Overtime

<p><strong>NATIONAL BESTSELLER</strong></p><p><strong>From the poet laureate of Michigan football a riveting inside chronicle of the Jim Harbaugh era and an unprecedented look at the inner workings (<em>Sporting News</em>) of a big-time college football program</strong></p><p>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. <em>Overtime</em> 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?</p><p>In the spirit of HBO's <em>Hardknocks Overtime </em>delivers a deeply reported human portrait that follows the Wolverine coaches players and staffers. Above all this<em> </em>is a human story. In <em>Overtime</em> we not only discover what these public figures are like behind the scenes we learn what the experience <em>means</em> to them as they go through it - the trials the triumphs and the unexpected answers to a central question: <em>Is it worth it?</em></p><p>From the poet laureate of Michigan football (according to <em>New York Times</em>'s Joe Drape) and one of the keenest observers of college football <em>Overtime </em>offers a window into a legendary program and the sport itself that only John U. Bacon could deliver.</p>