Bob Knight Calls Out Calipari

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Reason #435 why I love Bobby Knight:

"We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching," he said. "You see we've got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he's still coaching. I really don't understand that.

"And very few people know this, but a kid can play the first semester as a freshman, pass six hours of anything and play in the NCAA tournament without ever attending a class in the second semester. I don't think that's right."

If you recall, when they had discussed having 4 year scholarships (so it would encourage coaches to recruit players that would be at a school for at least 4 years, and no one and dones), I believe Knight was the only one in the BT that was in support of this. For all of his faults, temper, mouth, etc...there's is one thing he does not overlook, education.
 

The General says some real intelligent things, but it's hard to get too many people to take him seriously because of his history.
 

Good for Bobby. For all of the scrapes he has gotten himself into he also makes many good points about the state of integrity in the world of college basketball.
 

Finally something other than Royce on this board. Thanks for posting tjgopher.
 



Sports media is a strange animal. They resemble a swarm of bees, covering a topic relentlessly and then moving on to sting the next thing that makes a noise. They helped create the environment that got Coach Knight fired and now hold him up as a paragon of virtue. Some of you may say the Coach's actions are what sunk him but remember, each time there was a hint of temper or turmoil, out would come the video clips of the chair flying across the gym,etc.

Coaches who help boys turn into men, who don't break rules to do their job, and who still manage to win, they are very few. Coach Knight might be one of the best ever , and I think we got one here in Coach Smith.
 

beowulftom said:
Sports media is a strange animal. They resemble a swarm of bees, covering a topic relentlessly and then moving on to sting the next thing that makes a noise. They helped create the environment that got Coach Knight fired and now hold him up as a paragon of virtue. Some of you may say the Coach's actions are what sunk him but remember, each time there was a hint of temper or turmoil, out would come the video clips of the chair flying across the gym,etc.

Coaches who help boys turn into men, who don't break rules to do their job, and who still manage to win, they are very few. Coach Knight might be one of the best ever , and I think we got one here in Coach Smith.
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Well said and I totally agree with everything. I've always respected Bob Knight as a coach because of his no nonsense attitude he brought to his team. In today's game I feel like the players are getting away with more and more both on and off the court. Coach Knight was truely in control of his team and I feel like there are fewer and fewer coaches like him in the game today!
 

GopherLady said:
Reason #435 why I love Bobby Knight:

"We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching," he said. "You see we've got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he's still coaching. I really don't understand that.

"And very few people know this, but a kid can play the first semester as a freshman, pass six hours of anything and play in the NCAA tournament without ever attending a class in the second semester. I don't think that's right."

If you recall, when they had discussed having 4 year scholarships (so it would encourage coaches to recruit players that would be at a school for at least 4 years, and no one and dones), I believe Knight was the only one in the BT that was in support of this. For all of his faults, temper, mouth, etc...there's is one thing he does not overlook, education.
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3 prior UK coaches put the team on probation, too. Rupp in 1953, Hall in 1976, and Sutton in 1989. Calipari is a natural fit.
 



Coach Knight was truely in control of his team and I feel like there are fewer and fewer coaches like him in the game today!
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Knight said a couple of weeks ago that there were few problems that he and running the steps couldn't take of.

I thought it was classic old school. :)
 

Ski-U-Mah24 said:
Coach Knight was truely in control of his team and I feel like there are fewer and fewer coaches like him in the game today!
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Control of his team? I guess when you physically choke your players you do get their attention. Knight certainly had his pluses, but there was a reason he was fired from Indiana. Flinging chairs across a basketball floor and the verbal berating (almost to a point of emotional abuse) of a person in charge of the media room after Bobby's team lost an NCAA game are unexcusable.
 

I'm just glad someone called out Calipari. Seriously, how is the fact that he left Memphis with sanctions not a bigger story???
 

"For all of his faults, temper, mouth, etc...there's is one thing he does not overlook, education." Totally agree with you GopherLady. The first game I ever witnessed at Williams arena was a Knight coached Indiana team against Bill Musselman and the Gophers. Pretty ironic, because this thread deals with integrity of coaches. Mussleman obviously was lacking in integrity, but damn he could coach a college basketball team! I don't think there was any love lost between the two. If memory serves me correctly, Mussleman came out on top.
 



cemba99 said:
Control of his team? I guess when you physically choke your players you do get their attention. Knight certainly had his pluses, but there was a reason he was fired from Indiana. Flinging chairs across a basketball floor and the verbal berating (almost to a point of emotional abuse) of a person in charge of the media room after Bobby's team lost an NCAA game are unexcusable.
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At least Knight it is all out in the open. Calipari is behind close doors. He could give a rip about a player or the academic institution. Calipari is in it for all the wrong reasons.
 

