Head Coach Basketball

[bcgruber]

How about Bobby knight for 2 years to turn this around he did it at Texas Tech

[Triple B]

18 hours ago, bulls phanatic said:

Joey Knight‏ @TBTimes_Bulls 2h2 hours ago

Latest name I've heard in @USFMBB coaching search: Akron coach Keith Dambrot

 

17 hours ago, Buller64 said:

I'll pass on him. At look at his coaching record indicates that the one thing he hasn't done is to improve a program. When he went to winning programs kept winning and when he went to a losing program (Central Michigan) he kept losing. He is a maintainer not a builder and we need a builder.

Not sure who you're looking at but when Dambrot took over Akron they were coming off a 4 year stretch (under Dan Hipsher) where they averaged 12 wins ... His first year, 2004-05, they won 19 games. He's averaged 24 games since, never winning less than 21. Not saying he's our answer but saying he hasn't done a thing to improve a program is entirely inaccurate.

[JTrue]

51 minutes ago, Triple B said:

 

Not sure who you're looking at but when Dambrot took over Akron they were coming off a 4 year stretch (under Dan Hipsher) where they averaged 12 wins ... His first year, 2004-05, they won 19 games. He's averaged 24 games since, never winning less than 21. Not saying he's our answer but saying he hasn't done a thing to improve a program is entirely inaccurate.

Alternative facts. 

Edited March 12, 2017 by JTrue

[Vega]

7 hours ago, bcgruber said:

How about Bobby knight for 2 years to turn this around he did it at Texas Tech

If there was ever any doubt about Bob Knight’s irrelevance and bitterness, he confirmed both on Friday.

Knight, who lost touch with modern college basketball and common decency long ago, reaffirmed his despicable personality with some classless quotes on “The Dan Patrick Show.” 

“I hope they’re all dead,” Knight, a man who makes the Grinch seem like the Pope, told Patrick when cued up about his former bosses at Indiana.

It’s those people who rightfully booted a lifelong bully out the door at IU in 2000. They moved on. Knight’s incapable of doing so, harboring anger and acidity that he’ll die with. Patrick brought to mind the fact that some of those people Knight wished dead might still be alive. When given the chance to walk back such a disgusting sentiment, Knight did what he’s always done: dug in his heels and made himself look worse in the process. 

“Well, I hope the rest of them go,” Knight said.

They’ll go, just as the 76-year-old Knight will, eventually. But they’ll all die knowing they did the right thing. Knight can’t claim the same. The man singularly responsible for telling Knight he was no longer going to coach in Bloomington: the respected, departed Myles Brand, who died in 2009 from cancer. He was Indiana’s president then. In the years since, Brand has been proven correct. 

Knight’s legacy has only been soiled by his own accord. 

Knight, the mascot of a man-child for the worst of the worst when it comes to mental and verbal abuse in the coaching culture of yesteryear, was once placed alongside John Wooden as the greatest college basketball coach in history. In the December of his life, he has watched his protege, Mike Krzyzewski, breeze past him in that standing. This is a man who reached the Sweet 16 once in his final 13 years of coaching, a tyrant who sputtered off the sport’s sidelines before underwhelming as an unprepared color analyst.  

 

Now Knight’s only redeeming quality is his still-evident influence and brilliant innovation of the motion offense. Everything else about him carries a stench of rage, irrationality and contempt. He is a bitter, aging man who is incapable of letting go. Knight still holds in contempt those who had the audacity, in his mind, to push him out in Bloomington. He hasn’t returned since. And never will.

“On my dying day, I will think about how great the fans at Indiana were,” Knight said, speaking to an imaginary contingent, a faction of supporters who are a fraction of the size in reality to what he believes exists. “And as far as the hierarchy at Indiana University at that time, I have absolutely no respect whatsoever for those people. With that in mind, I have no interest in ever going back to that university.”

Indiana shouldn’t welcome him. In fact, in light of Knight’s abhorrent quotes to millions over public radio on Friday, the school should ban him for life. Endorsing the deaths of school administrators is crossing the line. Knight lived far too long doing what he wanted to do, saying what he wanted to say, choking who he wanted to choke. 

Indiana can let his memory linger with whatever trophies and photos adorn Assembly Hall, but let that be it. Knight thinks he’s won by cutting ties with IU. Truth is, Indiana’s too good for Knight now. In the 17 years since the divorce, the school has moved on, but been willing to welcome him back. That can end now. Bob Knight is not Basketball Jesus in Indiana, and he isn’t worthy of a homecoming. 

His style of coaching is going extinct, his force of personality fades further into irrelevance, and with these latest remarks, Knight’s place in college basketball and at Indiana University is no longer worthy of discussion. Let him live out his days in isolated anger, punching at ghosts, while the rest of the sport and the place he helped build leaves him behind.

 

http://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/bob-knight-has-long-been-a-disgrace-but-what-he-said-friday-cannot-slide/

 

 

Edited March 12, 2017 by Vega

[swamprat]

34 minutes ago, Vega said:

If there was ever any doubt about Bob Knight’s irrelevance and bitterness, he confirmed both on Friday.

Knight, who lost touch with modern college basketball and common decency long ago, reaffirmed his despicable personality with some classless quotes on “The Dan Patrick Show.” 

