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Tom Lemming wasn?t college football's first ?recruiting analyst?, but he definitely perfected the role. He began in 1978 ? one of the first prospects he interviewed was a promising quarterback from Pittsburgh named Dan Marino ? and filed his first report in 1979. In his first year, he had only one subscriber to his newsletter. Since then, Lemming has become the most celebrated, controversial, and influential player in the business. Competitors describe him as the ?Godfather of recruiting.? He annually travels 55,000 miles, visits as many as 47 states, and personally interviews the top 1,500 players in the country to produce the Prep Football Report, a 300-page must-read for every college coach. This book chronicles Lemming's journey and his passion for his profession, warts and all.
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: For college football fans, there is the game on the field and the game off of it. The on-field game is decided by gifted athletes scoring touchdowns and kicking field goals. The winners and losers of the off-field game are determined by recruitingassembling the best talent for ones team year-in and year-out. Who scores the winners and losers? Thats where Tom Lemming comes in. The host of CSTVs Generation Next and a former contributor to ESPN, Lemming is regarded as the nations No. 1 expert on college football recruiting and high school talent. Each year Lemming puts nearly 60,000 miles on his car, visiting and evaluating between 1,500 and 2,000 high school juniors while picking his All-America teams. While NCAA guidelines prohibit coaches from speaking about recruiting until a player is signed, those rules dont apply to Lemming, who is quoted by hundreds of publications and web sites each year. In The Tom Lemming Story, Tom takes readers behind the rankings and explains how he became interested in recruiting. He describes the evolution of college recruiting and explains how he separates the best players from the rest. In the end, readers will be provided a full picture of a man unlike any other in the sports world, someone whose presence has forever changed the world of college football recruiting.
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