From: rsk@gynko.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball.college
Subject: The (updated) Saga of Bobby Knight: A Year-by-Year Chronology
Date: 10 Jan 93 03:17:17 GMT
Organization: Ditka Policy Institute

Since I first posted this several years ago, Bobby Knight has continued
to amaze us all and to rigorously defend his position as the biggest
asshole in college sports.  I've added some additional info at the
bottom, indicating where I'm unsure of dates or details; additional
information as always welcome, as I like to post this annually in
order to remind IU supporters that no matter how well their teams play,
and no matter how good their players may be, their coach is an
embarassment to their team, their school, and the Big Ten.

---Rsk

			What's next Bobby?
	(reprinted w/o permission from the Indianapolis News)

A list of incidents involving Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight.

1974-75  Knight tosses writer from Basketball Weekly out of lockerroom.

1975-76  Upset over two turnovers, Knight grabs sophomore Jim Wisman by
the jersey and jerks him into his seat.  Later Wisman says Knight was
right in his actions, but Knights says he was wrong.  Telephone calls
and letters to The News ruled in Knight's favor, 9-1.

1976-77  Rich Valavicius and Mike Miday quit team and publicly criticize
Knight.

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

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.

1979-80  Knight playfully fires blank shot at Louisville Courier-Journal
reporter Russ Brown, explaining that he did it to keep from going nuts.
A week later, Knight and his wife, Nancy, take turns at the microphone
and chide Assembly Hall crowd for sitting on its hands during ho-hum
game against Northwestern.

1980-81  Knight uses weekly program to show films of "sucker punch"
incident between Hoosier Isiah Thomas and Boilermaker Roosevelt Barnes,
proving Thomas' innocence.  Critical of "Purdue mentality", he aggravated
Boiler fans and officials by bringing on TV show a donkey wearing a
Purdue cap.  Later in Philadelphia at the NCAA finals, Knight is involved
in a hotel shoving match with an LSU fan, who told reporters that Knight
stuffed him in a garbage can.

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.

1982-83  Critical of Bit 10 officiating, Knight stands at midcourt cursing
at Big 10 Commissioner Wayne Duke who was sitting in the press box.  Two
days later, Knight publicly blasts officials for the "worst officiating
I have seen in 12 years".

1983-84  Knight calls Michigan Coach Bill Frieder a "chicken-bleep SOB"
twice on court and once in a post-game press conference.  The issue
was later resolved.

1984-85  Knight tosses a chair across the basketball floor during a game
against Purdue.  Knight was ejected from the game and was suspended for
one game by Big Ten Commissioner Wayne Duke.  Knight made a formal apology
for the incident.

1985-86  Knight draws a technical foul for shouting at the officials during
a game against Illinois, then kick a megaphone and chews out the Indiana
cheerleaders for disrupting a free throw attempt by guard Steve Alford.

1986-87  After being assessed a technical foul, Knight bangs his fist on
the scorer's table during Indiana's NCAA Midwest Regional tournament game
against Louisiana State.  The university was fined $10,000 by the NCAA
and Knight received a reprimand.

1987-88  Knight refuses to let his team finish during an exhibition game
against the Soviet Union after he is ejected for arguing with a referee.

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Further additions, courtesy of various netters:
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1989? In an interview with Connie Chung, Knight makes an analogy
between bad officiating and rape: "If you can't do anything about
it, you should sit back and enjoy it".

1990?  Knight cancels a long-standing tradition -- an annual IU
basketball dinner with the Kiwanis -- in the aftermath of a Hoosier
loss to Purdue in the final game of the season.  The loss cost IU a share
of the Big Ten championship, and sent them to the NCAA west region as
a #2 seed instead of to the southeast as a #1 seed.

Various years:  Knight refuses to attend conference-mandated meetings
	of all Big Ten coaches.

?? The Dale Brown incident.  (exact date and details have gone fuzzy)

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".

Various years: Knight's players transfer away in droves to escape
him; examples include Isaiah Thomas (Detroit), Delray Brooks (Providence),
Rick Calloway (Kansas), Larry Bird (Indiana State),
Lawrence Funderburke (OSU), Bob Bender (Duke), and Jay Edwards (?).
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