Bob Knight

Am I the only one who doesn't see anything wrong with what he did whatsoever? Louisville sports radio (serves Indiana and lots of IU support here) is saying if it were anyone else they would have been fired. If it were anyone else nobody would know about it.

 

I agree, nothing wrong with it.

 

exactly. that homo Neal Everett started out SportsCenter saying "bob Knight is only eight wins away from Dean Smith's all-time record and last night he struck one of this players." I was expecting some kind of backhand slap or forearm shiver but all it was was a little look-at-me-when-I'm-talking-to-you tap. Neal Everett and the kid Knight "hit" should both be skinned, gutted and hung from a tree in front of sadic's Quonset hut.

 

If that was a strike than a coach smacking a players butt after a good play is a strike.

 

He popped the kid with a closed fist to the chin. It was not a little tap, and if anyone did that to any one of us we'd certainly punch that person in the face (or I know I would). Let's not pretend that it was justified in any way.

 

it didn't help that they showed the kid sitting on the becnh rubbing his jaw with this pained expression on his face.

 

it was his palm and you wouldn't punch your head coach for that

 

Collin would.

 

who the fuck is pretending?

 

while I find this chin pushing thing fucking absurd it seems like it was exactly what it looked like to me


Tech player defends Knight's actions
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Associated Press
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LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - Texas Tech player Michael Prince defended coach Bob Knight, who used his hand to push the forward's chin during a timeout in yet another episode involving the hot-tempered coach.

"It was nothing," Prince told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal after Monday night's game. "He was trying to teach me and I had my head down, so he raised my chin up. 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."
Knight, with a history of chair-throwing, referee baiting and clashes with school officials, was not available for comment Tuesday.

Late in Texas Tech's 86-74 victory over Gardner-Webb, Knight approached Prince after the player was called for a foul. Knight then placed his hand on Prince's chin, as if to make him look the coach in the eye. A short time later, Prince appeared to be moving his jaw around as he sat on the bench.

Athletic director Gerald Myers said he talked with Prince's parents but wouldn't make a statement until he spoke with Prince. Tech president Jon Whitmire was out of town Tuesday and unavailable for comment, school officials said.

Prince's mother, Suzette Prince, told the Avalanche-Journal that 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 confrontation 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. He needs nine more victories to surpass Smith for the most wins 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.