Even then Bobby Knight was still fired after the video of him choking a player surfaced. That said, this halftime speech of his will always be great [video=youtube;Yw7KijRfU-c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw7KijRfU-c[/video] That's just some good old fashion ass-chewing.
A take from Charles Blow in NY Times: At least 6 players left, despite the penalties. If you want to judge the most successful college players, at least from a sports standard, they are the ones who made it to the NBA. So far, every past and present NBA player who commented said the behavior was appalling. These guys do know something about successful coaching. That someone at Rutgers would defend it is no more surprising than battered women trying to stop cops from arresting the man who beat them bloody. You start believing you deserved it. On the one side, the serious sports media, NBA players, Rutgers faculty, the Governor of New Jersey. On the other, the Michelle Malkin, Sean Hannity, Denny Crane. Now, it's wrong to say "X holds such and such a position and I don't like X so the position must be wrong", but I'll take the experience of ESPN and NBA players over Sean Hannity on good coaching. Not to mention good human beings.
I had a boss a while back who would fling crumpled up paper and stuff like that at people in his team meetings. He hit me with one, and only one. I said, in front of everyone else at the meeting, "If you ever do that again, there will be retaliation!" The meeting grew absolutely quiet, all eyes were first on me, then swung to the boss. He said "I'm just joking around" and I never saw him throw anything again. I actually liked him and got along well with him after that. Surprised me, cause I figured he would hold it against me, but there were no consequences. Last I heard he became a real estate agent.
Felt kinda' bad for Sr. last night. He had gotten some real bad messages sent to him on twitter all day long. Then during shoot around time, some Memphis coaches like Bibby and there announcer Elliot Perry were pointing over and talking about Rice. I don't follow those gossip shows or websites, but was told that guy Perez Hilton was tweeting about Sr. and not Jr........ didn't know the difference between the two.
It's unfornate for Sr to be berated for his son's actions in a video. That's uncalled for. I don't condone Jr's actions, but that doesn't mean his parents are liable for that either. I hope Sr and family can find some peace during this tumultuous time in their lives.
Well, I'm over this story. A coach did something wrong, he received apt punishment, now he and everyone else involved can have their lives back as far as I'm concerned. Good luck to Jr, just because I like Sr and would wish the best for him and his family. Good luck to all the players who will never make it to the NBA. Next story...
With none of us there when Sr raised Jr, who are any of us to judge? I am sure he feels bad enough without us piling on. Parenting has also.changed considerably in the last four.decades. I am pretty sure it was not his intent.
