Bob Sassone (born June 9, 1965) is an American writer. He was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, to Italian and Portuguese parents. He is the youngest of seven children.

Sassone began his career in the 1980s writing a weekly music column for North Shore Magazine, a weekly magazine inserted into several newspapers in Massachusetts. At the same time he was a sales and promotion rep for Musician and Billboard.

In 1990 he started his own music magazine, RPM, which he published out of his apartment with the help of friends. The magazine garnered attention nationwide, and included interviews with such people as Frank Zappa, Andy Summers, Robyn Hitchcock, and Marshall Crenshaw.

RPM lasted for two years. In 1995, bored by the music industry, Sassone created another publication, Channel Surfer Journal, a monthly television newsletter. It lasted until 2000.

In 2002, Sassone started Professor Barnhardt's Journal, a web-only magazine that has been acclaimed for its varied and unpredictable blend of essays, humor and fiction. Contributors have included Roger Ebert, Jonathan Lethem, Steve Almond, Tod Goldberg, Keith Olbermann, Michael J. Nelson, Joe Bob Briggs, Paul Davidson, Marty Beckerman, Joel Stein, Daniel Radosh, Will Leitch, Shari Goldhagen, and Ned Vizzini.

In 2003, Sassone published a collection of humor essays titled Book, With Words and Pages. The book was critically praised for its use of a box to house the pages of the book.

Sassone started one of the first online journals, in 1995, and it still exists. He has written for several publications and sites, including Salon.com, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Esquire, The Boston Herald, The Black Table, Flak, and Tripod.com. He has been featured or profiled in several publications, including USA Today, and has been a guest on MSNBC, FX, and PBS.

Sassone is currently a staff writer for the number one blogging network in the world, Weblogs, Inc, now owned by AOL. He writes for several sites, including TV Squad(where he served as editor in 2005), Slashfood, and Adjab. He is working on his second book.

Books[link]

• Book, With Words and Pages. 2003

External links[link]

• Official website
• Yahoo! review of Professor Barnhardt's Journal
• "Retail Store Compilation CDs (Six Real, Two Made-Up)", by Bob Sassone, at McSweeney's Internet Tendency

Bob Knight
Bob Knight in 2008
Sport(s)	Basketball
Biographical details
Born	(1940-10-25) October 25, 1940 (age 71) Massillon, Ohio
Playing career
1959–1962	Ohio State
Position(s)	Point guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1962–1963 1963–1965 1965–1971 1971–2000 1984 2001–2008	Cuyahoga Falls H.S. (asst.) Army (asst.) Army Indiana U.S. Men's Olympic Team Texas Tech
Head coaching record
Overall	902–371 (.709)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships As a player: NCAA Division I Tournament Championship (1960) Regional Championships - Final Four (3) (1960, 1961, 1962) Big Ten Regular Season Championship (3) (1960, 1961, 1962) As a head coach: NCAA Division I Tournament Championship (3) (1976, 1981, 1987) Regional Championships - Final Four (5) (1973, 1976, 1981, 1987, 1992) Olympic Games (1984 Gold Medal) Big Ten Regular Season Championship (11) (1973,1974,1975,1976,1980,1981,1983,1987,1989,1991,1993) NIT Tournament Championship (1979)
Awards Henry Iba Award (2) (1975, 1989) Naismith College Coach of the Year (1987) Clair Bee Coach of the Year Award (2002) Big Ten Coach of the Year (8) 1973, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1981, 1989, 1992, 1993 Naismith Award for Men's Outstanding Contribution to Basketball (2007)
Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 1991
Medal record Head Coach for  United States men's national basketball team Olympic Games Gold 1984 Los Angeles Men's Basketball

Robert Montgomery "Bob" Knight (born October 25, 1940) is a retired American basketball coach. Nicknamed "The General", Knight won 902 NCAA Division I men's college basketball games, second all-time to his former player, Mike Krzyzewski. He is most well known as the head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers from 1971–2000. He also coached briefly at Texas Tech (2001–2008) and at West Point (1965–1971).^[1]

While at Indiana, Knight led his teams to three NCAA championships, one National Invitation Tournament (NIT) championship, and 11 Big Ten Conference championships. He received the National Coach of the Year honor four times and the Big Ten Coach of the Year honor eight times. In 1984, he coached the USA men's Olympic team to a gold medal, becoming one of only three basketball coaches to win an NCAA title, NIT title, and an Olympic gold medal.^[2]

Knight was one of college basketball's most successful and innovative coaches, having perfected and popularized the motion offense. He has also been praised for running clean programs (none of his teams was ever sanctioned by the NCAA for recruiting violations) and graduating most of his players. However, Knight has also attracted controversy; he famously threw a chair across the court during a game, was once arrested for assault, and regularly displayed a combative nature during encounters with members of the press.^[3] Knight remains "the object of near fanatical devotion" from his former players and Indiana fans.^[4]

In 2008, Knight joined ESPN as a men's college basketball studio analyst during Championship Week and for coverage of the NCAA Tournament.^[5] For the 2008–09 season, he joined ESPN as a part-time color commentator as well as continuing his studio analyst duties.

