Don't Put Me in Coach: My Incredible NCAA Journey from the End of the Bench to the End of the Bench

Don't Put Me in Coach: My Incredible NCAA Journey from the End of the Bench to the End of the Bench by Mark Titus, sports Memoir, 257 pages. Titus was an AAU basketball star. His team won a lot. Maybe they were champions, I don't remember (I just looked at the pictures in the book again and there is one of them holding the AAU trophy, so yeah, they were). He blames his high-school coach for his not getting into Harvard, though he admits to ambivalence about wanting to play college ball, and does point out that though his coach was an a-hole, telling him that he was one was not the best career move. Even though Titus knew there was a good chance he would not play in a big-time college basketball, he ended up foregoing any of the mid-majors that offered him a scholarship and decided to attend Ohio State with his AAU teammates, Greg Oden, Mike Conley, and Daequan Cook. His joy comes when he makes peace with the fact that he won't be playing for Ohio State except in those last moments of blow-out games and he decides to not take it all too seriously. He starts blogging about being on the bench and starts his "Club Trillion" based on his game stats, 1 minute of playing time and a string of zeroes for points, assists, rebounds, etc. He is mostly funny, funnier than Tom Davis, but not as funny as Tina Fey (on the scale of humorous memoirs I have read in the last year). Check our catalog.