Overtime: Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines at the Crossroads of College Football [Paperback]

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From the “poet laureate of Michigan football, a riveting inside chronicle of the Jim Harbaugh era, and  an unprecedented look at the inner workings (Sporting News) of a big-time college football program

John U. Bacon received rare access to Head Coach Jim Harbaugh’s University of Michigan football team: coaches, players, and staffers, in closed-door meetings, locker rooms, meals, and classes.Overtimecaptures this storied program at the crossroads, as the sport’s winningest team battles to reclaim its former glory. But what if the price of success today comes at the cost of your soul? Do you pay it, or compete without compromising?

In the spirit of HBO’sHardknocks, Overtime delivers a deeply reported human portrait that follows the Wolverine coaches, players, and staffers. Above all, thisis a human story. InOvertimewe not only discover what these public figures are like behind the scenes, we learn what the experiencemeansto them as they go through it – the trials, the triumphs, and the unexpected answers to a central question:Is it worth it?

From the “poet laureate of Michigan football” (according toNew York Times’s Joe Drape), and one of the keenest observers of college football,Overtimeoffers a window into a legendary program and the sport itself that only John U. Bacon could deliver.

“No one knows the Big Ten better than John U. Bacon.” -CHRISTINE BRENNAN, USA Today columnist and author of Best Seat in the House

“John U. Bacon’s writing is essential to anyone who wants to understand how Big Time College Sports works and why it is stuck in our hearts even when it makes us crazy.” -JOE DRAPE, New York Times sports reporter

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