Bob’s personality was an easy one for his detractors to dislike (much like you-know-who today). He proved to be too abrasive for the thin-skinned. I think that one whole recruiting class was an aberration that went totally wrong for Knight. Coupled with a few sprinklings of other disgruntled kids and a national news media...well, we know how slimy they can be. They were all angry anyway with the coming computer age and impending job insecurity. I came across an old article just the other day about Knight’s downfall and it was written there in history that Knight physically assaulted a student while cursing him. No where did the writer bother to include what drew Bob’s ire...the Harvey kid’s lack of respect toward an adult. Also, the Wilkerson head-butt during an intense teaching moment on the sideline during a game was included. Knight said it was accidental, but that’s not what the scribes wanted to hear so the headlines insinuated otherwise..another physical assault, just like Knight “stuffed” an unruly LSU fan in a trash can on Bourbon St. The whole thing came down as a sham of exaggerations, hearsay and outright lies that the media ran with and even a lot of IU fans were gullible enough to believe. These IU fans were the same one’s who thought the next best coach in the country was surely waiting in the wings for the “honor” to lead IU basketball under a new regime in the can’t-miss -hotbed of basketball recruiting. We’ve suffered ever since, listening to those same twits, now still bitching that we can’t seem to get an edge up on our competition. Yes, I’m still bitching too, but for different reason, because they didn’t appreciate how good we had it, even when they said we no longer had it.