Bob Costas recalls interviewing Bob Knight, one of college basketball’s most-winning coaches, and one of the sport’s most polarizing figures. #CNN #news
He was about 15-20 years too late. He fit in perfectly in the Woody, Bo and Bear Bryant era. Lots of characters back then. Characters get cancelled nowadays.
I never was a fan of Bob Knight when I was younger, but as I've grown older and am now in my 60's -- and see what the world has become without discipline and principles --- I understand him a lot better now then I did back then. RIP Bob Knight.
We've become the type of society that will have ENDLESS sympathy for a homeless drug addict breaking into stores to feed his habit and claiming to be a victim. But we'll HATE a guy like Bobby Knight, a man who proved to be one of the most successful individuals at his job in history. A man who gave money to many charities without seeking recognition. A man who took coddled teenage boys, and turned them into young men who could handle the real world, and who pushed themselves to college basketball championships, NBA careers, and the capacity to handle real life pressure in their careers and to demand excellence from themselves in the classroom and beyond graduation. Bobby Knight's "greatest crime" in life, was screaming some cuss words and having some trivial physical contact with some players that didn't actually injure or harm them in any way. Take those "evils", and compare it to the good his influence had in thousands of lives, and to his haters, I say GOOD LUCK leaving a better legacy in your own life.
@@nymike06 Look at his cheeks, not ONE WRINKLE bro. 0:05 Let me repeat, look at 0:05 Please tell me that isn't unbelievable... he's not aged hardly at all in the face, it's remarkable.
@@dabneyoffermein595 Zoom in on 0:24 you see an old man with tons of makeup, dyed hair, the whole head, bags under his eyes, drooping chin and lots of face lines despite the heavy make up
Coach Iba spent quite a bit of time with the IU teams during Knight's tenure at the university. Iba went on a world tour in the mid 80s with the IU team. Bob Hammel, a sports reporter in Bloomington, was one of Knight's closest friends.
Bobby Knight was probably one of those coaches that people hated playing for, but had tremendous success. It's hard to get both a very successful coach with multiple championships, and be a player's coach at the same time. I remember Gronk wouldn't come back if he had to play for Bill Belichick again.
Agreed. Most of his players are grateful for playing for him (obviously a few to several aren't). I knew Marty Simmons (who was in the middle of the play against Purdue that resulted in Bob throwing the chair). He didn't like it when Bob yelled but appreciated what he was learning - he ended up transferring out of there. Bob recruited the mother - told her that her son would go to class, graduate and stay out of trouble. The dads just wanted to talk basketball, but Bob said he owed it to the mothers as he made promises to them.
I think there has been a lot of emotion from fans and writers and others and from ppl who didn't count themselves as his friends....bc he was THE anti hero or even villain of sports for 4 decades but he was also wildly successful and his program was clean. I guess what I'm saying is we mourn the passing of an archetype that isn't allowed to exist today.
@@Miguel195211 Las élites que controlan a Estados Unidos quieren que el hombre del siglo XXI sean un afeminado, un debilucho, y un llorón que no tiene carácter ni hombría.
I was there when it all started ... my first year as a student in Bloomington was Knight's 2nd year as coach ... I was a gym rat and I played pickup games with guys from that undefeated '76 team ... I knew a few players who also told me stories about Knight ... Having said that, CBS should have booked an interview with ME because the eulogies I've heard in the past 24 have all been mush ...
@@douglascarlson9006 dang bro, how in the world were you steppin' with the mighty? more power to you and rubbing shoulders with the famous. They've all said, when Bob Knight walked in a room, you could hear a pin drop because you were in the presence of greatness said "Michael Irvin", he was bigger than life itself.
@@dabneyoffermein595 Yeah, but WTF did Michael Irvin really know about Knight? ... nothing! ... The softball eulogies I've heard in the past 48 by people who didn't know him have really infuriated me ... I also had a lengthy conversation with a teammate of Woodson at bar in downtown Chicago in '82 ... Knight was authentically eccentric and truly deranged ... his players AND COACHES were scared as hell of him ... Ask Ron Felling or Dave Bliss ...
I'll tell you this, as a Hoosier who watched in the 80s and 90s. Robert Montgomery Knight, aka Bobby Knight, was looked at as the closest thing to God we had. When IU played, it was an event. Family pitch ins, cleaning the house because we were going to have company. Especially if we were going to play Purdue with Gene Keady. Every kid wanted to play for Coach Knight. He is a throwback to a time where it was okay to be hard on players, it was okay to be loud, but he always had one of the top percentages in graduates. In a way, we need to get back to those times. Teaching kids that life isn't easy. You don't always win. It's not always fair, and nobody gives a damn about how you feel about those things. To my generation, when it comes to coaching, he is the GOAT. RIP Bobby Knight. Thank you for being the catalyst to so many amazing family memories.
Yes, he was looked at and treated as if he was a god by thousands of feckless, front-running, beta personalities in Indiana. Native Hoosier myself, long family tradition of high school basketball players. I always thought that Knight should have retired after 1987. Think of all the self-inflicted, public embarrassment he could have saved himself. But no, his ego was the most developed and demanding thing about him. In the end he was a disgraceful, horrible bully of a man. Neil Young was right: It's better to burn out than it is to rust.
