Six-girl catfight broken up by former Bulls and USC coach Tim Floyd (video)
Remember Tim Floyd? He’s the former Iowa State basketball coach who went on to one of the worst tenures in NBA history with the Chicago Bulls. But USC took him off the scrap heap a few years ago, and Floyd got the Trojans into the NCAA Tournament and lured O.J. Mayo to campus, only to resign when it was revealed that Mayo was given $1,000 cash from a man who got it from Floyd.
Well, Floyd is in the news again. Floyd was at the Morongo Resort and Casino in Cabazon, Calif., this week where he was caught on video trying to break up a fight among a group of women. The video shows Floyd and former USC coach Henry Bibby breaking up a fight involving at least six women, hair pulling and near chair throwing at this casino cafeteria in Southern California.
Floyd told ESPN.com that he had been meeting a friend at the Morongo Casino on his drive out of Los Angeles to New Orleans.
“I was leaving and then this thing happened in the food court,” Floyd said of the fight. “It looks like a bar but it’s a food court. All I can say is that it was more physical than anything I’d seen in the Pac-10 and decided somebody needed to break it up.”
Floyd, who does a nice job getting right into the fight and restoring order while a bunch of other folks just stand around and stare, said he had no idea that a woman was behind him ready to clobber him with a chair.
“I didn’t see behind me,” Floyd said. “It was one of those deals where people were circling, chanting and cheering. It went on for 20 to 30 seconds before I walked up there. I was thinking someone would break it up but nobody would.”
Current Chicago Bull Taj Gibson, who played three seasons for Floyd at USC, said it doesn’t surprise him that his former coach would act as a peace-maker.
“Everybody is telling me about it,” Gibson said. “And from what people have told me, I’m like, ‘Yeah, that sounds like Coach Floyd.’ He would break something up. He’s such a soft-hearted guy.”
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