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I read half the book in the past couple days. FANTASTIC read. Very well researched and written. Lots of interesting info about the history of the conference and our university. I'd highly recommend it.

Yes and YES!

Rexrode interviews the author in today's LSJ.....
The title of the book made me laugh out loud..... it's great that it's a Domer that wrote it (though he did grow up in EL....) He says he has enough material for a second book, detailing crap that went on throughout the 1950's....

I bought the Kindle version online through Amazon for my iPad and am reading it now. Just search for the book by title however you buy books for the Nook. Shouldn't have a problem finding it.

"Meh." signed, Sakimano

I use my Kindle almost exclusively now (for pleasure reading), but will buy the hard copy of this book. I'll treat it like the history book it is, and share it with friends and family before placing it in my permanent collection.

Future generations need to know the depth and breadth of Ann Arbor's douchiness.

I'm sure that would make for an interesting read.

Just finished this book. It's a must-read for any MSU football historian.

The author refers to himself as an "amateur historian," but he did a really thorough job of researching his subject. However, he is an amateur writer. The book is overly long b/c it's repetitive, and it ends weakly, not talking at all about the reaction to MSU's Big Ten entry, or how we fared once in the conference. He could've done a better job relating it to recent Big Ten expansion efforts, and left out how he's become jaded about college football.

Still, some REALLY interesting facts about the history of the Big Ten, (for instance, Nebraska had tried to get in repeatedly, beginning in the early 20th century, and our main competition to replace the University of Chicago was Pitt), and who our friends and enemies were in the Big Ten, (friends: Minny, Purdue, IU, enemies: mainly um). And if you don't know why you should have a festering hatred for um, read this book.

Not a perfect effort, but if you like being knowledgeable about MSU football, read it.

I'm only part way through this book and the research is extremely impressive...I recently came across one sentence that had 4 footnotes at the end!

Finished this book last week and found it to be very enjoyable and very interesting. Yes, it was strangely put together - it read more like a text book at times - but the info covered was impressive. I will have to buy my Minnesota friends a beer the next time I see them. Hannah comes off as a freaking rock star. Ralph Young, not so much. And if anyone needed another 1000 reasons to hate the University of Michigan and everything for which it stands - this book provides them and the references to back them up. Also it is laughable that anyone would claim anything about college athletic events which happened prior to WW2 - I'm looking at you Michigan and your mythical championships - the game was clearly such a different beast back them.

Finally finished reading this book. It was a long read but I am glad I read it as I learned quite a bit about the history of MSU and the B1G.

The two things that stood out to me was how much Minnesota did to help us get into the B1G and how important of a person John Hannah was to MSU. Without Hannah MSU probably wouldn't be half the school it is today. Oh and Fuck Michigan.