Meat Market: Inside the Smash-Mouth World of College Football Recruiting

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Author: Bruce Feldman

ISBN-10: 1933060395

ISBN-13: 9781933060392

Category: College Football

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"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 hostIn 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.

Introduction: Banging the Drum     1Measuring Up     13Snap Decisions     23Bebe-Part One     32Bebe-Part Two     43Rags and Riches     54Lord of the Internet     65Spring Cleaning     82Summer Camp     112The Okolona Kid     133The Jailer     154Face Time     176Plan B     199Second Season     218Road Show     236Home Stretch     255Countdown     273Epilogue: The Future is Now     305Acknowledgments     311