Who is the real Bob Knight?
Bob Knight is done. For over 42 years he has patrolled the sidelines of Division I basketball courts, face set in his characteristic scowl. He has coached 1,273 games of basketball and established and perfected the motion offense. He has won three National Championships and amassed a men’s National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) record of 902 career wins. He has also thrown one chair, manhandled two players, assaulted a police officer, made countless controversial and often sexist remarks and received, as a result of his outbursts, enough suspensions to put him on par with President Bush for most vacation days in a career and enough fines to match his retirement plan. Yes, Knight is done. And he couldn’t have had a more fitting exit. With 10 games remaining in his seventh season of coaching men’s basketball at Texas Tech University, Knight resigned last Monday, Feb. 4, and handed the team over to his son and the team’s assistant coach Pat Knight. The Red Raiders had posted a 6
