Podcasts about big money culture

Episode 26 Jacob Doyle, Kayla Ruberg, and Ray Ruberg discuss Chapters 6-7 of "Billion Dollar Ball: A Journey Through the Big-Money Culture of College Football" by Gilbert M. Gaul in the final episode for the August Book of the Month for America's Readers Book Club. In this episode, we talk about women's rowing, conference realignment, and give our Book Grades. And as always, we have Book Recommendations at the end of the episode. *NOTE: We apologize for the audio difficulties in this episode* Follow us on Twitter @AmericasReaders August Schedule: August 5 - Preface-Chapter 2 August 12 - Chapter 3-Chapter 5 August 26 - Chapter 6-Epilogue Available on Apple Podcasts and all podcast players...subscribe, rate, and review today! Send us an email to be part of the conversation to AmericasReaders@gmail.com

Episode 25 Jacob Doyle, Kayla Ruberg, and Ray Ruberg discuss Chapters 3 5 of "Billion Dollar Ball: A Journey Through the Big-Money Culture of College Football" by Gilbert M. Gaul in the second episode for the August Book of the Month for America's Readers Book Club. In this episode, we talk about coaching contracts, how universities cater to athletes in the academic realm, and Gaul's trip to SEC Media Days. And as always, we have Book Recommendations at the end of the episode. Follow us on Twitter @AmericasReaders August Schedule: August 5 - Preface-Chapter 2 August 12 - Chapter 3-Chapter 5 August 26 - Chapter 6-Epilogue Available on Apple Podcasts and all podcast players...subscribe, rate, and review today! Send us an email to be part of the conversation to AmericasReaders@gmail.com

Gilbert Gaul is a two time Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative journalist who has now turned his eye toward the business of college football. Now that the new season is underway, we thought it time to bring him on to discuss his fantastic new work, Billion Dollar Ball: A Journey Through the Big-Money Culture of College Football.…

In spite of a rough stock market and a bumpy economy there is one business, not a tech company, that has grown revenues from $229 million in 1999 to over 800 million today.  That is the business that is the ten largest programs in College football.  It’s a business where the CEO’s, the coaches, are mostly part of the one percent. They earn millions annually and even worse than most big businesses, their employees work for almost nothing.The world of College football specifically and College athletics in general has grown out of all proportion to its real value.  This is the world we begin to watch this week and that Gilbert Gaul writes about in Billion-Dollar Ball: A Journey Through the Big-Money Culture of College Football.My conversation with Gilbert Gaul: