Has their ever been a bigger POS

[TeoJ]

than knight in college basketball?

 

[MarvinHagler89]

Nope. Dude is a piece of **** and anybody that doesn’t see that is a piece of **** themselves. Glad his son isn’t coaching anywhere and glad his memory is being erased. Soon people will forget all about him

 

[gossie21_rivals69805]

In history sure. Joseph Stalin and Adolph Hitler come to mind. Alexander the Great did some terrible things.

In college basketball, maybe Dave Bliss.

 

[drew_ukfan_rivals]

I’m sure there’s been a murderer that’s played or coached in college basketball so probably. But yeah, Knight is garbage

 

[BBUK_anon]

RMK, (His prodigy K (He can hide it so much better than RMK but he is scum. Don't doubt it.)) and duke Vitale

 

[MarvinHagler89]

In history sure. Joseph Stalin and Adolph Hitler come to mind. Alexander the Great did some terrible things.

In college basketball, maybe Dave Bliss.

Adolf not Adolph. Adolph is the German American name. Adolf is German

 

[SemperFiCat]

Remember to keep in mind that IU was the school that kept him around knowing how he treated players and people for so long. If you ask me, the school was just as culpable as Knight himself. IU is still serving their karma punishment.

 

[BBUK_anon]

Remember to keep in mind that IU was the school that kept him around knowing how he treated players and people for so long. If you ask me, the school was just as culpable as Knight himself. IU is still serving their karma punishment.

GP....spot on too.

 

[akaukswoosh]

IU is still serving their karma punishment.

Yup.

 

[Robcatt24]

Indiana sucks.

The state.

The fans.

The program.

 

[SemperFiCat]

Indiana sucks.

The state.

The fans.

The program.

Hey now, not the "whole state". There's decent folks up here too.

 

[bthaunert]

In college basketball, maybe Dave Bliss.

This is the answer right here

 

[mhroe1984]

Jim Calhoun is a close second. I despise that *******!

 

[Bigtyrone]

Maybe the Baylor assistant who covered up one player murdering the other.

 

[J_Dee]

1. Dave Bliss

<huge gap>

2. Bobby Knight
3. Rick Pitino

 

[ORCAT]

Knight was horrible and never could stand him. I'd also give a vote to Dean Smith as I never could stand his stall ball tactics and, after all, he did usher in the cheating at UNC that they still get away with. Don't know that he treated others like scum as Knight did though.

 

[TyCatPrice14_anon]

1. Dave Bliss

<huge gap>

2. Bobby Knight
3. Rick Pitino

Why Dave Bliss?

 

[Pygmy Sasquatch]

I left a coiling megahenry in the Memorial Coliseum ******* once. It was pretty impressive. I didn't flush by because i wanted others to experience it's awesomeness. And because i doubted it could be flushed.

 

[kl40504_rivals]

than knight in college basketball?

than knight in college basketball?

No. He developed IU into the dumpster fire they are today.

 

[Wall2Boogie]

Jim harrick, k come close as well as pitino

 

[J_Dee]

Why Dave Bliss?

As scummy as Knight and Pitino are, as far as we know, neither tried to frame a murdered player as a drug dealer to try to cover up the fact that they were paying their players.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baylor_University_basketball_scandal

 

[catzfanjim]

Bliss was assistant coach at IU while Bobby Knight was the head coach so you had 2 ******** on 1 staff. Knight never said a bad word about Bliss getting into trouble at Baylor but I know he would have had plenty to say if the murder happened at UK.

 

[CatfanMike47]

Hey now, not the "whole state". There's decent folks up here too.

There is a fair amount of of UK fans In Indy! Saw a lot of them while I lived there! Don’t miss that traffic!

 

[jimmybuffet123]

I wouldn’t wish dementia on my worst enemy. That seems a little extreme man.

 

[J_Dee]

Bliss was assistant coach at IU while Bobby Knight was the head coach so you had 2 ******** on 1 staff.

Bliss worked under Knight for a few seasons at Army too, in the late 1960s. So their intertwining slime trail goes all the way back to the Johnson administration.

 

[Cat in ga]

Maybe his rat faced mini me

 

[JesusCal91]

You’re an idiot bob knight is a great coach and a great American

Insisted players go to class and become young men of character whilst playing college ball instead of spoilt babies. I know he used some bad words and lost his temper a lot god forbid

My name is JesusCal but bob knight was god almighty. Note cal is also grossly misunderstood and misrepresented by the mainstream sports media as knight was

 

[JesusCal91]

Can name easily a dozen coaches that were and are a bigger ******* than Knight

Roy, Krzyygjfjsjsnski, boeheim, selfish, bo ryan, pitino, pearl, John Chaney, the whole Miller family, Calhoun/Geno auriasshole, Tom crean, every Indiana coach since knight

 

[JesusCal91]

Remember to keep in mind that IU was the school that kept him around knowing how he treated players and people for so long. If you ask me, the school was just as culpable as Knight himself. IU is still serving their karma punishment.

You just lowered the IQ of the board 20 percent

 

[fs-ripcord65]

No !
Hell no !
A thousand times ... No ! ! !

