Bobby Knight, Texas Tech and the Year 2012

Who among us can read the headline "Extension could keep Knight at Tech through 2012" and not be hit with an overwhelming sense of disaster? I'm glad I don't root for that team.

How can you give long-term security to guys like Bobby Knight? Bobby Huggins, too. Why would an athletic director lock them up? If you're Texas Tech, are you worried that some other school is going to steal Bobby K. away? Is that something that crosses your mind?

It shouldn't. In my mind, that's basically inconceivable. We're not talking Charlie Weis here -- good guy, solid results. We're not even talking Dennis Erickson-circa University of Miami -- questionable character, excellent results. At this point with both Knight and Huggins we're talking exceedingly spotty character issues and fairly disappointing records. Right? I mean, sure, Texas Tech is better now than it has been historically, but has it been great? By any stretch of the imagination? Moreover, any list of the most disappointing teams of the last 10 years would probably feature, among its top three or four names, the University of Cincinnati. Right? How does Huggins score a five year contract? At $800,000 a year?

Shouldn't there be some sort of financial penalty for being a walking train-wreck and an impending liability? Is there another coaching profession that so quickly and thoroughly embraces its own rejects? I know Bobby has been reasonably well behaved for three years, but don't we all feel as though these years are a temporary abberation? He cannot keep this up. No chance.

One of the interesting features in 2007 Madden is the "injury prone" tag that the computer slaps on some guys. If a dude is labeled "injury prone" the computer will sign him to one-year contracts at a maximum.

NCAA presidents need to give some consideration to "meltdown prone" coaches, and shy away. Bobby Knight is trouble. Ditto Huggins. You've been warned, TTU.