For every detractor the bombastic coach had, there were 10 other people who considered him a great American hero.
Everybody that had any connection with Bob Knight has a story. Or even two. Former Bishop Noll boys basketball coach Jack Gabor has dozens of them. They’re indelibly tucked away in his memory bank, where he gets to cherish them forever. Knight was a large man in every way. A former 6-foot-5 reserve for Ohio State, Knight looked bigger in person than his height. He had big ideas, a big appetite and an outsized sense of responsibility. Knight won three national titles — 1976, 1981 and 1987.
FILE -- Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight talks with Neil Reed during a Jan. 6, 1996, game against Ohio State at Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind. University officials have scheduled a news conference, Sunday, Sept 10, 2000, and are expected to announce that Knight is out of a job, ending three tumultuous decades at a school where he was one of basketball's best coaches but also one of its most volatile.
Matt Bowen, a former Valparaiso University assistant who is an assistant boys basketball coach at Chesterton, was part of the Knight experience for five seasons. He was a manager from 1990-1995. Bowen, the grandson of former Indiana Governor Otis Bowen, said Knight was forward thinking about how he used managers. Knight’s managers didn’t just sweep the floor and collect dirty towels. “He was at the forefront,” Bowen said.
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