 

[MbergCat]

RMK, (His prodigy K (He can hide it so much better than RMK but he is scum. Don't doubt it.)) and duke Vitale

I can't stand Vitale, but I think he's actually a really good man. He does a ton for cancer research and charity.

 

[BBUK_anon]

I can't stand Vitale, but I think he's actually a really good man. He does a ton for cancer research and charity.

I can only hope he has truly changed but that is between him and his maker.

 

[hotelblue]

Can name easily a dozen coaches that were and are a bigger ******* than Knight

Roy, Krzyygjfjsjsnski, boeheim, selfish, bo ryan, pitino, pearl, John Chaney, the whole Miller family, Calhoun/Geno auriasshole, Tom crean, every Indiana coach since knight

yeah clappy is worse than knight. one chokes his players, the other kisses them. they’re literally complete opposites.

 

[mjj_2K]

1. Bob Knight never had any NCAA sanctions.
2. He is a loving father, known for his charitable work.
3. The few times I ran into him alone (we were not personally acquainted), I said Hi Coach and the first 2 times, he said hi back. The third, he saw me first, said hello and asked how I had been.
4. Never stripped of any Final 4's.
5. His players almost always graduated.
6. With a few exceptional years/groups of years he was forced to do more with less raw talent than UK.
7. You didn't hear anybody complaining at UK about Pitino when he was massively succesful in Lexington. Are we supposed to believe his hijinx are just a somewhat recent thing?
8. You got rid of a good, successful and moral man named Tubby Smith just because he wasn't winning at a Pitino level. He was still winning, very frequently, and by all accounts he was liked and respected by his coaching colleagues.
9. Why do people like Digger and Keady still respect him so? He and Digger are good friends.

#6 means nothing to this discussion, because no one ever really questioned his coaching ability.

#7 isn't entirely true (Pitino was never the worshipped cult figure at UK the way that Knight was at IU), and are you saying it's better to not admit that the beloved coach might have been a sh**heel (ala IU fans and Knight) despite ample evidence to the contrary, than to admit it?

#8 would carry more weight if Tubby Smith wasn't one of the highest-paid coached in the country who was not fired, but basically told that things needed to change, and then chose to take off for a cushy landing spot with a fat contract and lower expectations.

History will not be kind to Knight. His steadfast refusal to admit mistakes or apologize for anything he ever said or did effects his legacy. What were seen as character flaws in an otherwise brilliant, well-meaning coach now read as a monster ego using everything around it to feed itself.

And it's just a bad time for the idea of the troubled genius laying a path of destruction "for the greater good". Getting results just doesn't give someone an unlimited ******* pass for life.

 

[Pickle_Rick]

Knight did some good things, especially for his players. He also did many bad things to those same players. So, was he a good guy, or a shitheel?
I'd have to say he is like most of us, just a guy. That makes him a shitheel who does good things from time to time. He didn't help his image by bragging about the good things he did, which is how you should be, humble. Where Knight got in trouble in his later years was where he got antagonistic with those who pointed out the wrongs. He started attacking the messengers.

As far as his not apologizing publicly for any perceived slights, like his famous "rape" comment, or the PR "rent -a-witness", he was exactly correct. In today's PC culture, apologizing is admitting that "Yes, I do still beat my wife."

 

[Raptureme]

Meh...BK is no longer relevant.....I'll stick with Higgins being a MUCH bigger one

Someone who has actually affected the BBN in a negative manner

 

[J_Dee]

You’re an idiot bob knight is a great coach and a great American

Insisted players go to class and become young men of character whilst playing college ball instead of spoilt babies. I know he used some bad words and lost his temper a lot god forbid

I'm just curious, did this "great American" ever return to Puerto Rico to serve his six-month jail sentence for assaulting a police officer? Did he ever apologize to that guy he got into a fight with at a restaurant, or the assistant coach he kicked out of a chair and then fired, or the guy he stuffed into a trash can, or the Indiana employee that he punched out, or the secretary he launched a vase at, or all of the other countless people he assaulted over the years? What about all of the players he bullied and beat up on (especially the ones whose crotches he'd infamously grab and squeeze)?

No?

Well surely he apologized for beating up his own son on a hunting trip, right? Pat's lucky, I guess, that Coach Knight only broke his nose and messed up his shoulder instead of shooting him in the back, like he did one of his former friends. I know that Coach Knight got hit with a lawsuit over that shooting, but were charges ever filed over him lying to the police over that incident? I wonder if it was the same shotgun that Dakich said that Knight would bring to practice after his players stood up to him.

 

[FrankUnderwood]

You’re an idiot bob knight is a great coach and a great American

Insisted players go to class and become young men of character whilst playing college ball instead of spoilt babies. I know he used some bad words and lost his temper a lot god forbid

My name is JesusCal but bob knight was god almighty. Note cal is also grossly misunderstood and misrepresented by the mainstream sports media as knight was

 

[dvillecatfan]

Insisted players go to class and become young men of character whilst playing college ball instead of spoilt babies. I know he used some bad words and lost his temper a lot god forbid

Epitome of, Do as i say, not as I do. Such a hypocrite.

 

[dvillecatfan]

If limited to coaches, has to be Bliss. if not, have to include Carlton Dotson with Bliss.