15 years ago today

[Josh 12,645]

Where were you when Bob Knight was...sigh...fired 15 years ago today?

 

 

 

 

I was in New Hampshire at Dartmouth College.  Those eggheads knew I loved IU basketball and they gave me headaches all day.  I told them I hoped their beloved Old Man of the Mountain would collapse so they'd know how I felt.  They laughed and said that would never happen.

 

Then it did about 3 years later....

 

 

Take that nerds.

 

Where were you when you heard the news?  

[OliviaPope40 6,520]

Of course being young I don't really remember much about let alone hearing or reading about it and my dad and I never talked about it. On the political campaign that I worked for my freshman year there was a guy who was on campus the day the news came out and he talked about how people went and messed up Myles Brand's house and rightfully so.

[LIHoosier 26,205]

Well, I was at IU. I was a little involved in that my fraternity was rushing the brother of Kent Harvey; his identical twin brother. Once the story came out and the catalyst was revealed, he obviously had to leave IU as his brother was getting threatened from all angles.

 

That day and night(it was a Sunday), people who cared about Coach Knight were tearing stuff up. People who could care less about Knight or basketball (I guess they exist) were using the firing as an excuse to vandalize as well. Around 10:30-11pm, some friends and I were made aware that a group of people that were whisked away from the president's house were going to Showalter Fountain to take the fish and proceed to Assembly Hall. We got there shortly after the fish were taken and followed about a 1000 other students up Fee and to Assembly Hall. There was chanting with every curse in the book and cars in either direction honking the whole way.

 

Once the group got to Assembly Hall, IU and Bloomington police had already been stationed to avoid any vandalizing or looting from the athletic facilities. About 10-15 minutes later, Coach Knight showed up at the front of Assembly Hall to talk the students off the proverbial ledge. Through a second rate megaphone provided by a student, he thanked us for our support then promptly told us to go home so the cops could go home and get some rest. Within 5 minutes, everything north of 17th St was a ghost town.

[TheWatShot 14,006]

My dad was taking a nap on the couch while I watched TV in our living room. At the bottom of the screen, the local news station started scrolling the message across the TV that Knight had been fired. I read the words out loud, old enough to understand what they meant but still too young to fully grasp what was happening. When I read that Knight had been fired, my dad jumped off the couch and stared at the screen in disbelief, probably thinking he was having a bad dream.  

[Brass Cannon 24,814]

Kinda sad that 15 years ago we lost our last real link to our hey day

[seanmm1971 1,437]

Seems like longer than 15 years.

[southsidehoosier 5,027]

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Found this while going through some things today. HT section on Knight from September 30, 2000. Didn't even know I still had this.

[FloridaHoosierGirl 4,645]

I honestly wasn't surprised that it happened, just surprised at the timing.  Thought he had actually mellowed a little by then. 

[WayneFleekHoosier 48,390]

I was also on campus during this historic event. Crazy times.

In all honesty I felt it was time for him to go. Just wish we had some plans in store and de emphasizing basketball by the university was a silly decision.

The university makes good money from ball but if we were a national powerhouse that money would skyrocket. There is a reason Duke and UK can pay their coaches nearly 10 million a year.

[Class of '66 Old Fart 84,774]

I too felt that it was time for a change and had felt that way for probably the last 5 years of his tenure.  What just always pi$$ed me off was the cheapness of the reason used by Myles Brand for his termination.  There had already been far more serious incidents that would have cost lesser coaches their jobs and had one of those incidents resulted in his firing I don't think the furor would have been nearly as great.  Additionally, Bobby being Bobby, he probably would have done something far more serious in the not all to distant future that would have made his dismissal more palatable.  But ever since that time, I always have to chuckle to myself whenever I hear someone use the phrase "zero tolerance" because I immediately think of this specific event.

[Naturalhoosier 15,434]

Put me in the camp that felt it was time for a change but this change wasn't handled properly IMO.

[ElectricBoogaloo 4,307]

Where were you when Bob Knight was...sigh...fired 15 years ago today?





I was in New Hampshire at Dartmouth College. Those eggheads knew I loved IU basketball and they gave me headaches all day. I told them I hoped their beloved Old Man of the Mountain would collapse so they'd know how I felt. They laughed and said that would never happen.

Then it did about 3 years later....



Take that nerds.

Where were you when you heard the news?

I like this post solely for the fact that you cursed a mountain, and then 3 years later your curse came to fruition. Are you wizard?

[Josh 12,645]

I like this post solely for the fact that you cursed a mountain, and then 3 years later your curse came to fruition. Are you wizard?

I at least have powers over some nerd mountain in New Hampshire. Fear this.

[sirhoosierlot 2,764]

I at least have powers over some nerd mountain in New Hampshire. Fear this.

Nerd mountain lmao

[Beowulf50 816]

Put me in the camp that felt it was time for a change but this change wasn't handled properly IMO.

I don't agree with this! This change has brought us this.

[Naturalhoosier 15,434]

I don't agree with this! This change has brought us this.

Knight was bringing mediocre at best basketball for a good 5-7 yrs before his firing.  The last 5 or so years he didn't get out of the the 2nd round.  I stand by my statement.  It was time for IU and Knight to part ways.

 

Edit...and if it had been done properly, the routine coaching search procedures would have occurred which would have avoided the Davis debacle and the entire future events would have changed.

[biteoftheapple 4,115]

I agree with Natty, and if we would have allowed him to stay longer, I am afraid Pat could have been pushed upon for his replacement. We would have been no better off.

[Beowulf50 816]

I agree with Natty, and if we would have allowed him to stay longer, I am afraid Pat could have been pushed upon for his replacement. We would have been no better off.

Of course you do. Kill a legend. This is what you get when you are stupid. Reall?? you are the most critical here?? You disagree with everything That I say!

[Naturalhoosier 15,434]

Of course you do. Kill a legend. This is what you get when you are stupid. Reall?? you are the most critical here?? You disagree with everything That I say!

 

haha  I'm not even sure how to respond to this.  Relax...geez.

[mdn82 25,510]

Of course you do. Kill a legend. This is what you get when you are stupid. Reall?? you are the most critical here?? You disagree with everything That I say!

Easy killer.