OT - Bobby Knight Resigns - Effective Immediately!

[PacerGuy]

February 4, 2008


Rivals.com Staff Reports


Bob Knight, the winningest NCAA men's division I basketball coach in history, has retired as Texas Tech's coach effective immediately.
Knight, 67, won his 902nd game Saturday when the Red Raiders downed Oklahoma State. He will be replaced by his son, Pat. Knight informed athletic director Gerald Myers of his decision Monday morning.


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1. Bob Knight 902
2. Dean Smith 879
3. Adolph Rupp 876
4. Jim Phelan 830
5. Eddie Sutton 800
6. Mike Krzyzewski 794
7. Lefty Driesell 786
8. Lute Olson 780
9. Lou Henson 779
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Knight: A Look Back
Knight won three national titles at Indiana, in 1976, '81 and '87. In all, he took the Hoosiers to 24 NCAA tournament appearances and reached the Final Four two other times.

During his tenure at Texas Tech, Knight was 138-82, and he led the Red Raiders to the NCAA Tournament in four of his six seasons, reaching the Sweet 16 in 2005. The Red Raiders are 11-8 this season and 3-3 in the Big 12, tied for sixth in the conference with Oklahoma.

Knight is one of six men who have played and coached in the Final Four. He played for Ohio State when the Buckeyes reached the Final Four in 1960, '61 and '62. He and Dean Smith are the only mean who have played and coached for a national champion.

Knight's three national titles are tied for third-most, behind John Wooden's 10 and Adolph Rupp's four. Mike Krzyzewski, who played for Knight at Army, also has three titles. Krzyzewski began his college coaching career as a graduate assistant at Indiana under Knight in 1974.

Knight's five Final Four appearances are tied for sixth all-time.

He also coached U.S. teams to gold medals in the 1979 Pan American Games and the 1984 Olympics.

Knight perhaps is as well-known for his temper and behavior as he is for his win total. He was fired at Indiana on Sept. 10, 2000, by then-IU president Myles Brand for what Brand termed a continuing pattern of "defiant and hostile" behavior.

Knight always has taken great pride in the academic achievement of his players, and during his coaching career, which began in 1965 at Army, all but four of his four-year players completed degrees, a ratio of nearly 98 percent

[Scoot McGroot]

Wow, this is a shock.


Over the course of his career, he has been an absolutely great coach. I did turn off to him a bit after he went to Texas Tech and essentially told all the rabid IU fans who backed him to the ends of the Earth and continued to back him to "F*** off", but still respected him as a coach.


If he could've just kept from physically assaulting his players, he would quite possibly be known universally as the greatest college basketball coach ever. However, he was from the old school where he demanded that everyone else change to acclimate to him, and he was never able nor willing to acclimate to the times, including a new era of recruiting.

Best of luck to him.

[xxSnEaKyPxx]

Dean Smith > all.

[TSC25]

Was very shocked when I seen this on ESPN,thou he sometimes did things I didnt agree with,I cant knock him for being a great coach,and winning alot of games with very underrated teams.

[Grang33r]

Total shock. He's a great coach. I'm a big fan of IU and Cuse but went to Buffalo to see him coach in his first NCAA tournament bid with Texas Tech. Seen the guy a total of 2 times. Great coach. Very shocked to come home to see the headline read that he resigned.

[harding156]

The classics never get old.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ukj6Qi5W_k&

[ajizzle]

Robert Montgomery Knight is one of the best coaches in sports history, let alone bball, let alone college bball... He is also simultaneously one of the biggest brutes and jerks.

I love his hard-nosed style... If I had to choose a general to lead my troops into battle, he's on the top of the list.

I don't approve of his abusive behavior, but it's a shame how wussified our society has become in some ways.

Thanks for being you, Bobby!

[Charcoal Filtered]

Dean Smith > all.

+1

As for Mr. Knight, it is just too bad that he could not control his temper. College basketball, along with alot of college sports, is just pure sleaze. His ethics in recruiting and high graduation rates should be the norm and sadly are not.

[greenway84]

He's coming home to Indiana to coach the Pacers