Playing career[link]

Knight was born in Massillon, Ohio and grew up in Orrville, Ohio.^[6] Knight began his career as a player at Orrville High School. He continued under Basketball Hall of Fame coach Fred Taylor at Ohio State in 1958. He was a reserve forward on the Buckeyes' 1960 national championship team, which featured future Hall of Fame players John Havlicek and Jerry Lucas. In addition to lettering in basketball at Ohio State, it has been claimed that Knight also lettered in football and baseball;^[7] however, the official list of Ohio State football letter earners does not include Knight.^[8] Knight graduated with a degree in history and government in 1962.

Army Black Knights[link]

After graduation in 1962, Knight coached junior varsity basketball at Cuyahoga Falls High School in Ohio for one year.^[9] Knight then enlisted in the U.S. Army and accepted an assistant coaching position with the Army Black Knights in 1963, where, two years later, he was named the head coach at the relatively young age of 24. In six seasons at West Point, Knight won 102 games, with his first as a head coach coming against Worcester Polytechnic Institute. One of his players was Mike Krzyzewski, who would later serve as his assistant before becoming a Hall of Fame head coach at Duke.

Indiana University Hoosiers[link]

In 1971 the Indiana University Hoosiers hired Knight as head coach. Because of his time spent coaching at Army and his disciplinarian nature, Knight earned the nickname "The General." During his 29 years as head coach at Indiana, the Hoosiers won 662 games, including 22 seasons of 20 or more wins, while losing but 239, a remarkable .735 winning percentage. In 24 NCAA appearances at Indiana, Hoosier teams under Bob Knight won 42 of 63 games (.667), winning titles in 1975-76, 1980-81, and 1986-87, while finishing third in 1973 and 1992.

1970s[link]

In 1972–73, Knight's second year as coach, Indiana won the Big Ten championship and reached the Final Four, but lost to UCLA. The following season, 1973–74, Indiana once again captured a Big Ten title. In the two following seasons, 1974-75 and 1975-76, Knight's teams were undefeated in the regular season and won 37-consecutive Big Ten games on their way to their fourth conference title in a row. The 1974-75 Hoosiers swept the entire Big Ten by an average of 22.8 points per game. However, in a 83-82 win against Purdue they lost consensus All-American forward Scott May to a broken left arm. With May playing just 7 mins,^[10] the No. 1 Hoosiers lost to Kentucky 92-90 in the Mideast Regional. The following season, 1975–76, the Hoosiers went the entire season and 1976 NCAA tournament without a single loss, beating Michigan 86–68 in the title game. Immediately after the game, Knight lamented that "it should have been two." Indiana remains the last school to go undefeated an entire season.^[11][12] Indiana won the 1979 NIT championship.

1980s[link]

The 1979-80 Hoosiers won the Big Ten championship and advanced to the 1980 Sweet Sixteen. The following season, in 1980-81, star-guard Isiah Thomas and Knight's Hoosiers once again won a conference title and won the 1981 NCAA tournament, Knight's second national title. In 1982–1983, Knight's No. 1 ranked Hoosiers were favorites to win another national championship. However with an injury to All-American Ted Kitchel mid-season, the Hoosiers prospects were grim. Knight asked for fan support to rally around the team, which ultimately won the Big Ten championship. Nevertheless in the tournament Kitchel's absence was felt and the team lost to Kentucky in the 1983 Sweet Sixteen.

Knight with young fans in Columbus, Ohio in the summer of 1988

Knight and his 1985-86 team were profiled in a best-selling book A Season on the Brink. To write it Knight granted author John Feinstein almost unprecedented access to the Indiana basketball program, as well as insights into Knight's private life. Feinstein depicts a coach who is quick with a violent temper, but also one who never cheats and strictly follows all of the NCAA's rules. The following season, in 1986-87, Knight won a share of the Big Ten title and his third national championship against Syracuse in the 1987 NCAA tournament.^[13] In the 1988–1989 season the Hoosiers again won a Big Ten championship.

1990s[link]

From 1990-91 through 1992-93, the Hoosiers posted 87 victories, the most by any Big Ten team in a three-year span, breaking the mark of 86 set by Coach Knight's Indiana teams of 1974-76. Teams from these three seasons spent all but two of the 53 poll weeks in the top 10, and 38 of them in the top 5. They captured two Big Ten crowns in 1990-91 and 1992-93, and during the 1991-92 season reached the Final Four. During the 1992-93 season, the 31-4 Hoosiers finished the season at the top of the AP Poll, but were defeated by Kansas in the Elite Eight.

Throughout the mid and late 1990's Knight continued to experience success with continual NCAA tournament appearances and a minimum of 19 wins each season. However, 1993 would be Knight's last conference championship and 1994 would be his last trip to the Sweet Sixteen. Moreover, his portrayal in the media often brought as much controversy to the school as success.

Controversial dismissal[link]

On March 14, 2000, just before Indiana was to begin play in the NCAA tournament, the CNN/SI network ran a piece on Knight in which former player Neil Reed claimed he was choked by Knight in a 1997 practice.^[14] Knight denied the claims in the story. However, less than a months later CNN Sports Illustrated aired a tape of an IU practice from 1997 that appeared to show Knight placing his hand on the neck of Neil Reed.^[15]

In response, Indiana University president Myles Brand announced that spring he had adopted a "zero tolerance" policy with regard to Bob Knight's behavior.^[17] Later in the year, in September 2000, Indiana freshman Kent Harvey reportedly said, "Hey, Knight, what's up?" to Knight. According to Harvey, Knight then grabbed him by the arm and lectured him for not showing proper respect.^[15] Brand stated that this incident was only one of numerous complaints that occurred after the zero-tolerance policy had been placed on Knight. He asked Knight to resign on September 10. When Knight refused, Brand relieved him of his coaching duties effective immediately. Later that evening, a crowd of thousands of students swarmed Bloomington in protest, burning Brand in effigy.^[15]

