Bob Knight to be inducted in Indiana U. Hall of Fame

I think he just might. As Kravitz said, nine years is a lot of water under the bridge and the people at IU he despised are all gone. So why pass up a trip back and all that adulation?

As an IU grad, however, I'm disappointed that Knight is in the same HoF class as legendary soccer coach Jerry Yeagley. As if Yeagley and IU soccer didn't live in the basketball shadow enough while he was coach, now he's gotta share his induction with Knight.

 

Yeagley was a class act indeed, IU soccer was my first beat and he couldn't have been more accommodating. He started soccer at IU as a club sport and knew from day one how important it was to treat the student reporters like gold.

If he had been a douchebag, who knows, maybe I'd have been turned off on sportswriting and chosen a different path. So thanks for nothing, coach.

 

When soccer played its final four in Richmond from 1995-98, I jumped on that beat because it kept me away from covering football. Jerry Yeagley was one of the first coaches I met (I actually went to IU 3-4 times to cover games - papers had money then) and he was my ace in the hole all four years. Always returned calls, always willing to chat, turned me on to lots of good stories.