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u/PresidentWhitmore · 2 pointsr/CollegeBasketball

Of the books I've read:

  • A Season on the Brink - John Feinstein Feinstein's chronicling of Bob Knight the 1985-1986 Indiana Hoosiers. The book was very successful and Feinstein followed it up with a number of inside looks at college basketball. 10/10
  • The Last Amateurs It's about the Patriot League which, at the time of publication, was one of two conferences that didn't award athletic scholarships (Ivy was the other). 7/10
  • Basketball on Paper - Dean Oliver Oliver is the granddaddy of basketball analytics. His examples are primarily focused on the NBA, but it's an interesting read that might change your perspective on how you watch basketball. 8/10
  • Don't Put Me In Coach - Mark Titus Maybe it's just because I was a big fan of Club Trillion back in the day, but I think it's a really funny and interesting read about what big time college basketball is like today. Like A Season on the Brink, it helps you realize that, regardless of the era, these guys are just college kids. 7/10
  • Playing for Knight - Steve Alford There are some interesting Indiana stories in here. But whereas A Season the Brink is enjoyable and a must read for any college basketball fan, this one is probably just worth reading if you're an Indiana fan. 5/10
  • Last Dance: Behind the Scenes at the Final Four - John Feinstein Eh. Not as good as some of the other ones I've read by him. 4/10.

    On my bookshelf but I haven't read them yet:

  • Underdawgs - David Woods The story of Butler's first trip to the Final Four. This is the one I'm most excited to pick up next.
  • Rising from the Ashes - Terry Hutchins It's about Indiana's dumpster fire leading up through it's return to the Top 25 in 2011-2012. Honestly, I only bought it because Hutchins and Woods were selling them side by side at a Butler Indiana game and I felt weird buying just the Butler book while wearing Indiana gear. It's a story that I already know by heart because I lived through it so I might never get around to reading it.
  • The Last Great Game - Gene Wojciechowski About 1992 Kentucky - Duke. Haven't read it yet. Although I certainly plan to.
u/akersmacker · 6 pointsr/CollegeBasketball

The entire school was near insolvency in the late '90s. And yours is the exact right answer here. But to add just a little to the perspective...

Like the primordial soup, lightning struck this program and made all the elements combine just the right way at just the right time, and brought it to life. That lightning was the Cinderella success in 1999, when the Zags beat both Minnesota and #3 Stanford in Seattle (I was in the stands). Then they beat Florida on a tip in, and eventually lost to the champion UConn, giving them the toughest game of their tournament. Mid majors rarely get past the second round, and an E8 appearance appealed to just about every fan in the country. Following that success, the donations began to pour in, and recruiting took on a whole new look. And as you said, both the AD and Coach Few really took off with it.

The success of the basketball program has translated hugely to the success of the university, where every department and sport has ridden it's coattails. New baseball complex, new buildings on campus, use of a private jet for the team, the success of the women's basketball program, higher academic ratings and stricter admission requirements. Even the GU Law School has seen a huge uptick in it's reputation.

Best case example of "success breeds success".

Fun read that spells it all out, and one that every Zag fan should read: Glory Hounds

u/DaoDeDickinson · 8 pointsr/CollegeBasketball

I think Walton got his teepee from "Chief" Bromden after they flew over the cuckoo's nest together one time back in the 1960s. Somehow he got left out of that book but not Ghostbusters...

EDIT: I fucking knew it. I searched "ken kesey" "bill walton":

>"We have all come to the Knight Library to be blessed, to be blessed by the spirit, by the essence, and by the dreams and thought of one of our great and dear friends, Ken Kesey." --Bill Walton

YouTube video of Bill Walton's Tour of Ken Kesey Collection @ U of Oregon

YouTube video of Bill Walton on Ken Kesey's Bus

Ken Kesey had a self-published literary magazine and after his death a final issue was made in his tribute. Forward by Gus Van Sant. More pieces by Electronic Frontier Foundation founder John Perry Barlow, Ken Kesey himself, and, you guessed it, Bill Walton.

I'm probably low-balling it by saying there's a 30% chance Bill Walton was directly caused by Project MKUltra. Since Kesey was in MKUltra, Walton can only be one step removed.

u/VacationAwayFromWork · 1 pointr/CollegeBasketball

> Ed Martin was not necessarily a wealthy man.

Oh?

>He gave the recruits hundred of thousands of dollars

Well then...

>and had previously been investigated by the FBI for running illegal gambling rings.

