Bob Knight, in his 2002 autobiography Knight: My Story, said his alma mater, Ohio State, “was being cheap with a great coach.” That’s because OSU was only paying his former coach, Fred Taylor, $17,100 -- a slim reward, in Knight’s view, for a man who led the program to the 1960 national title and seven Big Ten championships. Adjust that salary for inflation, and it was worth a little more than $114,000 in 2006.Knight’s comment would no longer be valid as the Buckeye athletic department is paying current coach Thad Matta more than $2 million each year, a salary higher than a number of NBA coaches.