num_pages: 432
description: NATIONAL BESTSELLEROne of the best insider-football books ever written. Douglas BrinkleyA riveting chronicle of Michigan's Jim Harbaugh era and an unprecedented look at the inner workings (Sporting News) of a big-time college football programFor the past year John U. Bacon has received rare access to Jim Harbaughs University of Michigan football team: coaches players and staffers in closed-door meetings locker rooms meals and classes. Overtime captures this storied program at the crossroads as the sports 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 HBOs Hardknocks Overtime delivers a deeply reported human portrait that follows the Wolverine coaches players and staffers through the 2018 season including Harbaugh offensive stars Shea Patterson and Karan Higdon NFL-ready defensive standouts Rashan Gary Devin Bush Jr. and Chase Winovich second-stringers striving to find their place on the team and their parents reactions to it all. Bacon met with them every week during a season that saw the Wolverines ride a ten-game winning streak to #4 in the nation then take a beating at the hands of arch-rival Ohio State led by controversial coach Urban Meyer Harbaughs foil. Overtime also previews the crucial 2019 campaign ahead.Above all this is a human story. In Overtime we not only discover what these public figures are like behind the scenes we learn what the experience means to 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 to New York Timess Joe Drape) and one of the keenest observers of college football Overtime offers a window into a legendary program and the sport itself that only John U. Bacon could deliver.
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title: Overtime: Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines at the Crossroads of College Football
publisher: William Morrow