Bob Knight slaps player ...

[User 1019]

And here they are, right on cue.

Your take?

 

[thebiglead]

Anyone surprised?
Anyone care?

Did the player deserve it?

If you haven't seen the video, we've got it.

Just a feeling, but ESPN does not want him to break Dean Smith's record. Knight is getting the treatment from everyone at the network, and it's only a matter of time before Texas Tech is forced to step in and do something. What exactly, I'm not sure.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

And here they are, right on cue.

Your take?

He's a sociopath. Always has been.
Slap him down, hard, right now because it can only get worse. And it absolutely will.

 

[User 1019]

Well, sure he's crazy. We've known that for 15 years.

He's served his punishment and has -- as far as I can tell -- cleaned up his act a little.

 

[wickedwritah]

Dean Smith doesn't want him to break Dean Smith's record.

Nor does John Wooden.

And put me in Fenian's corner on this one. Knight knows exactly what he's doing when he does it, and he (thinks he) can get away with it because Gerald Myers is in his corner.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Fenian, he's not a sociopath. He's a disciplinarian in a country where kids -- ages 3-23 -- run wild because they have no discipline. Kids fear nothing because there is no recourse for anything and they know it. Knight essentially wields the hickory stick that many feared a generation ago. Nobody has that fear anymore.

Should Knight send a kid to "time out" in the corner and take the remote control away for 15 minutes? Or the computer keyboard? Knight is an a-hole but he has never physically harmed anybody and he's always gotten results.

He is about 10 feet away from an assault-with-a-deadly complaint when he fired the vase over his secretary's head. He has physically assaulted his own players at TWO schools now, and he probably did it at Army, too, before anyone was watching. He has attacked fans and/or civilians on at least two occasions. He has made "ha-ha-" jokes about rape and about whipping his black players. He's not someone standing athwart the permissive society or whatever the heck trope it is now that gets the cultural-warriors through the night. He's a sociopath, and he will do something worse.

 

[broadway joe]

Fenian, he's not a sociopath. He's a disciplinarian in a country where kids -- ages 3-23 -- run wild because they have no discipline. Kids fear nothing because there is no recourse for anything and they know it. Knight essentially wields the hickory stick that many feared a generation ago. Nobody has that fear anymore.

Should Knight send a kid to "time out" in the corner and take the remote control away for 15 minutes? Or the computer keyboard? Knight is an a-hole but he has never physically harmed anybody and he's always gotten results.

There's a difference between a disciplinarian and a bully. Knight's a bully.

 

[Deeper_Background]

Anyone surprised?
Anyone care?

Did the player deserve it?

If you haven't seen the video, we've got it.

Just a feeling, but ESPN does not want him to break Dean Smith's record. Knight is getting the treatment from everyone at the network, and it's only a matter of time before Texas Tech is forced to step in and do something. What exactly, I'm not sure.

probably a warning at most

 

[broadway joe]

Anyone surprised?
Anyone care?

Did the player deserve it?

If you haven't seen the video, we've got it.

Just a feeling, but ESPN does not want him to break Dean Smith's record. Knight is getting the treatment from everyone at the network, and it's only a matter of time before Texas Tech is forced to step in and do something. What exactly, I'm not sure.

Why wouldn't ESPN want him to break the record? They must have a pretty good relationship with Knight, seeing as how they did that reality show with him last year.

 

[casty33]

Believe me, I am not an apologist for Mr. Knight, nor his defender, but the tape I saw didn't indicate anything horrible. My old high school football coach did more than that, grabbing our helmets and making sure we looked him in the eye as he talked to us. There are many things you can rip Knight for, but this was merely a blip on the resume. Not that big of a deal.

 

[Songbird]

Had the kid looked him in the eyes, Knight wouldn't have needed to do what he did. What's the difference between this, and slapping a kid's ass after he's done something great? He's the General. And what do generals do? By god, they get results.

 

[scribeinwiscy]

Call me the minority, but I would certainly feel comfortable sending my son to college to play basketball for Bob Knight. I say that, and the No. 1 reason why is that he teaches respect. With that being said, he has done a ton of disrespectful things himself. I guess I'm 50/50 on him, but I don't think he's a monster or bully. I think he has a temper issue, no more, not less.