Knight's act is old, even in a new year.(My Turn)(Bobby Knight)

Bobby Knight did it again. During an interview alongside his former player and current Iowa coach Steve Alford, the King of Crude and Rude dropped the f-bomb on his innocent interviewer and was bleeped several times. Thank goodness it wasn't live. When will he learn?

When will Texas Tech learn?

When will the NCAA learn?

I have found myself defending this guy over the years, writing him off as a spirited, competitive coach doing wild, crazy things in the heat of battle. But that wasn't the case a couple of weeks ago when the cameras were rolling on that interview.

How much more garbage will college basketball take from this guy? You can bet your mortgage that there will be more tirades from Knight as long as his employer and his regulator (the NCAA) continue to enable and embolden him.

If a Texas Tech history professor had been talking this way in public, I dare say he would be history himself. The university would be correct in dismissing him, freedom of speech notwithstanding. As a representative of a respected institution of higher learning, it is way past time for Knight to be held to a higher standard.

Mike Tyson bites off an opponent's ear and cusses like a drunken sailor, and we call him "manic-depressive."