Owls head coach featured during seven o'clock hour
by Mark Toma
11/3/2009 5:35:01 AM
KENNESAW, Ga. – Kennesaw State head men’s basketball coach Tony Ingle will appear live on Good Day Atlanta on Tuesday morning to promote the release of his first book I Don’t Mind Hitting Bottom, I Just Hate Dragging while also discussing the upcoming season, the Owls first as a full-fledged Division I program.
Ingle, whose team opens their preseason schedule tonight against Fort Valley State at the KSU Convocation Center, will be a guest on the highly popular local morning show during the seven o’clock hour and will be speaking with Good Day Atlanta’s co-anchor Mark Hayes.
I Don't Mind Hitting Bottom, I Just Hate Dragging is Ingle’s first book and is the story of the Owls’ head coach and his life of resilience, perseverance, faith and family told by Ingle, who the Desert News called "the Will Rogers of basketball."
Ingle’s first book, written with ESPN college basketball writer Kyle Whelliston, will be released today, Nov. 3, and is available for purchase online on the web at www.TonyIngle.com.
I Don't Mind Hitting Bottom, I Just Hate Dragging
by Tony Ingle, Kyle Whelliston
When Tony Ingle grew up in the government housing projects of Dalton, Georgia, he was so poor that he had to fish his first pair of basketball shoes out of a dumpster. And after a horrific knee injury during the national junior college basketball tournament ended his playing career, he set about chasing his championship dreams as a coach. His long climb up "the ladder" from high school to college was chock-full of high-octane offense and circus plays, culminating in a dream job as the interim bench boss at Brigham Young University. But after a nightmarish 0-19 campaign full of season-ending injuries and blowout losses, BYU put Coach Ingle out on the street. During his three years in basketball's wilderness, he performed a series of odd jobs to provide for his wife and five children -- including carpet salesman, TV pitchman, and stand-up comic. Coach Ingle's second chance finally came at Kennesaw State University, a small college near Atlanta, where he took the Owls from utter mediocrity to the Division II National Championship in just four years.
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