The One-Day Weekend: College Football Goes Professional

By Gilbert C. Brown

A radical shift in football recruitment proves to be a true game changer in Gilbert C. Brown's captivating new novel, The One-Day Weekend . For true sports fans, much of the thrill of football comes from watching promising young men on college teams make it through the ranks and on to the National Football League (NFL). But what if that intermediate step was no longer necessary? What if high school players were drafted directly by the NFL and assigned to play as professionals for a chosen college-with no technical enrollment or classes required? Inspired to help their fellow NCAA athletes, three quarterbacks from the undefeated Upstate University football team refuse to play in the final NCAA championship game unless their coach makes a historic agreement: lead a campaign with the NCAA Division I board to create a billion-dollar endowment dedicated to treating and rehabilitating all injured college athletes. Soon, these athletes' brave stand results in the NFL and NCAA teaming up to allow Division I college players to be paid as professionals. As everyone scrambles to make sense of the new rules, only one question remains: how will this affect the game?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512172227
• ISBN13: 9781512172225
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"