Knight didn’t say that he hated Wooden. He said that he didn’t respect the things that Wooden allowed UCLA to do to recruit

Didn't hear a single statement by Knight that was hateful toward Wooden. Sounds like hyperbole to me.

He actually explained that he liked Wooden but did not respect him because of Sam Gilbert. Said nothing about hating John Wooden.

Now we know why so many great players played at UCLA all those years. The recruiting shenanigans were alive and well back then too.

Wooden, one time, when asked about Knight, replied "He's profane".

I had a drink with coach Don Haskins several years ago and he said that Bobby Knight had more integrity than anyone he had ever known. For a man who grew up in El Paso that is like words from up on high!!

I'm sure many people don't respect Knight either.

Well, I didn't know either one of them personally, but all I've ever heard from his former players and anyone else who knew him is that Wooden was a good man, a kind man, a man of principle and compassion.

he didnt say he hated john wooden

No way Knight didn't have his own boosters doing shady stuff too. UCLA was just better at it. That's the world of big time college athletics.

Sheeeet they All 'cheated', remember Reggie Theus saying he took a pay cut to go to the NBA!

And Joe Buck moved right along. Didn’t want to go down that road.

I worked as a graduate assistant for a professor who graduated from IU and put Bobby Knight on a pedestal. Bobby could do no wrong in his eyes. He would say he likes how Bobby graduates his players. I never understood this worship of Knight because he was like a sulking little boy who threw temper tantrums when he didnt get what he wants. I'm sure he was a good coach as far as teaching basketball fundamentals but his childish antics and over the top diva drama are the opposite of a role model coach. John Wooden forgot more about fundamental basketball and sportsmanship than Bobby ever knew.

Coach Knight had no business coaching. The moment he physically and verbally assaulted his players he should have been fired. 👍

Blue Chips was like a documentary

Epic.... respects Wooden as a person but doesn't respect the way he ran things or let things be ran. Knight is a legend

Newsflash, Bobby! John Wooden was no fan of you and your histrionics. He also never assaulted his players.

I don’t really think Coach Knight “hated” Coach Wooden. He just felt UCLA’s recruiting approach was questionable due to Sam Gilbert, and he was eventually proven correctly several years after Coach Wooden retired. And at the time, I thought Coach Knight blasted Coach Wooden was the fact a man from Martinsville which is 20 minutes north of Bloomington went to the rival school, Purdue. It wasn’t.

A good guy to ask is Marcus Johnson about Gilbert. Also Knight thought Pete Newell of Cal was a better coach than Wooden. That was Knights go to mentor.

Funny how Knight waited until years after Wooden had passed away to say all this. Why? Because if Wooden were still alive, he would have answered back and stood up to him. And Knight, being the bully that he is, wouldn't have been able to take it.

My dad always said there was some major cheating going on at UCLA with recruiting but as a coach John Wooden was a great coach. Which Coach Bob Knight agreed!

I wonder what Knight would say about Tark the Shark.

Wooden didn’t know how to deal with those distractions like Sam Gilbert; he controlled the b-ball environment. The one who should have said something was the UCLA Athletic Director. This is also Knight playing small ball here.

Bull he didn’t go around abusing his players like Knight. His players like Kareem and them respected him.

Maybe Bobby Knight was a little jealous of all the respect and admiration Wooden got not to mention the championships

Bobby had integrity and was honest as they come. You can't find any one else to say otherwise.

Ill sum it up this way all big time colleges cheated or manipulated the rules. UCLA took it to another level after Bill Walton said that he never paid for anything at UCLA!!!!! Alot of people dont realize that Wooden was there for 14 yrs before he started winning and it aligns wih Gilberts influence. But when Walton said that the players couldnt wait to get to practice that took Wooden to another level most athletes hate practice got to respect that.

No surprise. My Dad was a BIG USC football fan his whole adult life. In the late 1960's he told me he felt sad for the USC football players because they had to take a paycut when they went into the NFL.

I don't understand the love so many have for Bob Knight, he had such a violent temper, he was not respectful to anyone, felt he was superior to so many, yet everyone wanted to kiss his behind. College Basketball is not important to me, I do love sports however and learning about the personalities of leaders both in sports and otherwise that's why I ask the question of why so many were afraid of him almost.

This is coming from the guy who had Larry Legend. Larry did not fit in with the Knight’s boys. He was a poor kid. Not a fashion guy! Knight would have had 3 to 4 ncaa championships in a row. Larry did all right. You have your Airness and the King, but only one Legend.

