Texas Tech head basketball coach has resigned, effective immediately. Knight's son, Pat Knight, will take over as head coach.
Just two weeks ago, Knight achieved his 900th career coaching win.
Drive and Dish congratulated Knight at the time.
I have a lot of respect for Bob Knight, but I didn't always feel that way. I grew up hating coach Knight when he was at Indiana. I despised his style. I hated the motion offense. I couldn't stand yelling, in your face coaches.
When I was in high school, I had coaches who yelled and were in my face. I didn't respond to that coaching style at the time and I couldn't imagine what it would be like to play for a coach like that in college.
But when I got to college and was trying to survive an existence as a walk on guard for a small college basketball team (I had played the wing in high school and was struggling to adjust to playing on the perimeter), I started to view Bob Knight in a new light. I was learning to play the guard position and started taping Indiana games in order to watch -- and learn from -- the Hoosiers' guards (they were notorious for playing fundamentally sound, smart basketball).
After watching hours upon hours of Indiana basketball, I gained an appreciation for Bob Knight's system and his coaching style.
And I even began to wish that I could have played for him.
Bob Knight was a great game coach, but his real genius was as an innovator and as a teacher of the game.
And Bob Knight's motion offense and tight man to man defense have been borrowed, copied, modified and emulated by scores of college and high school coaches across America. The system that he pioneered at West Point, and won three championships with at Indiana has become, more or less, the foundation of the modern college game.
American organized basketball owes coach Knight a tremendous debt.
Drive and Dish salutes coach Knight.
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Hey, how can y'all try to ban me for my "dirty mouth," when all I did was say that Dookie Quin Snyder had problems with drugs and marital infidelity, yet y'all let a bunch of perverts and sex offenders talk about everything under the sun (and solicit each other for hook ups)?
Give me a break!
Y'all's site has been a great place to come in order to read about and discuss college basketball, but the comments sections have really been getting out of control lately.
The things that some people get away with saying aren't very classy.
And that's a shame, because, overall, this place is classy.
But Y'all have got to be kidding me with the kinds of comments you allow from people who aren't North Carolina fans.
P.S. That website with the two girls has got to be the sickest, most degrading thing I've ever seen. I don't think I'll be able to hold down food for at least a month after seeing 20 seconds of that.
If you haven't followed that link, take my advice and don't do it. That video will leave you questioning the purpose of life.
Thank God I've got the Heels to follow, otherwise I'd be depressed after watching that video.
UNC: NCAA Men's Basketball Champions 1957, 1982, 1993, 2005
(soon to be 2008)
Go HEELS!
Roy,
Your complaint has been noted by the administrator of this blog.
I agree with you and share your concerns about the nature of many of the comments under this post.
My post was about Bob Knight, his legacy on the game and how I gained respect for him over the years.
The people who posted comments related to sexual deviancy, pederasty, fetish porn, etc. added nothing of value to the topic of discussion.
So they're outta here.
Why was Kevin Blackistone's comment deleted?
Anonymous,
Because he just reinforced what Roy said, except for the fact that Roy didn't say certain words that Kevin did.
Roy>Jesus is right -- Drive and Dish is too classy for those words.
So go fuck yourself.
Lemme get this straight. "Tool" is a banned word on this blog?
You guys need to lighten up.
Anonymous,
There aren't "banned" words on this blog, per se.
I deleted comments for their overall lewd content, not for any one particular word.
And even though Kevin's comment was critical of some of the risque subject matter of earlier comments, he used descriptive words that didn't belong in the comments section of this post.
I am saluting Bob Knight, not talking about fetishes and sexual deviancy.
And I'm trying to make sure that the discussion of Bob Knight's career stays "classy," as Roy>Jesus prefers.
This site is classy.
This isn't some piece of shit website like Gawker, or a forum that celebrates all manners of amoral debauchery, like the motherfucking Tucker Max Idiot Board.
So go fuck your mother, you cum dumpster.
How can you talk about being classy and then use such horrible language? And how can you justify banning people for using certain words when you use such filthy language yourself?
You're a potty mouth and a jerk of the absolute highest order.
What a hypocrite you are.
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