Former Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight was invited to give a speech at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a U.S. spy agency, in 2015, and according to The Washington Post, four different women alleged that he groped or harassed them during the visit.
According to the Post, the FBI investigated the case, but law enforcement chose to end the investigation without filing charges in 2016, but the allegations are disturbing. Among them:
The women accused Knight of a range of boorish behavior: from touching them on the shoulder while commenting on the attractiveness of their legs, to hugging them too tightly around the chest, to hitting them on the buttocks, according to documents compiled by investigators and Washington Post interviews with three of the women.
A witness reportedly corroborated one woman’s report that Knight had grabbed her buttocks. The woman has filed a discrimination complaint against NGA director Robert Cardillo, who she said “had chosen his friendship with Bobby Knight over my psychological welfare.” She told the Post that she started getting negative reviews after she raised the complaints against Knight.
Even though he was not charged, this is yet another troubling report about Knight’s behavior. He has been repeatedly accused of abusing players, and he was fired for bad behavior at Indiana. Knight has also previously made inappropriate remarks about women, once saying that “if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it.”
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Kevin mostly covers college football and college basketball, with an emphasis on NCAA issues and other legal issues in sports. He is also an incoming law student. He's written for SB Nation, USA Today, VICE Sports, The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal, among others. He is a graduate of Northwestern University.