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 de... (show more)
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. (show less)
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Amazing access to the world of college recruiting. Not many fans understand or respect the vital art of recruiting. This book is easily one of the ... (show more)
Amazing access to the world of college recruiting. Not many fans understand or respect the vital art of recruiting. This book is easily one of the best books about football that I have ever read. It is a must read for any and all college football fans. The story is full of drama, high rewards, epic fails, and amazing insight into some of college football's biggest names. After reading this book, I cannot help but get excited about Coach O's impact over the next couple of years on the hill in Knoxville.
Of course, there is a little bit of bias slanted towards Coach O and his Ole Miss efforts, but this book still tends to be quite an honest look at the recruiting process. I read this book a year after its initial release, so I knew some of the ultimate destinations for the featured recruits, but this was still a very enjoyable read. (show less)
Just okay. Very interesting read knowing the fate of Coach O and the staff. This book could've been about any D1 football program and been virtuall... (show more)
Just okay. Very interesting read knowing the fate of Coach O and the staff. This book could've been about any D1 football program and been virtually the same. Most staffs recruit just as hard, but an interesting read nonetheless. (show less)
Not a bad read. It is quick and it is an eye opener. Not really one to make you ponder your place in the universe though...
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If you are a University of Tennessee fan, you might want to hear about the recruiting stylings of Coach Orgeron when he was at Ole Miss. It's an interesting read on the recruiting business.
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