NATIONAL BESTSELLER
From the “poet laureate of Michigan football," a riveting inside chronicle of the Jim Harbaugh era, and "an unprecedented look at the inner workings" (
Sporting News
) of a big-time college football program
John U. Bacon received rare access to Head Coach Jim Harbaugh’s 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 sport’s 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 HBO’s
Hardknocks, Overtime
delivers a deeply reported human portrait that follows the Wolverine coaches, players, and staffers. Above all, this is a human story. In
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 Times
’s Joe Drape), and one of the keenest observers of college football,
offers a window into a legendary program and the sport itself that only John U. Bacon could deliver.