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A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers (Fireside Books (Fireside)) | 
 enlarge | Author: John Feinstein
Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD
Category: Book
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 260455
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reissue
Pages: 352
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 0671688774
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.323092
EAN: 9780671688776
ASIN: 0671688774
Publication Date: November 1, 1989
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 an assembled hall of Hoosier magic December 2, 2007
Paul J. Fitzgerald
As best I can tell, this is the finest book yet written about Indiana University basketball and Bob Knight, and it's 21 years old. Feinstein is a top notch biographer and he doesn't sugar coat anything in this book. It's filled with interesting anecdotes and quite a few raw quotes. The mid-1980s was a magical time for IU basketball, including in their rivalry with Purdue and Gene Keady. And Feinstein tagging along for a whole season gives the reader a good feel for some of the magic of basketball in the state of Indiana, as portrayed in the movie Hoosiers. I think Feinstein is quite objective in his portrayal of the good, the bad, and the ugly in Knight. Regardless of your opinion of Knight, I think it's clear that he cares about his players, the sport of college basketball, and about running a clean program. Feinstein ends by stating that the then 46-year-old Knight is "A young man with a bright future. If he doesn't destroy it." Knight may have come close to doing so around 2000, but he's recovered nicely and seems to be doing well at Texas Tech. Author of Adjust Your Brain: A Practical Theory for Maximizing Mental Health.
Chair throwingly good! January 2, 2007
Napolean (Manchester, England)
My aim of reading this book was to learn about the style and techniques of a hugely succesful coach. I honestly know nothing about Basketball but this didn't spoil my appreciation of the story. I learnt a lot about a very strong willed, autocratic and passionate man who demanded the respect of his 'students' and counterparts.
Any aspiring coach should model themselves on certain characterisitics of Bob Knight and should certainly believe in themselves as much as he does. He teaches his students how to play Basketball and does so with little question or disrespect. He proves to be such a bad loser that most of his players want to win merely to avoid a togue whipping from their coach than personal glory.
A really well written story which was probably written a year too early, but nonetheless a thoroughly good read.
Loyalty, dedication, honesty, discipline, and hard work May 24, 1999
These are just some of the qualitites that The General exhibits and imparts to his players. I'm sorry to say it, but IU is one of the last honest programs around. Don't go to class, you don't play. Players leave Knight's program a better person. And there is not a more loyal person on the face of the Earth than R.M.K. I'll admit, the game may be passing him by, but it is a shame that it is. When Knight's coaching and teaching methods are "out of style," it is a bad sign for college basketball.
This book gives you a great impression of what life with BK. March 7, 1999
This is a great book which tells you alot about bob. The author doesn't hold anything back from you and he lets you know of everything. READ IT TODAY!!
A great book about a great, but flawed, man March 5, 1999
It's been some years since I read the book, but I recall it vividly. I know that Bob Knight hated it and Feinstein, but I've always thought that the book is a fair portrayal of a great man who is not perfect (and who is). Just as many a man becomes a man from his Marine basic training, so does Bob Knight mould his boys into men, stressing what is important both on and off the court. I would love for my son to be coached by him. What harm are a few "F" words going to do? Another reason that I enjoyed the book so much is that I was a Cleveland State fan at the time and the Indiana season ends with a defeat at the hands of an unknown, but very talented, Cleveland State team.
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