I'm still struggling to figure out which is the most disturbing image from Sunday's NCAA basketball. Bobby Knight flopping around in his underwear. Or Lars Ulrich and Coach K joining forces in a Guitar Hero video.
We knew that Bobby Knight was good for some interesting motivational tactics during his coaching career. Apparently his son can do the same.Knight asked the boy whether he could make layups. The boy said he could.The tactic seemed to work. Tech would start hitting their layups and pulled out a 69-55 win over SFA.
"I was just tired of having 18- or 21-year-olds miss layups that a 12-year-old could hit, so I brought a 12-year-old in to let them know that he could hit layups," Knight said. "He's 12 and he can hit layups, so why can't you when you're 18 to 21?"
You may not know what he looks like, who he was and why people felt he was special enough to teach them but Pete Newell was one of the best coaches college basketball has ever seen.
Last year's experiment of using Bobby Knight as an analyst for ESPN has expanded into a role in the broadcast booth.
Coach Knight will be paired with Brent Musburger on Thursday night games and will do some games with Dan Shulman on various other nights. His first gig will be next week at the 2k Sports Classic Benefiting Coaches vs Cancer in New York.
I echo what AA says about the prospects of Knight in the booth:
I'm still split on Bob Knight as a College Basketball analyst. On one hand, his knowledge and X's and O's are unrivaled. On the other, he still comes across like getting him to talk about the game is a chore. The negative could have been because Dickie V was hanging all over him on set, but whatever side you fall on, you're going to have to deal with him for another year on the "Leader".What is the betting line on him slipping up with an expletive on air this season? Or on him saying something so controversial that ESPN removes him from the booth?
With the news that Lute Olson is supposedly stepping down as head coach at Arizona, associate coach Mike Dunlap would now take over a program that has the longest current streak of NCAA Tournament appearances.
But who is Dunlap?
Dunlap became an assistant to Lute Olson back in May after an ugly breakup with 2007-2008 interim coach Kevin O'Neill. Dunlap spent the last two seasons as an assistant for the Denver Nuggets. Before that, he was the head coach at Metro State College in Denver for nine seasons, leading them to a 248-50 record and two NCAA Division II championships.
Dunlap was a candidate for the head jobs at California, Oregon State and the NBA's Chicago Bulls when the Wildcats came calling. It had been rumored that he was promised to succeed Olson at Arizona, though neither Olson or Dunlap would confirm that.
That may be a bit premature. There have been rumblings that the school will do a full search for a new head coach. And, yes, Bobby Knight's name has been thrown out there among fans.
Does anyone want to be a Maryland Terrapin? What the hell is going on in College Park?
In a non-surprising move, forward Shane Walker has announced that he's transferring to Loyola (MD). He had said he was leaving the program over a month ago and has now made his decision to where.
Let's see: that comes after recruits Tyree Evans and Gus Gilchrist "left" already and Bobby Maze couldn't get his grades up to get in.
Fellow FanHouser Nathan Fowler touched on this two weeks ago and the issue needs to be raised again: what's going on at Maryland? This was a program that had reached the ultimate success with consecutive Final Four appearances and a National Championship in 2002.
Since then, the Terps haven't made it past the Sweet 16. Maryland has made just one NCAA Tournament appearance in the last four seasons despite playing in an ACC that has been competitive, but not all that great. Heck, the Terps have had exactly one winning conference season in the last five years.
Craig Ehlo is mint, but I think this theory he tossed out on Sporting News Radio -- documented by Larry Brown Sports -- is a little wacky. I think Mark Cuban will actually go after Bobby Knight. You know he just lives in Lubbock, Texas, only 375 miles west of there. Cuban is an Indiana grad and I wouldn't put it past him to offer something to Bobby Knight if Bobby Knight would be willing."Only 375 miles west?" Short commute, really. As Larry asks, what exactly would Cuban offer? To relocate the francise to Lubbock? An ownership stake? A two-year supply of Big League Chew and single-malt? I mean, Jason Kidd couldn't swallow his medicine for three months under Avery Johnson's leadership. Knight might not make it out of training camp alive.
Maybe it is best that Dick Vitale wasn't in the studio during the ESPN's bracket shows.
In the clip above, Vitale throws out what many people have been whispering: Bobby Knight to Indiana.
The problem is that when Vitale mentioned it, Knight (who is working for ESPN) was obviously ... something. Pissed? Embarrassed? Ticked? Emotional? Nervous? Shaken? Maybe all of them.
As Vitale kept on rambling, Knight just sat there -- quiet ... with a red face and glazed eyes
I do give Dickie V some credit for kicking that elephant in the room right in the backside. You knew that Reece Davis, Hubert Davis, Digger Phelps and Jay Bilas weren't going to touch that one.
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