The End of College Football

Nathan Kalman-Lamb is assistant professor of sociology at University of New Brunswick and the author of Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport. Derek Silva is associate professor of sociology at University of King's College and is the coauthor of Power Played: A Critical Criminology of Sport.

"Bracing . . . . its catalog of injustices might make even diehard fans question their complicity in a commodity spectacle that risks the health of young men--about half of whom are Black, according to recent reports -- and earns coaches, more than three-quarters of whom are white, massive paydays."--San Francisco Chronicle "[A] compelling indictment of American collegiate football . . . . a serious examination of a sport that's long avoided accountability."--Booklist, Starred review "A must read . . . . The genuinely critical and radical sociology that oozes throughout The End of College Football is desperately needed to shake up the status-quo of performance focused capitalist sport, and all the grotesqueness that comes with it."--Critical Sociology "Via raw and disturbing testimonies from former players, anonymised because these schools have a long and powerful reach, Kalman-Lamb and Silva have pieced together a compelling argument that college gridiron is not a sport but a brutal industry where young, mostly black men are chewed up and spat out . . . . this book teems with evidence that for most participants it remains a form of indentured servitude where mere lip service is paid to delivering any sort of proper education."--The Irish Times