Title Billion-dollar ball [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] a journey through the big-money culture of college football / Gilbert M. Gaul.

Publication Info.	New York, New York : Viking, [2015]
	©2015

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Description	1 online resource
	text file rda
	eBook tlcgt
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Note	Includes index.
	Electronic book.
Contents	Preface: A Real University -- The Gilded Age Of College Football -- The Unlikely Charity Known As College Football -- Return On Investment: The Art Of Paying A Coach $23 Million Not To Coach -- Walking With Mr. Baldwin: In The Land Of Accidental Students -- Why The South Lost The War But Wins At Football -- How Women's Rowing Saved College Football: Working The Bar Scene For Recruits -- To Have And Have Not: How College Presidents Fumbled Reform -- Epilogue: The Death Star.
Summary	Examines the economics and culture surrounding college football, discussing how in the last decade football programs have overtaken universities, creating entertainment factories where sports are more important than education.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. New York Penguin Publishing Group 2015 Available via World Wide Web.
Subject	College sports -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
	College sports -- Corrupt practices -- United States.
	Football -- Corrupt practices -- United States.
	Football.
	National Collegiate Athletic Association.
	National Collegiate Athletic Association.
	College sports -- Corrupt practices.
	College sports -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Football.
	Football -- Corrupt practices.
	United States.
Genre	Electronic books.
Added Author	OverDrive, Inc., distributor.
ISBN	9780698142916 (electronic bk.)

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