When I picked up A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers by John Feinstein the first thing I noticed were the handful endorsements on the book jacket. Many reputable publications like The Boston Globe, Sports Illustrated, Chicago Tribune and USA Today had lots of nice things to say about this supposed ‘classic’. Naturally I was excited.
John Feinstein followed Bob Knight everywhere he went for the ’85-’86 season, he attended every team practice, meeting and game. This book is the result of that. It is the story of Knight’s unwavering passion for basketball. Knight was obsessed with the game and insisted on it being played the way he liked it. As A Season on the Brink demonstrates, Sometimes this would go according to plan but most of the time it didn’t. If Knight’s team couldn’t live up to his, at times, unrealistic expectations of performance, they knew about it.
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