“I hope they’re all dead,” Knight, a man who makes the Grinch seem like the Pope, told Patrick when cued up about his former bosses at Indiana.

It’s those people who rightfully booted a lifelong bully out the door at IU in 2000. They moved on. Knight’s incapable of doing so, harboring anger and acidity that he’ll die with. Patrick brought to mind the fact that some of those people Knight wished dead might still be alive. When given the chance to walk back such a disgusting sentiment, Knight did what he’s always done: dug in his heels and made himself look worse in the process. 

“Well, I hope the rest of them go,” Knight said.

They’ll go, just as the 76-year-old Knight will, eventually. But they’ll all die knowing they did the right thing. Knight can’t claim the same. The man singularly responsible for telling Knight he was no longer going to coach in Bloomington: the respected, departed Myles Brand, who died in 2009 from cancer. He was Indiana’s president then. In the years since, Brand has been proven correct. 

Knight’s legacy has only been soiled by his own accord. 

Knight, the mascot of a man-child for the worst of the worst when it comes to mental and verbal abuse in the coaching culture of yesteryear, was once placed alongside John Wooden as the greatest college basketball coach in history. In the December of his life, he has watched his protege, Mike Krzyzewski, breeze past him in that standing. This is a man who reached the Sweet 16 once in his final 13 years of coaching, a tyrant who sputtered off the sport’s sidelines before underwhelming as an unprepared color analyst.  

 

Now Knight’s only redeeming quality is his still-evident influence and brilliant innovation of the motion offense. Everything else about him carries a stench of rage, irrationality and contempt. He is a bitter, aging man who is incapable of letting go. Knight still holds in contempt those who had the audacity, in his mind, to push him out in Bloomington. He hasn’t returned since. And never will.

“On my dying day, I will think about how great the fans at Indiana were,” Knight said, speaking to an imaginary contingent, a faction of supporters who are a fraction of the size in reality to what he believes exists. “And as far as the hierarchy at Indiana University at that time, I have absolutely no respect whatsoever for those people. With that in mind, I have no interest in ever going back to that university.”

Indiana shouldn’t welcome him. In fact, in light of Knight’s abhorrent quotes to millions over public radio on Friday, the school should ban him for life. Endorsing the deaths of school administrators is crossing the line. Knight lived far too long doing what he wanted to do, saying what he wanted to say, choking who he wanted to choke. 

Indiana can let his memory linger with whatever trophies and photos adorn Assembly Hall, but let that be it. Knight thinks he’s won by cutting ties with IU. Truth is, Indiana’s too good for Knight now. In the 17 years since the divorce, the school has moved on, but been willing to welcome him back. That can end now. Bob Knight is not Basketball Jesus in Indiana, and he isn’t worthy of a homecoming. 

His style of coaching is going extinct, his force of personality fades further into irrelevance, and with these latest remarks, Knight’s place in college basketball and at Indiana University is no longer worthy of discussion. Let him live out his days in isolated anger, punching at ghosts, while the rest of the sport and the place he helped build leaves him behind.

 

http://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/bob-knight-has-long-been-a-disgrace-but-what-he-said-friday-cannot-slide/

 

 

If Knight is so irrelevant, why the long winded piece to make the point?

Don't get me wrong, I would never want Bobby here, but writer's like Norlander make me chuckle. His cry for Knight's ban from relevancy just renewed his relevance. 

Back to the coaching search....

[Brad]

Sounds like the author wants to be part of the story, or was.

[BeachBumBull]

20 hours ago, NewEnglandBull said:

I believe he was only at CSU for two years though (and was fired for the racial incident). 

Central Michigan goes by CMU.

 

[UofMemphis]

Bobby Knight won NCAA titles, graduated his players, and those kids would run through brick walls for him.

is he an a$$hole? sure...

 

but so are Marine Drill Instructors...and plenty of folks send them their kids.

Bobby has 902 wins and 5 NCAA titles...he may be old and a little senile...but he sure ain't irrelevant. 

Edited March 13, 2017 by UofMemphis

[USFBulls727]

33 minutes ago, UofMemphis said:

Bobby Knight won NCAA titles, graduated his players, and those kids would run through brick walls for him.

is he an a$$hole? sure...

 

but so are Marine Drill Instructors...and plenty of folks send them their kids.

Bobby has 902 wins and 5 NCAA titles...he may be old and a little senile...but he sure ain't irrelevant. 

Just saw this hilarious response to that Bobby Knight halftime speech video on YouTube. ...

 

"I set this as my alarm, and I haven't been late in over a year."

[swamprat]

37 minutes ago, UofMemphis said:

Bobby Knight won NCAA titles, graduated his players, and those kids would run through brick walls for him.

is he an a$$hole? sure...

 

but so are Marine Drill Instructors...and plenty of folks send them their kids.

Bobby has 902 wins and 5 NCAA titles...he may be old and a little senile...but he sure ain't irrelevant. 

I recently saw an interview with Steve Alford, current UCLA Head Coach and a member of the 1987 championship team. He reveres Knight. 

BTW, Bobby Knight only had 3 NCAA titles, 76, 81, and 87, Branch McCracken coached Indiana to their other 2 titles in 1940 and 1953.

Edited March 13, 2017 by swamprat