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Most people who are new on a job try to do their best to be helpful, but former Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight is not most people. So the news that Knight joining ESPN as a college basketball analyst does not mean Knight will answer ESPN's questions about the current situation at Indiana:

Appearing on Mike and Mike in the Morning, Knight gave a nonsense answer to Mike Greenberg's completely legitimate question about Knight's thoughts on the mess created by Kelvin Sampson. When Greenberg asked again, Knight said, "I appreciate very much your doggedness in this, but we're done with that subject."

And that was it. Which is ridiculous. ESPN should have told Knight that as long as he's cashing an ESPN paycheck, he needs to answer the questions that ESPN's hosts ask him. That would have made for some compelling TV and radio for ESPN's viewers and listeners. Instead, we got an exercise in time-wasting that concluded with Greenberg comparing Knight to his wife.