"As a definitive book on the topic, this intense and up-close look at the inner workings of big-time college football will find a wide audience among sports fans in paperback.
""One of the most insightful books ever written about college football.""
- The New York Times
""Easily among the best sports books of the new millennium."" - Paul Finebaum, columnist and radio host
In this unprecedented look at college football's secret season, Bruce Feldman rips the cover off the game's
frenzied pursuit of raw talent, taking you deep inside the SEC war room of recruiting legend Ed Orgeron,the combustible Cajun who helped build national championship teams at the University of Miami and at USC. In a stunning, blow-by-blow account of the year leading up to National Signing Day 2007, the award-winning journalist shadows Orgeron and his Ole Miss assistants as they set about hunting high school students, pleading, plotting, and inventing ways to lure them to their sleepy Oxford campus. Packed with candid confessions and outrageous off-the-field action, Meat Market makes what happens on the field seem almost tame by comparison."
By:
Bruce Feldman Imprint: ESPN Books Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 203mm,
Width: 132mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 278g ISBN:9781933060682 ISBN 10: 1933060689 Pages: 336 Publication Date:14 October 2008 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Bruce Feldman is theNew York Timesbestselling coauthor ofSwing Your Sword,and he is the FOX Sports senior college football columnist, giving him unparalleled access to the new generation of quarterback gurus.