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IU reports results of Knight review, announces sanctions against coach
May 15, 2000
INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana University today (May 15) reported on the results of a seven-week investigation of allegations against Basketball Coach Bob Knight and announced that it will sanction Knight and hold him responsible for any future conduct detrimental to the university.
As a result of the review, which found a pattern of inappropriate behavior, Knight will be suspended for three games during the regular 2000-01 season and has been required to pay a $30,000 fine, which will be withheld from his salary.
IU President Myles Brand said that Knight understands that any verifiable inappropriate physical contact discovered in the future with players, members of the university community or others in connection with his employment at IU will be cause for his immediate termination.
Public presentations and other occasions during which Knight is a representative of IU will be conducted with appropriate decorum and civility. Included among these occasions are interactions with the news media. Failure to do so will be cause for further sanction, up to and including termination from the position of basketball coach.
Brand also announced that a commission will be established to develop policies for appropriate behavior for all coaches, Athletics Department employees, and student-athletes and for sanctions for not following these policies. The commission will be chaired by Athletics Director Clarence Doninger and will contain faculty members from the Athletics Committee. The commission will make its recommendations on these policies to the Athletics Committee, to the president and, for approval, to the Trustees of IU.
On March 23, Brand asked two experienced attorneys and IU trustees, John Walda of Fort Wayne, Ind., and Frederick F. Eichhorn of Gary, Ind., to conduct a review of the matter and to report their findings within 90 days. Walda and Eichhorn concluded their review on May 14, when they presented their findings to Brand and IU trustees. They joined Brand at today's announcement.