SI: ESPN will not renew contract of college hoops analyst Bob Knight

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per SI:

When Bob Knight took a job with ESPN as a college basketball analyst in 2008, the career shift reminded one of the Groucho Marx line about not wanting to belong to any club that would have him as a member. The Hall of Fame basketball coach joined the same group of people he once described as "one or two steps above prostitution." He became one of the "damn people from television" he famously critiqued.

On Thursday night, his run as one of the "damn people from television"—at least as far as being a damn person from ESPN—is officially over. SI.com has learned ESPN will not renew its contract with Knight. His last broadcast for the network will be Thursday night's NIT's championship between Stanford and Miami, which tips at 9 p.m. ET.

http://www.si.com/college-basketball/2015/04/02/bob-knight-not-renewed-espn

Go Gophers!!
 


It's a good start. So many pompous @$$es work for them that it could take many years to purge itself of all the jack holes.
 

BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBuutt, who's going to teach the shot fake to the masses?:cool02:
:cheer::cheer::cheer::cheer::cheer::cheer::cheer::cheer:
 

Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0 said:
It's a good start. So many pompous @$$es work for them that it could take many years to purge itself of all the jack holes.
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Agreed, but it's not just espn. Somewhere along the line sportscasters have come to believe they have to be the entertainment. The game is the entertainment....don't take away from it. Bring back the sports people that understood that.:mad:
 


I'll miss his congeniality and warmth.
 



I hope there were no chairs in the room when they told him.
 



beavergopher said:
I hope there were no chairs in the room when they told him.
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I caught the last few minutes of the NIT last night and heard him, humbly I might add, thanking the people he worked with over the last four years. He was not over served like he was at the NIT last year. Maybe age is softening him. At his best, a few years ago, he actually was a decent color man who gave more insight on more than the shot fake. The last couple of years have been brutal though and he was as obnoxious as they get in the studio.
 






When flipping channels I'd sometimes watch a game Knight was announcing just to see if he'd say something crazy.

Last night he blasted one of stanford's guards for shooting a wide open 3 near the end of the game (a good shot that he just missed) and after Reid Travis got stuffed on a dunk attempt said he "needed to get stronger."
 


Honestly, last night during the NIT championship game Knight went on and on (I know this will shock you) while the game was running about everyone at esp. and how much he'll miss everyone. Later, there was about 2 minutes left in the game - a very close game that went into overtime - and Knight paused long enough to ask if they were still on (broadcasting) ?? and then launched into more about his career...amazing display of why he won't be back. His lack of interest in the game in front of him is unbelievable. Every once in a while, a shiny object catches his attention, and then he's off again.
 

Yes, Knight did not seem to prepare much for the games he was analyzing, and I don't believe he always paid attention to them (and it wasn't always the fault of SMU fans standing up in front of him). I'd be happy if ESPN replaced him with Lavin, he was a fun analyst.
 

Too often broadcast teams get absorbed in conversation and lose track of the game. I really hate it when they go to commercial without letting you know what the game situation is, such as whether a foul was called, and if so, on whom. And as long as we're cleaning house on color analysts, my nomination is Charles Barkley. He was positively hateful a number of years ago in dumping on Minnesota.
 

Great. Now watch BTN sign him and we'll get even more of him.

UGH.
 

vagopher said:
Too often broadcast teams get absorbed in conversation and lose track of the game. I really hate it when they go to commercial without letting you know what the game situation is, such as whether a foul was called, and if so, on whom. And as long as we're cleaning house on color analysts, my nomination is Charles Barkley. He was positively hateful a number of years ago in dumping on Minnesota.
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Happens all the time and it's driving me up a wall.

BRING BACK DUTCH!
 

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