![]() “Hugh was a football coach and so he tended to take an indulgent view of bad grades.” ![]() “There were a number of colleges - and Ole Miss was one of them - for which the expropriation of the market value of pre-professional football players was something very like a core business.” “When the coaches walked into the living room of the Tuohys’ lovely Memphis home, the first thing they saw was the Rebel Christmas tree: red and blue branches festooned with nothing but Ole Miss ornaments.” Lewis tells an amazing true story in an appropriately mordant style, some samples of which are: Even if you think all those things, you are going to enjoy Michael Lewis’s book “The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game.” Your enjoyment, however, will be tempered by dismay about some of what you learn. Even if you think that if the Watergate and Iran-contra investigations had been really thorough they would have traced both scandals to connivings by college football coaches. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even if you wince at institutions of higher education engaging in the low practice of exploiting young, often black, men who emerge, after four years generating revenues for campus football factories, unscathed by education. Even if you think football consists primarily of two regrettable elements of life - violence, punctuated by committee meetings, called huddles. ![]()
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