I realize Wikipedia isn’t the most trusted source but you can verify what’s posted, Knight’s past has been well documented.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Knight
Btw, I am a fan of both Coach Knight and Coach Leach. I just find it hypocritical that the man who hired Knight after his well-documented past would fire Mike Leach for something that seems very minor compared to Knight’s history.
I’m not defending Leach either but was curious as to what you thought was out of Knight’s playbook. I’m not sure that Leach did anything that was necessarily out of bounds but I don’t know the details and haven’t really followed the story.
“Btw, I am a fan of both Coach Knight and Coach Leach. I just find it hypocritical that the man who hired Knight after his well-documented past would fire Mike Leach for something that seems very minor compared to Knight’s history.”
To my knowledge, Knight never endangered a player’s life by using methods banned by international torture treaty, or punished him for being injured. Those are the accusations against Leach, and given the lawyer’s statements in the past 2 days, I’d say that they indeed did happen.
And, yes, Knight’s style of leadership belongs to days gone by too. Keady at Purdue was worse, and Heathcoat at MSU was just as bad I think. You’ll note that coach — if not leadership styles everywhere — are much different now.
Different, as Leach just found out.