Bobby Knight to Appear with Trump at Indiana Rally

Many people Knight believe transgressed him are no longer at the school—including the president who fired him, Myles Brand, who passed away in 2009. Yet, Knight is still so angry that he will not participate in any type of reconciliation at Indiana, including the wonderful tribute that took place this week. I reached Knight on his cell phone late Tuesday night, and as you can imagine, it was a cordial but very brief conversation. He did not want to discuss it. The school’s athletic director, Fred Glass, told me that he had sent Knight a hand-written letter inviting him to participate in the ceremony, but he never heard back. Since taking over as AD in 2008, Glass has had several interactions with Knight, including a friendly, five-hour lunch meeting in Indianapolis a few years ago. But he was not surprised that Knight did not return his letter, nor that the coach did not show on Tuesday. “What we’ve tried to do is create an environment where he knows he’s welcome here,” Glass said. “We put him in our Hall of Fame, and we’ve reached out to him in a number of ways. We put him on the Jumbotron so the fans could acknowledge him, because it was his team. He has been good to me, but Coach is going to do what he wants to do.”