Knight rips ‘out of touch’ NCAA for ‘idiotic’ rule that sunk Ohio St. football
Jun 6, 2011, 11:18 PM EDT
Bob Knight thinks there’s plenty of blame to go around in the Ohio State football scandal. Including blame for “idiotic” rules.
The former Indiana and Texas Tech basketball coach – and 1962 Ohio State graduate – spoke to reporters Monday night before giving the keynote address at the the Henry P. Iba Citizen Athlete Awards ceremony and, as Knight is wont to do, spoke his mind.
Five Ohio State players, including quarterback Terrell Pryor, were suspended for the first five games of next season after word emerged that they traded jerseys, rings, trophies and other items for tattoos. Things spiraled to the point that coach Jim Tressel resigned last week.
So the players messed up. Knight gets it. But he also thinks the rule is stupid. Also, the NCAA “is so far out of touch with the integrity of the sport that it’s just amazing.”
Easy there, Knight. Don’t go throwing around terms like integrity when there are things like this in your past.
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- dirtyharry1971 - Jun 7, 2011 at 10:23 AM
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Knight needs to be put in a nursing home, its way overdue. OSU got what they deserved, end of story
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- southlyn - Jun 7, 2011 at 12:01 PM
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Mike, Knight’s comments about the NCAA rules for student conduct are a legitimate point of debate. Reasonable people can disagree on the actual rules and whether they achieve their intended objective. However, none of this is advanced by your cheap ad hominem attack on Knight by questioning his right to voice his opinion because of an incident over 10 years ago that you have dredged out. He wasn’t asking us to adopt his point of view because of his self proclaimed “integrity”. It’s the opposite – you are saying we should discount anything he says because you don’t like him.
That’s the difference between an amateur blogger and a professional journalist. I hope you try harder next time.
