Same Knight, Different Channel : Basketball Legend Bob Knight at West Point and Today

by Isenhour, Jack

• ISBN13: 9781574885569
• ISBN10: 1574885561
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Potomac Books Inc

Summary

Examines the development of Bob Knight's coaching techniques from his early days as coach at West Point to the present.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Part I. INDIANA CLASSIC	1	(40)
Chapter l. I'm No Friend	3	(7)
Chapter 2. Appropriate Decorum and Civility	10	(7)
Chapter 3. Heroes and Cowards	17	(6)
Chapter 4. The Bob Knight Clinic for Anger Management	23	(8)
Chapter 5. Bigger Than Elvis?	31	(10)
Part II. SCARY GUYS	41	(82)
Chapter 6. Come to Papa	43	(11)
Chapter 7. Beast Barracks	54	(11)
Chapter 8. Scary Guys	65	(10)
Chapter 9. Second-Class College	75	(6)
Chapter 10. Prize Recruits	81	(8)
Chapter 11. The Summer of 1963	89	(9)
Chapter l2. Showing Signs	98	(10)
Chapter 13. Single-Minded Roughnecks	108	(7)
Chapter 14. Too Much of What He Was	115	(8)
Part III. BOBBY BALL	123	(96)
Chapter l5. Jug of Booze	125	(3)
Chapter l6. Bobby Ball	128	(8)
Chapter 17. Wrong on Both Counts	136	(5)
Chapter l8. Firsts	141	(10)
Chapter 19. Frightful Shoulders	151	(9)
Chapter 20. Scramble Them Brains!	160	(6)
Chapter 2l. Long-BallHitter	166	(6)
Chapter 22. Who's Silliman?	172	(6)
Chapter 23. Roasted, Salted Pecans	178	(6)
Chapter 24. Bisons, Peacocks, Redmen	184	(8)
Chapter 25. I'll Take Manhattan	192	(6)
Chapter 26. The National Implausible Tournament	198	(5)
Chapter 27. An Evening with Bob	203	(11)
Chapter 28. What West Point Is All About	214	(5)
Part IV. FIRED!	219	(68)
Chapter 29. An Absolute Moron	221	(10)
Chapter 30. A Five-Fish Riot	231	(6)
Chapter 31. Looking Forward to Going Forward	237	(12)
Chapter 32. Uh Huh Right	249	(14)
Chapter 33. Talking Points	263	(8)
Chapter 34. It's Only Sports	271	(8)
Chapter 35. Dunn Deal	279	(8)
Part V. MEDIA WARS	287	(28)
Chapter 36. Midnight Madness	289	(7)
Chapter 37. Riding in Cars with Bob	296	(6)
Chapter 38. Grandpa	302	(7)
Chapter 39. The Bob Knight Practice	309	(6)
Conclusion An American Institution	315	(7)
Index	322	(8)
About the Author	330