Billion-Dollar Ball Quotes

“Outside the United States, university is where you study. But for thousands of supersized American males, it is where you go to run into other men of similar proportions, like particles in the Large Hadron Collider. . . . In recent years critics have accused American universities, which together earn $10 billion a year in athletic revenue, of exploiting an unpaid labor force. Moreover, numerous players have filed lawsuits demanding a piece of the pie. In Billion-Dollar Ball Gilbert Gaul, a journalist, eschews these criticisms”
― Gilbert M. Gaul, Billion-Dollar Ball: A Journey Through the Big-Money Culture of College Football

“College football is no longer just a game. Gilbert M. Gaul contends precisely that in his persuasive new book. . . . A penetrating examination of how the elite college football programs have become ‘giant entertainment businesses that happened to do a little education”
― Gilbert M. Gaul, Billion-Dollar Ball: A Journey Through the Big-Money Culture of College Football

“It’s very hard even for a student with good academic study habits to perform well under circumstances where they are working the equivalent of a full-time job. It’s incredibly stressful, especially for football players.”
― Gilbert M. Gaul, Billion-Dollar Ball: A Journey Through the Big-Money Culture of College Football