Unlike Hayes, Knight never struck an opposing player. Instead, over five different decades, he targeted his own. A brief and incomplete history of Bob Knight’s cruelty would include shoving Wayne Radford (’74-78) in the back and slapping Daryl Thomas (’83-87) across the face; gut-punching the 6-foot, 160-pound Steve Alford (’83-87); kicking his own son Patrick (’90-95); breaking the nose and separating the shoulder of his other son Tim; head-butting Sherron Wilkerson (’93-96) and later dismissing Wilkerson from the team for domestic violence. Early in his Indiana tenure, Knight cold-cocked Sports Information Director Kit Klingelhoffer and before the end of it he brutalized Athletic Director Clarence Doninger. A forearm shiver to the chest of assistant Ron Felling led to the proof that Knight had choked Neil Reed (’94-97). On Sept. 7, 2000, Knight grabbed the arm of IU freshman student Kent Harvey — Hey Knight! What’s up? he said — to teach him, in Knight’s words, “manners and civility.”
Larry Bird transferred after 24 days on Knight's Indiana Culture of Abuse Campus as well.
