Bob Knight comes back to Assembly Hall for a perfect halftime in the middle of a brutal loss #iubb
Bob Knight coming back to Assembly Hall didn’t matter to me – until it happened. To watch a frail Knight walk back onto the court where he built champions tempted me toward sadness until he was magically transformed by the enthusiastic crowd and loving embraces from dozens of his former players into the towering figure long […]
So, I wrote yesterday about how I am no longer invested in former Indiana coach Bob Knight returning to Assembly Hall, and how being jerked around by Knight has grown tiresome. The phone started ringing as soon as I published the post. On the other end of the phone for the rest of the morning […]
I wish I could write that I don’t care about Bob Knight coming back to Assembly Hall – that Knight is an unrepentant and self-immersed bully unworthy of our time and emotional investment. But that’s impossible for me. I care that Indiana Basketball fans have a chance to thank Knight for 29 years of irrepressible […]
by Kent Sterling There are still people in Indiana and elsewhere who believe that Assembly Hall should have former coach Bob Knight’s name affixed to it forever despite Knight wanting nothing at all to do with his former place of employment. The way Knight was treated by Indiana University during his last year was shameful. […]