Rutgers fires basketball coach after release of video showing player abuse, gay slurs

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Bad Zebra

At least he came out publicly and owned up to the behavior. I disagree...I think somebody somewhere will hire him....Texas Tech took Bobby Knight despite the carnage he left behind at Indiana. Heck, now he's making Applebees commercials and working at ESPN. Not bad for a coach who was the poster boy for inappropriate behavior.

Chances are Rice's behavior will be exemplary at his next gig.

I would not compare Bobby Knight to Rice on any level For one Knight was only accused of one incident and acted like most coaches at the time. And most of all Knight won 3 titles. Rice cannot even win the Big East Conference Title and is seen in multiple situations throwing stuff at players and hitting them in the head with a basketball. Also it does not help that he called them gay slurs. Not even close.

Peace

[Bad Zebra]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I would not compare Bobby Knight to Rice on any level For one Knight was only accused of one incident and acted like most coaches at the time. And most of all Knight won 3 titles. Rice cannot even win the Big East Conference Title and is seen in multiple situations throwing stuff at players and hitting them in the head with a basketball. Also it does not help that he called them gay slurs. Not even close.

Peace

Throwing chairs......kicking his son (a player)...throwing flower pots and cursing at and around secretaries...grabbing students and putting them in headlocks...to name a FEW that were made public.

A few titles will get you some leeway but let's not pretend he wasn't a total jerk the same as Rice. I don't buy that any/all other coaches acted like that at the time. I see Rice and Knight's behavior as equally egregious. And further...Knight never offered even the slightest appearance of remorse. Yeah. It is close.

All I'm saying is: If Knight managed to survive, my bet is that Rice will too.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Bad Zebra

Throwing chairs......kicking his son (a player)...throwing flower pots and cursing at and around secretaries...grabbing students and putting them in headlocks...to name a FEW that were made public.

A few titles will get you some leeway but let's not pretend he wasn't a total jerk the same as Rice. I don't buy that any/all other coaches acted like that at the time. I see Rice and Knight's behavior as equally egregious. And further...Knight never offered even the slightest appearance of remorse. Yeah. It is close.

All I'm saying is: If Knight managed to survive, my bet is that Rice will too.

Right or wrong, it was stated that he did not kick his son. I think people wanted to go there because of what they felt of Knight. There were no cases of what Rice did on tape of numerous incidents and they did tape practices at Indiana. Now maybe Knight was not in the same era and things were taped or social media was prevalent. But it does not even come close. Let us not exaggerate what took place in the Knight era. I saw most games where Knight hardly got upset and we act like other coaches were saints.

And most of all I did not say Rice would not ever coach again. Just remember Knight did not sit out a year and he brought a lot of positive attention to Texas Tech. Rice would bring questions and his lack of success as a coach would be a factor. They are not the same thing if for no other reason their winning. If he was always in the Final Four then maybe he would land a job immediately. But I remember Larry Eustachy got in trouble at Iowa State and all that man did was drink at a college party and admitted to being an alchoholic. It took him some time to get a D1 job so I am not so sure Rice rebounds without years of sitting on someone else's bench.

Peace

[BillyMac]

[WhistlesAndStripes]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Interesting how if you go to the 2:10 point of the video, you see him fire a ball at a player, and some guy standing right beside him hands him another one. Was that this guy's job? Just wondering.

[Brad]

Originally Posted by Whistles & Stripes

Interesting how if you go to the 2:10 point of the video, you see him fire a ball at a player, and some guy standing right beside him hands him another one. Was that this guy's job? Just wondering.

Well, if you are in charge of handing him the balls, you rarely get them thrown at you!

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Brad

Well, if you are in charge of handing him the balls, you rarely get them thrown at you!

Self-preservation baby.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Whistles & Stripes

Interesting how if you go to the 2:10 point of the video, you see him fire a ball at a player, and some guy standing right beside him hands him another one. Was that this guy's job?

Somebody has to be in charge of reloading.

[Bad Zebra]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Somebody has to be in charge of reloading.

Still legal in CT...barely.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Let us not exaggerate what took place in the Knight era.

Fine... but let's not minimize it to the point of absurdity either. Your opinion of what Knight did is the biggest batch of nonsensical revisionist history I've ever read.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

Fine... but let's not minimize it to the point of absurdity either. Your opinion of what Knight did is the biggest batch of nonsensical revisionist history I've ever read.

And your point of even bringing Knight into this discussion (or anyone else for that matter) is rather lazy and insignificant. Just like the situation with the coach that was playing at Kentucky and the coach at California were not the same as this situation at Rutgers.

Peace

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

And your point of even bringing Knight into this discussion (or anyone else for that matter) is rather lazy and insignificant. Just like the situation with the coach that was playing at Kentucky and the coach at California were not the same as this situation at Rutgers.

Peace

I guess once you bring out the revisionist history guns it's hard to put them away... but wth are you talking about? When did I make any point of bringing Knight (or anyone else for that matter) into this discussion???!!!?!?!

Luckily this one is right there in print for you to check.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

I guess once you bring out the revisionist history guns it's hard to put them away... but wth are you talking about? When did I make any point of bringing Knight (or anyone else for that matter) into this discussion???!!!?!?!

Luckily this one is right there in print for you to check.

Can you follow? I am not talking about you specifically. When someone makes a comment it is not necessarily about you. Actually the comment you quoted was not from anything you said when I first mentioned Knight.

My original comments were to Bad Zebra, not you about the reference to Knight. I responded to you after you chimed in on my comments, which I am OK with. I just was not responding or commenting to your comments. It is not that hard man.

Peace

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Knight was only accused of one incident

Bwaaaahaaaaa! Good one! Funniest thing I've read all year.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

Bwaaaahaaaaa! Good one! Funniest thing I've read all year.

One physical incident. If we are so up in arms about Knight, we sure give a lot of coaches a lot of passes. And nothing that people accused Knight of were even on the plane with the levels of Rice. Sorry, not the same thing at all. We act like we have never seen a coach curse at anyone or call their players names. Some more than others for sure, but this is not on the level what Rice did. I cannot ever think of a time Knight threw a ball at a player's head or called them a "fag." Sorry, not the same thing.

Peace