College student-athletes are often a study of failure--a failure
in graduation, in setting priorities, in having dreams fulfilled.
Over 65 percent of all college athletes might not graduate. Only a
handful of NCAA schools combine excellent basketball with a
consistent level of graduation. One aim of this book is to help
current college athletes to graduate by documenting a success
story--Indiana University. The volume does not focus on Indiana's
basketball success but instead its academic success under the
seventeen-year tenure of Coach Knight. The author first details the
failure of present sports programs in low graduation levels, abuse
and exploitation of athletes, and in spirit and philosophy. He then
explores what is described as Coach Knight's hard-love, and the
people and processes involved in the Indiana program. This volume
addresses athletic administrators, educators, athlete-students, and
their fans.
Written in a light and sensitive style, "Hoosier Honor" tells
the success story of the Indiana University basketball team under
Coach Bob Knight. The most winning coach in the Big Ten Conference,
Knight's greatest success is his ability to graduate an extremely
high percentage of his players. This volume documents that success:
the success of a man who knows that defense wins games; a man with
limitations who learned to compensate and trains his team to
compensate; a teacher and a mentor. Voices of those around Coach
Knight are finally heard and a psychological analysis of Knight and
the Dostoyevsky-type double internal struggle is present in
Knight's hard-love of the players. The IU program is a model
one--philosophical approach to basketball.
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