@kirkrehm9972 sounds like you're the type that couldn't handle his direct and over the top personality. The reason why our country has become so damn soft is because we've gone away from people like him. It was a different time when it was okay to get on kids and not give them safe spaces. I notice you don't bring up all the kids that he helped. His high graduation rate. His willingness to give to the teachers' union. Instead, since Coach Knight yelled and cursed a little too much, you didn't like it. It's not being a beta, it's watching the kids that he helped turn into men. Notice all the players who have came out and supported him when all the IU stuff went down, and all the people who have been sharing the good things he did for them. It's okay, you'll die and no one will miss you. Can't say that about him.
100% Not true. Bird left IU before BB even started. He roomed with Jimmy Wisman. Wasn't mature enough to handle college yet. Went home and drove a truck. Then decided he wanted to play. Went to Indiana State. The rest is history... @@plantbased5673
He stands as a remarkable basketball coach and a mentor who has shaped countless young men. Nearly 95% of his students graduated under his tenure, and an astounding 99% of them have grown into exemplary and productive individuals. This enduring legacy is the essence of his remarkable career.
One of my best friends played for him. He always talked about how hard he was to play for but if you did, there wasnt a thing in the world he wouldnt do for his players.y friend never sniffed the NBA but the doors coach opened for him professionally cant be over stated. He always attributes his success to coach Knight
'The General' Robert Montgomery Knight, should be recognized for his MANY acts of kindness. In addition, he prepared young men for the realities of life, the sanctity of marriage, Truth, honesty, and strong family values. RIP
Bob C what a classy guy I've been on a vintage later with Bob Costas Marathon watching the full interviews with Bob Seger Glenn Frey Paul McCartney from the old lady show it's great to see the whole episodes up from the early 90s
Yep his technique might not be accepted now but what worked better...? What era was better...? Take a look at what is going on today, you think this is better....? No way, I'll take Knight's era, my era any day... It was better...! R.I.P. Coach Knight "The General" and here in Indiana you'll always be the General...!
Costas hits the nail right on the head about what Knight was all about - good and bad. He produced a ton of quality men out to society. Thats what coaching is all about. What kind of men leave your program
He was a die-hard coach, wants to win badly, but never forgotten, things are tough, back then his temper was high,all those moments, like a chair gets thrown away!😅/(Rest in peace.) 😔🌷🌷🥀🌹🏵️
Well that post was meaningless. What were you attempting, some career retrospective? He "wants to win badly..." Oh really? He does? Fascinating insight. A chair was not "thrown away," as you claim but thrown. And if there was one thing that every single person who had ever heard of Bobby Knight all knew it was that he had a bad temper. Please respond as I attempt to piece together this cyclone of words and punctuation because I'm dying to know what your point was.
@@kirkrehm9972 I watched his highlights in his film documentary. It was and ups and down career,but he was a tough coach,and a lot of discipline through out the game.🤔
@@kirkrehm9972 The incident back in 1985,he got ejected for throwing a chair in Purdue University basketball game, it was not a good one, sometimes it gets in his bad side with tempers.🤔
I know, I was at the game. After Knight was ejected the Indiana fans started throwing coins onto the floor. One of them hit Gene Keady's wife in the eye and she had to leave. But you probably don't know who Gene Keady is. Listen, you may be a nice guy but you don't know enough to post on this topic.
No matter what you do for a living, we all feel like throwing a chair across the room every now and then. Bob Knight did that for all of us and we live vicariously through him when we watch that clip. Thank You Coach Knight! Amen.
@@jerrybarnes3719 So you're saying he's the only person that feels frustration and gets fed up at their job? Throwing a chair is metaphorical for losing your composure yet he was still respected enough to keep his job. Don't we wish we could get away with something like that because it's pretty damn funny. You're NOT the only parent in the world. Why don't you lecture/scold your own kids instead.
Costas is in a league of his own compared to these two amateur people interviewing him. Their comments reflect someone who just on Wikipedia moments earlier to figure out who Bob Knight was. Costas is the best!
Bobby Knight was a rare breed, there will never, ever be another coach like him. We live in a soft society that needs a guy like him right now! Rest in peace coach!
When "old school" and "complicated" are the most compassionate ways you are being described outside professional accomplishments, something is incredibly wrong. To those who say it was a different time, it was, but even Dean Smith and John Wooden never crossed the lines BK did. The biggest problem for me is that, to my knowledge, BK never even tried to apologize for the down right wrongs he did. He denied choking a player then a video surfaced of him doing it but he was "there" for others. The only individuals I hear giving him praise are those who benefited from his basketball success and those who were inner circle, that's sad. Keep in mind this guy had "God Status" at Indiana U and they still had to fire him, are you kidding me?
