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Title:
Billion-dollar ball : a journey through the big-money culture of college football / Gilbert M. Gaul.
Author:
Gaul, Gilbert M., author.
Publication Information:
New York, New York : Viking, [2015]

©2015
Call Number:
GV959 .G385 2015
Abstract:
Examines the economics and culture surrounding college football, discussing how in the last decade football programs have overtaken universities, creating entertainment factories where sports are more important than education.
ISBN:
9780670016730
Physical Description:
xix, 249 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Preface: A Real University -- The Gilded Age Of College Football -- The Unlikely Charity Known As College Football -- Return On Investment: The Art Of Paying A Coach $23 Million Not To Coach -- Walking With Mr. Baldwin: In The Land Of Accidental Students -- Why The South Lost The War But Wins At Football -- How Women's Rowing Saved College Football: Working The Bar Scene For Recruits -- To Have And Have Not: How College Presidents Fumbled Reform -- Epilogue: The Death Star.
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