Bobby Knight
Bobby Knight, arguably the best college basketball coach ever and definitely one of the most controversial coaches ever. With a record of 661 wins and 240 losses at Indiana University as head coach, he ended his career there with a .734 % winning percentage. As I will show you, Bobby may have been controversial but with a record like that, he must have been doing something right and the Indiana Basketball program will never be the same. As Newsweek writer Pete Axthelm puts it, " Bobby Knight is a boiling blend of brilliance and loyalty, fanaticism and temper." Frank Deford, a writer for Sports Illustrated magazine, says that " Bobby always wanted to be a coach, officially expressing this desire in an autobiography he wrote when he was a junior in high school. Deford describes the especially close relationship between the young Knight and his basketbal
Within a year he became assistant basketball coach at the United States Military Academy, and two years later, at age 24 he was elevated to head coach; a promotion that, according to Deford, " stunned everybody. He also coached nine Big Ten MVPs and had a total of 27 All-Americans play in Assembly Hall. " The youthful coach proceeded to take army, "hardly a basketball power" according to Time, to 4 National Invitational Tournament playoffs in 6 years. The other offered less salary but was exclusively basketball. The most lucrative of these involved coaching both basketball and football. "The General" led the Hoosiers to 3 national championships, 11 Big Ten championships and one National Invitational Tournament title. The squad's final championship of the Knight era came in the 1986-87 season when Keith Smart hit the game-winning shot to defeat Syracuse in the national title game. He ranks fifth on the all-time coaches list for victories and is the 25th winningest coach of all-time. " This single-mindedness benefited Knight almost immediately. The greatest accomplishment in the Bob Knight era was the 1975-76 national championship run where the Hoosiers began the year as Associated Press' preseason number one team and carried that ranking all the way through the season to Knight's first and the school's third NCAA championship. " After graduating from Ohio State in 1962, Knight was offered two coaching jobs at high schools in Ohio. He was awarded with National Coach-of-the-year honors on four occasions in 1975, 76, 87, and 1989.
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