I agree that he was complicated. Perhaps he was bipolar. I have no idea, but sometimes those who are geniuses like he was also have fluctuating neurochemicals in other areas. Indiana was right to remove him for his behavior after he crossed the line more than once. To say that does not diminish his acomplishments or humanity. For heaven's sake, he was HC at IU for 29 years. That's a lifetime by most standards. Too many people idolize him, among other people. Indiana is a small state with an inferiority complex, too, which is part of why he got away for so long with some of the stuff he got away with. I know because I'm from there. Rules and decorum must be more important than basketball scores. Rest in peace, Coach Knight.
It's been proven that UCLA bought players and nobody ever did less with more then Dean Smith, but think what you want. Bobby Knight was flawed for sure, but he was ours. It's not been the same ever since
The man was a total hypocrite at best. He didn’t practice what he preached. Total disciplinarian and had zero self discipline. He wished the people at Indiana dead for firing him. Those Are the best things I can think of to say about him….
Bob Knight also raised 650,000 dollars to build a wheelchair accessible home for Landon Turner. Knight also kicked in 60,000 dollars of his own money for the house. Knight did far more for Landon Turner than have Red Auerbach draft him, far more.
I’m probably in the minority but I didn’t like him. If I had a kid who was good enough to play ball in college, I would never send him to play under Bobby Knight. But having said that people loved him!!! He did charitable things that a lot of people didn’t know about!! He was vim and vinegar to me.
More discipline is needed. Knight made sure his kids went to school and got an education. He tried to help his kids on and off the court. And Knight didn't cheat. His kids graduated.
@@plantbased5673 Too bad your opinion isn't any more valid or important than anyone else's, and that you're too far up your own smug RRRS to realize that. Bob Knight knew who he was, and stayed true to himself. THAT is high character.
I don't like him personally but he is the greatest x's and o's coach the college game ever saw. Great man but with great flaws. I respect his sports acumen but I wouldn't cross the street to shake his hand. I'm much more of a Dean Smith fan.
Bob Costa is still making apologies for the many terrible things Knight did. Even Costa said those things Knight did wouldn’t fly today. Knight was a bully.
His high graduation rate is boosted by not counting all the people who transferred out from under him. Indiana had ridiculous, historic amounts of transfers under Knight and this was WAY before the transfer portal was ever a thing. And that includes Larry Bird, one of the toughest players of all-time. He despised Knight. It wasn't just "soft" players.
@@tommyrutledge4654Knight was a Trump supporter. That's what you're getting at, right? Trump is the personification of a guy who never had discipline in his life and kept falling upwards because of the money has family already had. Bobby himself was a classic "rules for thee, not for me" type himself, unless you associate throwing chairs and tantrums to be "discipline."
A little OT, but Larry Bird was briefly enrolled at IU. He could've been coached by Knight. Why is so little written about this? All I've read about this is that Bloomington was too big a city for the kid from French Lick, eom. Did Knight try to bring him back? If no, did he think Bird was a quitter?
In an interview once, I heard Bird say that IU was just too big for him. Indiana State was a smaller school. I visited Bloomington once and it was a lot like the University of Iowa. The entire university was spread out all over Iowa City. A great college town atmosphere. I’m thinking Indiana State was more like Georgia State or Georgia Tech. Or an HBCU. A few buildings downtown.
I respect Costas, but I still contend that Knight was one of the biggest a-holes and bullies in sports history. That fact isn’t diminished simply because he’s passed on.
Bird was poor and shy. He couldn't handle being a student on a 35,000 student campus. It had nothing to do with Knight. In retrospect, Knight did acknowledge that he would have been more willing to go after Bird when he did leave campus. "I wouldn't have chased after Buckner or May. But I should have realized Bird's circumstances were very different".
Bob Knight certainly had his good qualities but the thing that stands out to me was his constant abuse and successful intimidation of Big Ten referees. Many of his wins are tainted by this and ultimately it showed significant disrespect of the game of basketball. I am sure that the truely great coach, John Wooden, was turned off by his behavior.
Bob is correct in stating that Coach's style "wouldn't fly today"- that is simply due to the fact that we've raised an entire generation of sissies here in America.
Costas really aged Knight was arguably the greatest college basketball coach of all-time. Legendary coach. So hard for CNN and Costas to come around to say it. Instead they praise him but make sure to dog him in the same breath. I don't blame Bob Knight for never trusting the media. R.I.P. Bob Knight .
Because Knight was a person with warts. Like most people, but Knight's were more pronounced. People complain that there are no more people like Bob Knight and we're a nation of wussies now, but then they start crying over people not completely genuflecting to Knight after his passing. People praise Knight for his honesty, so let's be honest about what kind of person he was even at this time.
While hiking the AT Trail around Mount Mitchell, I would run into residents displaying the IU Flag. I stop and talk and the first thing they would say, "Bobby got screwed by IU."
“When my time on Earth is gone,snd my activities here are passed…I want they bury me upside down,and my critics can kiss my @$$!”- R.I.P. The General Robert Montgomery “Bobby” Knight…one of the best to ever do it.. P.S “now…back to the game!”
Coach knight wasn't perfect none of us is. But I wouldn't go that far saying he was a horrible human being. He did a lot of good things for Indiana and his former players. Horrible person naw not even close.
