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Menstuff® has compiled the following
information on Bobby Knight. It's nice to see that
a change of scenery has done little to temper the
lunacy of Bobby Knight, the unstable college
basketball coach. Our question: Just how many
chances do you give an unrepentant abuser?
2006
Epidemic Hits Texas -
Mad Knight Disease
Knight hasn't changed ...
and he never will
Texas Tech AD defends
Knight's actions
Bobby Knight "Please Slap
My Child" Charity Auction
2004
2006
Epidemic Hits Texas -
Mad Knight Disease.
Texas Tech basketball coach Bobby "The Hit Man"
Knight Bumps Player on Chin. - Video
Source: http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=30458DDC-F41D-47C9-9DEB-E76FB35B2CB1,5175E705-3339-46D0-B772-335954E7BE03&t=c160&f=06/64&p=>1=8717
Texas Tech AD defends
Knight's actions
Texas Tech athletic director Gerald Myers insisted
Tuesday that Bob Knight did nothing wrong when he
"quickly lifted" the chin of Michael Prince in the
latest clash between the hot-tempered coach and a
player.
Prince and his parents also defended Knight, who
confronted the forward and pushed his chin upward,
as if to make him look the coach in the eye, during
a timeout late in the Red Raiders' 86-74 victory
against Gardner-Webb on Monday night.
"Coach Knight did not slap Michael," Myers said
in a statement. "Michael came off the court with
his head down and coach Knight quickly lifted
Michael's chin and said, 'Hold your head up and
don't worry about your mistakes. Just play the
game."'
Knight, with a history of chair-throwing,
referee baiting and run-ins with school officials,
was not available for comment Tuesday.
Prince told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal after
Monday's game that what happened with the coach
"was nothing."
"He was trying to teach me and I had my head
down, so he raised my chin up," said Prince, who
was seen moving his jaw around as he sat on the
bench after the confrontation. "He was telling me
to go out there and don't be afraid to make
mistakes. He said I was being too hard on
myself."
Prince's mother, Suzette Prince, told the
Avalanche-Journal she and her husband, Mike, were
sitting across from the Tech bench and she doesn't
feel this should be an issue.
"We talked with Michael and he had just
committed two fouls in a row," Suzette Prince said.
"He told us that Coach Knight was asking him if
he's ready to play. He said they needed him ready
to play."
She said she didn't think Knight should be
reprimanded.
Knight gave a brief statement at the postgame
news conference then answered one question before
exiting the room, but the episode with Prince was
never addressed.
It was win No. 871 for Knight, who is five shy
of tying Adolph Rupp for second place on the career
list. He needs nine more victories to surpass Dean
Smith for the most victories in Division I
history.
Knight's career has featured three national
championships, all at Indiana, but plenty of
outbursts.
In 1992, Knight kicked a chair on the bench
while son Pat, then a player for him at Indiana and
now his assistant and successor-to-be at Texas
Tech, was sitting in it. When fans behind the team
bench booed, Knight turned and responded with an
obscenity.
He was accused of grabbing a player by the
throat during a practice in 1997, an episode that
was caught on videotape and created the whirlwind
that eventually led to his firing from Indiana in
September 2000.
Knight was fired for what Indiana officials
called a violation of a zero-tolerance behavior
policy shortly after he grabbed the arm of a
student who greeted him on campus by saying "Hey,
what's up, Knight?"
His most infamous moment came in a game against
Purdue in 1985, when he threw a chair across the
court after being assessed a technical foul.
Source: msn.foxsports.com/cbk/story/6170458?FSO1&ATT=HCP>1=8807
Knight hasn't changed ...
and he never will
The Texas Tech head coach was at it again on Monday
night, grabbing the chin of Red Raiders sophomore
forward Michael Prince during a timeout after the
player didn't appear to be making eye contact with
his coach during a timeout.
Knight has thrown chairs across the court,
thrown a photographer into the bushes, kicked his
son and shoved a fan of an opposing team into a
garbage can. He twisted the arm of an Indiana
freshman and cursed at him for addressing him as
"Hey, Knight" instead of "Mr. Knight" or "Coach
Knight."
Who knows what he's done behind closed doors in
practices and in meetings?
