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Campus Chaos - Why the Game I Love is Breaking My Heart

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Dick Vitale's enthusiasm and love for the game shines through in the book Campus Chaos - Why the Game I Love is Breaking My Heart. The book disects the problems currently plaguing today's hardcourt action and shows how far the game has transformed from the one developed by Dr. Naismith. The book step-by-step expounds intelligently and informatively on how the current negative aspects of the game can be remedied, bringing the game back in line with its proud heritage. The book which was recommended to me by a friend, did not disappoint this Hoosier basketball lover. This book is a must read for those that love the game as much as I do and in the words of the immortal Dick Vitale, "This book is a dipsy doo dunkaroo."

Annotation: Dick Vitale writes an awesome book that comes straight from his heart. It is mainly about the sudden abundance of college basketball players leaving early for the NBA. The worst is when high school kids start skipping college altogether. The book also describes the way that individual boosters are paying athletes to attend their school of choice illegally. It just breaks his heart BABY!


Info about the Author: Dick Vitale joined ESPN during the 1979-80 season; just after the September 1979 launch of the network. Vitale called ESPN's first ever NCAA basketball game in December of 1979. He has announced almost 1,000 games in his career including a few NBA games. He graduated from Seton Hall with a degree in business administration. He coached high school teams until he was an assistant at Rutgers. He got his first college coaching job at the University of Detroit. After 6 years there, he coached the Detroit Pistons for a few seasons and then became an announcer. He currently is in contract with ESPN for college basketball games until 2006.


Evaluation: How can you not love this book? If you appreciate college basketball or any college sport at all you have to love this book. It comes straight from the heart of one of the most prominent men in college sports of all time. Dick Vitale calls out a problem in college sports that is very evident. He has a plan to fix all of this, but it does not seem that anyone is going to do anything at all. If the game of college basketball is not cleaned up, sports fans could lose the most exciting college sport. This would be a shame and Dick Vitale is right, it needs to be cleaned up. Read it to find out all about the game of college basketball and what needs to be done to clean it up and make it successful again.