27 years ago today
 

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Ah, good times. The start of a sucessful business - the Bob Knight Furniture Co. Buy a sofa, and he'll throw in a chair.

(Thought I would get that out of the way early.)

I forgot about Reid missing all those FT's.

27 years ago??

Hard to believe it has been that long. I remember watching that game in the tv room of my college dorm.

Gene Keady and Bobby Knight...you just KNEW someone was getting tossed in those games!

It was fun seeing the refs wearing those old style shirts. Actually, I work some rec games with a guy who still wears a collared shirt.

Chair-man of the Boards?

Just beautiful to watch after all these years. Ya can't help but giggle as the little plastic school chair skids smoothly across the lane. I often wonder what posessed him to toss a chair as opposed to slamming a clipboard or stomping....just beautiful. I guess that's what made him Bobby Knight.

Misty Watered Down Memories ...
 

It seems like only yesterday. My, they grow up so quickly.

I wonder what the rule was 30 years ago on throwing chairs. What were chairs made of 30 years ago? What was Bobby Knight's blood pressure level 30 years ago?

I coached for a long time before officiating. I began my coaching immediately after Indiana's 1981 championship. I admired him in the beginning :confused: and absolutely loved the way his teams played. This episode took almost all of the glitter away from my eyes and everything else he did afterwards convinced me that he was a great basketball mind but a deeply troubled person. :(

I guess I did not realize that Steve Alford was playing at that time. I learned something new today. ;)

And then Daryl Thomas (second foul called on him in the video) is an varsity assistant coach at a local High School that Isiah Thomas also attended down the street from me. Remember Hoop Dreams?

Peace

Fred Jaspers was one of the officials.

Phil Bova was another.

http://www.referee.com/more/Samples/...at_knight.html

London Bradley was the third.

gotta love the AD taking care of business.........

er.... never mind....:rolleyes:

I think the officials should have forfeited the game. ;)

Peace

I'm waiting for tomegun to come along tell us why this is one of the things that makes Bobby Knight a better coach than Dean Smith or Roy Williams. :D

:D From the time Fred went to the AD til Knight left it was almost a minute and a half.

They were very patient ;)

Gosh, Phil Bova going to report the second foul on Darryl Thomas looks like an oldtime wrestler with that walk. Maybe it's the time lapse but everything looks a little cartoonish to me.

Hard to believe those shirts ever looked good, love the belted pants too, I guess good fashion is timeless, just noticed the black official, has a black placket on his shirt while another official doesn't but he has a white T shirt....brings back park district memories of my son's games

Just had Coach Gene a few weeks back. Darryl has filled out a little.

Official Fashion Police ...
 

Then you'd love the pants that I wear when I officiate now.

No mullet I pray?

I too liked:

- the ole orange plastic chairs
- collared shirts (of which they were all not wearing the same ones)
- hairstyles, and lets not forget those
- short, shorts :cool:

yeah, noticed shirts one had placket, one guy has white t shirt.

How about C administering

Do they look like this?

http://t2.ftcdn.net/jpg/00/22/04/43/...QFTv2fmSJD.jpg

I went to his basketball camp in 1971.

I had them Saturday and yes he has. He is a good guy though. Kind of cool he gives back.

Peace

More like...
 

...Chair-man of the Boors.

First time I've actually seen the incident. I was stationed overseas when it happened. Knight being a straight jerk. His level of jerk-itude will always detract from whatever great coaching he did. He's still a jerk when I hear him announcing games.

I went to Bova's camp in '99 I think it was.

HC = Gene Pingatore. Gotta luv those glasses from the 70's that he wore. Is he still the HC?

Yes he his. He is the winningest coach in IHSA history. Still going strong and hardly says a word to officials about anything.

Peace

Good for him.

Has it been that long ago? Bobby, we hardly knew ye.

MTD, Sr.

By the way, why was the A.D. requested to get into the mix? Standard operating procedure?

Game admin. Officials had a coach who was refusing to leave.

But, Knight only had 2 Ts at the time. The third came after the A.D. took the floor. It was three for ejection back at that time, right?

Per the article, he was ejected by all three officials after he tossed the chair. The third was for making a sailor blush with his language directed at the officials.

Was there a flagrant T in the rules at that time? Would throwing the chair in the general direction of the player getting ready to shoot and the administering officials been ruled flagrant?

Didn't know it took three, but I was going to add that throwing the chair is likely a flagrant.

I don't know that it ever did? All I know is the the third was after he was already tossed.

A player, coach, or bench personnel can always (with apologies to J. Dallas Shirley) be disquailifed or ejected after committing a single Flagrant Technical Foul. The first TF can be a FTF.

MTD, Sr.

Ref2Coach:

Is this a rhetorical question?

MTD, Sr.

How about cheerleaders on the court while they're waiting for the free throw shooter?

How about the 45 second shot clock?

You Can Look It Up ...
 

FIBA Metric Rules: It's a flagrant technical foul, and automatic ejection, to throw a shoe.

At that time, the NCAA rules was that it took a combination of 3 T's on a Head Coach to be ejected...players and Assistants were 2. The throwing of the chair was deemed flagrant and he was ejected - which turned his argument into a "you can't eject me, I've only got 2 T's" type of thing.

And he probably still thinks you can't eject a coach with a single T.

And ....The "Fashion-Dont's". My how times have changed... Players, coaches, refs, fans, cheerleaders, and so on.......
What a classic....Thanks for posting. Haven't seen that side it originally happened. :)

;) Touche :D