The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football

The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football
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AN EXPLOSIVE AND REVELATORY PORTRAIT REPORTED FROM DEEP BEHIND THE SCENES OF BIG-TIME NCAA COLLEGE FOOTBALL: THE PASSION, THE THRILLING ACTIONâ‚¬"AND THE SHOCKING REALITIES THAT LIE BENEATH THIS COLOSSAL, MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR BUSINESS
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL has never been more popularâ‚¬"or more chaotic. Millions fill 100,000-seat stadiums every Saturday; tens of millions more watch on television every weekend. The 2013 Discover BCS National Championship game between Notre Dame and Alabama had a viewership of 26.4 million people, second only to the Super Bowl. Billions of dollars from television deals now flow into the game; the average budget for a top-ten team is $80 million; top coaches make more than $3 million a year; the highest paid, more than $5 million.
Â Â Â Â But behind this glittering success are darker truths: â‚¬Å“athlete-studentsâ‚¬Â working essentially full-time jobs with no share in the oceans of money; players who often donâ‚¬t graduate and end their careers with broken bodies; â‚¬Å“janitorsâ‚¬Â who clean up player misconduct; football â‚¬Å“hostessesâ‚¬Â willing to do whatever it takes to land a top recruit; seven-figure black box recruiting slush funds. And this: Despite the millions of dollars pouring into the game, 90 percent of major athletic departments still lose money. Yet schools remain caught up in an ever-escalating â‚¬Å“arms raceâ‚¬Ââ‚¬"at the expense of academic scholarships, facilities and faculty.
Â Â Â Â Celebrated investigative journalists Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian were granted unprecedented access during the 2012 season to programs at the highest levels across the country at a time of convulsive change in college football. Through dogged reporting, they explored every nook and cranny of this high-powered machine, and reveal how it operates from the inside out. The result: the system through the eyes of athletic directors and coaches, high-flying boosters and high-profile TV stars, five-star recruits and tireless NCAA investigators and the kids on whom the whole vast enterprise depends.
Â Â Â Â Both a celebration of the power and pageantry of NCAA football and a groundbreaking, thought-provoking critique of its excesses, The System is the definitive book on the college game.
Country USA
Brand Doubleday
Manufacturer Doubleday
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2013-09-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780385536615

Country	USA
Brand	Doubleday
Manufacturer	Doubleday
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2013-09-17
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780385536615

The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football

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