The dark legacy of Bob Knight’s leadership
February 5, 2008 by Miki Saxon
There’s and interesting post over at The 501(C) Files recapping the light and dark sides of Bob Knight’s career.
The light – “An uncompromising figure and terrific coach whose players kept their nose clean and graduated at atypically high rates, he deserves much of the praise being given him today.”
The dark – “Knight was also a loudmouth and a bully, a coach who threw chairs, got rough with his players, and engaged in behaviors that ran fully counter to the ideals noted above…the ultimate shame is that the coach’s boorishness drowned out the considerable accomplishments of his teams and his schools.”
I think the saddest part of Knight’s legacy is that so many of the boys who played under him will become the men who manager their business teams as he managed them believing that that’s the way to win. Not all, but too many.
Do you think that his players will follow his poor example?
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