Knight picks walk-on for team in reality show

NEW YORK -- Bob Knight's reality show will be rated PG.\nThe Texas Tech coach puts 16 walk-ons through the paces in a new reality show that begins Sunday on ESPN. "Knight School" will give one Tech student the chance to play on his basketball team next fall.\n"Some words ultimately will be bleeped," executive producer Rob Lundgren said Tuesday. "There aren't that many."\nKnight, fired from IU in 2000 after 29 seasons, has the final say on whether the winner makes the Red Raiders' roster after spring and fall workouts. Texas Tech (12-12, 4-6 Big 12) could use the help this season.\n"We'll have to wait and see just exactly how he fits into what we're doing," Knight said during a conference call. "How well, now that he's playing with a lot of college players, does he match up?"\nFilmed over two weeks in late September, the first episode shows a nervous group of 33 hopefuls whittled down to 16. Knight's first rules, given during an initial pep talk at center court, are no hats or earrings.\nThe walk-ons and Knight practiced mostly in the evenings, working around the Red Raiders practice schedule and full-time classes. \n"I think (the audience) will really appreciate, enjoy and learn from the effort these kids put forth," Knight said. "What I set up was basketball, period. There were a lot of other things that were put into it as tests and challenges, a lot of physical exertion things that Rob and his staff set up for these kids to go through."\nSix cameras captured the action on campus and off, with players eliminated after each episode. Knight wasn't fazed by the spotlight.\n"If you're worried about cameras, you shouldn't coach," he said. "Because today, anytime that we play a game, it's on television with cameras everywhere. I've probably had as many people, coaches and faculty members attend practice over the years as anybody that's ever coached. The only thing that I've ever tailored my coaching to is what's happening immediately"