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Description The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football by Jeff Benedict & Armen Keteyian Format(s): ePub & Mobi Pages: 432 Language: English Publisher: Doubleday Publish Date: September 17, 2013 File Size: 3.11 MB AN EXPLOSIVE AND REVELATORY PORTRAIT REPORTED FROM DEEP BEHIND THE SCENES OF BIG-TIME NCAA COLLEGE FOOTBALL: THE PASSION, THE THRILLING ACTION?AND THE SHOCKING REALITIES THAT LIE BENEATH THIS COLOSSAL, MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR BUSINESS 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 average 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. But behind this glittering success are darker truths: ?athlete-students? working essentially full-time jobs with no share in the oceans of money; players who often don?t graduate and end their careers with broken bodies; janitors who clean up player misconduct; football ?hostesses? willing to do whatever it takes to land a top recruit; seven-figure black box recruiting slush funds. And this: Despite the millions of dollars pouring into the game, 90 percent of major athletic departments still lose money. Yet schools remain caught up in an ever-escalating ?arms race??at the expense of academic scholarships, facilities and faculty. 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. Both a celebration of the power and pageantry of NCAA football and a groundbreaking, thought-provoking critique of its excesses, The System is the definitive book on the college game. Authors: Jeff Benedict  Jeff Benedict is considered one of America’s top nonfiction writers. He is a special features contributor for Sports Illustrated, a columnist for SI.com and the author of 10 critically acclaimed books including "Poisoned," "Little Pink House," "The Mormon Way of Doing Business," "Without Reservation" and "Pros and Cons." He has written and produced television documentaries, and his reporting has been the basis of feature segments on "60 Minutes," ABC’s "20/20," NBC’s "Dateline," HBO’s "Real Sports" and the Discovery Channel. His articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Newsweek. He has a blog, www.jeffbenedict.com and is a Distinguished Professor of English at Southern Virginia University. Armen Keteyian  Armen Keteyian was named CBS News' chief investigative correspondent in February 2006. Keteyian had been a special features reporter for CBS Sports since 1997, primarily roaming the sidelines during top NFL games and covering the league for "The NFL Today." He contributed to the network's coverage of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship and Final Four, and hosted and co-wrote CBS Sports' coverage of the Tour de France for the past four years.  Sharing Widget |