Bob Knight tells Dan Patrick he's never returning to Indiana and that he hopes former administrators are all dead

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If you're among the Indiana basketball fans waiting to one day welcome Bobby Knight back to Bloomington, you might never stop waiting.

The legendary Indiana head coach, who helmed the Hoosiers for three decades and led them to three national championships, has no interest in returning to the school, as he told Dan Patrick in a mind-blowing exchange Friday.

During the interview on "The Dan Patrick Show," Knight told Patrick that he hopes all the Indiana administrators from the time he was let go as head coach are dead.

Here's the full exchange.

Patrick: "Why do we want you to go back to Assembly Hall so bad? I know that might not be on your wishlist or front burner here, but why do we the fans want closure with this, coach?"

Knight: "Well, I think I've always really enjoyed the fans, and I always will. On my dying day, I'll think about how great the fans at Indiana were. And as far as the hierarchy at Indiana University at that time, I have absolutely no respect whatsoever for those people. And with that in mind, I have no interest in ever going back to that university."

Patrick: "Aren't all those people out of there, coach?"

Knight: "I hope they're all dead."

Patrick: "I know some of them are."

Knight: "Well, I hope the rest of them go."

Patrick: "I'd like to still see you on that court with that '76 team or Isaiah (Thomas)'s team. We want closure. Maybe you don't need the closure, I don't know. I still hope for it one day."

Knight: "Well, hope rides eternal."

Knight compiled a 662–239 in his 29 seasons as Indiana's head coach, a tenure that included 24 trips to the NCAA tournament, 14 trips to the Sweet Sixteen, eight trips to the Elite Eight, five trips to the Final Four and three national championships, including the most-recent undefeated season in college basketball, the 32-0 campaign of 1975-76.

But Knight's time in Bloomington came to a tumultuous ending when his long list of controversies piled up and he was dismissed in 2000.

It doesn't sound like Knight will ever return to Indiana.

Here's video from Friday's interview.

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