Robert M. "Bob" Knight's Basketball Hall of Fame Enshrinement Speech

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  • Опубликовано: 23 апр 2012
  • Pete Newell introduces Robert M. "Bob" Knight as he delivers his speech upon being enshrined to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the class of 1991. To learn more about Robert M. "Bob" Knight take a look at his official Hall of Fame bio at www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famer...
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  • @Awesomeknight7
    @Awesomeknight7 5 лет назад +30

    Pete Newell and Bobby Knight! Two of the best ever!

  • @raymondschratz6668
    @raymondschratz6668 7 месяцев назад +8

    Classy coach with real values, insight and discipline… RIP

    • @AlexanderWinterborn
      @AlexanderWinterborn 11 дней назад

      Your definition of 'classy' is different than mine -- which precludes not only choking kids because one loses one's temper, but also publicly and repeatedly lying about doing so.

  • @tom87pate
    @tom87pate 8 лет назад +50

    Bob Knight is a living legend.

  • @bobjames5264
    @bobjames5264 6 месяцев назад +1

    His assistants upon hearing him sing their praises had to be like, “HUH??? Where’d THAT come from???” 😆

  • @phill8005
    @phill8005 5 лет назад +17

    What an amazing coach and man.

  • @shawnbeck2303
    @shawnbeck2303 4 года назад +17

    Bob Knight. The G.O.A.T. Thanks, Bobby. For the great memories! SHAWN

  • @tedjordan7567
    @tedjordan7567 3 года назад +7

    1991? Why does this look like 1968?

  • @McAfee6684
    @McAfee6684 2 месяца назад

    RIP! Greatest coach of all time!

  • @williamfrawley1175
    @williamfrawley1175 3 года назад +18

    My favorite coach of all time. I can't even watch basketball anymore.

  • @adamdorgant9454
    @adamdorgant9454 2 года назад +3

    Great Speech!!!

  • @davidallen1108
    @davidallen1108 3 года назад +12

    Bobby Knight is the greatest coach to ever coach anything. Period.

    • @williammials6080
      @williammials6080 3 года назад

      Go back on the meds!

    • @davidallen1108
      @davidallen1108 3 года назад +1

      @@williammials6080 you obviously know nothing about basketball

    • @williammials6080
      @williammials6080 3 года назад +1

      @@davidallen1108 And you obviously need your medication increased if you think this "NUT CASE" is the greatest coach ever!

    • @davidallen1108
      @davidallen1108 3 года назад

      @@williammials6080 ok well you obviously are clueless

    • @williammials6080
      @williammials6080 3 года назад

      @@davidallen1108 And You? Go to the Nut House and buy a clue from the Nut Case Knight! There is a good reason he's not seen anymore! Take one guess?

  • @STsixx
    @STsixx 11 лет назад +13

    um... not really. he didn't scare anyone away, some players just weren't meant for his style.. that's not a fail, that's being true to who you are.

    • @drh2098
      @drh2098 3 года назад +1

      Being gay is true to who you are.

    • @tedjordan7567
      @tedjordan7567 3 года назад +1

      You’re right not everyone was okay getting choked and head butted.

  • @ntg128
    @ntg128 11 лет назад

    Thanks Matt, I didn't know that.

  • @stantyner9296
    @stantyner9296 4 года назад +6

    GOAT😷

  • @denisesills3111
    @denisesills3111 2 года назад +3

    Commander knight get it. Front line hell for a good ending. What can you say !!!!???

  • @DickPowell-iv3lz
    @DickPowell-iv3lz Год назад +1

    Coach Knight did what their parents did not do make the accountable. Not an easy job but it made them better in so many ways.

  • @turtle19dad
    @turtle19dad 11 лет назад +7

    Just to see him in Indiana, I think my first words would be WELCOME HOME COACH!
    Now we bleed Crean and Crimson! GO BIG RED! RETURN TO GLORY Lets get our kicks for number 6!!!!

  • @johnmatzye6633
    @johnmatzye6633 10 месяцев назад +2

    He was tough - but fair. He lets his players know first-hand - just because you could play basketball - the world does not own you a darn thing. Athletes not rising the National Athen - not only will he order you off the team - but the campus as well.

    • @AlexanderWinterborn
      @AlexanderWinterborn 11 дней назад

      Weird...for a guy that never served in the military. I can see why he liked Space Force Cadet Bone-spurs. Freedom-welfare recipients of a feather must fake it together. -- a former US Army parachute infantry light weapons sergeant

  • @johnmayes761
    @johnmayes761 4 года назад +7

    Kids today do not know how good john havelichk was the man scored over 26 thousand with no 3 point line if he played with a 3 point line he would of scored over 30 thousands

    • @liberalmadness7248
      @liberalmadness7248 3 года назад +2

      The 3 point shot has ruined basketball. Everything for the past 20 years is just dribble dribble 3. The big man is completely irrelevant now!

    • @williammials6080
      @williammials6080 Год назад

      He is not relevant here! Sure he was great though...

  • @saunders317
    @saunders317 11 лет назад +16

    Larry Bird wasn't comfortable at a big school like IU, it wasn't that he didn't like Bob Knight.

