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Fitness Lesson of Bob Knight
7:42 AM 2/6/2008
Fitness Lesson of Bob Knight
The legendary coach Bob Knight retired this week and a flood of emotions filled my head. If you know nothing about Knight suffice it to say that he was a lightening rod of controversy, mostly because he simply did not care what people thought of him. His coaching style was demanding and his temper was explosive. He was the rare mix of doing his job so well that time and again his poor behavior was overlooked, yet constantly being hung up for public flogging anyway. He was the train wreck that not only people liked to watch and not stop, but in many instances were willing to be on the train with him when it happened.
What does it say about us as a society that he will be remembered for throwing a chair across the court or grabbing a player by the throat, yet he is the winningst coach in college basketball history? That we value the right things? Okay. What if I told you that in his 42 years as a head coach in college that only 4 players that stayed 4 years with him did not get a degree? That’s a 98% graduation rate. What if I told you that he is one of only 2 or 3 “highly successful” coaches that never, ever, got accused of breaking the rules? And believe me, with as many people that hated Bob Knight, in the media in particular, if there were the slightest whiff of cheating they would have tried to bring him down. Are we remembering the right things about him?
I am not trying to get you to like or dislike, agree or disagree, with Knight’s methods, behavior, results or person. What I do want you to take from this complex situation is this: Those spontaneous explosions that caused massive immediate damage are what are focused on, not the 42 years of doing it exactly the way it should be and it should be the other way around. We as people focus on the spectacular moments, not the slow drawn out events. We remember and therefore VALUE things that are easy to see because of their momentary intensity, and we forget and overlook things that aren’t so visible and need time to play out.
It is easy to see why so few people maintain and value a healthy life style. It’s a long slow lifetime process. Something Bob Knight understood the value in but will unlikely be remembered for.
Fitness Lesson of Bob Knight
The legendary coach Bob Knight retired this week and a flood of emotions filled my head. If you know nothing about Knight suffice it to say that he was a lightening rod of controversy, mostly because he simply did not care what people thought of him. His coaching style was demanding and his temper was explosive. He was the rare mix of doing his job so well that time and again his poor behavior was overlooked, yet constantly being hung up for public flogging anyway. He was the train wreck that not only people liked to watch and not stop, but in many instances were willing to be on the train with him when it happened.
What does it say about us as a society that he will be remembered for throwing a chair across the court or grabbing a player by the throat, yet he is the winningst coach in college basketball history? That we value the right things? Okay. What if I told you that in his 42 years as a head coach in college that only 4 players that stayed 4 years with him did not get a degree? That’s a 98% graduation rate. What if I told you that he is one of only 2 or 3 “highly successful” coaches that never, ever, got accused of breaking the rules? And believe me, with as many people that hated Bob Knight, in the media in particular, if there were the slightest whiff of cheating they would have tried to bring him down. Are we remembering the right things about him?
I am not trying to get you to like or dislike, agree or disagree, with Knight’s methods, behavior, results or person. What I do want you to take from this complex situation is this: Those spontaneous explosions that caused massive immediate damage are what are focused on, not the 42 years of doing it exactly the way it should be and it should be the other way around. We as people focus on the spectacular moments, not the slow drawn out events. We remember and therefore VALUE things that are easy to see because of their momentary intensity, and we forget and overlook things that aren’t so visible and need time to play out.
It is easy to see why so few people maintain and value a healthy life style. It’s a long slow lifetime process. Something Bob Knight understood the value in but will unlikely be remembered for.
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