by P.D. Lesko

BY NOW, BOBBY KNIGHT has pretty much completed the talk show circuit. He answered the same 10 questions a thousand times over. I do have one question, though. What's Indiana going to do for Murray Sperber now that he has decided to return to campus? Maybe the institution's president, Miles Brand, will give Dr. Sperber a chunk of Knight's salary. Maybe Dr. Sperber will use it to hire several much-needed bodyguards to protect him from the lunatics who sent him death threats when he called for IU to fire Bobby Knight after Knight allegedly choked one of his players.

It's so tempting to just throw up one's arms in disgust and forget about trying to root out the bad apples in college sports. It's also easy to say that the Murray Sperbers within higher education--those college faculty and administrators who call for reform of college sports--are a bunch of Don Quixotes. Instead of railing at windmills, these folks are railing at goalposts. In truth, reform of college sports will never come from the Murray Sperbers; reform could possibly come from within if, say, Michigan's ex-gridiron leader Bo Schembechler decided to tackle the problem.

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