    • @samshetty8820
      @samshetty8820 3 года назад +1

      That's true I also felt that coming from Warsaw Indiana

    • @williammials6080
      @williammials6080 3 года назад

      He would have been my reason for not going....

    • @mariepavlov2425
      @mariepavlov2425 2 года назад +1

      @@samshetty8820, make it French Lick, Indiana.

    • @adamdorgant9454
      @adamdorgant9454 2 года назад

      @@mariepavlov2425 Yes, now that you mentioned it!!!

    • @williammials6080
      @williammials6080 Год назад

      You sure?

  • @hoopsheavenpa
    @hoopsheavenpa 11 лет назад +12

    I hope Bob Knight buries the hatchet and returns to IU. I don't see it happening but I hope for it. Tom Crean would totally embrace him and Assembly Hall would rock like it never rocked before.

    • @ledzeppelin5647
      @ledzeppelin5647 5 лет назад +2

      He finally did!

    • @gregoryphillips3969
      @gregoryphillips3969 4 года назад +5

      He just did return to IU and it was glorious. Coach Knight is deserving of every possible coaching accolade. To do what he did with the level of talent he attracted in my mind makes him the greatest college basketball ball coach.
      People speak highly of John Wooden which they should. What's not commonly known is that John Wooden was at UCLA for around 16 or 17 years before he won a championship. And he only started winning once a man named Sam Gilbert starting hanging around the program spending money and doing whatever it took to get the best players to come to UCLA. People don't realize that after Wooden retired the UCLA program was put on probation for several recruiting violations. John Wooden was a good coach but other things have to be taken into consideration.
      Bobby Knight got the Indiana Hoosier coaching job in the early 1970's and by 1976 won a national championship going 32 - 0 with maybe the best college basketball team for 1 year in the history of the sport. Coach Knight never had any NCAA violations attached to his program and had a 98% graduation rate. Yes, in my mind he's the greatest college basketball coach of all time.

    • @drh2098
      @drh2098 3 года назад

      Gregory Phillips Hard to argue with that logic.

    • @mariepavlov2425
      @mariepavlov2425 2 года назад

      @@gregoryphillips3969, that was until a fellow named Coach K came along.

    • @gregoryphillips3969
      @gregoryphillips3969 2 года назад +1

      @@mariepavlov2425 There's an argument for coach K that can be made. Coach K year in and year out probably had more talented players to coach.
      The 1987 lndiana national championship team clinches it for me. At least 4 out the 5 Syracuse starters went on to play in the NBA. Maybe Keith Smart for Indiana. No way John Wooden even gets that 1987 Indiana team to the championship game let alone win. I don't know if Coack K does either.
      Remember Bob Knight won alot of college basketball games at Army as a young coach. He had Army in post season tournaments. Very few people know how great of an accomplishment that is.
      I'll take Bobby Knight. If Larry Bird would have gone to Indiana University Knight would have probably had at least 1 or 2 more championships.

  • @sully3292
    @sully3292 10 лет назад +1

    Haven't read a single book or article that have touched on this subject, have you?

  • @CH-nl3oo
    @CH-nl3oo 4 года назад +7

    98% graduation rate?

    • @tdcninja4143
      @tdcninja4143 3 года назад +1

      Yes. 98% of every IU basketball player who played all 4 years for Knight graduated. The other 2 graduated after 4 years.

  • @ronniejenkins4056
    @ronniejenkins4056 5 лет назад +2

    He was tuff but if I went to college for ball yeah my ass would of Been here. And that would of Been in Calvert day. Hoosier for life

  • @McAfee6684
    @McAfee6684 2 месяца назад

    Steve Alford needs to go back to IU

  • @layla-bw4xu
    @layla-bw4xu 3 года назад +3

    Legend

  • @dennisjones1941
    @dennisjones1941 2 года назад +3

    didnt bring up isiash thomas SAD

    • @AlexanderWinterborn
      @AlexanderWinterborn 11 дней назад

      Knight has always been a victim of severe mental illness.

  • @duhtoff
    @duhtoff 7 лет назад +4

    Are you all right camera guy?

  • @rogercobbs4297
    @rogercobbs4297 7 лет назад +1

    Now I bout had enough of this you either are going to block or you take you ass and go home now I mean it

    • @randydubin7118
      @randydubin7118 7 лет назад

      Roger Cobbs ...???....

    • @rogercobbs4297
      @rogercobbs4297 7 лет назад +1

      don't remember I was thinking thought of coach but what I'm referring to I don't know, been awhile since I put comment lol

    • @ronniejenkins4056
      @ronniejenkins4056 5 лет назад

      Don,t worry Hoosiers all the way

  • @charlesbromberick4247
    @charlesbromberick4247 4 года назад +5

    Bobby knight threw chairs

  • @reggaefan2700
    @reggaefan2700 10 лет назад +2

    Yeah right.

  • @thenbalovesdp
    @thenbalovesdp 10 лет назад +3

    Throughout that speech, did Coach Knight even thank anybody?

