Knight hypocritical in criticism of Calipari
Friday, December 18th, 2009His behavior and friendship with Tarkanian questioned
By Javier Morales
Perhaps Bobby Knight should phone his good buddy Jerry Tarkanian today and call off his friendship with the former embattled UNLV coach, who built the Running Rebels program and tore it down just the same with recruiting violations.
Or Knight should call and apologize to all those former Indiana players whom he personally belittled during practices, questioning their manhood (to put it mildly), as is well documented in the book “A Season on the Brink”.
Knight criticized Kentucky coach John Calipari for affecting the integrity of the game because two of the programs Calipari has coached — Massachusetts and Memphis — have fallen under the NCAA microscope and received sanctions for violations.
This statement alone at a fund-raiser for the Indiana Hall of Fame shows how much Knight is still full of himself. Why did he find a need to take a shot at Calipari at such an event? I can understand maybe a forum on NCAA Coaching Today, but an event for the Indiana Hall of Fame? He should have taken the opportunity to talk about his integrity, since he is a legend in that state. Perhaps he did not have enough material so he went after Calipari.
Don’t get me wrong, the violations Calipari allowed to happen on his watch at UMass and Memphis are troubling.
