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Meat Market: Inside the Smash-Mouth World of College Football Recruiting |
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In college football circles, the first Wednesday in February is New Year's Day, the Fourth of July, and Christmas all rolled into one. It's payoff time for a year spent screening miles of videotape and probing mountains of data, balancing the promise of a dazzling 40-yard-dash time against the perils of a putrid GPA, and text-messaging high schoolers 50 times a day. It's the day when coaches across the country camp out in front of their fax machines waiting for their football futures to be decided by a bunch of 18-year-olds. It's National Signing Day. In this surprising and unprecedented dissection of college football's secret season, author Bruce Feldman takes you deep inside the war room of Ole Miss head coach Ed Orgeron, the combustible Cajun who built national championship teams at the University of Miami and USC before setting up shop in the Deep South. In a blow-by-blow account of the year leading up to National Signing Day 2007, Feldman reveals the inner secrets of Orgeron's success, recounting every step along the way as Orgeron and his Ole Miss staff pick 25 winners from a list of 1,000 names. Meat Market makes the actual football season--the one that runs from September through January--read like a postscript.
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4.0 / 5.0 
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"Watch the wheels coming off the wagon"
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"Amazing look into the forgotten part of College Football"
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"A must read for college recruiting fans"
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"All You Want to Know and More About College Football Recruiting"
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0
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Watch the wheels coming off the wagon
I picked this up at the library for a short read, I have no great knowledge or interest in recruiting per se or SEC football, so my question is how typical of coaching or college football life this is. Because, especially for assistant coaches, it could be set in hell. The recruiting part of the book is a repetitive story of the interactions of Ole Miss and bunch of recruits, parents, etc.
The interesting part to me is watching a head coach, Orgeron, who seems utterly unprepared for the management... more info
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Amazing look into the forgotten part of College Football
Recruiting is where a team is made. You can only take a team so far if you don't have top flight athletes, especially in the SEC. Meat Market is a great look into the recruiting process, and how far teams have to go in order to get the top tier players. Coach O is an amazing character, and fits perfectly into this story.
Also, this books works because it shows a team that is trying to get back to the top. If it would have been about USC or Florida, it wouldn't have gotten the point across, as they get... more info
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A must read for college recruiting fans
The read is quite interesting and there are gathered a lot of terms and aspects which are find out along a program's (in this case, Ole Miss) recruiting year... Bruce Feldman find himself within the rebels war room and describes how Ole Miss staff faces recruiting, summer camps, workouts, on the road recruiting, etc... giving a lot of histories and curiosities which they find out in the process... Ed Orgeron is a recruiter guru and you'll understand some behaviors that you maybe didn't ever noticed about... more info
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All You Want to Know and More About College Football Recruiting
This book seemed as if it would never end. Never.
Over and over again, then over and over again. Yes, kind of like the recruiting process but this book needed a good editor, someone who could scale it down, make it more concise and directed. More focused.
Has some good insight into recruiting, especially as it relates campus and interdepartmental stresses and strains. But it never succeeded in making the coaches real flesh and blood people. They came across as cartoon like characters while Coach... more info
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