Word: knighting
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...anger. Why is he so angry? It's a question that springs to mind when I look at an image of Bobby Knight in full fury. Apparently it's one that Indiana University's officials didn't bother to ask themselves before they allowed this dinosaur to remain as the school's basketball coach despite a well-documented history of abusing players, coaches, administrators and anyone else who just happened to be there. Oh, yeah, he's a successful coach. He deserves another chance, they say, based on his record and his promise to control his temper...
...need motivation. It's a particularly important aspect of sports because the tiniest of margins often separate the winners from the losers. Yet with Knight, we're not talking about a constructive approach to making people perform by challenging them on their positions or on their failures in life. Knight does it to denigrate. Doesn't Indiana know that universities are supposed to be about how you teach? Teaching is about building confidence, about making people feel better about what they do and who they...
That's why the dichotomy between Bob Knight and my college coach, UCLA's legendary John Wooden, could not be greater. One thing that really stands out about Knight is that it's always about him. He's a lot like Dennis Rodman, with his calculated self-promotion. John Wooden was the antithesis of the anger, the scowl, the selfishness. With Coach Wooden, an Indiana native, life was always fun, always upbeat, always positive, always about the team, always about the greatness of the game. Sadly, you don't get any sense of that from Knight. There...
...Knight dramatizes an ethical dilemma in the longer term. We are approaching the day when we will be able to engineer personality traits into, or out of, the human makeup. When we come to bioengineering the next generation of coaches, do we intend to leave out the anger? Would the human race be better off without rage? Would competitive sports survive without it? Forget coaching basketball. How about professional football...
...Coach Knight thinks of himself and his team along the same lines. Everybody (basketball coach, biogeneticist) wants...