Endzone: The Rise and Fall and Return of Michigan Football
John just posted this, the official release and a signing and Q/A session!
Sunday was my first day off since I started the latest book December 23 - 209 straight days of researching, interviewing, writing and editing. But it is done! And thanks to the amazing folks at St. Martin's Press, "Endzone: The Rise, Fall and Return of Michigan Football" will come out Tuesday, September 1. Literati will host a book talk, Q&A and book signing at 7 p.m. that night at Rackham Auditorium. Attendance mandatory -- or at least suggested, if you want to hear how Michigan got here, and got Harbaugh. More info soon on johnubacon.com andhttp://www.literatibookstore.com/
See you all on September 1st! Go Blue!
I already pre-ordered it on Amazon.
Pre-ordered mine as well.
Agreed. Let's not be like these guys:
That's actually just really sad... Wow.
Your reply was good. It's what made those books come to mind.
And they still haven't learned . . .
Heading there now...
you were the author, until I got to the bottom and realized you posted earlier that John Bacon had posted that on twitter.
I still have to get the 4th and long book. Kids really cut into your free time/ reading time.
Read it to them as their bedtime story.
I do not recommend reading scary stories to children at bed time. All night they will have nightmares of the Michigan secondary.
until they're at least 5. Kids don't understand why daddy is alternating between joy, laughter, screaming, and crying.
Hopefully that's all in the past now.
That's straight-out child abuse. A visit from Child Protective Services will happen soon.
Thanks for supporting local businesses like Literati. This should be a great read!
Bacon said the "return" refers to "the UM family reunifying. tickets sold out, enthusiasm back"
I kind of agree but the original title of the book was, "The rise and fall of Michigan Football," which many found a little too depressing.
Now that we have Hackett and Harbaugh, you can say "return" in regards to them. But I'm sure many others outside the program will find the title to be very Notre Dameish.
Hi there!
Yoo hoo, over here!
Will buy, quite excited.
I've only read Bo's Lasting Lessons and I know his previous two books (think it was just two) get a lot of praise around here. I think I'll give this one a go. I'd like to hear more about what happened in the past year.
With "Three & Out," I read up until the night before RichRod's first game but couldn't go any further and relive the countless horrors. So I mailed the book to my uncle in California.
With this one, I'm going to read through the whole thing, because of the epic light at the end of the tunnel. Not just the hiring of Harbaugh but Dave Brandon's exit.
Although, I'm still kind of in shock mode that Harbaugh is our head coach. I fear sometimes that I'm going to wake up and it's still the week following last year's Minnesota game.
up somewhere to buy this book and get it signed by JUB. It should be a much better read for Michigan fans in general though than Three and Out only because things have turned much more positive.
Don't we have to win football games to "return"? Just hiring a new coach and interim AD does not a successful program make.
Michigan football can return between seasons. It may not be returning to championship form until it wins more than a few games, but it can return before it returns to winning championships.
I think it is kinda silly to say that Michigan cannot return in any form until it wins "X" games. Who defines "X" and how? What about losses between now and winning "X" games?
Seems like it'll be a great book, but the title is downright awful. Idc what the original intent is. People will just take it at surface value which sounds a little too jinx like.
As for the title, I sort of took "Return" in the sense of lessons that were learned and how we've begun the process of hopefully regaining our footings as a football program, not so much the conventional use perhaps. That having been said, I did preorder this and I am intrigued to read it actually, partially because I am curious as to the portion or two which relates directly to this blog, so I hear.
Has anyone read Fourth and Long by Bacon? Worth a Kindle download? I liked Three and Out, depressing as it was.
I liked "Fourth and Long," but I appreciated it more for the stories about Bill O'Brien, Penn State, etc. than I did for what it revealed about Michigan. I don't think it's a must-read for Michigan fans.