OT: The Lightning Rod Bobby Knight Has Health Struggles

[RockyMTblue2]

Remembered for lots of great and not so great things, no one ever disputed his coaching genious. Now a friend hints that that great mind is slipping away.

"He's going through some major issues and it hurts me to even talk about it just because a man with that kind of a mind, who was so tremendous at coaching the game of basketball, and you know, at the age that we get to at this point in our lives, you want to keep thinking that that brain is never going to go away, and it appears that's a real problem for him right now and in the sense of what he's dealing with."

Legendary Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight is ‘not well,’ Hoosiers radio announcer says

A man of great passion for the game.

 

[Beemer]

Great coach who couldn't/wouldn't control his temper.

Still this is very sad. Alzheimers/dementia is a very cruel disease.

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

Alzheimers is something I wish no one would ever have to deal with again.

 

[Purple Stein]

This is very sad to read.

Knight has proven himself, again and again, to be an absolute jerk. But he’s never seemed to be anything but his own god-awful self.

Hope there is privacy and dignity through his suffering.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Remembering the coach Bobby Knight . Cameo appearance in :