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Meat Market: Inside the Smash-Mouth World of College Football Recruiting | 
 enlarge | Author: Bruce Feldman
Publisher: ESPN
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 1933060395
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.33263
EAN: 9781933060392
ASIN: 1933060395
Publication Date: September 18, 2007
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Book Description
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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 Amazing look into the forgotten part of College Football June 4, 2008
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.
A must read for college recruiting fans March 30, 2008
The read is quite interesting and there are gathered a lot of terms and aspects which are find out along a program's (in this case, Ole Miss) recruiting year... Bruce Feldman find himself within the rebels war room and describes how Ole Miss staff faces recruiting, summer camps, workouts, on the road recruiting, etc... giving a lot of histories and curiosities which they find out in the process... Ed Orgeron is a recruiter guru and you'll understand some behaviors that you maybe didn't ever noticed about the recruiting market. It's well-written and will grip you.
 All You Want to Know and More About College Football Recruiting February 25, 2008
This book seemed as if it would never end. Never.
Over and over again, then over and over again. Yes, kind of like the recruiting process but this book needed a good editor, someone who could scale it down, make it more concise and directed. More focused.
Has some good insight into recruiting, especially as it relates campus and interdepartmental stresses and strains. But it never succeeded in making the coaches real flesh and blood people. They came across as cartoon like characters while Coach O, the ultimate cartoon character, ranted and raved. The book needed more character development of the coaches. It had facts, facts galore, but it never really made the coaches real live human beings. How, for example, did the recruiting demands affect their marriages and their family relationships.
A good idea, at the wrong time with the wrong staff and badly in need of an editor. Someone to corral the information in the book and give it focus.
When Ole Miss fired Coach O, this book was most likely rendered to the bargain table. If you are a college football junkie, buy it there, don't pay full price.
 blue chip topic, good execution, but doesn't have the "it" factor February 23, 2008
The events in the book chronicle the 2007 University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) recruiting season and focus on head coach Ed Orgeron. It sounds great in theory - to be a fly on the wall at a college football program. And after reading Michael Lewis's fascinating The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game about Ole Miss recruit Michael Oher, "Meat Market" sounded like a perfect behind-the-scenes companion guide. But unfortunately, there's not much variation or substance to this book.
There's certainly no shortage of unrecognizable recruit names and their esoteric statistics. And this feels more like padding than real content.
Further, nearly every single recruit in the book is portrayed the exact same way - their behavior is erratic and immature. The most highly touted recruit in the 2007 class - Joe McKnight - seems on the verge of signing with Ole Miss. But, he disappears the night before signing day... and commits to USC. And another running back, after initially committing to Ole Miss, turns around and signs with rival Mississippi, saying it was because they gave him the number 2 for his jersey. What's also redundant is the sheer number of players that have academic and behavior problems.
If there's a positive to "Meat Market," it's how the football coaching profession is totally un-glamorized. I now appreciate just how hard these guys work - how much research goes into recruiting and how hard you have to pursue a recruit. Ole Miss never does anything shady, but you get the feeling that lots of underhanded tactics come into play when you're in this profession. And you know it's a thankless job, because Orgeron was actually fired in the season that takes place after the events of this book.
Overall, "Meat Market" is decent, but I preferred "The Blind Side."
Great for Sports Fans February 17, 2008
I heard about this book during the 2008 Rose Bowl. I highly recommend this book to any college football fan. It gives a glimpse into the bizarre world of college football recruiting. The book deals mostly with the the class of 2007. Any sports fan will enjoy this book.
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