Meat Market: Inside the Smash-Mouth World of College Football Recruiting

Meat Market: Inside the Smash-Mouth World of College Football Recruiting
by Bruce Feldman

Meat Market: Inside the Smash-Mouth World of College Football Recruiting
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Author: Bruce Feldman
Edition: Hardcover
Published: 2007-09-18
ISBN: 1933060395
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: ESPN

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Book Review: Amazing look into the forgotten part of College Football
Summary: 5 Stars

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 some recruits on name alone. This book does a great job of show the ins and outs of recruiting, and how much work actually goes into it, even during the season.

A great ready for anyone who is a college football fan, fan of the SEC, or wants to know more about the game.

Summary of 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 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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