Look, when you are in the position he was in, you simply cannot repeatedly do unhinged things like throwing chairs and grabbing players and keep your job. He got more than one chance, but ultimately, Indiana was right to let him go, because there are boundaries! These coaches are huge celebrities, and they must be role models. He flunked that test one time too many, but in most ways he was a genius and a legend. To say he was flawed does not diminish his genius. May he rest in peace, a peace I suspect he rarely felt in this life.
As good or great as Bob Knight was as a coach, when you add that he was an emotionally immature psycho..for me the negatives way overshadowed any positives...( I can say this because years ago as a young high school coach, I realized I was a fraud.. emotionally and mentally immature...)😁✌️
Let’s be honest, the man was a prick, he was a disturbed human being. You either liked him or hated him. Was he a great coach, well he won 3 national titles. Does winning three national titles make you a great coach? You decide.
whatever Bob he was still an ass...the biggest one I ever saw...and a highlight of my life was when I sat behind him on the bench @ Williams' Arena and gave him his due razzed him the whole game
*_People who hate president Trump now will also morn his death and say how great he was. Hero's get remembered, but Legends never die._* Rest in Peace Bob Knight
I could listen to Costas talk all day or work any game. A special orator.
The world is a better place because of Bob Knight. Great man
No, it really isn’t.
He was the Woody Hayes of basketball.
He was about 15-20 years too late. He fit in perfectly in the Woody, Bo and Bear Bryant era. Lots of characters back then. Characters get cancelled nowadays.
I never was a fan of Bob Knight when I was younger, but as I've grown older and am now in my 60's -- and see what the world has become without discipline and principles --- I understand him a lot better now then I did back then. RIP Bob Knight.
Problem is he was often undisciplined with his temper, but I loved him anyway. He was ours
Bobby Knight had no discipline. If he did, he wouldn't have behaved like a child so often.
I always wished he would coach my favorite team. RCJH
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We've become the type of society that will have ENDLESS sympathy for a homeless drug addict breaking into stores to feed his habit and claiming to be a victim. But we'll HATE a guy like Bobby Knight, a man who proved to be one of the most successful individuals at his job in history. A man who gave money to many charities without seeking recognition. A man who took coddled teenage boys, and turned them into young men who could handle the real world, and who pushed themselves to college basketball championships, NBA careers, and the capacity to handle real life pressure in their careers and to demand excellence from themselves in the classroom and beyond graduation. Bobby Knight's "greatest crime" in life, was screaming some cuss words and having some trivial physical contact with some players that didn't actually injure or harm them in any way. Take those "evils", and compare it to the good his influence had in thousands of lives, and to his haters, I say GOOD LUCK leaving a better legacy in your own life.
Bob Costas never ages, oh my goodness. Bob Costas speaks so eloquently. He knew Bobby Knight very well.
Seriously? Costas has aged badly
@@nymike06 no no, he has not, still looks like that freshman in college. he's ageless, it's amazing. just listen to him and watch in amazement.
@@dabneyoffermein595 His hair is completely dyed and has crows feet lines all over his face
@@nymike06 Look at his cheeks, not ONE WRINKLE bro. 0:05 Let me repeat, look at 0:05 Please tell me that isn't unbelievable... he's not aged hardly at all in the face, it's remarkable.
@@dabneyoffermein595 Zoom in on 0:24 you see an old man with tons of makeup, dyed hair, the whole head, bags under his eyes, drooping chin and lots of face lines despite the heavy make up
Genius is always close to the edge. I will always appreciate his genius.
He made men. RIP coach!
Coach Iba spent quite a bit of time with the IU teams during Knight's tenure at the university. Iba went on a world tour in the mid 80s with the IU team. Bob Hammel, a sports reporter in Bloomington, was one of Knight's closest friends.
Childhood memories. R.I.P Bobby Knight!
I saw Coach Knight speak at a charity luncheon in Chicago. The funniest and best speaker that I have ever heard. Side splitting funny.
Bobby Knight was probably one of those coaches that people hated playing for, but had tremendous success. It's hard to get both a very successful coach with multiple championships, and be a player's coach at the same time. I remember Gronk wouldn't come back if he had to play for Bill Belichick again.
Agreed. Most of his players are grateful for playing for him (obviously a few to several aren't). I knew Marty Simmons (who was in the middle of the play against Purdue that resulted in Bob throwing the chair). He didn't like it when Bob yelled but appreciated what he was learning - he ended up transferring out of there. Bob recruited the mother - told her that her son would go to class, graduate and stay out of trouble. The dads just wanted to talk basketball, but Bob said he owed it to the mothers as he made promises to them.
Bob Coastas is class
I think there has been a lot of emotion from fans and writers and others and from ppl who didn't count themselves as his friends....bc he was THE anti hero or even villain of sports for 4 decades but he was also wildly successful and his program was clean. I guess what I'm saying is we mourn the passing of an archetype that isn't allowed to exist today.
Key words - that isn’t allowed to exist today. And for a very good reason!
