Sumbitch: A Tale of Bigtime College Football and a Girl

What happens when college football gets too bigtime for its own britches? Its captivating illusion of semi-noble amateur sport, sponsored by dear old alma maters, comes apart at the seams ----- that's what happens! The bigtime game's big ugly ass is exposed, even rabid fans turn away in disgust, and America is faced with the calamitous prospect of not having a worthy national champion. This book, SUMBITCH, tells the tale. - Dooley Doolittle, Chairman of the University of Texas Big Booster Club, copes with Notre Dame's threat to break-up a realigned Big Star Conference, last bastion of bigtime college football. - Brother Shepherd, semi-evangelical promoter, offers demoralized football followers an alternative: new wine in old bottles, as it were, or maybe vice versa: oldtime interstate football in a new amateur format. - In the midst of this upheaval and ongoing turmoil, Gaylord Goodhart, a blue-chip high school triple-threat stud, is caught in a bitter recruiting tug o' war between rival sibling coaches ----- A.C. and D.C. Cantwell. - A girl, Henryetta Hebert, semi-self-appointed reporter for the New York Times, comes to the rescue in and of the epic tale, told in print for the first time ever. SUMBITCH.