Harvey was supported by some and vilified by many who claim he intentionally set up Knight. Kent Harvey's stepfather, Mark Shaw, was a former Bloomington-area radio talk show host and Knight critic.^[18] On September 13, Knight said goodbye to a crowd of some 6,000 supporters in Dunn Meadow at Indiana University. He asked that they not hold a grudge against Harvey and that they continue to support the basketball team.^[19] Knight's firing made national headlines including the cover of Sports Illustrated and around the clock coverage on ESPN. It was also covered heavily on major news programs such as CBS News and CNN.

International coaching[link]

In 1979 Knight guided the United States Pan American team to a gold medal in Puerto Rico. In 1984 Knight led the U.S. national team to a gold medal in the Olympic Games as coach of the 1984 basketball team (coaches do not receive medals in the Olympics). Players on the team included Michael Jordan and Knight's Indiana player and protege Steve Alford.

Texas Tech Red Raiders[link]

Knight watches his team practice in November 2007.

After taking a season off following his dismissal from Indiana, all the while on the lookout for vacancies, Knight accepted the head coaching job at Texas Tech, though his hiring was opposed by a group of faculty led by Walter Schaller.^[20] At the press conference introducing him, Knight quipped, "This is without question the most comfortable red sweater I've had on in six years."^[21]

Knight quickly improved the program, which had not been to an NCAA tournament since 1996. He led the Red Raiders to postseason appearances in each of his first four years at the school (three NCAA Championship tournaments and one NIT). After a rough 2006 season, the team improved in 2007, finishing 21–13 and again making it to the NCAA Championship tournament, where it lost to Boston College in the first round. The best performance by the Red Raiders under Knight came in 2005 when they advanced as far as the Sweet Sixteen. In both 2006 and 2007 under Knight, Texas Tech defeated two Top 10-ranked teams in consecutive weeks. During Knight's first six years at Texas Tech, the Red Raiders won 126 games, an average of 21 wins per season.

On February 4, 2008, Bob Knight retired as head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders. His son Pat Knight, the head coach designate since 2005, was immediately named as his successor. The younger Knight stated that, after many years of coaching, his father was exhausted and ready to retire.^[22] Just after achieving his 900th win, Knight handed the job over to Pat in the mid-season in part to allow him to get acquainted with coaching the team earlier, instead of having him wait until October, the start of the next season.^[23] Following retirement Knight continued living in Lubbock.^[24]

Coaching philosophy[link]

Bob Knight was an innovator of the motion offense, which he perfected and popularized.^[25] The system emphasizes post players setting screens and perimeter players passing the ball until a teammate becomes open for an uncontested jump shot or lay-up. This required players to be unselfish, disciplined, and effective in setting and using screens to get open. Knight's Army background and his focus on fundamentals, strict discipline, and precision earned him the nickname "General".

Knight's motion offense didn't take shape until his time at Indiana. Prior to that, at Army, he ran a "reverse action" that involved reversing the ball from one side of the floor to the other and screening along with it.^[25] According to Knight, it was a "West Coast offense" that Pete Newell used exclusively during his coaching career. After being exposed to the Princeton offense, Knight instilled more cutting with the offense he employed, which evolved into the motion offense that he ran for most of his career.^[25] Knight continued to develop the offense, instituting different cuts over the years and putting his players in different scenarios.

Knight was well known for the extreme preparation he put into each game and practice. He was often quoted as saying, "Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win."^[26] Often during practice, Knight would instruct his players to a certain spot on the floor and give them options of what to do based on how the defense might react.^[25] In contrast to set plays, Knight's offense was designed to react according to the defense.

The 3-point shot was adopted nationally in the NCAA in 1986, mid-way through Knight's coaching career. Although he opposed the rule change throughout his life, it did compliment his offense well by improving the spacing on the floor.^[25] Knight's offense also emphasized a two-count.^[25] Players in the post are expected to try and post in the paint for two seconds and if they don't receive the ball they go set a screen. Players with the ball are expected to hold the ball for two seconds to see where they are going to take it. Screens are supposed to be held for two seconds, as well.

On defense Knight was known for emphasizing tenacious "man-to-man" defense where defenders contest every pass and every shot, and to help teammates when needed. However, Knight has also incorporated a zone defense periodically after eschewing that defense for the first two decades of his coaching career.^[27]

Knight's coaching also included a firm emphasis on academics. All but four of his four-year players completed degrees, a ratio of nearly 98 percent. Nearly 80 percent of his players graduated compared to the national average of 42 percent for Division I schools.^[28]

Legacy[link]

Accomplishments[link]

Bob Knight's all time coaching record is 902-371. His 902 wins in NCAA Division I men's college basketball games is second all-time to his former player, Mike Krzyzewski. Knight achieved his 880th career win on January 1, 2007 and passed retired North Carolina coach Dean Smith for most career victories, a title he held until his win total was surpassed by Krzyzewski on November 15, 2011. Knight is the youngest coach to reach 200 (age 35), 300 (age 40) and 400 (age 44) wins. He was also among the youngest to reach other milestones of 500 (age 48) and 600 (age 52) wins. However, Adolph Rupp and Dean Smith are both ahead of him in win differential (difference between wins and losses).

