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Re: CBS Sports Bowl Predictions - Nan3cy - 10-12-2010

Tom Wolfe\'s "I Am Charlotte Simmons" had a pretty telling description of the tutor-athlete relationship in a big-time basketball program. (Also of the guys on the team who never saw the court but were on the roster to raise the average GPA to an acceptable level.) My guess is that the reality at places like UO probably makes the book look understated.

(The book took a lot of flak from critics, as I remember, but I thought it was a great guilty pleasure.)

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Re: CBS Sports Bowl Predictions - washingtonismoney - 10-12-2010

Heard from a couple of Duke acquaintances that Wolfe ended up basing it mostly on Duke (even that it was common knowledge that this was so), but take that with as large a grain of salt as you\'d like.

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Re: CBS Sports Bowl Predictions - Nan3cy - 10-12-2010

I thought it was pretty obviously based on Duke, though I heard he\'d done a lot of the research at Stanford.

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Re: CBS Sports Bowl Predictions - dabigv13 - 10-12-2010

Type Karen Owen into a google search for a far more salacious read than anything Wolfe could\'ve imagined. Also based in Duke.

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Re: CBS Sports Bowl Predictions - fullmetal - 10-12-2010

Oh man.  I rather wish I had not heard of that sordid affair.

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Re: CBS Sports Bowl Predictions - Leftcoast - 10-12-2010

Tom Wolfe did a residency at Stanford while he was writing "I am Charlotte Simmons" but that doesn\'t mean he did his research here.   He\'d no doubt blocked out the book look before he got to Stanford.

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