Hoosier Honor: Bob Knight and Academic Success at Indiana University

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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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"Bob Sulek spent a great deal of time in taking a close look at our basketball program. His interviews with our players and his look at their academic as well as athletic preparations gives an insight that I think people will enjoy."-Bob Knight
Hoosier Honor takes an in-depth look at the academic success of the Indiana University basketball program, and the man leading the program, Bobby Knight. The book takes you inside the Indiana program as Sulek talks with ex-Hoosiers Joe Hillman and Todd Jadlow and current players Eric Anderson, Jamal Meeks, and Matt Nover to get insights into the life and expectations (both on and off the court) of an IU basketball player. The book documents the success Knight has had in graduating his players. More importantly, the book looks at the academic failure of many college programs and how these programs need to look to schools like Indiana when rebuilding for the future. The book is easy reading and very informative. You do not need to be an IU alum or fan to enjoy this book.-Basketball Digest
"Hoosier Honor takes an in-depth look at the academic success of the Indiana University basketball program, and the man leading the program, Bobby Knight. The book takes you inside the Indiana program as Sulek talks with ex-Hoosiers Joe Hillman and Todd Jadlow and current players Eric Anderson, Jamal Meeks, and Matt Nover to get insights into the life and expectations (both on and off the court) of an IU basketball player. The book documents the success Knight has had in graduating his players. More importantly, the book looks at the academic failure of many college programs and how these programs need to look to schools like Indiana when rebuilding for the future. The book is easy reading and very informative. You do not need to be an IU alum or fan to enjoy this book."-Basketball Digest

Author Bio

ROBERT PAUL SULEK is Rector of the Honors College at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, NC. Recently graduated from Harvard University with a Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration and Social Policy. Having taught mathematics and coached basketball at both the high school and college levels, his lifelong driving force is the moral, social, and ethical issues behind basketball. Currently he works as Rector of the Honors College at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, NC.