The System The System

The System

The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football

    • 4.1 • 208 Ratings
    • $12.99

Publisher Description

A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year 

NCAA football is big business. Every Saturday millions of people file into massive stadiums or tune in on television as "athlete-students" give everything they've got to make their team a success. Billions of dollars now flow into the game. But what is the true cost? The players have no share in the oceans of money. And once the lights go down, the glitter doesn't shine so brightly. Filled with mind-blowing details of major NCAA football scandals, with stops at Ohio State, Tennessee, Texas Tech, Missouri, BYU, LSU, Texas A&M and many more, The System explores and exposes the complex, and perhaps broken, machine that churns behind the glamour of college football. 

With a New Afterword

GENRE
Sports & Outdoors
RELEASED
2013
September 17
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
432
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
12
MB

Customer Reviews

cyberbear ,

Needs an Audiobook

This book should prove very popular. Excerpts are wonderful. Needs an audiobook for those on the go to college football games on weekends!

hdsowoxb ,

Great book

One of the best CFB books I’ve ever read

Nic0615 ,

Very good

Easily one of the best books I have read, and I'm not even a college football fan. Highly recommended.

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