Sentence examples for fired knight from inspiring English sources

Two seasons ago, he fired Knight as basketball coach at Indiana after Knight ignored several warnings to control his volatile and abusive behavior.

Also, those who have not lived in Indiana cannot understand how the state inhales basketball, and how Knight is venerated (remember a former president who "fired" Knight but had to rescind his decision because of alumni and general citizen outcry?).

Any reasonably principled university president and board of trustees would have fired Knight long ago.

Maybe Myles Brand, the I.U. president who fired Knight for what was described as a "persistent and troubling pattern of behavior," will order the book.

Kasich said the ruling, issued last Thursday, means he can begin deposing the Indiana President Myles Brand and university trustees to find out what happened during a series of small group meetings held the day before Brand fired Knight.

Any reasonably principled university president and board of trustees, none of whom have apparently been in charge at Indiana over the last two-plus decades, would have fired Knight long ago.

Brand had said he was leaning toward firing Knight but was swayed by how "contrite and apologetic" the coach was about several incidents -- including intimidating a secretary in the athletic department with foul language and by throwing a vase, as well as arguments and physical altercations with colleagues and subordinates.

Even presented with the ugly, damning evidence, Indiana did not fire Knight, merely putting him on zero tolerance alert, which he predictably violated soon after.

"With analysis of the food remains in the pots, we will know what was being eaten on the day of the fire," Knight said.

"If a boss doesn't like the way I operate, she can fire me," Knight writes.

Instead of firing Mr. Knight for behavior that would not have been tolerated in any faculty member -- or for that matter, in any coach less successful at winning games and generating revenues -- he gave him only a very mild penalty.