RJM posted:OskiSD posted:OK - here you go. Augie Garrido was a great coach and teacher who would rip his teams when necessary (check YouTube). His players loved him. He cared about them, and made that clear.
Bobby Knight, though he won a lot of basketball games, is not like Augie Garrido. A nasty, needlessly cruel person.
I'd draw the line somewhere between those two.
A lot of former Indiana players worship Bobby Knight. They say he taught them discipline, self management skills and to grow up. Plus, his players graduated.
Beat me to it. In addition to being a baseball player my son played AAU basketball at a fairly high level. We used to play a team coached by a couple of ex-IU players. One of the players was pivotal to the famous chair throwing incident. Anyway, over the years I had the opportunity to get to know this player. His coaching style was direct opposite of Bobby's but he spoke very highly of Bobby Knight. Lots of respect for him.