The One-Day Weekend: College Football Goes Professional
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (633 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1512172227 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorGilbert C. Brown earned a doctorate from Columbia University before going on to become the head of multiple American-style international schools in Latin America. The author of many nonfiction books, as well as the novels The Prison Inside Me and The One-Day Weekend, he is an active sports enthusiast.
My husband and I read One-Day Weekend with great interest since he is a former chancellor of UNC Barbara Hardin My husband and I read One-Day Weekend with great interest since he is a former chancellor of UNC and through four university presidencies has seen college sports from the inside and the outside. He was very impressed by the book and hopes it will be widely read. He found himself wishing, not for the first time, that President Bill Friday who worked so hard to reform college . Seriously? The author has done excellent research and uses the vehicle of his THenovel to put forth an interesting proposal for addressing what is a perplexing problem and an obvious inequity in today's world of college sports. There was an aura of unreality in the dialog. There was not one single word of profanity in the book. Gratuitous profanity, like gratuitous violence, does not a. I read Gil Brown's novel with admiration and professional appreciation Bill Durden I read Gil Brown's novel with admiration and professional appreciation. In a recent interview with the New York Times ("Alice Walker, Colm Toibin, and the Trail of Words", January 23, 2016), the author Toibin says this about the literary genre of the novel: " what a novel can do is show the distance between what’s being said and what’s being felt." By imaginative
Gilbert C. The author of many nonfiction books, as well as the novels The Prison Inside Me and The One-Day Weekend, he is an active sports enthusiast.. Brown earned a doctorate from Columbia University before going on to become the head of multiple American-style international schools in Latin America
Brown’s captivating new novel, The One-Day Weekend.For true sports fans, much of the thrill of football comes from watching promising young men on college teams make it through the ranks and on to the National Football League (NFL). A radical shift in football recruitment proves to be a true game changer in Gilbert C. But what if that intermediate step was no longer necessary? What if high school players were drafted directly by the NFL and assigned to play as professionals for a chosen college—with no technical enrollment or classes required? Inspired to help their fellow NCAA athletes, three quarterbacks from the undefeated Upstate University football team refuse to play in the final NCAA