Texas Tech's participation in the 2007 NCAA Tournament gave Knight more NCAA Tournaments appearances than any other coach.^[29] He is the only coach to win the NCAA, the NIT, an Olympic Gold medal, and a Pan American Games Gold medal.^[29] Knight is also one of only three people, along with Dean Smith and Joe B. Hall, who had both played on and coached a winning NCAA championship basketball team.

Recognition[link]

Knight received a number of personal honors during and after his coaching career. He was named the National Coach of the Year four times (1975, 1976, 1987, 1989) and Big Ten Coach of the Year eight times (1973, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1981, 1989, 1992, 1993). In 1975 he was a unanimous selection as National Coach of the Year, an honor he was accorded again in 1976 by Associated Press, United Press International, and Basketball Weekly. In 1987 he was the first person to be honored with the Naismith Coach of the Year Award. In 1989 he garnered National Coach of the Year honors by the AP, UPI, and the United States Basketball Writers Association. Knight was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991.

Knight with Krzyzewski

On November 17, 2006, Knight was recognized for his impact on college basketball as a member of the founding class of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. The following year he was the recipient of the Naismith Award for Men's Outstanding Contribution to Basketball.^[30] Knight was also inducted into the Army Sports Hall of Fame (Class of 2008) and the Indiana Hoosiers athletics Hall of Fame (Class of 2009). In August 2003, he was honored as the first inductee in The Vince Lombardi Titletown Legends.

Coaching tree[link]

A number of assistant coaches, players, and managers of Knight have gone on to be coaches. Among them are Hall of Fame Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, and NBA coaches Randy Wittman, Mike Woodson, Keith Smart, and Lawrence Frank.

Bob Knight in the media[link]

Books about Knight[link]

In 1986 author John Feinstein published A Season on the Brink, which detailed the 1985-86 season of the Indiana Hoosiers. Granted almost unprecedented access to the Indiana basketball program, as well as insights into Knight's private life, the book quickly became a major best-seller and spawned a new genre, as a legion of imitators wrote works covering a single year of a sports franchise. In the book Feinstein depicts a coach who is quick with a violent temper, but also one who never cheats and strictly follows all of the NCAA's rules.

Two years later author Joan Mellen penned the book Bob Knight: His Own Man (ISBN 0-380-70809-4), in part to rebut Feinstein's A Season on the Brink. Mellen deals with seemingly all the causes celebres in Knight's career and presents the view that he is more sinned against than sinning.

A number of close associates and friends of Knight have also written books about him. Former player and current New Mexico head basketball coach Steve Alford wrote Playing for Knight: My Six Seasons with Bobby Knight, published in 1990.

Knight's autobiography, written with longtime friend and sports journalist Bob Hammel, was titled Knight: My Story and published in 2003. Three years later Steve Delsohn and Mark Heisler wrote Bob Knight: An Unauthorized Biography.

Film and television[link]

Knight has appeared or been featured in numerous films and television productions. In 1994 a feature film titled Blue Chips was about Pete Bell, a volatile but honest college basketball coach under pressure to win who decides to blatantly violate NCAA rules to field a competitive team after a sub-par season. It starred Nick Nolte as Bell and NBA star Shaquille O'Neal as Neon Bodeaux, a once-in-a-lifetime player Bell woos to his school with gifts and other perks. The coach's temper and wardrobe were modeled after Knight's, though at no time has Knight been known to illegally recruit. Knight himself appears in the movie and coaches against Nolte in the film's climactic game.

ESPN's first feature-length film was A Season on the Brink, a 2002 TV adaptation from John Feinstein's book. In the movie Knight is played by veteran character actor Brian Dennehy. ESPN also featured Knight in a reality show titled Knight School, which followed a handful of Texas Tech students as they competed for the right to join the basketball team as a non-scholarship player.

Knight made a cameo appearance as himself in the 2003 film Anger Management. In 2008, Knight appeared in a commercial as part of Volkswagen's Das Auto series where Max, a 1964 black Beetle interviews famous people. When Knight talked about Volkswagen winning the best resale value award in 2008, Max replied, "At least one of us is winning a title this year." This prompted Knight to throw his chair off the stage and walk out saying, "I may not be retired."^[31]

Knight also made an appearance in a TV commercial for Guitar Hero: Metallica with fellow coaches Mike Krzyzewski, Rick Pitino, and Roy Williams, in a parody of Tom Cruise in Risky Business.^[32]

In 2009, Knight produced 3 instructional coaching DVD libraries—on motion offense, man-to-man defense, and instilling mental toughness—with Championship Productions.

Family and charity[link]

Knight and his son Pat while coaching at Texas Tech.

Knight married Nancy Lou on April 17, 1963 and the two divorced in 1985. Together they had two sons, Tim and Pat. Pat played at Indiana from 1991-95 and is now head coach at Lamar. In 1988 Knight married Karen Vieth Edgar, a former Oklahoma high school basketball coach.

Knight has a high regard for education and has made generous donations to the schools he has been a part of, particularly libraries. At Indiana University Knight endowed two chairs, one in history and one in law. He also raised nearly $5 million for the Indiana University library system by championing a library fund to support the library's activities. The fund was ultimately named in his honor.

