No, I think that's Bob Knight, not Bobby Knight, <g> but, yes, she probably is thoroughly embarrassed with his behavior. Personally, I don't think he'll last a season under the new Zero Tolerance policy.
Here's a little more poop (no pun intended) from CNN...
"Reaction To Bob Knight Punishment As Controversial As The Coach"
Indiana coach Bob Knight winds up and throws a chair across the floor during Indiana's 72-63 loss to Purdue in this February 23, 1985, photo
May 16, 2000
Web posted at: 2:47 p.m. EDT (1847 GMT)
INDIANAPOLIS (CNN) -- Bob Knight's supporters, including his Indiana University basketball players, are glad the controversial coach gets to keep his job despite a decades-long history of temper flare-ups and violence.
Critics, though, see the school's price for giving him one last chance -- a $30,000 fine, a three-game suspension and Knight's promise to keep his cool -- as a slap on the wrist. Some even suggested IU President Myles Brand and the university's board of trustees were cowardly in making their conditional decision, announced Monday, to let Knight stay.
Meanwhile, sports journalists are among those wondering if it's only a matter of time before Knight slips up again, leaving the school with no other option than to fire him.
A sampling of reaction:
"We want him to continue to push us and demand the most out of us. As far as how he acts off the court, I genuinely think he can change and become the better person that they want him to be." -- IU player Tom Geyer
"(Knight) has made errors that have proven him to be human like the rest of us. I have even been ashamed at some of them. But he has run a TOTALLY clean program, and he has turned boys into men to face a very tough world. I've seen where they have called him a bully. I am sure he has strong-armed his way through several situations. But show me a successful person that hasn't. The only thing Bobby Knight lacks on occasion is tact." -- Jerry Pawlak, Milwaukee (from CNNSI.com message board)
"The university has to saddle a great deal of the blame. Bob Knight is far from blameless, but at the same time ... through the course of 29 years at Indiana University, no one has ever told him, 'No.'" -- Terry Hutchens, Indianapolis Star
"You can write this down: Bobby Knight will not be there in two years." -- IU basketball fan Dwight Pinner
"Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?" -- Bobby Knight, who did not attend the news conference announcing his punishment, when asked later by reporters for a comment
"Basically, these people are scared mice -- both Myles Brand, who sat there with a straight face and said Indiana University will not tolerate abuse, and John Walda, the trustee, who said there are no 'sacred cows' at Indiana University. Well, clearly, Bob Knight is a sacred cow. And clearly he has abused people. And he is going to be allowed to continue as coach because he has a brilliant record on the court, because he does graduate his players, but most of all because never in 29 years -- until (Monday) -- did Indiana say to him, 'Coach, you have to stop doing these things.'" -- John Feinstein, author of "A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers"
"I'm not looking for him to change as a coach at all. He is the way he is, and he's been successful because of it." -- IU player Dane Fife
"IU's decision to 'punish' Bob Knight ... is almost as absurd as the coach himself. Myles Brand listened more to the alumni than IU's conscience. He's fooling no one but himself. Knight is a ticking bomb and it will ultimately blow up in Brand's face." -- Gary Leverenz, Seminole, Florida (from CNNSI.com message board)
"Even before Knight enters his 30th season this fall as czar of the Indiana basketball program, he'll kick somebody. He'll grab somebody. He'll definitely abuse somebody with his tongue. ... The only thing Knight got Monday ... was a brief stay of execution, after the biggest witch hunt in the history of college basketball. ... Bob Knight is in control of his own destiny, and that is awful news for Bob Knight." -- Terence Moore, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"I had a lot of offers to go to other schools and play, but I turned them down to come here and sit on the bench and learn from what coach Knight has to say. From him I get an education, not only about basketball, but about life in general." -- IU player Tom Geyer
"Nationally, we tend to look at it differently than they probably do here in (Indiana). I think there are more shades of gray here in the state. Personally, I have a hard time with the president's assessment that none of the individual incidents amounted to a firing offense. I mean, we're talking about acts of physical violence, grabbing a player by the throat, allegedly knocking out another member of the athletic staff. But here in the state, firing this guy would be tantamount to impeaching the governor. It might even be bigger." --Steve Wieberg, USA Today
"He can't be the same. I'm really not quite sure what he needs to do. But he's got to be careful with reporters, and when he's on the court he can't be kicking chairs or smacking the press table." -- IU player Dane Fife
"This is a man who has had a certain, specific behavior ... as a college coach. And now they're asking him to flip a switch and change overnight. I'm sure that as practice starts up next October everything will be fine for a while, but when ... the competitiveness of Bob Knight begins to flow, you just wonder what's going to happen." -- Terry Hutchens, Indianapolis Star
Indiana University President Myles Brand, right, listens as trustees president John Walda comments on the investigation that resulted in Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight keeping his job if he behaves properly
"Coach Knight has been the epitome of what a true coach should be. He has a great graduation rate, he has run an extremely clean program, his players have developed into good citizens and he is very loyal to his friends. All of these characteristics are very important to any coach. No, I do not condone the physical pushing or shoving, but sometimes as an intense coach those things happen. I just think players have a different mental toughness, and coach Knight brings out that mental toughness that will carry over for the rest of your life." -- John Cartee, Port St. Lucie, Florida (from CNNSI.com message board)
"Did you know that Bob Knight had engaged in a 'lengthy pattern of troubling behavior'? Myles Brand, the university president, and John Walda, the president of its board of trustees, sat through a news conference with straight and solemn faces and claimed this was news to them. They implied they had no idea that a man who'd habitually become unglued in public was capable of much worse behind closed offices and gymnasium doors." -- Harvey Araton, New York Times
"Coach is going to have to make a change, and he's going to have to do things different. But, overall we've still got our coach and we've still got our team, and I think we can work through it." -- IU player Jarrod Odle
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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