European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Bobby Knight 3 championships by Hal Bock associated press there is no Middle ground with Bobby Knight. You either love him and Host of Indiana basketball faithful Wear by the volatile coach or you leave him and a few players like Ricky Galloway Mike Giomi and Delhay Brooks have done that too. To say Knight is controversial is to be redundant. He s equipped with a hair trigger temper that can go off at any time. He is also a basketball guru with More than 500 career victories the coach other coaches listen to and learn from. And with two of his three National championships As Well As an olympic title to his credit in the last 10 years he is the associated press College coach of the decade. Like any coach Worth his whistle Knight sets annual goals for his team. They Start simply with the league season and you can hear the Pride in his voice when he talks about the consistency of his teams Success at in. It is the result of Good players and Good coaches Knight 3aid. That and a Good uniformity of play. We began the decade by winning the big ten in 1980 and ended it by winning it again in 1989. In Between we won the Caas a couple of times and the big ten in 1981,1983 and 1987." and of course there was the olympic adventure in 1984, a Gold medal Romp led by Patrick Ewing Michael Jordan and Chris Mullin and directed from the sidelines by Knight. It was a great experience the coach said. I never had anything i enjoyed  but the decade was t All sweetness and Light for Knight. He punctuated the 1981 Mcaa championship by depositing an unruly leu fan m a trash recept Tele. In 1985, in the midst of his team s worst season of the decade he hurled a chair across the floor As a Purdue player prepared to shoot a free throw. During the 1987 Mcaa tournament in route to his third National championship he interrupted a game with a list pounding episode at the scorer s table that sent Bobby Knight s tactic sometimes infuriate opponents and official. Telephones Hying and led to a $10,000 Fine for in. In the next season s opener an exhibition against the soviet Union he pulled his team off the floor after being tagged with a third technical foul. Along the Way prize recruits like Calloway and Brooks left the program and Giomi was dropped when he violated Knight s rigid academic standards which Are tougher than the schools tougher than the conference s and tougher even than the Mcaa s. Todd Meier spent four years at Indiana mostly As a Reserve finishing with the 87 champions. It was a real experience to play for him the Way he coaches the mind games Meier said. He makes you improve yourself. It s up to you to get Down to work and do it. You be got to put up with his tactics but it s a dream to do it. Basketball is special in Indiana. That s one of the biggest  violate Knight s standards and it s big trouble. Everybody gets a turn in the Doghouse Meier said. " when i look at the 87 championship ring i think of what we All went through together the times we got kicked out of the dressing room the awful season in 85. That was the toughest time. We had a Lousy season and it was difficult on  the hoosiers went 19-14 that year 7-11 in the conference Knight s Only sub-.500 big ten season. Some people said the coach was suffering basketball burnout following the olympics. He dismisses that. I really Don t think the 84 olympics Hurt us in 85," he said we just did t play Well. It was t a Good mix. The chemistry was missing it was t a real Good team. We started out 8-2 but we got snagged. There was one stretch when we played six of seven at Home and won just one game. We needed five or six. We still got to the nit championship game. We got it straight at the end. We were second the next year and you go from  two years later. Indiana won the Mcaa tournament redemption Lor the coach and the team it was Tough during the bad times Meier said. But when things Are going Well it s a country club. And there were More Good times than bad  at Columbia losing has Long tradition by Ronald Blum associated press hey Are the team of the 80s in College football the most consistent school in the country. No it s not Miami. Nope not Oklahoma. Not even Nebraska. This team can be counted on to do the same thing saturday after saturday after saturday seemingly forever. It s almost perfect perfectly bad. It s Columbia University the last Stop in College football. They were 7-90-2. The next worst team in divison i is Rice with 16 victories. The Lions 41-28 loss to Brown in their season finale meant they finished the 80s with three victories in their last 64 games. I still go into each game feeling we have a Chance to  said Al Paul Columbia s athletic director for 16 seasons. I m an eternal  he d better be. If the Lions had beaten Brown it would have Given them their first two game winning Streak since 1978 but at Columbia where things have been so bad for so Long the people who run the football team have surprising Hope. The Best thing we can do is forget about the past Columbia coach Ray Tellier said. It just does t  it s certainly not pretty. Columbia has t had a winning season since 1971 and that s the Only one in 27 years. The Lions had four coaches in the 80s Bob Naso 4-43-2jim Garrett 0-10larry Mcelreavy 2-28 and Tellier 1-9. Paul looks like a suffering soul at every loss with every Fumble interception and sack seeming to Pound into his perpetually tanned face. He came to Columbia As an assistant football coach in 1960 and has been athletic director since december 1973. Since then Columbia s football team is 19-131-3. Paul is a stickler for rules and it was fear of possible rules violations that caused the biggest tumult of the decade Garrett a former Cleveland Browns assistant was brought in to replace Naso for the 1985 season. Naso s teams could not win despite spectacular performances by quarterback John Witkowski who later played As a Reserve for the Detroit Lions. But Garrett s regime was virtually finished after his first game. Harvard beat Columbia 49-17 and Garrett fired his punter Peter Murphy and blasted his team. They Are drug addicted losers he said his face red with rage. One adversity comes and bang they re right Back in the sewer  Columbia forced him to resign two Days after the season and replaced him with Yale coach Mcelreavy he did t win a game for 2w seasons stretching the Lions losing Streak to a record 44 games. Suddenly the Ivy league school was faced with National embarrassment. Columbia broke the previous record of 34 games at Princeton on oct. 10,1987, losing 38-8. It got worse in november 1987 Columbia admitted that the try league allowed it to admit 11 players who would not have been admitted As football recruits to any other try league school. But on oct. 8,1988, Columbia beat Princeton 16-13 by playing its first turnover free game in 16 years. Suddenly the Streak was Over i had t realized How this had an built up on me Mcelreavy said. I Don t cry and i was crying on the Field. All the demons exorcised out of my  Paul said the program is a lot stronger now than in 1980. Wien stadium a 10,500-seat Ballpark. Opened in 1984 to replace condemned Baker Field. Page 16 the stars and stripes saturday. December 30.1989