    • @RovingRoy
      @RovingRoy 7 лет назад +16

      He acknowledged many people who helped him along the way without directly saying "Thank you."

    • @rickywarner7444
      @rickywarner7444 4 года назад +8

      At Coach Knight's induction, count the number of names he mentioned...his coaches and mentors, players, specific teams of his. Those are thanks. (This was "Bob Knight's" induction into the HOF, he was humble and thankful on that...his night).

    • @rickywarner7444
      @rickywarner7444 4 года назад +6

      Pay attention, watch/listen again. He was gracious, non-abrasive... showing a side of himself that answers the question, "why would anyone let their son play for him?" A step further, and more importantly in the big picture...why would anyone not want that? Refer to all former players who completed their degree...which is supposed to be the final tally. My grandfather taught me early..."if you can't play with the big dogs in the yard, best keep your ass on the porch." I believe that's a life lesson all should be aware of, and know it's true. We all know, life is competition...some too late. IU student athletes knew that before they were cast adrift in the competitive game called "life." (All things being equal, he could have broken out a scroll and named those who tried to impede this lesson, or transferred (ran away) to escape the reality of his teachings. If we could put each side on a scale...there would be no match.

    • @yourpropheticnews7030
      @yourpropheticnews7030 4 года назад

      DP30 the players and his staff and the whole thing was a tribute to even his office staff. What’s your deal ?

    • @williammials6080
      @williammials6080 3 года назад

      Probably Not! He is not made that way! Total JERK!

  • @timdusen830
    @timdusen830 2 года назад +2

    Ask Isiah Thomas' mother about coach Knight. Period

  • @UnleashTheGreen
    @UnleashTheGreen 6 лет назад +14

    bobby knight taught respect....too bad he never learned any himself.

    • @aaronrider4051
      @aaronrider4051 2 года назад

      Shut up!

    • @chuckinhouston9952
      @chuckinhouston9952 7 месяцев назад

      Highly ignorant comment, son.

    • @jimzanios3260
      @jimzanios3260 7 месяцев назад +1

      You didn’t know him in private. Very gentle and encouraging.

    • @AlexanderWinterborn
      @AlexanderWinterborn 11 дней назад

      @@jimzanios3260 This video isn't about what he did in private. But we have seen a video of what he thought was private. Then we saw other videos of him lying about it. At best, he suffered from a severe personality disorder. Ever been around many crazy people? They're lovely...until they aren't.

  • @williammials6080
    @williammials6080 3 года назад +3

    A "NUT" case!

  • @chrislamport4801
    @chrislamport4801 3 года назад +2

    The all Time Greatest Coach in College Basketball was John Wooden, Bobby Knight was no where near the Coach John Wooden was period!!!

    • @murphystreet
      @murphystreet 3 года назад +7

      Wooden was a cheater. Knight wasn’t.

    • @williammials6080
      @williammials6080 3 года назад

      He was Crazy and is more so today!

    • @josephubil
      @josephubil 3 года назад +3

      This a video of Bob Knight being enshrined in the BB HOF...not signing a John Wooden kumbaya campfire song...so, whats your malcontent point? Dislike? Hatred? Jealousy? Grow up.

    • @adiracquetball
      @adiracquetball 3 года назад +2

      I've read multiple books on John Wooden. I loved Wooden as a coach and used a lot of his techniques when coaching. That being said I have a ton of respect for Knight as a coach. I thought he was a brilliant coach. He contended for titles for years with not the greatest talent. When he had great talent he won and won championships. If you looked at the accomplishments of his players in the NBA only Isaiah Thomas really was a top flight pro. Wooden had some real studs that were all time greats. How do you quantify who was better? I know I could say that Wooden was probably a better recruiter but I don't know if anyone coached x's and o's better than Robert Montgomery Knight.

    • @josephubil
      @josephubil 3 года назад +1

      @@adiracquetball As a junior in high school, I and three other players on our team went to the Pocono Mountains(PA) basketball camp, run by Coach Knight when he was the head coach at Army...On the first morning addressing the camp in a small hot airplaine hanger type of gym, coach told all of us to get up from our chairs and get in the defensive position & shuffle our our legs up and down...this went on for what seemed like an eternity as he pushed us to keep at it...finally he had us stop...all of us were physically drained, but somehow we got through it...he then said to us "if you think your folks sent you here to go on a summer vacation, you're sadly mistaken"(and that was putting it mildly to what he actually said)...still to this day, I'm both sore & exhausted...I came back home having learned tons of basketball, but most importnatly the meaning of discipline, dedication to work ethic & perserverance...traits instilled in me to this day... I wouldn't trade that weeks experience for anything, period...thank you Coach Bob Knight.

  • @AlexanderWinterborn
    @AlexanderWinterborn 11 дней назад

    He had a severe mental illness -- the symptoms of which sometimes dovetailed with certain characteristics required to be a successful basketball coach. (shrug) Of course, those same symptoms eventually brought him low -- ending his career in humiliating fashion. Choking a kid and then repeatedly and publicly lying about it? (shakes head) -- a former US Army parachute infantryman raised on a West Texas ranch by an old school ball coach