ESPN had a flattering piece on Frank Beamer today:
"The King of Sports" weighs the good and the bad of football's impact on the United States, ending with a chapter on safety and money reforms that could make the game "just as exciting and popular, but no longer notorious." The book's positive example is the Virginia Tech program -- the author spent the 2011 season with the Hokies team.
Why Virginia Tech? The head coach, Frank Beamer, is the winningest active coach in Division I. He's coached at Virginia Tech for 26 years, spurning big-bucks offers from the pros. His program's 20 consecutive years with a bowl invitation shows that a team can win game after game after game without taking shortcuts in ethics or in the classroom. The engineering school of Virginia Tech has been a leader in research into reducing sports concussion risk. And Beamer represents an Old South university with an African-American graduation rate many Northern colleges can only envy...
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/9863903/excerpt-king-spor...
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