Former college basketball coach and professor Rus Bradburd delivers a sharp, funny, and timely satire about higher education’s uneasy marriage with big-money sports. Set at the fictional Coors State University, Big Time follows two aging history professors who rebel against the school’s corporate rebranding and its obsession with football and basketball. Their clumsy, 1960s-style protests ignite chaos on campus—and expose what happens when academic ideals collide with the relentless pursuit of athletic glory.
Blending insider experience with biting humor, Bradburd skewers the commercialization of college life while asking deeper questions about loyalty, purpose, and the soul of education.
“Big Time is a big-time funny book.” — Jonathan Eig
“A subversive, sidesplitting, screwball of a novel.” — Arne Duncan
