Hey, it’s Knight family day at Inside the Hall on this Super Bowl Sunday. You’ve heard about Bob Knight apparently having interest in the Georgia opening — I agree with Alex, for as great as a coach as The General is, it doesn’t make much sense on UGA’s end — but this post is about Knight’s offspring: current Texas Tech coach Pat Knight.

Last night, a foul call went against one of his guys. And he didn’t like it. So he decided to do this:

Awesome. And hey: at least there was no chair involved.

Eight years after departing in ugly fashion from Bloomington, the wounds and hard feelings are beginning to subside for Texas Tech coach Pat Knight.

Knight spoke candidly about a variety of IU related topics in an interview with JMV on 1260 AM in Indianapolis. Listen up, courtesy of Terry Hutchens over at the Hoosiers Insider:

JMV: What do you think about Tom Crean at IU?

PK: “I think he was a great hire. I admit when everything first went down you have some bad feelings when you get fired from a place and it takes some time to get over it. But that’s happened so long ago now that I wish him nothing but the best. He knows that. I’ve talked to him and I’ve told him if there’s anyone that I can call for him like past players who may not be buying into what he’s doing that I’ll vouch for him. I’ve known him for a long time and you know Tom Izzo has been a close family friend of ours for a long time and anybody that comes from coach Izzo’s program is alright with me. I just hope people are patient because he inherited a brutal situation which a lot of guys wouldn’t even have tried to leave a good situation like he had at Marquette to try and fix what’s going on down there. But since he took it, you couldn’t find a better guy. I think he’s going to get it done and I hope he gets it done, I’ll admit when we first got fired I didn’t root for Indiana at all. It took several years. But now that Tom’s there it’s kind of nice to be able to root for my alma mater.”

JMV: How might your father feel about that? Is he thinking similar toward what you might think about IU and what is the new basketball program there present day?

PK: “I’ve learned that I don’t answer for him (he laughs). I’m not touching that question. I can only tell you how I feel about everything. I’m still in contact with a lot of the guys I played with. I talked to Brian Evans just two days ago. And Tom has had Brian come down there and he’s going about it the right way. I’m looking forward to seeing him turn things around down there.”

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