Bob Knight slaps player ...

I know this is a sensitive subject, so I don't want the parents on here to rally against me. Please don't take it personally.

But kids shouldn't be hit to the point of injury - or even pain.

Like I said, this is a really sensitive subject, an explosive, emotional one. I know that it did me more harm than good.

But I just don't think it's the extreme of, "If you don't hit your kids, you're a fucking pussy and your child is going to walk all over you."

Kids who get hit rebel just as viciously, if not more so, I would guess.

I think if there is corporal punishment in the home, emotion needs to be taken 1,000 percent out of the action. Otherwise, you have a raging parent taking out all his/her frustrations in life on a poor 6-year-old who ate a cookie before dinner time. That's such a volatile situation.

 

That's bullshit and sorry if I sound defensive. I've gotten my ass pounded by a switch off of a tree, a belt, my grandpa's razor strap, etc.

Sometimes kids do need to get their asses beaten for being insubordinate. It depends on how severe the crime was.

Back to the topic, most of the disdain towards Knight is valid. To me, it's important to realize that most of it is his own doing.

The one thing that Knights is consistent in, besides his behavior, is his kids graduating and being in class and doing their homework. That's the only positive about him.

You wouldn't want to send your kid to him? Shit, I had a high school coach who is in the same catagory with Knight. He curses, imitidates, and scares the shit out of the kids who play for him. In the end, we still respected him, even though we didn't like it.

In my interpretation of it after seeing it once, it wasn't malicious or intentional. And I do feel that ESPN loves to play both sides with Knight. They can't stand him they kiss his ass at the same time, right Dan Patrick??.

 

The NBA games last night were not meaningless. The death watches (Doc Rivers, Isiah Thomas) are a continuing story that will be written about until the ax falls.

And no, it's not too early to talk about NBA coaches getting fired. Unfortunately, from my point of view, but that's another story.

 

ESPN is making way too big a deal out of this... I'm not saying it's a non-story, but Jesus, you'd think he raped the kid...

 

Mizzou, you wouldn't be the only one who sees it that way. http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/news?slug=dw-espn111406&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

 

If this were Roy Williams or Coach K, this wouldn't lead every SC for 24 hours -- it would barely get a mention. The only reason this is a story is because it's Bobby Knight.

 

Junkie, you're spinning shit worse than Fredo's White House.

I've seen the clip, it's no big deal unless you consider the history of the perp.

 

Bobby Knight has a horrendously inflated view of his value to the rest of the world.

 

Huh?
Might be true, but what the hell does that have to do with this?

 

Though part of me would love to see a player KTFO him someday, Knight's job is to get a bunch of 18-22-year-olds to do things they wouldn't do if he wasn't making them do it. They way he treats players is not the way I'd like to be treated, but the way he does his job has been proven effective through the years.
I still would have fired him from IU for throwing the flower pot at the secretary. There's not one workplace in America where somebody else would have been fired for pulling that stunt.

 

Gee, people who were beaten as children think it's a good idea.
Color me surprised.

 

A coach does not, repeat, does not have to treat his players like indentured servants to get the best out of them.

Knight is like a fossilized "old hockey" guy, figuring he owns his players' asses.

It's like those loonie "tough love" fundamentalists. Total bullshit.