Bob Knight comments on Pat Summitt

[underpants]

Bob Knight knew Pat Summitt would be a good coach

Knight first got to know the legendary Tennessee basketball coach during the 1979 Pan American Games.

Summitt often would have lunch with Knight, then-Army coach Mike Krzyzewski and Fred Taylor, who was Knight's coach at Ohio State.

“She just asked questions,” Knight said of Summitt, who was 27 years old at the time. “Whatever it was, she'd have questions. You knew back then that Pat Summitt was going to be good. She's interested, she's knowledgeable and most of all, she wants to be a good coach.”

“Coaches rarely get 30 wins in a season,” Knight said. “You could have 30 wins a year for 33 years, and you'd still be 10 short of where Pat Summitt almost is.

“When Pat started coaching (1974), there wasn’t any reason that any other school anywhere couldn’t have done what she did. She didn’t have any better resources than anybody else. She just worked harder and she was just better at it. She’s never looked back. The only person who's been able to compete with her is (Connecticut’s) Geno Auriemma. In all this time, Pat has had only one serious competitor. I think that's amazing.”

Asked if Summitt could coach a men’s college program, Knight said: “If she wanted to, she could. I think Auriemma could coach a men's program. I don’t know why Pat couldn’t. I think it would all depend if she wanted to do it or not. She’d be good.”

“I started playing basketball 50 years ago, and I coached for 42 years,” Knight said. “In that time, the greatest development that I have seen for players in any sport is in women’s softball and women’s basketball. The development of players in women’s basketball has been astronomical.”

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[PVnRT]

1. Yet Pat never had to choke players in practice

Or throw chairs across the court.

Or behave like a prima donna asshole in every interview.

[KamaAina]

2. What's-her-face actually did have a chance to coach a men's team

today, we're used to seeing men as well as women wearing prison-jumpsuit orange play hoops, but such was not always the case. Years ago, UT men's hoops was so awful they actually offered Knight's BFF the coaching job. To her credit (the Husky fan said, through gritted teeth), she turned them down, saying she did not consider that a promotion.

In a similar vein, it has long been rumored that, after Calhoun hangs it up, Geno will simply walk across the hall and take over the Husky men (note: the team he coaches is NOT called the "Lady Huskies", as his rival's is still called the "Lady Vols", even in 2009; it is the University of Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team.)

[madinmaryland]

3. "UT men's hoops was so awful they actually offered Knight's BFF the coaching job"

:rofl:

[Captain Hilts]

4. I hate that "Lady" shit. The "Lady" Monarchs of my ODU makes me ill. Is Queen Liz a "Lady" Monarch?

No, she's Queen Elizabeth and that's all there is to it.

I HATE it when ODU has the only "ladies" on the court.

I'm glad the WNBA prohibited that shit.