Knight Fall: The True Story Behind America's Most Controversial Coach: Bobby Knight: The Truth Behind America's Most Controversial Coach

by Phil Berger

This biography of the most controversial coach in college basketball history includes full coverage of Bob Knight's termination from Indiana and a list of players who have gone on to become superstars in their own right.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786014148
• ISBN13: 9780786014149
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Pinnacle Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

I had a hard time putting it down-easy reading and unbiased.

I saw this book on the bottom shelf at a popular supermarket about two weeks ago. I had not done much free reading of late and thought it looked like a good book to get me back into a good habit and hobby. It reveals the good and the bad about coach Knight and covered a great deal of ground without getting into too much details about the incidents of Knight. Since I grew up on the Kentucky-Indiana border, I was able to watch more than a handful of Indiana's games on the Indiana basketball network and found Phil Berger's coverage of Knight's best and worst years exciting. The end of the book even has a glossary of all the IU players that made it through all four years without transferring(and tells what they are doing now). It even goes back to Knight's formative years as an assistant coach at Army and discusses Knight's shortcoming as a player at Ohio State(defense) lead him to stress defense and team-play the most as a head coach. Ex-player Landon Turner (who was paralyzed in a car wreck that cut his playing career short) praises Knight for benching him while his mind was more on having a good time off the court than being successful on the court. As far as the statements by ex-players that lead to the demise of Knight at Indiana, Mr. Burger just reports the facts and does not lash out any judgments against Knight. In summary, this is a very enjoyable book to read and will not bore the reader with too much details. Go ahead and buy it(you may finish it in one day).

From a New York reader

Hey, what book were you Indiana guys reading? You're just like the puppets at Indiana University that Knight got to lie about Neil Reed and malign him.They said Coach neverchoked him.Knight himself denied it happened.Then a month later, the tape of Knight choking Reed shows up onCNN/SI and the university adopts a zero tolerance police.Gave him just enough rope to hang himself.Berger gives Knight his due, but he doesn't pander like you poor boobswho never "got it" about your beloved coach.This book is a page-turner-- as far as I'm concerned it's the definitive biography on Bobby Knight.