![]() ![]() He treated college basketball like a war because life is a war. Knight was an Army guy who coached at West Point. Their job was to eat and concentrate on their game plan. The players hardly talked through the meal. Sometimes it was spaghetti at 9am when they played at noon. They had hamburgers, spaghetti, pancakes, eggs, and vanilla ice cream for dessert. For instance, they ate the same thing at every pregame meal. ![]() The book takes you through the experience of being a college athlete in this regimented program. These were guys that were going to have to follow his program to succeed and he wasn't optimistic. Coaching was starting to become a chore and he wasn't sure he had enough talent on his team to compete in the Big Ten. Despite being preseason number 4, the Hoosiers didn't even make the 64 team March Madness tournament that year. Coach Knight already had 2 National Championships trophies, but was coming off a horrendous season at Indiana. John Feinsten took a sabbatical from the Washington Post and spent the 1985-86 season embedded with the Indiana Hoosiers basketball team. ![]()
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