When Knight came to Texas Tech in 2001, he gave $10,000 to the library, the first gift to the Coach Knight Library Fund which has now collected over $300,000.^[33] On November 29, 2007, the Texas Tech library honored this with A Legacy of Giving: The Bob Knight Exhibit.

Criticisms and controversies[link]

1970s[link]

• It was reported (although years after the incident) that Knight choked and punched IU's longtime sports information director, Kit Klingelhoffer, in the 1970s, over a news release that upset the coach.^[6]

• On December 7, 1974, Indiana and Kentucky met in the regular season in Bloomington with a 98-74 Indiana win. Near the end of the game, Bob Knight went to the Kentucky bench where the official was standing to complain about a call. Before he left, Knight hit Kentucky coach Joe B. Hall in the back of the head.^[34] UK's assistant coach Lynn Nance, a former FBI agent who was about 6 feet 5 inches, had to be restrained by Hall from hitting Knight. Hall later said, "It publicly humiliated me."^[35] Knight said the slap to the head was something he has done, "affectionately" to his own players for years. "But maybe someone would not like that," he said. "If Joe didn't like it, I offer an apology. I don't apologize for the intent." ... "Hall and I have been friends for a long time," Knight said. "If he wants to dissolve the friendship, that's up to him."^[36] Knight blamed the furor on Hall, noting in his inimitable style, "If it was meant to be malicious, I'd have blasted the fucker into the seats."^[37]

• During the 1979 Pan American Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Knight was accused of assaulting a police officer while coaching the US Basketball team before a practice session. He was later convicted in absentia to a six-month jail sentence, but extradition efforts by the Puerto Rican government were not successful.^[38]

1980s[link]

• In a game at Bloomington on January 31, 1981 between Indiana and Purdue, Hoosier star Isiah Thomas allegedly hit Purdue guard Roosevelt Barnes in what some critics described as a "sucker punch".^[39] Video replay shown by Bob Knight later showed Barnes had mistakenly thrown the first punch, and that Thomas was merely reacting to this. When the two schools played their second game of the season at Purdue on February 7, 1981, Knight claimed a number of derisive chants were directed at him, his wife, and Indiana University. In response Knight invited Purdue athletic director George King on his weekly television show to discuss the matter, but King declined. Therefore, in place of King, Knight brought onto the show a "jackass" (male donkey) wearing a Purdue hat as a representative of Purdue.^{[40] [41]} The 1980–81 Hoosiers would go on to win the 1981 NCAA National Championship, the school's fourth national title.

• On February 23, 1985 in game at Bloomington between Purdue and Indiana, with just five minutes into the game, a scramble for a loose ball resulted in a foul call on Indiana's Daryl Thomas. Knight, irate, insisted the call should have been for a jump ball and ultimately received a technical foul. Purdue's Steve Reid stepped to the free throw line to shoot the resulting free throws, but before he could Knight grabbed a red plastic chair from Indiana's bench and threw it across the floor toward the basket in front of Reid. Knight was ejected from the game. He apologized for his actions the next day and was given a one-game suspension and two year's probation from the Big Ten. Since the incident, Knight has occasionally joked about throwing the chair by saying that he saw an old lady standing on the opposite sideline and threw her the chair so she could sit down.^{[42] [43]}

• Women's groups nationwide were outraged by Knight's comments during an April 1988 interview with Connie Chung in which he said, "I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it."^[44] Knight's comment was in reference to an Indiana basketball game in which he felt the referees were making poor calls against the Hoosiers.

1990s[link]

• At a practice leading up to an Indiana-Purdue game in West Lafayette in 1991, Bob Knight unleashed a torrent of expletives and threats designed to motivate his Indiana team. In one portion he exclaims he is "f**king tired of losing to Purdue." Unknown to most, someone was secretly taping the speech. The speech has since gone viral and has over 1.84 million views on YouTube alone.^[45] Although the source of who taped the speech remains unknown, many former players suspect it was former manager and current NBA coach Lawrence Frank.^[46]

• In March 1992 prior to the NCAA regional finals, controversy erupted after Knight playfully mock whipped Indiana players Calbert Cheaney and Pat Graham during practice. The bullwhip had been given to Knight as a gift from his team. Several black leaders complained at the racial connotations of the act (Cheaney is black.)^[47]

• Knight was shown berating an NCAA volunteer at a March 1995 post-game press conference following a 65–60 loss to Missouri in the first round of the NCAA tournament held in Boise, Idaho. The volunteer, Rance Pugmire, informed the press that Knight would not be attending the press conference, when in reality, Knight was running a few minutes late and had planned on attending per NCAA rules. Knight was shown saying: "You've only got two people that are going to tell you I'm not going to be here. One is our SID [Sports Information Director], and the other is me. Who the hell told you I wasn't going to be here? I'd like to know. Do you have any idea who it was?...Who?...They were from Indiana, right?...No, they weren't from Indiana, and you didn't get it from anybody from Indiana, did you?...No, I—I'll handle this the way I want to handle it now that I'm here. You (EXPLETIVE) it up to begin with. Now just sit there or leave. I don't give (EXPLETIVE) what you do. Now back to the game."^[48]

• Former IU player Neil Reed alleged that Knight had grabbed him by the neck in a choking manner during a 1997 practice. A videotape of the incident was shown on CNN.^[6]

2000s[link]

• On February 19, 2000, Clarence Doninger, Knight's boss, alleged to have been physically threatened by the coach during a confrontation after a game.^[6]

