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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 790
EAN: 9780345483379
ISBN: 0345483375
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: August 30, 2005
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Sales Rank: 326844
Studio: Ballantine Books
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
“Brian Curtis tells the stories behind the stories. He brings the meetings, practice sessions, recruiting calls and game day experience to light like never before. Fans who want to know what goes on behind the scenes will find out in this book.”
–RON ZOOK, head football coach, the University of Florida
In Every Week a Season, acclaimed sports reporter and author Brian Curtis takes readers on an unprecedented whirlwind tour of NCAA Division I football. It’s a world that breeds great drama, a world that millions watch but few understand. It is a multibillion-dollar business. It is an obsession.
To get to the beating heart of college football, Curtis embarked on a breakneck itinerary that took him where all red-blooded college football fans long to be: behind the scenes at nine big-time programs. In nine weeks, Curtis visited Colorado State University, the University of Georgia, Boston College, the University of Tennessee, the University of Maryland, the University of Wisconsin, Louisiana State University, Florida State University, and Arizona State University. He braved the rain to watch Wisconsin pull off the upset of the year; he was at Neyland Stadium to see Tennessee manage a thrilling overtime victory; he was in Tallahassee to witness Florida State’s dramatic double overtime battle for the ACC title. As added bonuses, he was with Georgia when the team fought for the SEC Championship, and on the LSU sideline when the boys from Baton Rouge defeated Oklahoma to capture the BCS National Championship. At each stop, he brings us inside the game’s inner sanctum: in team meetings and scouting sessions; on the field and on the sidelines, during scrimmages, practices, and games; at pre-game traditions, meals, and religious services; in the locker room before the game and at half-time. Virtually nothing and no one was off-limits.
Along with the players, Curtis got to know the coaches–from the young guns to the legends–spending time with them in their offices and on the road. We see firsthand the challenges of running a major college football program–when called on, coaches must serve as CEOs, PR gurus, lawyers, politicians, and policemen. We also learn of the sacrifices made by wives and children that enable coaches to keep the numerous young athletes under their supervision focused, secure, and happy.
Brian Curtis gives a no-holds-barred insider’s account that will rank as one of the most honest and accurate books on big-time sports in America. Short of strapping on a helmet, you’ll never get closer to the game.
From the Hardcover edition.
Average Rating: 
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This book does a good job of portraying college football, and for that matter college sports for what it is, a business designed to make money for the NCAA. This book however does not question any of the aspects of the college game and does a poor job and questioning if these actions are correct? We are lead to believe that college football is a perfect solution and something we should all emulate.
This book would have been much more successful if it did something other than paint each ... Read More
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My husband is a D-I FB official and I bought him this book as a gift. He thoroughly enjoyed this well-researched, behind-the-scenes look at big-time college football. The author captures the intensity and drama which unfold each week during the season.
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The author had a very difficult task in this book, how to make all these stories not sound similar.
He fails.
There is not one shred of objective reporting. And his fawning and kissing up to all the coaches is rather pathetic.
BTW, the book says Ralph Fridgen says Harrison, NY is working-class. Yeah, like Palm Beach, FL is working class. Doesn't Ballantine Books have editors? Or did Brian Curtis accept EVERYTHING said to him without questioning a word.
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In this work we are taken inside the lives of numerous college football coaches as they basically do their job which is no small thing.
We share with them as they analyze their games, recruit high school players, deal with the media and take care of the players in all areas. The author does an outstanding job of putting the reader right in the middle of the muddle, so to speak.
If you are a football fan and want to know more of the inside workings this book will be a treasure for you. A ... Read More
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I am a huge college football fan and couldn't wait to read this book. I expected some really interesting insight, but all I got was the same generalized rendition over and over again.
The author rarely details anything besides practice schedules (how exciting!) and the quotes he uses are so lame you wonder why he included them at all. I don't think there is a simple interesting quote in the entire book. Often times the author will lead you down a path and then not deliver. The "feel ... Read More
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