This was maybe a dozen years ago. No one reported it. That's not to absolve Knight, who obviously knew his words were being recorded. The truth is that most of Knight's abuse is directed at the media. Or just watch a game during a timeout.
Players largely ignore it or accept it as part of the package.
And it's not as if Knight is coming to Texas to serve as an elementary school principal. He is being hired to coach a basketball team. His players will be those who willingly choose to play for him. In a word, to those who think Knight's arrival in Lubbock marks the end of civilization as we knew it, I would say to lighten up. And in all of the tragic shootings, the killer had access to a gun.