LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Saying farewell to a brilliant but abrasive coach

By Carlton Fletcher

●

News

●

November 2, 2023

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...

By Paul Bacon

To the Editor

An entire generation of coaches emulated a guy whose behavior was abhorrent. Bob Knight was a brilliant coach, but when every clip shows you acting like a maniac, something is wrong.

Bob Knight, RIP.

Paul Bacon

Hallandale Beach, Fla.

Author

Carlton Fletcher

Except for a brief period, Albany Herald Editor Carlton Fletcher has been a newspaperman, working as Sports Writer/Columnist for the weekly Ocilla Star, as Sports Writer/Sports Editor with The Tifton Gazette, and as Sports Writer/Copy Editor/News Reporter/Features Editor and Editor of the paper. He has won numerous awards for sports, news, business and column writing, including a first-place Business Writing award in last year’s Georgia Press Association awards competition.

Read Carlton’s stories.

Phone: 229-888-9300

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Saying farewell to a brilliant but abrasive coach

Author

Related Articles