Most kids don't want to play for Knight, but
some don't have much of a choice if they want to
play at a high-major level. That's the case for
many of the players up and down the Texas Tech
roster -- who weren't all that heavily recruited
coming out of high school, but still wanted to play
at the highest level.
Prince was a mid-major recruit coming out of
Plano West in a suburb of Dallas two years ago.
"I've never met a better kid, ever," said Team
Texas coach Wes Grandstaff, who coached Prince
until he left for an expanded role with a smaller
AAU team. "He's first class and his parents are two
of the classiest people I've ever met."
Knight doesn't care. He's grizzled and only
knows one way.
His way.
While Knight will soon become the all-time
winningest men's basketball coach (he is nine
victories shy), he will never be in the same class
as Dean Smith.
Smith did it the right way. He didn't beat kids
down so badly that they had no self-esteem left. He
didn't have to hit them.
He got the respect of college kids the way it
should be done — without having to instill the
fear of physical harm.
Bob Knight got a little irked during Monday
night's game with Gardner-Webb. (The Daily
Toreador, Karl Anderson / Associated Press)
Was it the worst thing that Knight has done in
his coaching career when he grabbed Prince's chin
late in the team's 86-74 win against Gardner-Webb?
Not even close.
But was it necessary? Probably not.
I'm all for manners and kids listening to their
coach, but there is a right way and a wrong way to
do things. Prince told the Lubbock
Avalanche-Journal "it was nothing" after the
incident, but enough is enough.
Times have changed, whether Knight likes it or
not. He may as well call it a career after he
breaks the record this season, then he can hand the
program over to his son, Pat.
Because if not, one of these days, Knight's
going to challenge one of his players and find
himself picking himself back off the ground.
Let's see how tough he is then.
Source: Jeff Goodman is a senior
college basketball writer for FOXSports.com. He can
be reached at GoodmanonFOX@aol.com
or see article at msn.foxsports.com/cbk/story/6171350
Bobby Knight "Please Slap
My Child" Charity Auction
Does Your Child Need to Be Slapped?
This week, Texas Tech Basketball Coach Bob
"Don't Call Me Bobby" Knight was caught on camera
slapping one of his players during a game. Knight,
the school, and the player's parents all defend the
action. In fact, the kid's parents say he probably
deserved it! So we thought, hey, why not auction
off Bob's services to slap your kid back into
shape?
There have to be a few spoiled kids out there,
and all the proceeds will go to our favorite
charity: The Barry Bonds "Let's Keep Kids Off
Steroids So There Are Enough for the Adults"
Foundation.
We tried to post this on eBay, but they have
some kind of runs against this stuff, so we created
this interactive blog where you can add a comment
(click on "comments" below this post) that includes
the first name of your child, why they need to be
slapped, and how much you would pay Bob Knight to
slap some sense into them. After we get your bids,
we'll call Coach Knight and see when we can get the
two of your together for some good old-fashioned
parenting!
The auction will end on Friday, November 16 or
when our lawyers tell us we need to pull it. So get
your bids in early! America's youth need some sense
knocked into them.
Source: www.badjocks.com/blog/
2004
Bobby Knight, the infantile college basketball
legend, is up to his old, tired tricks. The
psychotic coach, who was exiled to Texas Tech after
being run out of Indiana University, had his wrist
slapped this week for a bizarre run-in with
Chancellor Dr. David Smith at, of all places, a
Lubbock salad bar. Details of Knight's tirade
Monday are contained in the below February 2 memo
written by Smith, which Texas Tech's general
counsel provided in response to an open records law
request. The university also released a draft
memo to Knight from Gerald Myers, Tech's
athletic director, noting that he would be
reprimanded and suspended for three games.
Anticipating that discipline, the school prepared a
draft
press release announcing Knight's brief
ban. But before the suspension could be announced,
Myers apparently changed his mind, pleading with
Smith in a February
3 memo that Knight's suspension would be
"detrimental to a positive resolution of the issues
involved." When Tech's disciplinary action was
announced Tuesday afternoon, the suspension had
evaporated. Until next time, the enabling
continues.
Source: www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/bknight1.html
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