SI Vault Frank Deford January 26, 1981 Decrease font Decrease
font Enlarge font Enlarge font January 26, 1981  The Rabbit
Hunter   View CoverRead All Articles View This Issue    As Bobby
Knight is the first to say, a considerable part of his
difficulty in the world at large is the simple matter of
appearance. "What do we call it?" he wonders. "Countenance. A
lot of my problem is just that too many people don't go beyond
countenances."  That's astute—Bobby Knight is an astute man—but
it's not so much that his appearance is unappealing. No, like so
much of him, his looks are merely at odds. Probably, for
example, no matter how well you know Coach Knight, you have
never been informed—much less noticed yourself—that he's
dimpled. Well, he is, and invariably when anyone else has
dimples, a great to-do is made about them. But, in Bobby's case,
being dimpled just won't fly.  After all: DIMPLED COACH RAGES
AGAIN. No. But then, symbolically, Knight doesn't possess
dimples, plural, as one would expect. He has only the