LUBBOCK, Texas -- Bob Knight told Texas Tech he wouldn't accept his $250,000 coaching salary this year because his team failed to live up to his expectations -- and so did he. "He has standards,'' Texas Tech men's basketball spokesman Randy Farley said Monday. "He just didn't meet his standards, and so he said, 'I don't think I should be paid for that.''' Tech (16-11, 6-10 Big 12) is the No. 7 seed in the Big 12 conference tournament in Dallas and plays Baylor on Thursday night. "I'm just not at all satisfied with what transpired with our team in terms of our fundamental execution,'' Knight told The Dallas Morning News for its online edition. "I don't think it's anybody's fault but mine. "You heard me talk after games all season long about missed opportunities and how we didn't see things. Those are things that have got to be taught. Learning those things is just as much a responsibility of the teacher as the ones learning those things,'' he was quoted as saying.
take the $250,000 and use it to bribe an unknown high school player to come play on your college team......
I thought it was a great move. He didn't get the numbers warranting that kind of money, so he didn't accept it. I've always been a Knight fan though. There aren't enough psycho coaching geniuses in the world.
This should be a clause in every athletes contract. You don't perform, you don't get paid. Guaranteed contracts are a joke.
Now thats class... Some people down here where I stay would have just taken the money. *shaking head* But that was very respectable of Coach Knight.
He has enough money already so he probably did that without hesitation. Or maybe he did it to show people that he really is a good person? :?
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting "shapecity":</div><div class="quote_post">This should be a clause in every athletes contract. You don't perform, you don't get paid. Guaranteed contracts are a joke.</div> i really like that idea its a shame it will never happen. it was a good move by Knight, Tech will be back in the tournament next year