In his column today in the AJC, Furman Bisher wrote that Bobby Knight is interested in the Georgia Bulldogs basketball head coaching position. He stated that this information came from a mutual friend of Knight and Bisher that did not want to be identified.
Knight, formerly head coach at Indiana and Texas Tech, is infamous for his good basketball teams but also his rough demeanor and on-court antics. That being said, he has won 902 college basketball games as a head coach.
UGA President Michael Adams had no comment regarding Knight and the coaching search, but did say “there is no reason for us to not have a first-rate basketball team at the University of Georgia.”
Personally, I wouldn’t mind Bobby Knight being the head coach at Georgia. But only after we’ve expired better options such as Jeff Capel, Sean Miller, Jamie Dixon, Brad Stephens, Anthony Grant and possibly others.
There is no question that Bobby Knight would bring instant credibility to Georgia basketball. But can he still coach and recruit in today’s environment? And how long would he coach?
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i hope we get bob night he is a great coach and even if it is just for a few years he could probably get players to want to come here and give us time to find a long term coach
hopefully we can get a top flight coach before we have to settle for a Bob Knight or a Tubby Smith
I like the idea but worry about how the kids would respond to him. Tubby needs to be called on before we do anything else. Waiting on signing day....
Bobby Knight would be a great fit and have dawgs in final four by 2011
athens is ready for knight time . i want the dawgs to win in all sports . he brings instant credibility and more national exposure for the program .
Coach Knight would do wonders to the worst basketball program in the SEC. He may not be the for a long time but he will get the program in the right sirection.
Bobby Knight would be a good fit for the Dawgs. Many may feel that his aggressive measures on the court would be unethical in the eyes of the University, but in order to put a torn up basketball program that has had a history of disciplinary problems back together, it will take a person like Bobby Knight to fix the program. and to put Georgia basketball in the national spotlite as is football.