From: bobj@meaddata.com (Robert Jones)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball.college
Subject: Re: The (updated) Saga of Bobby Knight: A Year-by-Year Chronology
Date: 11 Jan 1993 15:35:43 GMT
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
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In article <104186@netnews.upenn.edu>, rsk@gynko.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec) writes:

|> ---Rsk

|> 1977-78  Knight walks in on party where marijuana is being smoked.  Suspends
|> five and kicks off Tony Baker, Jim Roberson, and Don Cox.

What a terrible thing for a coach to do, suspend players for being
involved with drugs.  From what I remember this was not the first
offense for these guys, though I was only 10 at the time.

|> 
|> 1979  Knight is charged, and later tried in absentia, for hitting a Puerto
|> Rican policeman before a United States practice session for the Pan American
|> Games basketball tournament.  Knight was sentenced to six months in jail
|> but the government of Puerto Rico decided in 1987 to drop efforts to
|> extradite him.

This is probably Knight's worst incident.

[harmless incidents deleted]
 
|> 
|> 1981-82  Ohio State guard Troy Taylor claims Knight cursed him after he
|> thought Taylor flagrantly fouled Jim Thomas.  Knight denied the charge
|> and sent films of the incident to the Big 10 and Ohio State.  Ohio State
|> later supported Knight.

So you're down on Knight for defending himself from the claims of a
hack.  I'd be pissed if a coach didn't stand up for player you just
had his head knocked off by an opposing player.
 
|> ?? The Dale Brown incident.  (exact date and details have gone fuzzy)

When IU played LSU in the NCAA's in '87, IU was losing with a couple
minutes to go.  Knight supposedly said something like, "I looked down
the court and saw who was coaching the other team and I just sat back
and relaxed because I knew we'd win."  The was the game where Knight
pounded his fist on the scorer's table.
 
|> 
|> March, 1992: A picture of Norm Ellenberger holding a bent-over
|> Calbert Caney (with shorts pulled part way down) as Chaney is
|> "whipped" by Bob Knight makes the papers.  The obvious racist
|> overtones of such a picture are apparently lost on the IU
|> administration; Indiana sports information director Kit Klingehofer
|> calls reactions "absurd" and says "it was all just a joke".

Didn't the team present Knight with the bull whip?  I believe that the
press also had pictures of Knight pretending to whip Pat Leary ( a
white guy) but chose to print the one's of Knight whipping Chaney.
Knight isn't racist, he's mean to everyone :-)

|> 
|> Various years: Knight's players transfer away in droves to escape
|> him; examples include Isaiah Thomas (Detroit), Delray Brooks (Providence),
 
Going pro is much different than transferring, Thomas had just won the
NCAA's, his value was not going to increase much.  Didn't Knight
convince Thomas to come back during the summers to complete his
degree? 

|> Rick Calloway (Kansas), Larry Bird (Indiana State),

I think Bird left before the basketball even started, he was
overwhelmed by the size of IU & Bloomington.

|> Lawrence Funderburke (OSU), Bob Bender (Duke), and Jay Edwards (?).

I think Jay Edwards got in trouble for drug use (he got caught smoking pot).


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