March’s Book: A Season on the Brink
The Book for March is A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers by John Feinstein.
The results were spread out as follows: A Season on the Brink 36%, Senna Versus Prost 25% and Ruby, Inside Edge and The Club all received 13%.
I’ve been looking forward to reading this book, it’s an American Sports classic afterrall. After publication, the National Collegiate Athletic Association passed a rule banning media from being in a team’s locker room before or during a game. There was one exception; if one member of the media gained access, then the locker room was opened up to all members of the media.
Book Description
Twenty-five years after it spent sixteen weeks atop the New York Times bestseller list, A Season on the Brink remains the most celebrated basketball book ever written. Granted unprecedented access to legendary coach Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers during the 1985–86 season, John Feinstein saw and heard it all—practices, team meetings, strategy sessions, and midgame huddles—as the team worked to return to championship form. The result is an unforgettable chronicle that not only captures the drama and pressure of big-time college basketball but also paints a vivid portrait of a complex, brilliant coach as he walks the fine line between genius and madness.
So go out and grab a copy and let me know what you make of Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers.