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Re: Knight also doesn't think much of Mike Davis, his successor with the Hoosiers. Indiana missed the NCAA Tournament for the second straight year, and the Hoosiers lost in the first round of the NIT.
"They created that for themselves," Knight said in the Sporting News Radio interview. "The guy that's coaching there [Mike Davis] is a guy that I told Pat [Knight, his son and assistant coach] we were going to replace at the end of the season. There's no way that I would have kept the guy any longer than that. [But] That's their [Indiana] problem."
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2018104
I've always liked Coach Knight and still do. Currently to his credit; look what he is doing with his Texas Tech team this year. He is in the sweet 16 with a lot less talent than several teams that have already been elininated. He'll go down in history as one of the all time greatest NCAA basketball coaches; and well as part of the greatest ever Ohio State basketball recruiting class and problably Ohio State basketball's most celebrated bench warmer. However, in this case I think he was out of line in commenting that Mike Davis should be fired. I'm not saying Davis should or shouldn't be fired. I'm just saying this is an Indiana decision that Knight (as a former Indiana and current Texas Tech coach) doesn't need to weigh in on. Especially when he is not supporting his former assistant coach. If Knight is such an expert on Davis' coaching ability why did he hire him as his assistant in the first place?
"They created that for themselves," Knight said in the Sporting News Radio interview. "The guy that's coaching there [Mike Davis] is a guy that I told Pat [Knight, his son and assistant coach] we were going to replace at the end of the season. There's no way that I would have kept the guy any longer than that. [But] That's their [Indiana] problem."
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2018104
I've always liked Coach Knight and still do. Currently to his credit; look what he is doing with his Texas Tech team this year. He is in the sweet 16 with a lot less talent than several teams that have already been elininated. He'll go down in history as one of the all time greatest NCAA basketball coaches; and well as part of the greatest ever Ohio State basketball recruiting class and problably Ohio State basketball's most celebrated bench warmer. However, in this case I think he was out of line in commenting that Mike Davis should be fired. I'm not saying Davis should or shouldn't be fired. I'm just saying this is an Indiana decision that Knight (as a former Indiana and current Texas Tech coach) doesn't need to weigh in on. Especially when he is not supporting his former assistant coach. If Knight is such an expert on Davis' coaching ability why did he hire him as his assistant in the first place?