In 93 or 4 after the alleged kicking of his son incident (Might of been the accidental head butt a year later) he turned around at Welsh Ryan and called the student section a bunch of sick bastards or something to that effect. That's the closest I have to an interaction with him. We probably deserved it but god did those NU teams suck (Although that 94-95 team did make a rare NIT appearance with occasional loon, Ricky Byrdsong drawing up plays from the bench or stands).

maybe i was thinking of Coach K

Quit thinking.

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And 92. Terrible Ted Valentine absolutely screwed IU in that Final Four game.

I will never forget when I was a kid and Jerry Sloan's son Brian played for IU. All Bobby Knight had him do was run into people setting screens all day and the shit worked to perfection. R.I.P. El Generale!

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he invented the pick and roll?

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He invented multiple screening away from the ball. Sort of.

Most legendary half-time speech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chdg7wEGfYw

Here's a link to the Score live stream today with Boers chiming in on Knight during Bernstein's show. It's around -6:22.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AEydKhuEBY

"You'll run till you can't even suffer"

gets me everytime

Never knew Larry Bird was recruited by Knight and was on the team for a month before deciding to drop out.

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I didn't either.

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Nas: Blago, who has single handedly destroyed CFMB?

Blago: https://youtube.com/shorts/Lftdxd-YXt8?feature=share

"You can’t love your country only when you win." -President Biden

https://youtu.be/R6e4ruziZBI?si=1G4W1vbh0eGQuHfU

Yep he was there for a little while and left to go home. Then ended up at Indiana State.

The story always goes that Knight ran him off. But that is not entirely true. I am sure Knight had a role and we all know he was not bending for anyone. But Bird has said that coming from such a small town that Bloomington was just not his style and hated it. Bird was not the type of person that was going to leave because of a hard ass coach only. Also, Knight has said that it is one of his regrets that he wished he had done more to try and get him to stay at IU.

The late 70s IU teams would have won another title if they had Bird. Goodness he almost single handily carried Indiana State to a title.

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1975-1976-1977 National Champions (with Larry Bird). A third-year Bird would have done it all in '77.

It's hard to see how that would not happen.

After leaving, Bird worked on a garbage truck. Just an amazing trajectory. Boston was down, too, when they got him.

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Winning time says he killed his dad by dropping out. Way to go, Larry.

There were two times I saw Coach Knight at IU. The first was at a speech he gave at Assembly Hall. The place was packed. I remember being in awe of the speech. I don't think I've ever heard a better speaker in person. I saw one video where he was said to be the best teacher at IU, and that was teaching fishing!

The second time was at a home football game against Iowa. I saw him outside the stadium. He looked like a big bear in the distance.