http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/10/21/archive/main67539.shtml

But I was.

The man can’t seem to leave well enough alone. He could have made all his points about integrity without actually naming a specific coach. What’s more… he could have taken the opportunity to take aim at his former school by talking about a coach who actually DID get two schools on probation: Kelvin Sampson.

Ah well. Its just something we’ll need to deal with I suppose.

a sports commentator who opens his mouth first and thinks later….or in his case doesnt think at all. This is proof that you do not have to remove your head from your posterior in order to speak.

Why should he do that when he can be as big of an ignoramous as possible , yet not be accountable. So now Mr. Knight can “slap UK around” in the media, the same way he smacked the back of Joe B. Hall’s dome when I was a kid. Perfect for him.

Embrace the hate……

Its funny, the article on ESPN has over 600 comments on it already. Other college basketball articles there are lucky to get double digits on responses. There are so many angles to the story that it provides great fodder for discussion. The winningest school in the history of the sport, with a history of cheating. A coach who is a lightning rod for criticism, with a history of violations at his previous schools. The winningest coach of all time, with a history of verbal and physical abuse of his players. The hype machine that is ESPN. Mix it all together and you have the perfect storm at an otherwise dull period during the sports season.

“Idiot of the Year” award for 2009. Knight just saved him.

best to just let it go.

I read the USAToday article and looked at the poll asking “Is Bob Knight a good spokesman for today’s college game?”

42% said – Doesn’t matter. What he said was true.
32% said – Yes. His integrity should never be questioned

Based on ABC’s reply to my comment above, I will amend my statement – Embrace the Hate of the masses (not necessarily Knight, which was stupidity – per ABC).

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Bobby Knight waited all of two weeks before quitting on his team, that was 12-8 (3-3) with 10 games left to play.

There is no integrity in being a quitter.

and who wants to bet me Knight will apologize when he sees his “error”

many of those guys are looking for anyone to point to, to take the stings out of cellphone Sampson and the mess he left them. Fairly childlike, I might add.

a man who has himself been accused of choking and punching an SID, assaulting a police officer in Puerto Rico, kicking his son during a game, threatening a female boss, attacking an assistant coach, and firing a shotgun at a homeowner while hunting (maybe he was hunting humans?) Don’t forget his infamous ‘rape is inevitable’ quote. He has also thrown chairs, pulled his team off the court halfway through an exhibition game and been restrained by police officers for going after a Baylor fan. His players listen though; Knight’s been known to choke, grab, berate, whip and headbutt his own. Class: it’s not just something you can physically force your two-star players to attend on a daily basis.

Has been hating UK as long as I can remember. Always calling us cheaters and worse. He probably doesn’t dislike Coach Cal, just UK…

“You see we’ve got a coach bigmouth at Kentucky ESPN who put two (thousand) schools on probation thrown chairs on the basketball court and he’s still coaching blabbing. I really don’t understand that.”

With all his vast firsthand knowledge, hard evidence, and access to the smoking gun (no pun intended), he should take all that information straight to the NCAA. I’m sure they’d be interested. If he doesn’t have those things, then he’s just shooting off his mouth (again, no pun intended).

Knight says he’s glad he’s not coaching, but he wanted the Georgia job last year. Georgia didn’t even consider it :-P

ran home for lunch – happened to turn on ESPNU and caught a few minutes of something called “The Herd” – the DJ was using the bk thing to really pile on UK…the best only argument he had was the where there is smoke there is fire. a uk fan called in and asked how bk could be questioning integrity given his past and the host cut he guy off saying he was trying to deflect the story….had to turn it off before i lost it….of course the host did mention that bk had more ncaa violations than Cal before he went on another bashing spree…

then as i was driving back to work, a memphis fan on talk radio was focused on uk’s lack of signees for 2010 and how memphis had the #1 class (implying all the kids Cal had recruited to memphis had really come to memphis for memphis, not Cal – memphis fans are delusional – they have a very good program and need to appreciate it). he then asked if there were some “one and done thugs” that had yet to sign but could give UK a top class….ironic as that fan was probably the same one that just one year ago would have walked on hot coals for Cal….memphis fans cannot let it go….

…just like the hitching post in front of the saloon.

I’ll stay out of this debate, but there’s something that Knight allegedly said years ago that bares repeating.

Supposedly, in the early eighties Indiana was in a mini-tourney sponsored by Pizza Hut. Something about the event rubbed Knight the wrong way (big surprise), so his post-game comments consisted of:

“I won’t be taking any questions, but I have one thing to say: Your Thin and Crispy lacks substance, and your Thick and Chewy sucks.”

I hope it really happened.

I ain’t gonna get worked up over this. Bobby Knight is Bobby Knight. He was an idiot when he was coaching and he’s an idiot now. He stays on because he does things like this that get ratings and hits and stirs up controversy. I’m gonna just let it be.

Anyone else suffering basketball withdrawal this week? I’m ready for some more action. Let ’em all hate us for they are not of us.

I recall that once when a reporter asked Booby (not a typo) what he believed to be a stupid question, his response was “Have you ever masturbated?”

ESPN ushered in the era of trash talking “me first” self-promoting asshats and took all the nobility and grace out of sport. They are an ugly marketing chainsaw cutting down pristine timber. All they care about is where their next controversy, their next sports personalty, and their next program/franchise to build-up and tear down.

