TTU: End of the basketball planet

[Dale8R]

OK, that's a cheapshot attention getting title for a Bobby Knight thread, but Steve Kelley writing in the Seattle Times http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2002213667_kell20.html does make some comments irritating to some, while writing about a kinder, gentler Bobby that I somehow have not read about in here. Why is that? :)

It was Pullman without the night life. It was the 12th-best place in the Big 12.

It is a pretty interesting story, mostly told through the eyes of Pat Knight. The truth of it though is something that those of you who are closer to the situation can judge for yourselves.

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Actually, this is also a reminder that the Seattle Times http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/ is always a good source for sports news; here is the obligatory Jaci McCormack story http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2002213647_seattlenotes20.html but it is also down toward the bottom in the notes that you'll find that Sheila Lambert who was a Chief Sealth High graduate was sitting behind the Baylor bench.

The actual game story was nothing special http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2002213649_seattle20.html but do click on the picture for a nice shot of Sophia Young. Uncredited, but that's Jaci McCormack on the left.

[Bball Girl]

Knight is a constant contradiction to me. He's got a slew of former players and friends from all walks of life that worship him, fly into games, etc.

From the Albuquerque Journal today

When the game ended, Knight had his wife Karen join him on the court. With one arm around her husband, she cried in an emotional scene for a coach whose 854 career victories are just 25 shy of Dean Smith's NCAA Division I record.
"My wife's a better coach than I am," Knight explained. "If I pick three or four people that know the most about basketball, she and Pete Newell would be my first two choices, and so I just wanted to thank her for all the help she had given us in preparing for this game and this season. She deserved to be a real part of it."

He gives money to the library, takes a kid like Ross (who no D1 team wanted) as a walk-on.

Then there is the rude, angry person who storms onto the court and screams expletives at the women's team, who gets into a snit with the Tech chancellor at a salad bar, etc.

He does seem to have mellowed this year (on the court) and like I said, he's a constant contradiction to me.