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Article: Texas Tech players, students embrace Bob Knight as new coach.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- March 23, 2001
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LUBBOCK, Texas _ A glimpse of Bob Knight can be downloaded from the Internet.
Many refer to it as his "We Better Beat Purdue" speech, a profanity-laced, post-practice tirade from 1991. Knight tore into his Indiana Hoosiers after what he deemed a poor effort at practice.
Texas Tech players, are you prepared for this?
"I think I have a pretty good idea of what to expect," said senior-to-be Andy Ellis, the Red Raiders' center. "I'm not apprehensive at all about playing for him."
Ellis has heard the tirade, and it doesn't faze him.
"I think it's good to have a coach with some fire," Ellis said. "You hear that kind of language all ...