Don't Put Me In, Coach
by Mark Titus
My Incredible NCAA Journey from the End of the Bench to the End of the Bench
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An irreverent, hilarious insider's look at big-time NCAA basketball, through the eyes of the nation's most famous benchwarmer and author of the popular blog ClubTrillion.com (3.6m visits!). Mark Titus holds the Ohio State record for career wins, and made it to the 2007 national championship game. You would think Titus would be all over the highlight reels. You'd be wrong. In 2006, Mark Titus arrived on Ohio State's campus as a former high school basketball... more
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Kirkus Reviews | 15 Jan 2012
The application of the blog’s crude-yet-clever shtick to a book-length chronicle of Titus’ four years at OSU wears thin in later chapters, but the unique combination of snort-inducing hilarity and insider perspective makes this required reading for younger (or just perpetually immature) hoop heads.
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Publishers Weekly | 13 Feb 2012
The Maxim demographic will revel in Titus’s rebellious tales, which come with a heaping portion of snarky, bro-friendly prose, scatological humor, and pop culture references.
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Only A Game | 24 Mar 2012
No book I’ve read recently concerns itself with the elimination of bodily fluids more than this one, and far too much of Don’t Put Me In, Coach is given over to smart-alecky stuff, much of which will fall flat unless you are male, between the ages of 18 and 23, and drunk.
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My Big Honkin' Blog | 22 Mar 2012
Hardly inspirational stuff, though the so-called millennial generation may find Mark Titus’ success as a smart-ass blogger who chronicled his time as a walk on bench jockey at Ohio State amusing.
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Emerging Writers | 25 Mar 2012
(I should probably put in a mild warning--this book is most likely intended for the teen to early 30's male with the sexual and bathroom humor might one expect for such a crowd--if this really bothers you, you'll probably a) not love the book and b) question my maturity),
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National Post | 9 Mar 2012
When Titus refuses to take himself even a bit seriously, the book devolves into frat-house humour that is neither appealing nor particularly original.
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