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Lamarcus Joyner (DB New York Jets)

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t_BuckeyeScott;1436843; said:
Thanks, Genron, despite Gatorubet, I've heard good things about Richt but from nobody who actually sat down with the man. He actually made an appearance in one of my favorite football movies, Facing the Giants.

It is really neat to be able to hear stories like this.
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Oh yeah, he was in facing the giants. I loved that penalty drill.
 
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LaMarcus is mentioned briefly in this SI article by Andy Staples.

As all-star tournaments gain momentum, 'AAU football' begins

TAMPA, Fla. -- On one field, Miami's Lamarcus Joyner, potentially the most sought-after cornerback in the recruiting class of 2010, covered Ace Sanders, a speedy receiver from Bradenton, Fla., in an ultra-intense game of touch football. On another field, Columbus, Ga., 6-foot-7 tight end Brian Vogler ran routes against Port St. Lucie, Fla., linebacker Jeff Luc, whose YouTube highlight video plays regularly in college coaches' offices across the nation.

On this Saturday earlier this month at the University of South Florida, more than 250 players from six states gathered for a 7-on-7 football tournament. Their teams didn't represent individual high schools, though; instead, battles raged between all-star teams comprised of skill-position players from different geographic regions hand-selected either by independent coaches or writers from Scout.com. In 11 months, most of the participating players will sign Division I scholarships, and for those who follow the NCAA's other big-money college sport, all of this should sound eerily familiar.

"It's AAU football," Brett Goetz said.

Goetz should know. The Fort Lauderdale, Fla., stockbroker coaches Joyner's team, the South Florida Express. In February, 55 of South Florida's best players, all of whom BCS conference schools will likely recruit, showed up to try out for the team. Goetz chose the best 24 to take to the 7-on-7 Badger Sport Skills Pass Camp. Run by New Level Athletics in conjunction with Scout.com, the tournament is one of four nationally -- Rutgers, Ohio State and Las Vegas are the three other sites -- that bring together all-star teams instead of dividing players by high school team. In only their second year, the tournaments have already attracted the nation's best prospects. Baron Flenory, New Level's co-founder and a regional manager at Scout.com, estimated that 90 percent of the skill-position prospects who played in either the Under Armour or U.S. Army All-American games this past January played in one of his tournaments in 2008. "This year," he said, "we'll have 99 percent."


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Miami's Lamarcus Joyner, potentially the most sought-after cornerback in the 2010 class, is one of 24 BCS-caliber players on the South Florida Express tournament team.

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