• An IU investigation inquired about an allegation in which Knight berated and physically intimidated a university secretary, once throwing a potted plant in anger, showering her with glass and debris. The University later asked the coach to issue an apology to the secretary.^[6]

• It was alleged that Knight attacked assistant coach Ron Felling, throwing him out of a chair after overhearing him criticizing the basketball program in a phone conversation.^[6]

• On September 8, 2000, IU freshman Kent Harvey told campus police Knight grabbed him roughly by the arm and berated him for speaking to the coach disrespectfully. Knight admitted putting his hand on the student's arm and lecturing him on civility, but denied that he was rough or raised his voice. The coach was fired from IU two days later.^[6]

• Two days after Knight was fired from Indiana University, Jeremy Schaap of ESPN interviewed him and discussed his time at Indiana. Towards the end of the interview, Knight talked about his son, Patrick, who had also been dismissed by the university, wanting an opportunity to be a head coach. Schaap, thinking that Knight was finished, attempted to move on to another subject, but Knight insisted on continuing about his son. Schaap repeatedly tried to ask another question when Knight shifted the conversation to Schaap's style of interviewing, notably chastising him about interruptions. Knight then commented (referring to Schaap's father, Dick Schaap), "You've got a long way to go to be as good as your dad!"^[49]
• In March 2006, a student's heckling at Baylor University resulted in Knight having to be restrained by a police officer. The incident was not severe enough to warrant any action from the Big 12 Conference.^[50]
• On November 13, 2006, Knight was shown allegedly hitting player Michael Prince under the chin to get him to make eye contact. Although Knight didn't comment on the incident afterwards and as of yet hasn't done so, Prince, his parents, and Texas Tech Athletic Director Gerald Myers insisted that Knight did nothing wrong and that he merely lifted Prince's chin and told him "Hold your head up and don't worry about mistakes. Just play the game." Prince commented, "He was trying to teach me and I had my head down so he raised my chin up. He was telling me to go out there and don't be afraid to make mistakes. He said I was being too hard on myself."^[51]
• On October 21, 2007, James Simpson of Lubbock, Texas, accused Knight of firing a shotgun in his direction after he yelled at Knight and another man for hunting too close to his home.^[52] Knight denied the allegations. An argument between the two men was recorded via camera phone and aired later on television.^[53]
• On December 17, 2009, Knight insulted longtime rival Kentucky and its basketball coach John Calipari, saying "We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching," he said. "You see we've got a coach at Kentucky, who put two schools [UMass and Memphis on probation and he's still coaching. I really don't understand that."
• On April 18, 2011, video surfaced showing Knight responding to a question concerning John Calipari and the University of Kentucky men's basketball team by stating that in the previous season, Kentucky made an Elite Eight appearance the year before with "5 players who had not attended a single class that semester." These claims were later disproved by the University and the five players in question, including Patrick Patterson, who graduated in three years, and John Wall, who finished the semester in question with a 3.5 GPA.^[54] Knight later apologized for his comments stating that "My overall point is that 'one-and-dones' are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize."^[55]

Head coaching record[link]

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See also[link]

• List of college men's basketball coaches with 600 wins
• List of NCAA Men's Division I Final Four appearances by coach

Notes[link]

References[link]

• "The Archives". 2004-05 Army Men's Basketball Media Guide. Retrieved December 23, 2005.
• "History". 2005-06 Indiana Men's Basketball Media Guide. Retrieved December 23, 2005.
• "Texas Tech Record Book". 2005-06 Red Raider Media Guide. Retrieved December 23, 2005.

External links[link]