Ironic that Knight lectures anyone about integrity. The bully has no business being around the college game or higher education.
 

ChemEGopher said:
I'm just glad someone called out Calipari. Seriously, how is the fact that he left Memphis with sanctions not a bigger story???
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Because ESPN is totally in bed with the SEC at this point. They paid huge $$ to get football and had to take basketball as part of the deal. SEC basketball is generally garbage unless Kentucky is good (no offense to Billy Donovan). Therefore, they are not going to do anything to rip on coach Cal or Kentucky anytime soon. Kudos to coach Knight for doing so, even though the Mothership is his current employer.
 

Gopher4Life said:
Ironic that Knight lectures anyone about integrity. The bully has no business being around the college game or higher education.
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And yet a majority of all the players he's ever coached don't say a bad thing about him. No doubt he did some dumb things when he was a coach. But he won as a coach, while graduating his players and making them into much stronger people.

I had a coach in college that was pretty similar to Knight, and I have the utmost respect for him because he made me much stronger mentally and just overall a better person.
 

That's the big thing to remember about Knight. His players graduate. Would I want my son to play for him? No. There are others who win, operate clean programs, and graduate most of their players. The best people to speak to about the impact of Knight's coaching is former players. And they use words like "loyalty, integrity, life-long impact," etc. that's good enough for me.
 

In addition to his coaching acolades Robert M. Knight also has a very very dry sense of sarcastic humor that I think is hilarious.
 

Bobby Knight >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Calipari
 

josh087 said:
In addition to his coaching acolades Robert M. Knight also has a very very dry sense of sarcastic humor that I think is hilarious.
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Warning: name dropping ahead.

The two innings I spent chatting with Bob Knight (along with Bill Parcells and Ron Wolf) during a St. Louis Cardinals game a couple years ago remains one of the highlights of my career. Parcells put me up to saying "it is an honor to meet the greatest proponent of the zone defense" when he introdiced me to Knight, and that prompted Knight to go on, literally, a five-minute pseudo tirade about Parcells using the prevent defense. I recall looking over at Parcells in the middle of it and he just shrugged and grinned. One of the most surreal and hilarious things I've ever witnessed.

I will watch any game where Knight is the analyst, he's by far the best, IMO. Almost balances out Brent Musberger....
 

Jike Spingleton said:
Warning: name dropping ahead.

The two innings I spent chatting with Bob Knight (along with Bill Parcells and Ron Wolf) during a St. Louis Cardinals game a couple years ago remains one of the highlights of my career. Parcells put me up to saying "it is an honor to meet the greatest proponent of the zone defense" when he introdiced me to Knight, and that prompted Knight to go on, literally, a five-minute pseudo tirade about Parcells using the prevent defense. I recall looking over at Parcells in the middle of it and he just shrugged and grinned. One of the most surreal and hilarious things I've ever witnessed.

I will watch any game where Knight is the analyst, he's by far the best, IMO. Almost balances out Brent Musberger....
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That sounds like an awsome two innings. I know Knight and Parcells are friends. Where does Ron Wolf tie into that? He's never worked with Parcells IIRC. And could he possibly have gotten a word in?
 

Wolf is good friends with Parcells, though they never worked together. And they're all buddies with Tony LaRussa, hence the Cardinals game.
 

A bunch of asses stroking each other. Which one is the more pompous?
 

I'm sure many on here know that stat but it is worth mentioning again for those that don't.

For his record number of wins, 3 NC, all the BT titles, Knight only ever coached one NBA All-Star, Isiah Thomas.

I think that more than anything else displays his talent in coaching the game.
 

Not an ounce of common sense, restraint, or personal discipline in the man.
 

I think Knight put his money where his mouth was also. I'm pretty sure he donated a lot of money to Indiana University.
 

Good in-game coach, interesting book, university benefactor, but behavior of a 6-year old.
 

G4L, I get the sense that Bobby Knight is a raised floor-like issue for you... We get the point. You don't like him.
 

You're better than that. So silly on so many levels.
 

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