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Getty Images fileIt might turn out to be nothing. Bob Knight probably did a nifty drop step, hooked Chancellor Smith with his right arm, and slid in line first at the salad bar. Just a little disagreement. The General was trying to get the last of the sharp cheddar before practice.
It’s always something with this guy isn’t it?
Whether it’s bullying a young reporter at his press conferences, screaming profanities during a television interview, choking a player, grabbing a student, referring to media as prostitutes, yelling at a rival coach, or shouting at the school’s chancellor, Bob Knight demonstrates it takes just warm air to light his fuse, no match required.
The Bob Knight apologists used to say the media’s only knock on Knight was the chair he threw decades ago. At one time, the chair incident might have been isolated. But not anymore. The list of fits Knight has thrown has swelled to uncountable.
The latest incident on Monday involves Dr. David Smith, the Texas Tech chancellor and supposedly one of Knight’s superiors. The coach, who usually picks his fights with smaller men or women, barked at Smith at a lunch spot. Why be so nasty? Knight’s team is 16-4; it had a lot to look forward to.
Reports say it wasn’t an argument, but a tongue-lashing.
Of course it was. It always is Knight’s mouth that roars.
Apparently, Smith tried to make some small talk, which was his first mistake. Don’t speak until you are spoken to, especially if you are talking about the coach’s behavior.
The next thing the poor guy knows, his small talk has been turned into loud talk. The Lubbock newspaper reports Smith tried to extricate himself from the situation, but Knight stalked him with more abuse.
It leaves you shaking your head at Tech’s poor judgment when the school brought him back to college basketball in 2001. Didn’t the folks in Lubbock get the memo?
Knight was fired at Indiana for violating the school’s zero tolerance policy for being nasty to people. On his way out the door he tried to sue the taxpayers of Indiana for $2 million because his feelings were hurt and the endorsements he lost.
Knight’s tyrannical behavior led to the terrible treatment of IU professor Murray Sperber, who spoke out against Knight’s antics. Sperber was threatened and cursed and tried to hide on his own campus.
After he was fired at Indiana — but not before privately trashing his replacement, Mike Davis — Knight was given another job by Texas Tech athletic director Gerald Myers, an old pal.
Even when 58 Tech faculty members signed a petition asking the school not to hire him because of his poor conduct, Tech hired Knight.
So what does he do? Knight repays Myers and the school for their faith in him by launching into a profanity-filled tirade on national television in December because Knight did not like a question he was asked.
Myers said the university did not condone Knight’s behavior in the interview.
Well, Myers and Tech had a chance to prove they don’t condone the behavior.
They could have fired Bobby Knight instead of suspending him for five days. If this incident is serious enough to warrant a closed door meeting with the school president and the athletic director, Knight should have been routed back north to Ohio.
But Knight will apologize and serve his suspension and be made to write 25 times on the blackboard, “I will do better next time, I will do better next time …”
That’s the point. There is always a next time with Bobby Knight.
Texas Tech didn’t have the sense to leave Knight unemployed two years ago. The school probably won’t have the sense to make him unemployed now.
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