Tag Archives: Bob Knight fired

It was 20 years ago today – Vince Welch broke the story of IU’s firing of Bob Knight
September 10, 2020

My phone rang on a Sunday morning exactly 20 years ago today. It was WIBC sports director Vince Welch. “Bob Knight is being fired this morning,” he told me. This was when I was the assistant program director of the radio station, and Knight had endured a tough year. The story of his choking Neil Reed […]

Indiana Basketball – It’s time to right the wrong done 15 years ago, that doesn’t mean bringing back Bob Knight
March 10, 2015

by Kent Sterling Some mistakes you never stop paying for. In 2000, Bob Knight was fired by Indiana University for being a jerk. There was all that nonsense about Kent Harvey greeting Knight by his last name, and Knight typically exploding, but it was the incredible tonnage of bizarre idiocy in and around Assembly Hall […]