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

[Bad Zebra]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

The difference with Knight is that there wasn't a camera given out in every box of cereal back then to film every move he made. If someone did bring a camera around Knight, it was typically the size of a shoe box or bigger and it was easily seen. Now, cameras can be practically unnoticeable.

And is there any doubt he would have been fired even sooner had the technology existed back then?

JRut's contention is that Knight's tactics were common among top college programs. Not sure I want to believe that. Maybe I'm delusional but I want to believe Boeheim, Williams, Pitino, Cady, Calhoun, Valvano, Smith, Coach K and other winners were tough and used pretty foul language at times...but didn't physically and mentally abuse their players as a rule.