NCAA tells athletes from hurricane schools to bend over

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This is a guy who made it a point to fire one of the winningest coaches in college basketball.

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While he is indeed an idiot, he didn't fire Knight, the man fired himself. The king of teaching discipline had none himself and he paid for it. Heck, the University did everything in its power to *not* fire Knight.

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To locals (I was born and lived over half my life in Bloomington) its well-known that Myles Brand and Bobby Knight just never got along. And while nobody's going to say Coach Knight was a perfect prince while he was there, there are football coaches that routinely get away with worse conduct with their players. The only player that ever had a problem with Coach Knight was Neil Reed in that infamous semi-choke incident.

Myles Brand had Knight on a tighter leash than any coach in NCAA history. The guy brought a team together that had NCAA title talent (right before he got canned) and graduated his players. Never had ONE academic problem. But if Coach Knight has a minor tantrum - and let's admit it, nothing he did was ever really THAT bad, even the "chair toss" - then Brand will fire him.

In other words - who here knew who Myles Brand was BEFORE he fired Coach Knight (and isn't from Indiana)? IU did everything in its power not to fire him, only because Brand couldn't do anything about it until the "zero-tolerance policy".