Lose that quickly on national TV and, so help us, we'll put our hands on our waists and click our tongues at you. The coach with the temper of a young John McEnroe, the sensitivity of Howard Stern, the vocabulary of Lenny Bruce and the patience of W.C. Fields has been disciplined by the trustees of Indiana University. Talent is the overriding factor because of what it contributes to big sales and winning teams. The New York Times then cautioned mightily about proportionality in punishment for Clinton, a talented leader. We are speaking of college sports, nay, we are speaking of revenue college sports, just a few brass knuckles down the supply chain from the Gambino family.
Players come to institutions functionally illiterate.
Knight, like every other Division IA school coach, is working with young men whose total SAT scores, total, are 700. The bright ones register a 2.0 on the GPA scale, despite horrific grade inflation. These are young men in desperate need of a foot in the bottom, and not a shoeless one. It is fear of a tornado like Bobby Knight that keeps their noses to the grindstone, their muscles on the weight machines and their presence at practice. You can't talk Nietzsche with these kids and expect nothin' but net.