"The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important." -Bobby Knight
"The General"
Bob Knight 1
Anyone who enjoys the sporting genre will know what goes along with the name of ex-coach Bob Knight. Fans of this coach mostly know of him by the name of “The General”. Many people know that he was a very successful coach when he coached for three different teams, Army, Indiana and Texas Tech. Altogether, coaching at all those three schools, Bob Knight has become the most winningest coach in men’s NCAA college basketball. With a grand total of 902 wins at the end of his career as a coach, he surpassed coaches Adolph Rupp, and Dean Smith. Dean Smith was at one time the most winningest coach with 879 wins until Bob Knight passed him up with 800 wins on February 5, 2003 with a win against Nebraska. With that win he became the “Winningest Active Division 1 Men’s Basketball Coaches By Victories”.
Even though he had accomplished many different things throughout his years as a basketball coach, there are many people who think that the way he coached and the way he treated fellow coaches, players, referees, and the media made many people think that he was a bad coach and the way he coached was not professional. There have been many things that have helped with the fact that people did not like the kind of coach he was. For example, he has been accused of choking one of his players during a practice, slapping his players to get their attention, and the all-time best throwing a chair across the basketball court during a game. As stated above Bob Knight was well known for his name “The General”, the reason for this name was most likely made up because of the kind of coach that he was and the way that he would talk and coach his players hence the name “The General” because Generals in the military are very strict, and that is the style of coaching he practiced. Even though he may have been a strict coach, the results of his style of coaching are apparent by the victories and the achievements he accomplished through his coaching career.
Even though he had accomplished many different things throughout his years as a basketball coach, there are many people who think that the way he coached and the way he treated fellow coaches, players, referees, and the media made many people think that he was a bad coach and the way he coached was not professional. There have been many things that have helped with the fact that people did not like the kind of coach he was. For example, he has been accused of choking one of his players during a practice, slapping his players to get their attention, and the all-time best throwing a chair across the basketball court during a game. As stated above Bob Knight was well known for his name “The General”, the reason for this name was most likely made up because of the kind of coach that he was and the way that he would talk and coach his players hence the name “The General” because Generals in the military are very strict, and that is the style of coaching he practiced. Even though he may have been a strict coach, the results of his style of coaching are apparent by the victories and the achievements he accomplished through his coaching career.