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Las élites que controlan a Estados Unidos quieren que el hombre del siglo XXI sean un afeminado, un debilucho, y un llorón que no tiene carácter ni hombría.
@@Miguel195211 Snowflake alert!
Knight's service shall indeed be missed. Rest in peace legend
I was there when it all started ... my first year as a student in Bloomington was Knight's 2nd year as coach ...
I was a gym rat and I played pickup games with guys from that undefeated '76 team ... I knew a few players who also told me stories about Knight ...
Having said that, CBS should have booked an interview with ME because the eulogies I've heard in the past 24 have all been mush ...
With his ass up in his coffin- like most assholes
@@douglascarlson9006 dang bro, how in the world were you steppin' with the mighty? more power to you and rubbing shoulders with the famous. They've all said, when Bob Knight walked in a room, you could hear a pin drop because you were in the presence of greatness said "Michael Irvin", he was bigger than life itself.
@@dabneyoffermein595 Yeah, but WTF did Michael Irvin really know about Knight? ... nothing! ...
The softball eulogies I've heard in the past 48 by people who didn't know him have really infuriated me ...
I also had a lengthy conversation with a teammate of Woodson at bar in downtown Chicago in '82 ...
Knight was authentically eccentric and truly deranged ... his players AND COACHES were scared as hell of him ...
Ask Ron Felling or Dave Bliss ...
I don’t miss him. Nope.
Choking a player wasn't acceptable even in the 1950s.
choking someone restricts their air, he didn't do that, watch the tape.
R.I.P to a great man. You will be missed Coach Knight.
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I'll tell you this, as a Hoosier who watched in the 80s and 90s. Robert Montgomery Knight, aka Bobby Knight, was looked at as the closest thing to God we had. When IU played, it was an event. Family pitch ins, cleaning the house because we were going to have company. Especially if we were going to play Purdue with Gene Keady. Every kid wanted to play for Coach Knight. He is a throwback to a time where it was okay to be hard on players, it was okay to be loud, but he always had one of the top percentages in graduates. In a way, we need to get back to those times. Teaching kids that life isn't easy. You don't always win. It's not always fair, and nobody gives a damn about how you feel about those things. To my generation, when it comes to coaching, he is the GOAT. RIP Bobby Knight. Thank you for being the catalyst to so many amazing family memories.
Yes, he was looked at and treated as if he was a god by thousands of feckless, front-running, beta personalities in Indiana. Native Hoosier myself, long family tradition of high school basketball players. I always thought that Knight should have retired after 1987. Think of all the self-inflicted, public embarrassment he could have saved himself. But no, his ego was the most developed and demanding thing about him. In the end he was a disgraceful, horrible bully of a man. Neil Young was right: It's better to burn out than it is to rust.
@kirkrehm9972 sounds like you're the type that couldn't handle his direct and over the top personality. The reason why our country has become so damn soft is because we've gone away from people like him. It was a different time when it was okay to get on kids and not give them safe spaces. I notice you don't bring up all the kids that he helped. His high graduation rate. His willingness to give to the teachers' union. Instead, since Coach Knight yelled and cursed a little too much, you didn't like it. It's not being a beta, it's watching the kids that he helped turn into men. Notice all the players who have came out and supported him when all the IU stuff went down, and all the people who have been sharing the good things he did for them. It's okay, you'll die and no one will miss you. Can't say that about him.
The great Larry Bird didn't want to play for Bob Knight. Nevertheless, I'd say he turned out okay.
100% Not true. Bird left IU before BB even started. He roomed with Jimmy Wisman. Wasn't mature enough to handle college yet. Went home and drove a truck. Then decided he wanted to play. Went to Indiana State. The rest is history...
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He stood for what's right but struggled with self control.
Don’t we all?
Stop writing crap.
Bob Knight was a great man.
@@capitanfuturo594 agreed
@@capitanfuturo594 He was a psychopath.
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Gay people always say that about Bobby Knight.
He stands as a remarkable basketball coach and a mentor who has shaped countless young men. Nearly 95% of his students graduated under his tenure, and an astounding 99% of them have grown into exemplary and productive individuals. This enduring legacy is the essence of his remarkable career.
He was a great coach and an awful human being.
He was hilarious. Really hilarious. From a distance. Legend
Definitely a legend, RIP Coach Knight.
@johnroden3431 . Hi
One of my best friends played for him. He always talked about how hard he was to play for but if you did, there wasnt a thing in the world he wouldnt do for his players.y friend never sniffed the NBA but the doors coach opened for him professionally cant be over stated. He always attributes his success to coach Knight
Rest in paradise 🙏 bobby knight 🙏
'The General' Robert Montgomery Knight, should be recognized for his MANY acts of kindness. In addition, he prepared young men for the realities of life, the sanctity of marriage, Truth, honesty, and strong family values. RIP
Honesty? Like lying about choking a player?
The Alabama Boat Brawl wasn't the FIRST time flying folding chairs became famous...!
