The premise of Meat Market allows the reader to find out “What really happens behind closed doors of a college football program’s war room?” The book shows exactly what goes through college coaches minds every step of the way through the recruiting process.
 
Meat Market follows Ed Orgeron and the Ole Miss football staff along the recruiting trail for an entire year as the Rebels try to evaluate and woo prospects for their program. For Orgeron, the ace recruiter who helped build USC back into a powerhouse just a few years earlier, times had changed. Instead of selling an elite program on top of college football, he was touting a second-tier operation in the game’s toughest conference, the SEC.  
 
The Rebels’ biggest target for the Class of 2007 turns out to be a dynamic speedster from Louisiana named Joe McKnight who the Ole Miss coaches have had their sights on for three years. Of course, everyone else loves McKnight too. Even Orgeron’s old school, USC. And that drama would just be one of many odd twists in the roller coaster ride to Signing Day.

Meat Market Reviews:
 
“…one of the most insightful books ever written about college football.”
--The New York Times
 
“…underscores the nuances of the talent hunt as well as some of the more dubious aspects of big-time college football.”
--Chicago Tribune
 
“Normally I concentrate on books focused on pro football, but there was something compelling about this one, a you-are-there take inside the stupid, insipid and insulting-to-any-adult world of college football recruiting that Feldman captures vividly. . .”
--Peter King, Sports Illustrated

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