Surely he loved, respected coaches that choked and verbally demeaned, abused their players such as he did!

FAKE news! He said I've never been a Wooden fan. Lot of respect for how he coached. He didn't respect Wooden because of Gilbert.

Fair point.

Clickbait title and description. Listen to the clip to find out what was really said.

'What Bob Knight hated *about* UCLA and John Wooden' is more accurate and less inflammatory.

Wooden was the best coach ever. Bob Knight couldn't carry Wooden's gym bag

"I've never been a Wooden fan." - Bobby Knight

Knight will be remembered for being a hot head, bully against his players and students. Wooden will be remembered for being one of the greatest coaches and teachers,

Would love to hear a defense of Wooden from the UCLA perspective. Strong words from Bobby. Not vicious, though.

Same problem with Calipari. Now that the playing field is leveling with the NIL, recruiters have less advantages

Knight is 100% right about Sam Gilbert. Gilbert is the reason UCLA had the best players. And it is waaaaayyyyy easier to look wise when you have the best players.

No surprise, but this title is deceiving.

Recruiting is one thing, making a team is another, sorry Bob I’ll take Wooden everyday day of the week.

more sour grapes from Bobby😢

Yeah, Coach Knight, we all respect you for advising women that if they're getting raped, they may as well lie back and enjoy it. Class act, bro. You're a prince.

He is correct on this, Sam Gilbert made UCLA basketball by doing some really underhanded things. No one had even close to the player funnel that UCAL had in those years.

So what was Gilbert’s impact. I do not recall UCLA having a talent advantage in the mid 1960’s. Wooden won his first two championships with teams featuring players like Walt Hazzard, Keith Erickson, and Gail Goodrich. His last championship team was led by David Meyers and Pete Tergovich. The only two players that really made his job a lot easier were Alcindor and Walton. If Gilbert helped land them, oh well.

Seems to me , AUDIORAMA, like u need to clean up, correct and revise your ClickBait / false " headline tag". Now get to work and FIX IT!!

Do some research on Walt Hazzard, Sidney Wicks, Lucious Allen and some of the other "stars" of that UCLA era. They all talk candidly about going to see Papa Sam when they needed money, clothes, cars, etc. There was a reason Wooden didn't win anything for the first 15 years at UCLA. Then suddenly he gets all the players. Pre-Sam vs. Sam in da House. Tarnished everything Wooden accomplished.

I like both of them great coaches. I never met either one so I can't say I know them. I respect Bobby Knight for his coaching and how he ran a program. I know he did some things that people did not agree with it happens unfortunately. I believe he should have talked to coach Wooden himself and expressed his feelings. C unhappiness unhappiness unhappiness unhappiness

Fake headline of Bob Knight hating Wooden.

Interesting how behind the scenes! The Dirty Deeds of success, are hidden? Bobby was No BS Guy! He was always brutally Honest! 🤨

Knight definitely has a point

Larry Farmer wrote a book recently. He wrote an entire chapter on Sam Gilbert! Wooden took a blind eye when it came to Gilbert providing extra benefits to ucla players!!

Bobby!!! Gotta love his honesty

bobby knight was a ucla hater. everybody recruited. how did joe namath from penn end up at Alabama? ucla is the number 1 rated public univ in america. did sam gilbert recruit arthur ashe? recruit jackie robinson. no

It's OK, a lot of us have no respect for Knight.

Bobby Knight didn't say that he hated Wooden. He respected him for his coaching the game of basketball and teaching it well - having deservedly been labeled the "Wizard of Westwood". What he didn't respect that for those accomplishments, Wooden likely knew that the program he ran was not a clean program. After all, does a man as detail-oriented and intelligent as Wooden miss his amateur players rolling around Westwood in brand new cars? That, uh, seems unlikely. But as amazing as it may sound, even with the cheating by boosters like Gilbert, Wooden may have been successful anyway.

This class act and truly great coach was in town quite a few years ago. I never met the most beautiful person ever. Rest in paradise Coach

It all depends on how you want to look at it, Wooden and Gilbert where out in front of everyone. Gilbert just employed a historical form of NIL way before anyone else.

Wooden's strength was with his kids, not dealing with administrative decisions and personality types. As an educator, I can relate. My focus and energy go to the students. I do not get involved in all the admin politics.

knight was a jealous pig!

