UM: Book Preview

On The Wolverine, Jonathan Chait previews John U. Bacon’s “Three and Out: Rich Rodriguez and the Michigan Wolverines in the Crucible of College Football,” due out Oct. 25. Chait writes: ”It’s extremely rare for a college sports program to give an author complete access to everything for a year, let alone three. Bacon was embedded with the team so long that the players and coaches practically stopped noticing he was around, and the insider perspective he gained is unparalleled. You simply don’t get any other chance to know what it’s like to watch the coaches argue with each other while breaking down film, hang out with players at a campus party, sit on the inside of full team meetings.” [Source]