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

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Adam

I'm not talking about the coach-player interaction. Although that's part of it, I'm more talking about, for example, the way Knight interacted with people off the team. Wasn't the final straw at IU the kid who baited him, and he took the bait big time. The way he treated reporters is another.

He wasn't just intimidating by nature, he actively intimidated people. To me, that's different than simply intimidating someone due to your stature (either physical or otherwise).

If that is the case Wooden needs to go on that list near the top. It has been said he would say all kinds of things to officials with his little "program." And I doubt any of these top coaches were not revered and were not without big egos and probably did not allow certain things to happen with people not directly on the basketball teams. Again I think we need to stop fooling ourselves and act like Knight was the only major college coach that intimidated people and bullied them to get what they want on some level. We just do not have the social media to tell on them like we do now.