Meat Market: Inside the Smash-Mouth World of College Football Recruiting
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...
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"One of the most insightful books ever written about college football." - The New York Times"Easily among the best sports books of the new millennium."- Paul Finebaum, columnist and radio hostIn this unprecedented look at college football’s secret season, Bruce Feldman rips the cover off the game’s frenzied pursuit of raw talent, taking you deep inside the SEC war room of recruiting legend Ed Orgeron,the combustible Cajun who helped build national championship teams at the University of Miami and at USC. In a stunning, blow-by-blow account of the year leading up to National Signing Day 2007, the award-winning journalist shadows Orgeron and his Ole Miss assistants as they set about hunting high school students, pleading, plotting, and inventing ways to lure them to their sleepy Oxford campus. Packed with candid confessions and outrageous off-the-field action, Meat Market makes what happens on the field seem almost tame by comparison.
Introduction: Banging the Drum 1Measuring Up 13Snap Decisions 23Bebe-Part One 32Bebe-Part Two 43Rags and Riches 54Lord of the Internet 65Spring Cleaning 82Summer Camp 112The Okolona Kid 133The Jailer 154Face Time 176Plan B 199Second Season 218Road Show 236Home Stretch 255Countdown 273Epilogue: The Future is Now 305Acknowledgments 311
