[Nan3cy]

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.)

[Nan3cy]

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.)

[washingtonismoney]

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.

[washingtonismoney]

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.

[Nan3cy]

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

[Nan3cy]

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

[dabigv13]

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

[dabigv13]

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

[fullmetal]

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

[fullmetal]

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

[Leftcoast]

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.

[Leftcoast]

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.