It’s been nearly a month now, and I’m sick of waiting for Bobby Knight.

He vowed he would return to coaching by the middle of October.

He lied.

We as American citizens have come to expect disillusionment from our politicians.

But from The General of Indiana basketball? This from the man who reportedly built his program on honor and integrity?

Of course, there is the flip side of Knight.

He also once said if rape is inevitable, you should sit back and enjoy it.

Whatever Knight you envision, one thing is true: He missed his deadline.

But rather than focus on the obvious reasons why he is not getting paid to kick, scream, or choke another basketball team, the better question to ask is how is he now filling the many free hours of his weeks.

Well, last Thursday he turned down a job with CBS Sports.

The New York Times reported that Knight met with CBS execs about a position in the television studio. The unbiased broadcasting would keep Knight from spewing any pent-up venom he might carry about the Hoosiers.

But CBS could only make room for a game analyst. Hence, no Bobby.

Last Wednesday, Knight appeared in Indianapolis to give a guest lecture for former player-turned-NBA coach Isiah Thomas.

Knight instructed the Pacers on the finer points of an offense for about 30 minutes. And then it was off to lunch with Indiana’s team president Donnie Walsh and the rest of the Pacer’s coaching staff.

Before entertaining any thoughts of Knight playing second fiddle to Thomas, a reporter from the Indianapolis Star said a move to the NBA for Knight is unlikely because “he hates the NBA.”

Knight tutored the Pacers as a favor to Thomas, one of Knight’s favorite Hoosiers, said the Star reporter.

It is unknown however, whether Knight picked up the tab for the Wednesday lunch with Thomas and others.

He could have though.

On Monday of last week, St. Martin’s Press shelled out a $1.25 million advance to Knight for the rights to his forthcoming autobiography. Knight reportedly will tell his side of the story that led to his demise as IU head coach.

And when Knight is not selling his thoughts, he’s selling his house.

The Star also reported that Knight has recently put his home in Bloomington, Ind. on the “For Sale” list.

Tired of the city life and needing to quench his innate lust to maim, Knight is on the lookout for a picturesque place in Montana, where he can wound or kill those lower on the life chain then himself, much as he did at Indiana.

If Knight ever does mount a real keeper on the wall of a Montana ranch, maybe he will imagine it to be the head of Murray Sperber.

Sperber is an English professor at Indiana. Sunday of last week, the most-vocal critic of Knight on campus, released his book titled “Beer and Circus.”

It deals with big-time college sports and the crippling effects, according to Sperber, that they have on a college education.

Although Knight has been known for his emphasis on education, maybe he’ll hang Sperber’s book in effigy all the same.

So will he coach again?

The buzz around Indiana is pointing toward Knight possibly emerging in the WAC Conference a year from now.

The Star believes he may want to separate himself from the Midwest and IU Interim Coach Mike Davis.

Wherever the future may take Knight, he has not been waiting by the phone for his next break.

Which is good, because rumors floating around Indiana say that Davis has yet to dial Knight’s number since being given the big whistle in Bloomington.