Watching the title and seeing the comments shows how people dont listen before responding. First off Knight never said he hated Wooden , that was a click bait title, the only thing he didnt like was how Wooden was not responsible when it came from dealing with his recruiter, Knight said he liked him as a coach and as a person. Soooo thats too many likes to hate a person in my opinion.

What a tiny, tiny little man.

"John Wooden never choked his players or slapped them in any way, and I can't respect that" Bob Knight

John Wooden is the greatest coach in sports history.

Wooden’s integrity and coaching abilities were beyond reproach, but there is still Sam Gilbert. I’ve heard several interviews from ex players say Gilbert was a problem. He did things that would get a program the death penalty now!

What a misleading headline !

Like Knight or Indiana never did any underhand stuff.

To think John Wooden didn't know what Sam Gilbert was doing is incredibly nieve. Definitely tarnishes UCLA's legacy.

Bob Knight explains why he hates John Wooden...I played the video a few times and each time, I miss the HATE word, why? I heard "I never been a Wooden Fan" and "I don't respect Wooden" and then, he said "I like John" I HATE LIARS!

Man I miss you coach

He said he didnt hate John. Click bait crap.

What he blames Wooden for by today's recruiting, NIL, etc., is now a nothing burger.

NCAA allowed this. See what Knight said about Sleazeball Calipari.

But what was so bad about how Gilbert recruited?

Hahhaha Bobby Knight talking about integrity is laughable. Really funny

wooden was a decent coach even at ucla - before sam gilbert came onto the scene saban - no different unti he left for the plantations @ Lsu and scama Emmert - his good friend - prez of ncaa from 2010 - 2023 - made sure no one looked to hard at scama football 😉 That alone was of of massive benefit to massa nick How convenient😑

Idiotic. Most UCLA players were CA players, many from LA area. They wanted to go to UCLA in high school.

There really isn't anything in American culture that isn't mired in corruption. This is just a microcosm of that.

Sour grapes

Uh...6'10 Kent Benson never got a $50 handshake from a Indiana alumni⁉️🤔🏀

Wooden was arguably as great a coach as you cna imagine, but also the biggest hypocrite. Sam Gilbert was my neighbor and built my house. I knew him personally . UCLA violated every ncaa recruting restriction but wooden maintained studious plausible deniability. He makes Pete Carroll look like a saint. Wooden was a great champion but the sorest loser you can imagine. There was an arrogance that he kept hidden behind a Mormon like persona. Sam procured money drugs booze and girls and was legendary his recruiting violations. By todays standards sam wouldn’t have stood out, but back then he was notorious and even brazen about. there is no way John wooden didn’t know Sam was cheating and paying money to land many of his players. PEOPEK are always interviewing walton and listening to his credible denial, but why doesn’t anyone interview say Sidney wicks> ? . But the real issues is there were multiple complaints to ncaa and they wouldn’t touch wooden. Don’t get me wrong, his first championship team was one of the greatest coaching jobs of all time in college b ball, and Sam wasn’t quite as active cheating then. But once program got on a roll wooden couldn’t stand to lose so he allowed it.

Why do people still think Knight was a great coach. Verbal and physical abuse of his players is criminal.

No where in this video does he state that he hates Wooden. He didn't respect Wooden for cheating. Coach is the best.

I don’t respect coaches that choke their players and throw tantrums (and chairs) on court. I bet John Wooden didn’t even think about Bobby Knight.

10 championship in 12 years he's the goat and I'll a Trojan fan. ❤

CLICKBAIT TITLE.SMH

Don’t like Knight but I do believe he’s right on Gilbert. There a whole gross underbelly to UCLA and it’s “success” under wooden. Probably of a serious criminal nature too.

Interesting..

What Sam Gilbert could do with the new NIL.

When you are that successful for that extended period of time chances are some exceptions were made.

Clickbait title

Coaches maligning each other's programs over recruiting practices. Puh-lease!

NEVER used the word "HATE!"

Gilbert didn't do s*** in the big scope of things. He's just used by ppl who don't have any facts against him and are jealous of Wooden's domination. Gilbert had pool party barbecues for the players and offered to negotiate their pro contracts for free when they graduated which he did. His only "sin" was co-signing a loan for a Lucius Allen car which caused the school to induce Allen to leave school before his senior year. He was the first and only early departure for decades. # Knight was a "child abuser", rageaholic intolerable boozer and a bore. A true criminal and menace to society.

Knight will be remembered for being a hot head and a bully.

No secret Wooden had his own NIL paying to get players

wahhhh he got better players than me

Change the title. It is misleading. You are creating clickbait. "Personally I like John."