Bob Knight Gives South Carolina Football Pep Talk
A lot of sports teams have pep talks during spring practices. The coach — if it’s a big-name school — brings in some celebrity to prepare the team as they prepare to prepare for the upcoming football season.
This year, Steve Spurrier, head coach (em up) of the South Carolina Gamecocks, brought in the one and only Bob Knight to speak to his team. No, seriously.
Knight spoke to the Gamecocks on Thursday. Knight, who won three NCAA titles with Indiana, was in town for ESPN’s broadcast of the South Carolina-Tennessee basketball game.
Gamecocks coach Steve Spurrier says he’s known Knight for several years and was glad to have him out at practice.
First of all, I’m going to do the respectable thing and skip all the Bob Knight screaming “The only c–k you understand involves s–king, you pathetic little chickens—s!” jokes. (My fake, angry Coach Knight has developed a punny sense of humor in his older age, thanks for asking.)
And I’m also not going to touch on the innumerable number of “Smelley” laughers that are out there. Instead, I’m kind of curious about something that Orson mentioned today: “Knight is an old acquaintance of Spurrier’s, and is responsible for showing a tape of a relatively unheralded Indiana recruit named Rex Grossman to Spurrier.”
Bob freaking Knight introduced the world to the Sex Cannon? Is that true? And if so, how the hell did I not know that? Admittedly, Grossman was a monster in high school (FanHouse’s Matt Snyder saw him in person, so I don’t even need to quote stats, obv) but you have to believe that if he doesn’t land in the Spurrier’s high-powered attack system, then he probably wouldn’t have tortured Chicago for all these years. So, couple that with Eamonn and Ryan being Bears fans and Indiana alums, and, yes, that would make it highly likely that Knight ruined their favorite football teams.
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