Normally I try to post only twice a week. I do have a family and I feel its in the public good to be in my son’s faces more than trying to perform parenting from the keypad. However, after I learned Coach Bob Knight is going to be working at ESPN, I almost lost my lunch all over my freshly pressed shirt.

The same Coach Knight who was livid at the same ESPN for airing of “A Season on the Brink”. The same man whose distaste for media types is legendary. I can see how Coach Knight will just intimidate the College Gamenight panelists, just as he did as an active coach. I would not be surprised if the show was renamed Game Knight.

I’m not against a man earning a living, and who am I to tell Coach Knight how to handle things.While he is a complex man with serious anger and control issues, he has the most wins of any coach in men’s college basketball history. His success rate with young men is well documented and as a result, I will always refer to him as Coach Knight, because he has earned it, and not because he demanded I do so.

However, it makes me laugh because so many people who swear they hate the media, become part of what they loathe. Sterling Sharpe had a policy of not talking to the media. Now, he is an integral part of it. Keyshawn Johnson treated the media as tools, now he has become the media’s tool. Coach Bill Parcells would get his jollies by toying with the media in press conferences, but then jumped at numerous opportunities to cash network checks for his television work.

Many people hate on Coach Knight and others of his ilk, particularily the ink stained wretches and media talking heads. While they say there is no place for people who do what Coach Knight does on a regular basis, they are happy to take that same personality and use it to make ratings points , which translates into big money. In my eyes, is that not silently rewarding boorish behavior?

I’m not sure if Coach Dean Smith was offered an analyst’s job upon his retirement. However, for the gentleman that Coach Smith is, he would not be considered by America as “must see TV“. Compelling TV is watching aggressive behavior types like Coach John Thompson, Coach Knight, Coach Parcells, or maybe even he of the pronounced chin and saliva shower, Coach Bill Cowher.

Again, I am not here to dog out any of the aforementioned coaches for their decisions. However, I do find it ironic that at the end of the day, the rough, tough sports icons, always find their way to the kinder, gentler television sound sets.

I just want to know if ESPN is ready for Coach Knight’s “Rush Limbaugh” moment. It will happen, its just a matter of when? Why do I think this? Because Coach Knight has always done everything his way, and was allowed to do it. This episode will be no exception. The only difference is that TV’s leash is shorter than a College President’s.

In the meantime, Ill have a cola with chips and salsa while I wait for the meltdown.