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Bitter Roses: An Inside Look at the Washington Huskies' Turbulent Year
The University of Washington entered the 1992 season poised to make a run as repeat national champions. Then controversy broke. Star quarterback Billy Joe Hobert admitted to accepting a $50,000 loan from a booster and more allegations and the probing of the Huskies' program by the NCAA.
357 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 1993
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January 4, 2023
I was just a child in elementary school when the subject matter in this book took place. But that didn't stop me from reading what was a well written book on the 1991-1992 University of Washington (UW) Huskies football program.
Bitter Roses was written by longtime Los Angeles Times football writer and analyst Sam Farmer. What he did in this book was write about a period where the Huskies were supposed to be celebrating one of the most successful periods in UW football history. But instead, the UW players and coaches were mixed up in multiple off the field transgressions committed by certain players, which painted the football program as an out of control outfit.
At the time this book was published in 1993, the UW football program was in a transitional period due to key players graduating, early entry of key players into the 1992 and 1993 NFL Drafts, and of course the off the field stuff. That was a great time to write a book about the UW football program and Farmer and this book's publisher knew that.
Bitter Roses is the type of book you would read when you want to know about a subject that was big at the time it (the book) was published. I would recommend this book to those who are either a college football historian or a Huskies football historian. Because modern college football fans (even UW fans) couldn't care less about 1991 and 1992 Washington Huskies football teams.
Bitter Roses was written by longtime Los Angeles Times football writer and analyst Sam Farmer. What he did in this book was write about a period where the Huskies were supposed to be celebrating one of the most successful periods in UW football history. But instead, the UW players and coaches were mixed up in multiple off the field transgressions committed by certain players, which painted the football program as an out of control outfit.
At the time this book was published in 1993, the UW football program was in a transitional period due to key players graduating, early entry of key players into the 1992 and 1993 NFL Drafts, and of course the off the field stuff. That was a great time to write a book about the UW football program and Farmer and this book's publisher knew that.
Bitter Roses is the type of book you would read when you want to know about a subject that was big at the time it (the book) was published. I would recommend this book to those who are either a college football historian or a Huskies football historian. Because modern college football fans (even UW fans) couldn't care less about 1991 and 1992 Washington Huskies football teams.
January 6, 2013
Although I love almost any book about football, this book was boring unless you were a UW Huskie junkie. This was unlike the book Scoreboard, Baby, which also was about UW Huskies but was much better written, had continuity among chapters, and revealed much good information about UW and NCAA football.
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