Bob Knight’s precociousness (or should I say disdain) with the media took a new turn after yesterday’s game with UTEP. Following a game in which he received a technical for losing his shoe while kicking the scorer’s table, he entered the media room to hold his post game press conference carrying his grandson. I thought it was a great touch of him showing his sensitive side. Boy, was I wrong. The first line that came out of his mouth was sarcasm towards the writers. He instructed his grandson to answer all of the intelligent questions. His poor grandson (couldn’t have been more than 2 or 3) stood there with a pacifier in his mouth and looked as frightened as could be.
Then following his open sentence he spiced up his first answer with a lottle bit of vulgarity (bull shit to be exact). I was greatly disappointed that he didn’t tell his grandson to put on earmuffs. (That famous line used by Vince Vaughn in Old School to insctruct his son to cover his ears with his hands so that he could cuss freely). After a few minutes of innane banter, Knight picked up his grandson and left.
I have got to give it to Knight. A week after he was reprimanded by the conference for calling an officials’ call horrendous (which by the way, I saw the tape and the call was horrendous–another official getting off scott free) Knight was able to pull another trick out of his sleeve.
He truly is a master of the media!!!