RIP, Bobby Knight 🙏
You can't beat Bobby Knight - the BEST
Bob C what a classy guy
I've been on a vintage later with Bob Costas Marathon watching the full interviews with Bob Seger Glenn Frey Paul McCartney from the old lady show it's great to see the whole episodes up from the early 90s
Yep his technique might not be accepted now but what worked better...? What era was better...? Take a look at what is going on today, you think this is better....? No way, I'll take Knight's era, my era any day... It was better...! R.I.P. Coach Knight "The General" and here in Indiana you'll always be the General...!
Absolutely!!
Costas hits the nail right on the head about what Knight was all about - good and bad. He produced a ton of quality men out to society. Thats what coaching is all about. What kind of men leave your program
BOBBY KNIGHT IS AN AMERICAN SPORT ICON.
It cuts off, where's the rest of the clip?
He was the Best
He was a die-hard coach, wants to win badly, but never forgotten, things are tough, back then his temper was high,all those moments, like a chair gets thrown away!😅/(Rest in peace.) 😔🌷🌷🥀🌹🏵️
Well that post was meaningless. What were you attempting, some career retrospective? He "wants to win badly..." Oh really? He does? Fascinating insight. A chair was not "thrown away," as you claim but thrown. And if there was one thing that every single person who had ever heard of Bobby Knight all knew it was that he had a bad temper. Please respond as I attempt to piece together this cyclone of words and punctuation because I'm dying to know what your point was.
@@kirkrehm9972 I watched his highlights in his film documentary. It was and ups and down career,but he was a tough coach,and a lot of discipline through out the game.🤔
@@kirkrehm9972 The incident back in 1985,he got ejected for throwing a chair in Purdue University basketball game, it was not a good one, sometimes it gets in his bad side with tempers.🤔
I know, I was at the game. After Knight was ejected the Indiana fans started throwing coins onto the floor. One of them hit Gene Keady's wife in the eye and she had to leave. But you probably don't know who Gene Keady is.
Listen, you may be a nice guy but you don't know enough to post on this topic.
@@kirkrehm9972 Thanks for the story, much respect.😏
No matter what you do for a living, we all feel like throwing a chair across the room every now and then. Bob Knight did that for all of us and we live vicariously through him when we watch that clip. Thank You Coach Knight! Amen.
@@jerrybarnes3719 So you're saying he's the only person that feels frustration and gets fed up at their job? Throwing a chair is metaphorical for losing your composure yet he was still respected enough to keep his job. Don't we wish we could get away with something like that because it's pretty damn funny. You're NOT the only parent in the world. Why don't you lecture/scold your own kids instead.
@@jerrybarnes3719 Snowflake alert!
Costas is in a league of his own compared to these two amateur people interviewing him. Their comments reflect someone who just on Wikipedia moments earlier to figure out who Bob Knight was. Costas is the best!
Good on bob! Coming at the end to right any wrong. Costas isn’t gunna let folks talk shit about coach knight.
Guarantee, if your a fan of Bob Knight, and a Hoosier,,,? it’s love ❤️, and mostly unconditional.
The bad, Pff, forget about it. 😊
Well stated by Bob Costas. Shocked that this is even on CNN.
Why?
@@mbarn6633 Because he embodies the antithesis of it.
OK?
@@dabneyoffermein595 antithesis of what?
My favorite College Basketball 🏀 he was voraciously fearless relentless competitor was meticulously impeccably prepared.
He had some character flaws, but in the end he was great in making young student athletes into young determined men.
Some character flaws lol like trying to choking a player or bully players or abused staff ..refs ..crowds and players that not character flaws
Bobby Knight was a rare breed, there will never, ever be another coach like him. We live in a soft society that needs a guy like him right now! Rest in peace coach!
He was a lot like George Patton.
When "old school" and "complicated" are the most compassionate ways you are being described outside professional accomplishments, something is incredibly wrong. To those who say it was a different time, it was, but even Dean Smith and John Wooden never crossed the lines BK did. The biggest problem for me is that, to my knowledge, BK never even tried to apologize for the down right wrongs he did. He denied choking a player then a video surfaced of him doing it but he was "there" for others. The only individuals I hear giving him praise are those who benefited from his basketball success and those who were inner circle, that's sad. Keep in mind this guy had "God Status" at Indiana U and they still had to fire him, are you kidding me?
Tell me you don't know jack all about Bobby w/o telling me you don't know jack all about Bobby.
I agree that he was complicated. Perhaps he was bipolar. I have no idea, but sometimes those who are geniuses like he was also have fluctuating neurochemicals in other areas.
Indiana was right to remove him for his behavior after he crossed the line more than once. To say that does not diminish his acomplishments or humanity. For heaven's sake, he was HC at IU for 29 years. That's a lifetime by most standards.
Too many people idolize him, among other people. Indiana is a small state with an inferiority complex, too, which is part of why he got away for so long with some of the stuff he got away with. I know because I'm from there. Rules and decorum must be more important than basketball scores.
Rest in peace, Coach Knight.
It's been proven that UCLA bought players and nobody ever did less with more then Dean Smith, but think what you want. Bobby Knight was flawed for sure, but he was ours. It's not been the same ever since
@@donaldshotts4429 everything always changes. Just love your team no matter what.
