Bob Knight on Big Monday

I propose a “Jordan Hamilton” drinking game for tonight along the lines of “Hi Bob”. Knight and Musburger will so thoroughly beat this angle to death that you are sure to be hammered by halftime.

These days I get hammered before the game.

That is not The General.

Apologies, El General. Edit made.

Expanding the field to 96 is asinine. Bob Knight’s suggestion of 128 is dumber than dirt. It devalues the regular season even more, you begin down the road of dragging March Madness to NBA playoffs excruciating levels, and you reward mediocrity.
 
The big tournament resume debates with our current 65 at the beginning of every March is limited to debating a bunch of 17-13 ACC teams and 23-7 mid-majors who were third best in their league.
 
If you can’t make the field of 65, you’re not worthy.
 
Fuck off with this soccer trophy bullshit.

I just love listening to Bob Knight call a game.

I think I’d actually watch a women’s basketball game if Knight was the analyst.

I heard somebody on the Radio discussing it the other day and their point is very astute: it’s not like the last 4 or 5 bubble teams are particularily good. Many times, the selection committee is holding it’s nose to fill out the tournament brackets, putting in teams that are neither good, nor enjoyable to watch. Expanding the field is insane.

Exactly Bates.

I wholly expect our offense to look like this tonight, with slightly less movement:

the tournament will never be expanded as long as CBS has it and The Masters. They would have to start the whole season earlier and nobody gives a shit as it is until after bowl season.

Screw augmenting the tourney field. That is just moronic. If you want to change something, get rid of the automatic qualifiers from conferences 99.99999% of hardcore basketball fans haven’t even heard of. What is a better game for CBS? Kentucky vs. Radford in the first round or Kentucky vs. Oklahoma State in the first round?

Radford beating Kentucky in the first round is definitely better for CBS.

Some pretty cool Bobby Knight quotes. I love the guy. The Uwe Blab quote is my favorite.

"If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from alot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we’d beat everybody."

“In taking of his time to help unfortunate people, he eventually becomes penalized. I thought it was a tremendous irony, with all that garbage that has gone on at Kentucky over the years.” -opinion on the NCAA’s one game suspension of Steve Alford who posed for a charity calendar, and subsequently missed the game where IU lost to Kentucky 63-58.

“I’ve watched the Russians play for two years and we’d beat their ass
anywhere they want to play.” -after his 1984 US Olympic basketball team won gold in an Olympics boycotted by the USSR.

“I can’t tell you, and I don’t even like discussing it, the number of times I’ve gone home and said, ‘God, I wish I hadn’t gotten on that kid like that.’ I wish I didn’t think I had to get on him. Hey, I’m not – I never once said I’m perfect. I have made mistakes, but that really doesn’t separate me from anyone else. Am I susceptible or liable to criticism? Certainly, and sometimes fairly.”-HT March 1994

“Congratulations on the birth of your first child. I’m glad to hear that mother and son are doing well. P.S. Don’t ever let your husband hold this kid over anything but a bed.”-congratulating Uwe Blab’s wife

“Wayman [Tisdale] has been a special joy to me. I get on his ass and he
reacts well to it.”-Newsweek August 1984

“Hell, I don’t even watch the pros. If the NBA was on Channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on Channel 4, I’d watch the frogs—even if they came in fuzzy.”-on coaching in the pros

“I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale
Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.”-commenting on that stormy 1987 game with LSU

“You know, if any of you someday are on the street and you see that Wayne Duke is about to get run over by a car, I would encourage you, I think, to save him. But not if it’s in any way inconvenient for you to do so.” -addressing an alumni group, on Big Ten Commissioner Wayne Duke

the tournament will never be expanded as long as CBS has it and The Masters. They would have to start the whole season earlier and nobody gives a shit as it is until after bowl season.

The NCAA basketball tournament is working its way to ESPN just like every other major event, so the scheduling will not be a problem.

And ESPN will ruin it with Sportscenter In-Game, the ticker, and some other repacking of the same highlights they’re going to show on the fourteen sportscenter later.

"I’ve watched the Russians play for two years and we’d beat their ass
anywhere they want to play." -after his 1984 US Olympic basketball team won gold in an Olympics boycotted by the USSR.

I went to this Olympics in LA and saw the USA beat Uwe and the Krauts. Like a red headed German rented stepmule.

Sitting in the fourth row and being able to hear most of what Knight said was cool. The highlight was when Jordan tried to go baseline and stepped out of bounds and then Knight yelled: Hey, Michael – Pull your head outta your ass." or something like that.

Good times.

Like a red headed German rented stepmule.

I resemble that remark.