There are no celebrity guests at USC football practice this week … but that’s only because there is no USC football practice this week.
It’s Spring Break, which means that South Carolina’s fine upstanding student-athletes are no doubt using this time to get caught up on their studies (ahem).
Fifth-year head coach Steve Spurrier’s squad will be back in action again beginning next Tuesday (March 17), when it’s hoped he’ll have a better celebrity guest than blowhard Bobby Knight joining him.
The former Indiana/ Texas Tech basketball coach was in town last week to call the South Carolina-Tennessee basketball game for ESPN but spent a few minutes beforehand talking to the Gamecock football team.
What does Bobby Knight know about football?
We’re not sure.
Maybe he’s like Bo Jackson in that he knows stuff about more than one sport.
Obviously, he knows a lot about choking people, throwing chairs at them, refusing to sign autographs and generally being a large-sized asshole …
Oh, and nice chicken legs, Coach Spurrier …
By Indiana Girl March 10, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Bobby Knight is a great motivational speaker,maybe that is why he was here. You don’t need to know anything about football to get in the minds of some of the thugs that play on the USC football team.
At IU, Coach Knight led great teams. They had good grades, never saw them in the news for drug charges, etc. Sure he is loud, obnoxious. But he always had the respect of his players.
I hope he gave some good lessons to our USC football team.
By Bill Parcells March 11, 2009 at 5:55 am
Have you heard of me dumbass? Bob Knight has been my best friend since we coached at the same time at West Point. We discussed both football and basketball strategy together for more hours than I care to admit.
Knight also counts close friends from the football world like Jim Brown, Dick LeBeau and Bill Bellichek just to name three. There are countless others.
LeBeau even credits designing the Steelers defensive scheme from conversations and observations of Bob Knights defensive principles of his man to man pressure defense.
I can tell you Bob Knight know a helluva lot about football.
I can also tell you probably don’t know a helluava lot about anything.
Big Tuna is out of here!