“Your team is so bad, a bunch of 12-year-olds could beat you!” It may sound like bit of pick-up trash talk, but it’s more or less what Pat Knight said to his own Texas Tech b-ball team this weekend.

In what could be the most hilarious/humiliating coaching tactic I’ve heard of in quite some time, during the middle of a game against Stephen F. Austin (which apparently is a school), Knight grabbed a 12-year-old out of the stands and asked him to join the huddle.

After Texas Tech botched as many as 15 layups, Knight scoured the stands near the bench and invited a youngster to join a team huddle. Knight asked the boy whether he could make layups. The boy said he could. “I was just tired of having 18- or 21-year-olds miss layups that a 12-year-old could hit, so I brought a 12-year-old in to let them know that he could hit layups,” Knight said. “He’s 12, and he can hit layups, so why can’t you when you’re 18 to 21?”

Did the kid actually go out onto the floor and start dropping bombs? No, but the point was well taken by the team, and Tech went on to win the game, surely inspired to avoid Knight’s planned “four-year-olds can make 3-pointers” lesson he had lined up for practice the next day.