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• Bob Knight's Profile from Texas Tech Athletics
• Bob Knight news archive from the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Bob Knight – championships, awards and honors v t e Ohio State Buckeyes Men's Basketball 1959–60 NCAA Champions Dick Furry John Havlicek Bob Knight Jerry Lucas (MOP) Howard Nourse Mel Nowell Joe Roberts Larry Siegfried Head Coach Fred Taylor Assistant Coach: Jack Graf v t e Indiana Hoosiers Men's Basketball 1975–76 NCAA Champions 20 Bob Wilkerson 21 Quinn Buckner 22 Wayne Radford 25 Bob Bender 33 Tom Abernethy 42 Scott May 45 Jim Crews 54 Kent Benson (MOP) Head Coach Bob Knight Assistant Coaches: Bob Donewald Bob Weltlich v t e Indiana Hoosiers Men's Basketball 1980–81 NCAA Champions 11 Isiah Thomas (MOP) 20 Jim Thomas 24 Randy Wittman 30 Ted Kitchel 31 Tony Brown 32 Landon Turner 40 Glen Grunwald 45 Ray Tolbert Head Coach Bob Knight Assistant Coaches: Jim Crews Gerry Gimelstob v t e Indiana Hoosiers Men's Basketball 1986–87 NCAA Champions 12 Steve Alford 20 Ricky Calloway 22 Dean Garrett 23 Keith Smart (MOP) 24 Daryl Thomas 45 Brian Sloan Head Coach Bob Knight Assistant Coaches: Royce Waltman Joby Wright v t e 1984 Olympic Champions Men's Basketball team - United States 4 Alford 5 Turner 6 Ewing 7 Fleming 8 Robertson 9 Jordan 10 Kleine 11 Koncak 12 Mullin 13 Tisdale 14 Perkins 15 Wood Coach: Knight v t e Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 1991 Players Nate Archibald Dave Cowens Harry Gallatin Coaches Bob Knight Contributors Lawrence Fleisher Larry O'Brien Borislav Stanković v t e Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Based in Springfield, Massachusetts Members   Coaches (86) Allen Anderson Auerbach Auriemma Barmore Barry Blood Boeheim Brown Calhoun Cann Carlson Carnesecca Carnevale Carril Case Chancellor Chaney Conradt Crum Daly Dean Díaz-Miguel Diddle Drake Ferrándiz Gaines Gamba Gardner Gill Gomelsky Gunter Hannum Harshman Haskins Hickey Hobson Holzman Hurley Iba Jackson Julian Keaney Keogan Knight Krzyzewski Kundla Lambert Litwack Loeffler Lonborg Magee McCutchan A. McGuire F. McGuire Meanwell Meyer Miller Moore Nikolić Novosel Olson Ramsay Riley Rubini Rupp Rush Sachs Sharman Shelton Sloan Smith Stringer Summitt Taylor Thompson VanDerveer Wade Watts Wilkens Williams Winter Wooden Woolpert Wootten Yow Boldface indicates those who are also inducted as players   Contributors (58) Abbott Bee Biasone H. Brown W. Brown Bunn Buss Colangelo Davidson Douglas Duer Embry Fagan Fisher Fleisher Gavitt Gottlieb Gulick Harrison Hearn Hepp Hickox Hinkle Irish Jones Kennedy Lemon Liston Lloyd McLendon Mokray Morgan Morgenweck Naismith Newell Newton J. O'Brien L. O'Brien Olsen Podoloff Porter Reid Ripley Sanders Saperstein Schabinger St. John Stagg Stanković Steitz Taylor Teague Tower Trester Vitale Wells Wilke Zollner   Players (149) Guards Archibald Beckman Belov Bing Blazejowski Borgmann Brennan Cervi Cooper-Dyke Cousy Davies Drexler Dumars Edwards Frazier Friedman Gervin Goodrich Greer Hanson Haynes Holman Hyatt Jeannette D. Johnson E. Johnson K. Jones S. Jones Jordan Lieberman Maravich Marcari Martin McDermott McGuire Meyers Monroe Mullin Murphy Page Petrović Robertson Roosma Russell Schommer Sedran Sharman Steinmetz Stockton Thomas Thompson Vandivier Wanzer West Wilkens Woodard Wooden Forwards Arizin Barkley Barry Baylor Bird Bradley Cunningham Curry Dalipagić Dantley DeBusschere Dehnert Endacott English Erving Foster Fulks Gale Gates Gola Hagan Havlicek Hawkins Hayes Heinsohn Howell G. Johnson Lucas Luisetti K. Malone B. McCracken J. McCracken McHale Mikkelsen Miller Pettit Phillip Pippen Pollard Ramsey Rodman Schayes Schmidt Stokes Thompson Twyman White Wilkins Worthy Yardley Centers Abdul-Jabbar Barlow Bellamy Chamberlain Cooper Ćosić Cowens Crawford DeBernardi Donovan Ewing Gallatin Gilmore Gruenig Harris-Stewart Houbregs Issel W. Johnson Johnston Krause Kurland Lanier Lovellette Lapchick Macauley M. Malone McAdoo Meneghin Mikan Murphy Olajuwon Parish Pereira Reed Risen Robinson Russell Sabonis Semjonova Thurmond Unseld Wachter Walton Boldface indicates those who are also inducted as coaches   Referees (13) Enright Hepbron Hoyt Kennedy Leith Mihalik Nucatola Quigley Rudolph Shirley Strom Tobey Walsh   Teams (8) 1960 United States Olympic Team 1992 United States Olympic Team Buffalo Germans The First Team Harlem Globetrotters New York Rens Original Celtics Texas Western Awards Bob Cousy Award Curt Gowdy Media Award John Bunn Award Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award Official website v t e Naismith College Coaches of the Year Men's coaches 1987: Knight 1988: Brown 1989: Krzyzewski 1990: Cremins 1991: Ayers 1992: Krzyzewski 1993: D. Smith 1994: Richardson 1995: Harrick 