What ended Bobby Knights career?

Robert Montgomery Knight was an American men’s college basketball coach. Nicknamed “the General”, Knight won 902 NCAA Division I men’s basketball games, a record at the time of his retirement, and currently fifth all-time. Knight was the head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers from 1971 to 2000.

What ended Bobby Knight’s career?

Five months later, in September, Knight walked past student Kent Harvey, who allegedly said, “What’s up, Knight?” to him. Knight, who said he felt disrespected, grabbed Harvey’s arm and stared him down. But the physical contact meant the end of the Bob Knight era in Bloomington. Brand fired Knight three days later.

The fall of a coaching giant began with a simple question, exploded after a VHS tape showed up in a mailbox, and ended amidst a haze of protests and death threats, a state’s iconic basketball program shaken to its collective core.

The Bob Knight story had been told, and retold, and retold. What hadn’t: Abbott’s story.