The man was a total hypocrite at best. He didn’t practice what he preached. Total disciplinarian and had zero self discipline. He wished the people at Indiana dead for firing him. Those Are the best things I can think of to say about him….
Bob Knight also raised 650,000 dollars to build a wheelchair accessible home for Landon Turner. Knight also kicked in 60,000 dollars of his own money for the house.
Knight did far more for Landon Turner than have Red Auerbach draft him, far more.
Bob Knight beat many things. Even the U.S.A. death rate! R.I.P.
I know one thing, he beat Dale Brown & Shaq and how in the hell did he beat UNLV at their own game? I'll never figure that one out.
I’m probably in the minority but I didn’t like him. If I had a kid who was good enough to play ball in college, I would never send him to play under Bobby Knight. But having said that people loved him!!! He did charitable things that a lot of people didn’t know about!! He was vim and vinegar to me.
bob costas 82. rip
Everybody’s a bully or something I thought Mr Knight told y’all what to do when he passed away ❤❤❤❤RIP Coach
John Wooden without the self-restraint.
More discipline is needed. Knight made sure his kids went to school and got an education. He tried to help his kids on and off the court. And Knight didn't cheat. His kids graduated.
Bob Knight coached when players accepted being coached, and coaches took total responsibility for their players.
That isn't now, whatever 'this' is.
Too bad Bob never learned how to conduct himself in a respectable manner, like John Wooden or Dean Smith.
@@plantbased5673 Too bad your opinion isn't any more valid or important than anyone else's, and that you're too far up your own smug RRRS to realize that.
Bob Knight knew who he was, and stayed true to himself. THAT is high character.
I don't like him personally but he is the greatest x's and o's coach the college game ever saw. Great man but with great flaws. I respect his sports acumen but I wouldn't cross the street to shake his hand. I'm much more of a Dean Smith fan.
Bob Costa is still making apologies for the many terrible things Knight did. Even Costa said those things Knight did wouldn’t fly today. Knight was a bully.
Extremely high graduation rate and of course elevated the IU program to heights it'll never see again.
His high graduation rate is boosted by not counting all the people who transferred out from under him. Indiana had ridiculous, historic amounts of transfers under Knight and this was WAY before the transfer portal was ever a thing. And that includes Larry Bird, one of the toughest players of all-time. He despised Knight. It wasn't just "soft" players.
So fuckin what? I didn't care for many of his antics but look what we have now with zero discipline in America!!!
@@tommyrutledge4654Knight was a Trump supporter. That's what you're getting at, right? Trump is the personification of a guy who never had discipline in his life and kept falling upwards because of the money has family already had. Bobby himself was a classic "rules for thee, not for me" type himself, unless you associate throwing chairs and tantrums to be "discipline."
@pronkb000 didn't know he was a trump supporter but thanks for letting me know though. Facts still remain look what we have today
Great "Human interest" story CNN....well done....
A little OT, but Larry Bird was briefly enrolled at IU. He could've been coached by Knight. Why is so little written about this? All I've read about this is that Bloomington was too big a city for the kid from French Lick, eom. Did Knight try to bring him back? If no, did he think Bird was a quitter?
In an interview once, I heard Bird say that IU was just too big for him. Indiana State was a smaller school. I visited Bloomington once and it was a lot like the University of Iowa. The entire university was spread out all over Iowa City. A great college town atmosphere. I’m thinking Indiana State was more like Georgia State or Georgia Tech. Or an HBCU. A few buildings downtown.
It was Knight's one regret in coaching.....that he didn't do something to help Larry Bird.
Per many interviews on RUclips
I respect Costas, but I still contend that Knight was one of the biggest a-holes and bullies in sports history. That fact isn’t diminished simply because he’s passed on.
100%
Everyday?! 🤣
Bob Knight. Legend.
Mercurial 🌡 & 🃏 was always running Wild!! Bless Mr Bob Knight. Peaceful serenity be too him. 💙
Nobody comes close to Costas. He could interview and light bulb for 20 minutes and I'd probably watch it twice.
Knight was no snowflake. No chance of him ever working at CNN. Stop judging our fellow brothers and sisters.
Everyone needs to understand that screaming and pitching a fit doesn't work for ALL players. It was his extremes that cost Indiana keeping Larry Bird!
He had Larry bird on campus and let him get away. Could’ve possibly had one or two more championships.
Bird was poor and shy. He couldn't handle being a student on a 35,000 student campus. It had nothing to do with Knight.
In retrospect, Knight did acknowledge that he would have been more willing to go after Bird when he did leave campus. "I wouldn't have chased after Buckner or May. But I should have realized Bird's circumstances were very different".
Very hell deserving guy.
Illinois fan.
@@johntucker9782 Nah. Just don’t like haters like Knight.
Don’t need to hear costas making excuses for knight on CNN knight must be rolling in his grave already!
I never liked Bob Knight because of how how he treated his players.
"Meat Necklace" was the start of his dementia.
