Bobby Knight dies

[oujour76]

Announced earlier today…..83 years old. Not a good week for former basketball players from Ohio State.

[Mickey34jb]

Nov 1, 2023 19:31:44 GMT -5 oujour76 said:

Announced earlier today…..83 years old. Not a good week for former basketball players from Ohio State.

Absolute Legend__his coaching style was from a bygone era. Many didn't care for it but he followed the rules and his players had a high graduation rate back when things like that mattered. The results speak for themselves.

[mscott59]

Nov 1, 2023 21:25:59 GMT -5 Mickey34jb said:

Nov 1, 2023 19:31:44 GMT -5 oujour76 said:

Announced earlier today…..83 years old. Not a good week for former basketball players from Ohio State.

Absolute Legend__his coaching style was from a bygone era. Many didn't care for it but he followed the rules and his players had a high graduation rate back when things like that mattered. The results speak for themselves.

know I've shared this before here, but at my first job in zanesville (actually, I think it was in '83, ironically enough), I met knight along w/long time tosu hoops coach fred taylor (my golf instructor in a class my freshman year), who coached knight, lucas, havlicek, nowell, roberts, et al to the '60 ncaa title and 3 straight final 4's (and also coached frank howard a few years earlier, who was an all-american in both basketball and baseball). they were the speakers at a banquet in cambridge, but fred had also grown up/gone to hs in zanesville and they agreed to tape an interview w/our sports director that evening before driving back to columbus. as surly and sarcastic as knight could often be, that night he was more like a stand-up comic story teller. basically he and taylor just shared stories w/each other while the camera was rolling and he was incredibly engaging and hilarious. when he's described as 'complex', that's very appropriate. amazing how his personality could turn on a dime 180 degrees.

3 national titles, 11 (I believe) big 10 championships, the last team to run the table w/o a loss (75-76), and his team the previous year was actually more talented and more dominant, but suffered its only loss to kentucky in a regional final. he only had one star, isaiah thomas, who would go on to true nba stardom, and yet his teams at indiana for nearly 30 years still tough as hell to beat. the way he coached then, for better or worse, doesn't work today. but he was an icon.

[Mickey34jb]

Nov 2, 2023 13:44:17 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

Nov 1, 2023 21:25:59 GMT -5 Mickey34jb said:

Absolute Legend__his coaching style was from a bygone era. Many didn't care for it but he followed the rules and his players had a high graduation rate back when things like that mattered. The results speak for themselves.

know I've shared this before here, but at my first job in zanesville (actually, I think it was in '83, ironically enough), I met knight along w/long time tosu hoops coach fred taylor (my golf instructor in a class my freshman year), who coached knight, lucas, havlicek, nowell, roberts, et al to the '60 ncaa title and 3 straight final 4's (and also coached frank howard a few years earlier, who was an all-american in both basketball and baseball). they were the speakers at a banquet in cambridge, but fred had also grown up/gone to hs in zanesville and they agreed to tape an interview w/our sports director that evening before driving back to columbus. as surly and sarcastic as knight could often be, that night he was more like a stand-up comic story teller. basically he and taylor just shared stories w/each other while the camera was rolling and he was incredibly engaging and hilarious. when he's described as 'complex', that's very appropriate. amazing how his personality could turn on a dime 180 degrees.

3 national titles, 11 (I believe) big 10 championships, the last team to run the table w/o a loss (75-76), and his team the previous year was actually more talented and more dominant, but suffered its only loss to kentucky in a regional final. he only had one star, isaiah thomas, who would go on to true nba stardom, and yet his teams at indiana for nearly 30 years still tough as hell to beat. the way he coached then, for better or worse, doesn't work today. but he was an icon.

And that Double OT win in Columbus over the Hoosiers in '91 with Jimmy Jackson and Treg Lee still has my dad and I talking of it.

[mscott59]

Nov 2, 2023 14:25:23 GMT -5 Mickey34jb said:

Nov 2, 2023 13:44:17 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

know I've shared this before here, but at my first job in zanesville (actually, I think it was in '83, ironically enough), I met knight along w/long time tosu hoops coach fred taylor (my golf instructor in a class my freshman year), who coached knight, lucas, havlicek, nowell, roberts, et al to the '60 ncaa title and 3 straight final 4's (and also coached frank howard a few years earlier, who was an all-american in both basketball and baseball). they were the speakers at a banquet in cambridge, but fred had also grown up/gone to hs in zanesville and they agreed to tape an interview w/our sports director that evening before driving back to columbus. as surly and sarcastic as knight could often be, that night he was more like a stand-up comic story teller. basically he and taylor just shared stories w/each other while the camera was rolling and he was incredibly engaging and hilarious. when he's described as 'complex', that's very appropriate. amazing how his personality could turn on a dime 180 degrees.

3 national titles, 11 (I believe) big 10 championships, the last team to run the table w/o a loss (75-76), and his team the previous year was actually more talented and more dominant, but suffered its only loss to kentucky in a regional final. he only had one star, isaiah thomas, who would go on to true nba stardom, and yet his teams at indiana for nearly 30 years still tough as hell to beat. the way he coached then, for better or worse, doesn't work today. but he was an icon.

And that Double OT win in Columbus over the Hoosiers in '91 with Jimmy Jackson and Treg Lee still has my dad and I talking of it.

that was the loudest crowd I've ever heard inside st. john arena. man I miss that place.