recording of Frank Sinatra singing "My Way."
How appropriate. Knight professes not to care what others think and regularly seems to prove it by his behavior.
Most adults know better than to throw chairs, assault policemen, belittle their bosses, joke about rape, pretend to whip a have any regard for their reputation. Knight's way is a catalog of the immature and the indefensible.
And yet, like the iconic and controversial Sinatra, Knight With Monday's win over New Mexico, the Ohio State college basketball.
Barring physical problems or another self-destructive rage, Knight is likely to add many more W's. He will do so while adhering to NCAA rules on classroom. That's Knight's way, too.
He's a stickler for the rules, except those he ignores. Former players call him demanding, even cruel, yet hope their own sons play for him. He made Indiana University college basketball's gold standard, then forced the school to fire him.
Knight had to set his record at a football school on the plains of West Texas. He did it his way all right - and paid the price.
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