Best thing this trash network has done for a long time
Bob Knight certainly had his good qualities but the thing that stands out to me was his constant abuse and successful intimidation of Big Ten referees. Many of his wins are tainted by this and ultimately it showed significant disrespect of the game of basketball. I am sure that the truely great coach, John Wooden, was turned off by his behavior.
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Bob CNN really!
Bob is correct in stating that Coach's style "wouldn't fly today"- that is simply due to the fact that we've raised an entire generation of sissies here in America.
Still better than the repressed spoiled self-contracting boomers who votes for a NY con artist.
True indeed
Eventually it didn't even fly in 2000.
I’ll never forget that one time Bob Costas wiped his ass with his face and got pink eye during the Olympics. So dirty.
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Costas really aged
Knight was arguably the greatest college basketball coach of all-time. Legendary coach.
So hard for CNN and Costas to come around to say it.
Instead they praise him but make sure to dog him in the same breath.
I don't blame Bob Knight for never trusting the media.
R.I.P. Bob Knight
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Yeah why do they have to do that.
@@bobbobertson7568 It's an honest observation
Because Knight was a person with warts. Like most people, but Knight's were more pronounced. People complain that there are no more people like Bob Knight and we're a nation of wussies now, but then they start crying over people not completely genuflecting to Knight after his passing. People praise Knight for his honesty, so let's be honest about what kind of person he was even at this time.
Yea I’ve honestly never been a fan of Costas.
@@jonmcclane7433 Same here
While hiking the AT Trail around Mount Mitchell, I would run into residents displaying the IU Flag. I stop and talk and the first thing they would say, "Bobby got screwed by IU."
Simply the best not a WOKE scared to hurt your feelings coach…. LEGEND
“When my time on Earth is gone,snd my activities here are passed…I want they bury me upside down,and my critics can kiss my @$$!”-
R.I.P. The General Robert Montgomery “Bobby” Knight…one of the best to ever do it..
P.S “now…back to the game!”
The ends justify the means
No
...until about 1990 when Knight stopped going anywhere with IU on a national level.
Costas;one of those guys with the bad wig.
Great basketball coach. Horrible person.
Maybe you shouldn't have told us how you hated him. We really can't do anything with your hatred of him
Coach knight wasn't perfect none of us is. But I wouldn't go that far saying he was a horrible human being. He did a lot of good things for Indiana and his former players. Horrible person naw not even close.
I strongly disagree
Yes, a horrible person. A bully.
Look, when you are in the position he was in, you simply cannot repeatedly do unhinged things like throwing chairs and grabbing players and keep your job. He got more than one chance, but ultimately, Indiana was right to let him go, because there are boundaries! These coaches are huge celebrities, and they must be role models. He flunked that test one time too many, but in most ways he was a genius and a legend.
To say he was flawed does not diminish his genius. May he rest in peace, a peace I suspect he rarely felt in this life.
I don't like Costas, because he turned out to be liberal ass, but I am glad he said good things about Knight.
It's to bad Bob Knight couldn't fit into the always overcrowded Mr. President Biden rallies! Rip anyway but maybe Orangeman karma!
OVERCROWDED?PEDOJOE COULDN'T FILL A KINDERGARTEN CLASSU🤡
I thought a-holes live forever...guess not
Damn Bob Costas STILL has pink eye this many years later!!?? Someone help him!! 😐
Many people who get pink-eye don't recover fully
As good or great as Bob Knight was as a coach, when you add that he was an emotionally immature psycho..for me the negatives way overshadowed any positives...( I can say this because years ago as a young high school coach, I realized I was a fraud.. emotionally and mentally immature...)😁✌️
Let’s be honest, the man was a prick, he was a disturbed human being. You either liked him or hated him. Was he a great coach, well he won 3 national titles. Does winning three national titles make you a great coach? You decide.
whatever Bob he was still an ass...the biggest one I ever saw...and a highlight of my life was when I sat behind him on the bench @ Williams' Arena and gave him his due razzed him the whole game
This is who you Sheeple follow. Ha, ha, haaaaaa
The tragedy of Bobby Knight was that he was a lot of good things… but he chose to needlessly be a dickhead.
Costas give us a break you never played a sport ever to attain perfection ….
Bob Costas give us a break human beings have flaws you it perfect and never played sports
I can't believe Bob Costas has gotten plastic surgery. What's wrong with aging naturally?
It wouldn’t fly today because people are soft and woke
Haha Bobby went to a lot of Trump rallies!! And that's good enough for me!!
Rest in Peace Mr. Knight at the Bigly Trump Rally in the Sky!!! Amen
I wish costas didn’t dye his hair. Looks silly
3 national championships/5 Final Fours and did it w/ 1 / O N E - legit NBA player, Isiah Thomas...think coach K could do that?
*_People who hate president Trump now will also morn his death and say how great he was. Hero's get remembered, but Legends never die._* Rest in Peace Bob Knight
Hahaha mourn Trump not in a million years
No we will not mourn trump, what a joke “hero” “legend”? Try again
Go to hell coach
NOT ! ! ! ! !
wiz wit- Don’t think so ole boy
The host of this show is the most annoying host I've ever watched for 30 seconds