They replaced and shoved out people that love the game with a bunch of calculator toting Rotisserie league geeks that hardly even know a team’s name. Just give them the box score so they can crunch the numbers the same way they crunch the history, tradition, and honor of hundred year-old institutions that deserve little more than mockery. Need a ratings boost? Just inject steroids and watch the records fall. Who cares? They’re all dead old white guys anyway?

Bob Knight is a boor. However, it is frustrating to continue to have to defend Coach Cal. I understand all the arguments about how Cal was the one who turned in Camby’s violations to the NCAA and he only played Rose after the NCAA clearinghouse certified his SAT. I also appreciate how Coach Cal continues to take the high road and refuses to shoot back. I would love, though, for some proof from Rose that he actually took his SAT so that Knight and others would at least owe Cal an apology—not that he would ever give it, because he lacks that kind of integrity, the kind that admits when he is wrong.

I know from personal experience how the media can lie about you and take parts of a story and paint an inaccurate picture, but that doesn’t make one feel any better about it.
In the end, ten years of a squeaky clean program will likely be the only elixir to take away the frustration of all the attacks on something that I believe is very special… Big Blue Basketball.

Just goes to show you that Coach Cal has much more class than Knight. Knight is just a bitter, jealous, obnoxious old man with a bad attitude and big mouth. Hasn’t changed much has he? Talk about integrity. He abused his players, his ex-wife and now his right to freedom of speech. ESPN needs to reel him in before he embarrasses his employer and gets himself fired again.

are stubborn things.

Two final fours, no rings to wear or banners to hang.

I guess Coach Cal is just unlucky…

Regardless of Coach Knights’s comments, and even though he is a Hall of Fame member and a three time national championship winning coach, even the most dedicated UK hater has to admit that Coach Cal has a really good thing going in Lexington. I give him total credit for turning the tide at Kentucky as quickly as he has.

Geez, this man gets on my last nerve. This is the only man I dislike more them ole “cryin Roy”! I wish someone (40, you still out there?) would look up the free throw differential in the “Knight Era” in his home games. I kept up with it for years growing up, and I know it would be 80% of all home games that they shot at least 15 to 20 more fts. I remember distinctly two years in particular, the ones that started off the Pitino era at UK that the first year we were outshot from the line something like 46 or 48 to I think 9?! And lost by 3! The next year we beat them by two or three and they shot like 54 fts to our I think 11? Those are close figures, if they’re not exactly right. In my book, 30 years of this is more then coincedental.
  Also, I was told today that Coach Cal actually was the one that blew the whistle on Marcus Camby? Is that right? I know Knight has never turned himself in, even when he shot one of his best friends, who then lied to keep Knight out of trouble!!!! I can’t see Knight ever admitting anything he did wrong?! I know Knight never admitted choking one of his players, even when it was caught on film?
  I will pray for the man, and he needs it, but I have little use for him.

Knight allowed his own son to lie for him on the choking mess, publically before the nation!!!!!!!! What a guy.
  If I could go back in time and take the place of any person of my choice, I would give almost anything to stand in for Joe B. when Knight “cuffed” him on the back of the head that night! And I’m not much of a J.B.H. fan.

Integrity is something Knight can only talk about, becasue he’s never really personally experienced it himself.

I have voiced my concern over hiring Cal. I was scared out of my mind when he was hired because of what could happen but I said one thing……….I will trust Sandy Bell. I stick by that too. I do want to say this though, I had no idea that Cal self reported the Camby thing. The whole Memphis thing was the clearinghouse’s fault. Not Cal’s fault. I do think though if we want to win and want to recruit well we will need to dance with the devil and the devil is not Cal. The devil is the “system” that is in place. The AAU and NBA system that is. If we want Kentucky to be Kentucky then we must do this. We must go after the lottery picks to be in the elite grouping. Well these kids are products of the AAU crap. We will always have issues like what happened with Wall. We cannot go around following every kid making sure everything is just perfect. There will always be the unknown. We must accept that and dance with the devil just as all other elite schools do and have done for years. This doesn’t make Cal the devil but just a player in his game. Bobby Knight knows it and knows that he can never be relevant again and so he is striking out.

I have resigned myself to just reading about UK basektball (and the wave of Man-Crush articles on JWall)…and leaving the biting diatribe laced comments to the uneducated and misinformed…just finished watching “The Good Shepard”, the quasi fictional tale of the birth of the CIA…cloak and dagger stuff…just have to wonder if the NCAA and ESPN have their own fedora wearing mysterious men lurking in the backrooms perfecting misinformation towards Cal in hopes of derailing his recruiting prowess and further besmirching UK…(with the tired lines that we’ve all read all too many times)…now add on double agent Bobby Knight (didn’t he used to hate the media?) and we see that even old washed up coaches still will say anything about UK (or it’s coach) just to get some attention…he reminds me of a 5 year old with a naughty vocabulary and a penchant for hitting the other kids in daycare…he apparently needs the attention…so…I have sworn to ignore it from now on…I hope Cal does as well…win the Title (or a few) and shut them up…maybe then Knight will read up on his targets before taking aim at them

Copy/paste from 12/19 LHL article by JT:

“And earlier this year, the NCAA ordered Memphis to vacate its 2008 Final Four because Rose was found to have cheated on his college entrance exam.” note:emphasis mine.

Just make something up.

“good ol days” now he is a has been,abusive, archaic , washed up, simple man’s, Woody Hayes.

is that “integrity” is not something that Knight can lecture anyone about! It applies to all area’s of your life Bobby, not just one or two specific one’s. I haven’t been able to stand the sight of the man for – oh, I guess about 35 years now!