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Ex-Indiana player alleges Bobby Knight squeezed players' testicles in the '80s

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There has been a laundry list of things controversial head coach Bob Knight has been accused of during his coaching career, that spanned from 1965-2008, but a new shocking accusation has been made.

"Today in regards to what they were in the mid-to-late 1980s, some of the things that went on you just thought of it in terms of discipline," former Indiana basketball player Todd Jadlow said to Bob Kravtiz of WTHR on Knight's tactics. "By today's standard if something happened that went on back during those days people would probably be arrested and thrown in to jail for."

Jadlow played for Knight and the Hoosiers from 1985-89, and released an autobiography on Oct. 15 titled "Jadlow: On the Rebound." In the book, Jadlow says Knight grabbed and squeezed players by the testicles, punched Jadlow in the back of the head, and cracked a clipboard over his head, among other claims.

"The hardest part of playing for Coach Knight was never the physical aspect, it was the mental aspect," Jadlow explained. "It was the mind games and trying to figure out what was going through his mind.

"I remember going home and just telling myself, this is just a game, this is just a game. This man can't kill me. He can't hurt me."

Jadlow - a recovering drug addict and alcoholic - wrote the book as a form of self therapy, and still thinks highly of his former coach.

"I'm a Knight guy, I'm proud to have played for him and love him like a father; let's not mistake that," Jadlow said. "But this was the life we led when we were playing for him."

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