The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big Time College Football [Hardcover]
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The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big Time College Football [Hardcover] by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian
COLLEGE FOOTBALL has never been more popular or more chaotic. Millions fill 100,000-seat stadiums every Saturday; tens of millions more watch on television every weekend. The 2013 Discover BCS National Championship game between Notre Dame and Alabama had a viewership of 26.4 million people, second only to the Super Bowl. Billions of dollars from television deals now flow into the game; the ave rage budget for a top-ten team is $80 million; top coaches make more than $3 million a year; the highest paid, more than $5 million.
Celebrated investigative journalists Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian were granted unprecedented access during the 2012 season to programs at the highest levels across the country at a time of convulsive change in college football. Through dogged reporting, they explored every nook and cranny of this high-powered machine, and reveal how it operates from the inside out. The result: the system through the eyes of athletic directors and coaches, high-flying boosters and high-profile TV stars, five-star recruits and tireless NCAA investigators and the kids on whom the whole vast enterprise depends.
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