Hoosier Honor: Bob Knight and Academic Success at Indiana University

ISBN-13: 9780275934477 Publisher: ABC-CLIO, Incorporated Publication date: 04/23/1990 Pages: 160 Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.44(d) 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 a