<p>Actually Bob Knight has a lot of faults and a lot of virtues.</p>
<p>Those who only see the faults are as silly as those who only see the virtues.</p>
<p>233- There certainly is an Athletic Director involved. He is a huge Bobby Knight supporter and was instrumental in bringing him to Tech. He has been working with Bobby on the succession plan. Do you really have so little sports knowledge that you think a coach simply picks whoever he wants to take over?</p>
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my goodness.</p>
<p>I know I’m just a lowly college student but I’ve been playing sports since I was about 6/7 years old. Knight type behavior is not appropriate for something in middle school or something but when I was playing highschool hockey, if I didn’t have a coach that would scream/yell/curse when we were playing bad/losing then I got the feeling he didn’t care. I always liked the coaches that got mad at me, flipped out, because you could tell they wanted to win just as bad as you did and they EXPECTED better out of you as a player. Just my 2 cents.</p>
<p>LA09 - nothing lowly about it 
Especially coming from an important perspective - that of the athlete.</p>
<p>For my part, it’s not an objection to Coach Knight’s intensity - as you say, that is certainly one indicator that a coach cares - it’s the number of kind of “outliers” that happened - sometimes on the court, sometimes in the practice arena, sometimes on campus, and sometimes in the interview room. It is just important to look at the whole picture.</p>
<p>Outliers–that’s a good word for his outbursts…</p>
<p>MOWC----Actually I had a hunch Texas Tech might employ an AD, and that he/she might have some say in the decision regarding Coach’s successor, but thanks for the info anyway. Peace.</p>
<p>“Who are we to judge another man’s life?”</p>
<p>He’s a public figure…I think it’s perfectly reasonable to point out that he’s a poor role model for others who might want to follow his career. We already have too many people who think that winning is all that matters.</p>
<p>Lighten up, people! This is about a game!</p>
<p>Lots of great quotes attributed to the General: </p>
<p>“The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.” </p>
<p>"If the NBA was on channel five and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel four, I’d watch the frogs - even if they were coming in fuzzy. " </p>
<p>Love him or hate him… considerable wisdom and humor…I agree with his assessment of the NBA!!</p>
<p>Hunt- he is certainly not a coach who thinks winning is all that matters. He has cost his team games by disciplining players who broke team rules. He makes sure his players go to class, graduate and have futures. As someone pointed out, the players don’t wind up getting arrested or becoming drug addicts. (Well, there was the small matter of Isaiah Thomas…)</p>
<p>His quotes are legendary and hilarious.</p>
<p>Maybe I feel the way one of my business associates felt when he took me to a Cleveland Indians baseball game a number of years ago. He told me that I couldn’t boo Albert Belle because, “He may be a jerk, but he’s OUR jerk!” (the word jerk may actually have been another word referring to a portion of the anatomy)</p>
<p>Belichick and Knight:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=715107[/url]”>http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=715107</a></p>