The lengths people will go to defend someone they don't know personally will never cease to puzzle me.

Bobby Knight is the prime example of what you can get away with in college sports if you're good at your job

I can’t think of a single thing Bob Knight didn’t have beef with

This isn't beef, this straight criminal

The player he choked during the Indiana practice is Neil Reed, he was my P.E. teacher my sophomore year of High School, his class of one of the few I actually liked, sadly he passed away from a heart attack in 2012 that was the summer before my senior year.
R.I.P Mr. Reed

Bobby Knight was basically the Suge Knight of NCAA Basketball.

this is insane. he was an abusive tyrant for 30 years, faced mild consequences after years of being let off easy, and then disowned the school and wished death upon everyone responsible for the next 20 years. guy deserves no respect

I was a massive basketball fan (still am), age 12 growing up in a small town about 45 minutes east of IU.  My dad was obsessed with college basketball, calling it "real basketball".  While I was a massive NBA and Reggie Miller fan.  I always disliked Bob Knight, and even at my young age I could tell he was an unhinged coach. This story was huge local news here in Indiana, and I remember so many people defending him and downplaying all the stuff he did.  Basketball, especially college basketball was royalty in Indiana. It was like one of my first times as a kid at seeing a large number of people get presented with actual facts, and them still passively ignoring them, all for the sake of their favorite team.  This was probably my first time realizing the power of celebrity, and how some people really do become invincible.  Or how we set standards or have a base set of morals we have for other people, that can be switched off if you happen to like that person, or attach your identity to a team.

Ah I will stop rambling, this video brought up so many memories though. lol It was very well done and really explainedit all in a nice summarized way without leaving out anything important.

Reed was a P.E teacher in my school, he was always one of the cool ones. One time in Senior year he found me and my friend ditching weights class and just told us to scram back to class instead of reporting us. RIP Mr. Reed.

Bob Knight is a classic case of three things:  (i) the level to which people will forgive offenses of a reprehensible person if they have a particular talent that can be exploited, and (ii) the level to which power can be accumulated over time, to a point of being unchecked by anyone, even those technically in positions of authority above you, and (iii) the inability of a person to adapt to the world around them, growing ever indignant of change, and ever intractable in their stubbornness to repel change.  Had he not been successful, and at Indiana in particular, he'd have been a vagabond coach along the likes of Larry Brown (but with repeated firings rather than resignations).

The fact that THOUSANDS of students protested after ALL the stuff he did says a lot about them

I put these on sometimes for background noise, as the video goes on, I'm thinking "How did this guy have his job for so long? Was this the 50s?".

Imagine if this guy wasn't coaching young men on scholarships and had to deal with grown men who had leverage against him. He'd get his ass beat before the 2nd practice.

This wasn't a beef between Knight and Indiana U.  It was a beef between Knight and being a decent human being.

The funny thing is, 99.9% of the people who defend him wouldn’t last 15 minutes on a Bobby Knight team.

The donkey in Purdue gear is low key hilarious

“Wiping himself and showing the team the toilet paper.” That is a wow and disgusting moment

IU's relationship with Bob Knight is similar an abusive parent. No matter what that parent does (choking, punching, screaming), the kid still does everything to receive the love of said parent

Clara Morris will write and narrate my nonexistent storied sports career

Let's be honest. If in the last couple years before his firing he won a couple championships he'd never have been fired.

If Indiana were still winning, he wouldn't have been fired.
People are insane.