1996: Calipari 1997: Williams 1998: Guthridge 1999: Krzyzewski 2000: Montgomery 2001: Barnes 2002: Howland 2003: T. Smith 2004: Martelli 2005: Weber 2006: Wright 2007: Bennett 2008: Calipari 2009: Dixon 2010: Boeheim 2011: Fisher 2012: Self Women's coaches 1987: Summitt 1988: Barmore 1989: Summitt 1990: VanDerveer 1991: Ryan 1992: Weller 1993: Stringer 1994: Summitt 1995: Auriemma 1996: Landers 1997: Auriemma 1998: Summitt 1999: Peck 2000: Auriemma 2001: McGraw 2002: Auriemma 2003: Goestenkors 2004: Summitt 2005: Chatman 2006: Hatchell 2007: Goestenkors 2008: Auriemma 2009: Auriemma 2010: Yori 2011: VanDerveer 2012: Mulkey v t e Henry Iba Award winners 1959: Hickey 1960: Newell 1961: Taylor 1962: Taylor 1963: Jucker 1964: Wooden 1965: van Breda Kolff 1966: Rupp 1967: Wooden 1968: Lewis 1969: Wooden 1970: Wooden 1971: Wooden 1972: Wooden 1973: Wooden 1974: Sloan 1975: Knight 1976: Orr 1977: Sutton 1978: Meyer 1979: D. Smith 1980: Meyer 1981: Miller 1982: Thompson 1983: Carnesecca 1984: Keady 1985: Carnesecca 1986: Versace 1987: Chaney 1988: Chaney 1989: Knight 1990: Williams 1991: Ayers 1992: Clark 1993: Fogler 1994: Spoonhour 1995: Sampson 1996: Keady 1997: Haskins* 1998: Izzo 1999: Ellis 2000: Eustachy 2001: Skinner 2002: Howland 2003: T. Smith 2004: Martelli 2005: Weber 2006: Williams 2007: Bennett 2008: Davis 2009: Self 2010: Boeheim 2011: Brey 2012: Haith *Selection later vacated v t e NABC Coach of the Year winners 1959: Hickey 1960: Newell 1961: Taylor 1962: Taylor 1963: Jucker 1964: Wooden 1965: van Breda Kolff 1966: Rupp 1967: Wooden 1968: Lewis 1969: Wooden 1970: Wooden 1971: Kraft 1972: Wooden 1973: Bartow 1974: McGuire 1975: Knight 1976: Orr 1977: D. Smith 1978: Foster & Lemons 1979: Meyer 1980: Olson 1981: Hartman & Miller 1982: Monson 1983: Carnesecca 1984: Harshman 1985: Thompson 1986: Sutton 1987: Pitino 1988: Chaney 1989: Carlesimo 1990: Heathcote 1991: Krzyzewski 1992: Raveling 1993: Fogler 1994: Keady & Richardson 1995: Harrick 1996: Calipari 1997: Haskins* 1998: Guthridge 1999: Krzyzewski & O'Brien 2000: Keady 2001: Izzo 2002: Sampson 2003: T. Smith 2004: Martelli & Montgomery 2005: Weber 2006: Wright 2007: Lickliter 2008: McKillop 2009: Anderson & Calipari 2010: Boeheim 2011: Fisher 2012: Izzo *Selection later vacated v t e Clair Bee Coach of the Year Award winners 1997: Haskins* 1998: Phelan 1999: O'Brien 2000: Boeheim 2001: Olson 2002: Knight 2003: Crean 2004: Krzyzewski 2005: Izzo 2006: Larranaga 2007: Ryan 2008: McKillop 2009: Anderson 2010: Donahue 2011: Stevens *Selection later vacated v t e Associated Press College Men's Basketball Coach of the Year winners 1967: Wooden 1968: Lewis 1969: Wooden 1970: Wooden 1971: McGuire 1972: Wooden 1973: Wooden 1974: Sloan 1975: Knight 1976: Knight 1977: Gaillard 1978: Sutton 1979: Hodges 1980: Meyer 1981: Miller 1982: Miller 1983: Lewis 1984: Meyer 1985: Frieder 1986: Sutton 1987: T. Davis 1988: Chaney 1989: Knight 1990: Calhoun 1991: Ayers 1992: Williams 1993: Fogler 1994: Stewart 1995: Sampson 1996: Keady 1997: Haskins* 1998: Izzo 1999: Ellis 2000: Eustachy 2001: Doherty 2002: Howland 2003: Smith 2004: Martelli 2005: Smith 2006: Williams 2007: Bennett 2008: K. Davis 2009: Self 2010: Boeheim 2011: Brey 2012: Haith *Selection later vacated v t e UPI College Basketball Coach of the Year Award winners 1955: Woolpert 1956: Woolpert 1957: F. McGuire 1958: Winter 1959: Rupp 1960: Newell 1961: Taylor 1962: Taylor 1963: Jucker 1964: Wooden 1965: Strack 1966: Rupp 1967: Wooden 1968: Lewis 1969: Wooden 1970: Wooden 1971: A. McGuire 1972: Wooden 1973: Wooden 1974: Phelps 1975: Knight 1976: Young 1977: Gaillard 1978: Sutton 1979: Hodges 1980: Meyer 1981: Miller 1982: Stewart 1983: Tarkanian 1984: Meyer 1985: Carnesecca 1986: Krzyzewski 1987: Thompson 1988: Chaney 1989: Knight 1990: Calhoun 1991: Majerus 1992: Clark 1993: Fogler 1994: Stewart 1995: Hamilton 1996: Keady v t e Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year 1974: Orr 1975: Knight 1976: Knight 1977: Orr 1978: Heathcote 1979: Olson 1980: Knight 1981: Knight 1982: Dutcher 1983: Miller 1984: Keady 1985: Frieder 1986: Heathcote 1987: Davis 1988: Keady 1989: Knight 1990: Keady 1991: Ayers 1992: Ayers 1993: Henson 1994: Keady 1995: Keady 1996: Keady 1997: Haskins* 1998: Izzo 1999: O'Brien 2000: Keady 2001: O'Brien 2002: Ryan 2003: Ryan 2004: Carmody 2005: Weber 2006: Matta 2007: Matta 2008: Painter 2009: DeChellis & Izzo 2010: Matta & Painter 2011: Painter 2012: Izzo *Selection later vacated v t e College GameDay Studio Rece Davis • Jay Bilas • Digger Phelps • Bob Knight Game Site Dan Shulman Play-by-Play • Dick Vitale Color Commentary • Erin Andrews Sideline Reporter Former Hubert Davis • Chris Fowler • Andy Katz • Brad Nessler ESPN • ESPN College Basketball • Saturday Primetime