“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.
The problem is that the AD hired Knight in 2001 after Knight had been under investigation for what was basically assault and battery that had taken place the prior year.
While I agree that several coaching tactics that were used in the past are now inappropriate and rightly so I don’t think the cut-off date was 2001.
As for the kid’s life being in danger I don’t know enough about concussions to make a comment on that.
How was his life in danger?