Right, like I said: made money doing shady shit on the side.

> Ed Martin was a booster with recruit contact long before Fisher was head coach at Michigan.

Yup.

>Do not watch the Fab Five 30 for 30 documentary. ESPN allowed it to be put together by Jalen Rose, who was one of the Fab Five and has an axe to grind with Chris Webber. It is biased in the extreme.

Jalen Rose's side of the story is a fairly accurate side of the story. The only axe to grind against Webber is that Webber wrote off the rest of his teammates and the University of Michigan after the Ed Martin incident. Webber threw Martin under the bus...

"This case is about a man who befriended kids like myself, preying on our naïveté, our innocence, claiming that he loved us and that he wanted to support us, but later wanting to cash in on that love and support that we thought was free," Webber said at the time.

...and turned his back on his teammates. He refused to sit with them at the Natty and refused to participate or comment on their history.

FWIW the Fab Five are the reason I got into college basketball. First games I remember watching as a kid with my dad, a Michigan man. When I moved to Ann Arbor as a teenager, the first gift I received from my new friends at school was a book "The Fab Five: Basketball, Trash Talk, the American Dream."

u/mrholty · 1 pointr/CollegeBasketball

The funny part is I agree with the Maryland guy about UConn and agree that Gary Williams tried to stay above the muck that is much of the higher level AAU ball yet also acknowledge that his current coach is much more like Calhoun and less like Williams.

Diamond Stone's father is currently doing "consulting" for UnderArmour. Amazing how that came about after he signed there. (Its the regular Duke treatment and its been this way for 80 years in the NCAA.

I'm a Badger fan and there is a great book about the 1942 Badgers football team: 3rd down and a War to go.
http://www.amazon.com/Third-Down-War-All-American-Wisconsin/dp/0870203606

It openly spoke of players having "jobs" to walk the city streets after businesses closed up and check to make sure they are all locked.
My family knew Elroy Hirsch who played at Wisconsin and Michigan and then was Wisconsin's AD for 20 years. He'd tell stories about the gifts he received when he was recruited and his summer jobs. Its a cycle and always has been.

u/babbagack · 2 pointsr/CollegeBasketball

I can't vouch for documentary but there is a book on the topic, Indentured, and it touches upon issues as they relate the 95% of college athletes that don't make it to the NBA or NFL, so there is a whole lot more to the issue - and a whole group of athletes beyond one and dones - that perhaps this documentary doesn't explore:

https://amazon.com/Indentured-Battle-Exploitation-College-Athletes/dp/0143130552/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1538884852&sr=1-1&keywords=indentured

they seem to be trying to work out a solution for one and done last I read/heard. Still doesn't deal with the fact that people are literally becoming millionaires off these kids and like some of them say, they are not there to study at all and that's not the focus of their lives. Perhaps people don't have to become millionaires while the one who is actually providing and generating said millions might not even have enough money to get food when hungry. That's also an idea. I know someone who played in the Rose Bowl, he put it simply: You are a product and they are trying to extract as much as they can out of you.

You are a product.

It's plain and simple.

u/ESPbeN · 4 pointsr/CollegeBasketball

Read Play Their Hearts Out but George Dohrmann, it is one of my favorite books and does an amazing job detailing the underworld of AAU. It is a little dated (about a decade) at this point but many of the flaws have only become worse.

u/Shemptacular · 7 pointsr/CollegeBasketball

Also about the relationship between statistical analyses and building narratives.

There's a super good book that breaks a lot of this down in detail: https://www.amazon.com/How-Not-Be-Wrong-Mathematical/dp/0143127535

u/late2thepauly · 4 pointsr/CollegeBasketball

Here’s an Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0671735705/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_25jUCbWNFEY3B

Cheapest copy is $150 bucks. Would be amazing if a library had it or someone converted it to mp3.

u/Yankeefan333 · 6 pointsr/CollegeBasketball

Jon Abrams just released a book too on the prep-to-pro generation in the NBA. Haven't read it yet but I've heard good things

u/mcatrage · -12 pointsr/CollegeBasketball

Um so what college are you both going to?

Also who says belly laughs? Are you pregnant?

u/kr0kodil · 68 pointsr/CollegeBasketball

Haha I just realized that she wrote a book called [Sports Ethics] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0631216979?pc_redir=1412236235&robot_redir=1), with a foreward from Dean Smith.

u/kai333 · 40 pointsr/CollegeBasketball

....oh.... it's a real book.

(Grade A Shitposting btw)