Description
A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year
NCAA football is big business. Each Saturday millions of people file into massive stadiums or tune in on tv as “athlete-students” give the whole lot they have got to make their team a success. Billions of dollars now float into the game. But what’s the true cost? The players don’t have any 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 plenty of more, The System explores and exposes the complex, and possibly broken, machine that churns in the back of the glamour of college football.
With a New Afterword.