far more shots than Knight allowed him. He also has brains, and a likable personality, unlike Knight. He would have been totally okay without that piece of excrement.
It wasn't "protecting" himself. He would get people blacklisted. Thats how he protected himself. He's a bitter, old scumbag and the game passed him by after '87
Makes me sad. I respect them both being a Hoosier Fan.
I know Dan and I know Coach Knight , yes coach Knight can be abrasive but he always stood by his players I knew Landon Turner his father worked with me at Ford Indianapolis plant when Landon had his accident Bobby did everything he could to help his family , my family had season tickets for IU I’ve seen the best and worst of Bobby but he always was there for his Kids , I meet Mr Knight several times we talk about fishing baseball and Ted William. Who also loved fishing Bobby introduced me toTed Willams . Bobby would play golf on charity tournaments at IU I ve been team up with him at least 4 times and we talk baseball and about family , I’ll always support Bobby Knight Dan does have a mouth and it does get him in trouble,
He’s more like bob than he wants to admit 😃
Knight has how many National Titles? And Dakich has done what exactly? Water finds its own level...
Thanks for the moronic comment; winning basketball games justifies barbaric behavior, and even criminal assaults.
Dan go for the University of Cincinnati vacancy.
Sounds like Dan doesn't want to coach anymore. Why would he if you're working for ESPN, having your own radio show, and you're married to Lee. Sounds like he's just enjoying his family life. I enjoy his radio show, and his TV commentating.
New drinking game......take a shot every time Dan says, Zion.
If Dan was good enough to coach he would still be coaching
Never qualified for the Dance in ten years as a head coach, had a losing record four of the final five seasons and the two games he was interim coach for Indiana they were one and done to a lower seed in the big ten and NCAA tourneys. So seems by the metric that people measure doing well as a coach he fell decently short of.
Damn I hate to hear that about Coach Knight. That’s messed up. I could pick up to what he was gettin at.
Badmouthing Knight haters, so jealous they will never be the man he is, ask Landon Turner what kind of man he is!
Bobby Knight had numerous faults that are well documented but the countless stories of praise players to this day have for him says that he wasn’t the devil guys like this may portray him to have been. From all indications despite his many shortcomings he always stood by his players and helped them how he could when he could. Simply even looking at the number of guys he coached that got degrees is such an opposite of what you become accustomed to seeing from a program that competes at the top level especially in todays era of the one and done. But it’s always skinny when you see dudes like this who speak badly on the person once they’re at a stage of life where that person no longer benefits them. He was content to work for somebody he believes was so terrible for 12 years after playing for him because of what he says was a promise to get the Indiana job. Doesn’t say a lot about ones own personal character that they’ll stick around and co-sign behavior they speak against later when they believe they can benefit and only once they decide they won’t lose anything they then begin to have issues. Doesn’t say a lot for ones self-respect to live a life that way but to each their own.
Stop calling the guy ugly, Dan. You freak. Got overdone after about the 3rd time.
Held Mj to single digit way back in College 💪
Please! Watch the game ... Jordan set on the bench most the first half with foul trouble. Dickich was a horrible player and sucked as a coach!!!
@@gocatgo74123 "horrible player" who "sucked as a coach?" What have you done? Did you have a field goal shooting percentage of .52% in major college basketball?
@@Nagy50Magyar What I meant to say was, he sucked as a player and was a horrible coach !!!
Lewis Medlock ya. Must’ve been awful to play so much on a top team in the country. Just because you don’t like someone doesn’t mean you can take away their abilities and accomplishments. You must be bitter about not being able to make it. Hope you’re alright
Dan is funny since he doesnt like the General buy he sucked up to him for 20 years. Flunky. Valet. Yes man.
The “Dannettes” thing is creepy 😝
Zion is hurt all of the time. Renders the conversation moot.
Bob Knight is such a bitter old man.
Even sadder how much the Bob Knight cult resembles the current Donald Trump cult.
Hasn't Knight always been bitter?
@@andyinoregon The Knight cult doesn't even come close to the cults of political leaders and celebrities. Not even close. Every coach has a "cult" or a loyalty base whether they're as bitter as Knight or as charming as Calipari.
@@wildwest1 bitter about what?
Dan should be IU's coach.
Bobby Knight Versus Peter Nagy
I had a personal run-in with Knight myself. m 1975 I was a graduate student in telecommunications, looking for a press pass to the women's basketball game that night. Making a wrong turn led me to a cubby hole, where Knight stood right over 7 foot Kent Benson who was sitting on a stool like a supplicant from a Greek tragedy. Knight was beating him deeper into the stool with every word of what was an almost inaudible scream.
At first I thought I should get out of there, but the imp in me decided to test his well-known temper. I therefore asked him where in the building I could obtain a press pass. He muttered something in just about the same tone he had been using against Benson. The only word I could understand was "upstairs." The imp still ruled, so it pulled me back after just a single step away from the surrealistic scene.
"Oh yeah," I shouted, "where upstairs."
That flipped Knight's switches all the way on. He rushed over to me, his fists flailing awkwardly, and roared, "JUST GO UPSTAIRS."
Having pushed him far enough, I thanked him, and left. Fortunately, he did not grab me by the throat to "get my attention."
you did that to yourself. you never said what building you were in? and what area of the building? I know all the areas that the basketball team used like the back of my hand, so I'm just curious. thanks for the story, I have no doubt it's true.
@@harpoon_bakery162 What you allegedly know like the back of your hand is incorrect. I walked into a dank storage closet Knight was using as his torture chamber. It was about 12 feet long and perhaps seven feet wide with various kinds of folded tables and chairs in its far end. You apparently do not know the back of your hand, or much else.
You really have some serious cognitive deficiencies if you think that what I did was enough to precipitate a bluff charge, with a clear assault to follow if I had said anything else. Knight grabbed more than one person for calling him "Knight." He had to have the title as a sign of respect -or fealty- to his Exalted and Twisted Highness." An average person with a fuse as short as his would have spent half his life in prison for assault. He also would have ended up having his head handed to him a few times. So would you. Nevertheless, please do not let anyone, or anything keep you from being the sputtering idiot you are.
@@Nagy50Magyar -- what are you talking about? i said i'm curious to know where it was and so I'm genuinely curious, and I never said ANYTHING about questioning your story, not one thing. Check my comment and then check yourself before you go off on someone. You either are having a bad day or this is a very dark part of your past or something. And what part of "I have no doubt it's true" did you misunderstand?
@@harpoon_bakery162 No, I did not speak rashly. You said I did it to myself. The issue is not your questioning my account; it is judging me as the guilty party. I brought nothing on myself, and justified or not, I give the likes of one Bobby Knight little chance in a physical assault on me. You have serious cognitive problems.
I did not mention the building in which this transpired only to streamline an already long post. It was the Athletic and Convocation Center.
I am also having a great day, not a bad one. I just take very little shit these days. That makes my day even better.
@@Nagy50Magyar "The imp in me decided to test his well-known temper" and later "The imp still ruled", if you don't think that's deserving of a statement like "You did it to yourself", then I got nothing else for you. If I happened into Knight in those days in that frame of mind, I honestly would have ished my pants. So I have to give you credit for living on the edge.
Double dizzle
Dan Jock itch...sickening
4 years later Zion is up to his neck in strippers and injuries. Needs to lose weight. Misses to many games. Was hoping Zion was going to dominate but he just can't stay on the court. 😮
Dan Dakich....uh...I want to throw up, can’t stomach that guy
Typical bully, do things to people when they can't fight back