Based on this article from the Lubbock Avalanche, it looks like Bobby Knight is ready to implode again. Knight’s mercurial career as basketball coach at the University of Indiana ended as a result of incidents similar to this one.
For all his faults, Knight is not the poster boy for the hyprocrisy of college athletics. An undeniably great basketball coach, his ill-tempered personality has everyone around him walking on egg shells for fear of provoking an outburst. On the other hand, he genuinely cares for his players, and the percentage of players from his teams who graduate from college is one of the highest of any other major college program in the United States.
Knight is the subject of one of the most interesting sports sociology books of the past 20 years, John Feinstein’s “A Season on the Brink.”