Is Recruiting Ace Lemming Notre Dame?s Pot of Gold?
Tom Lemming may be the most influential college football recruiting guru in the country. He has exploded to Mel Kiper status in the world of high school prospects. The problem? Like Kiper, Lemming?s integrity has been questioned.
A Chicago native who admits to following the Irish as a kid, Lemming got his start by covering high school football games for weekly newspapers in his hometown. In 1978, he began scouting high school football prospects, a prelude to the rest of his career.
Lemming took his findings on the prospects he scouted from across the country and created a newsletter that became required reading for college football fans and coaches.
Nicknamed ?The Mailman? for his door-to-door style of passing the word, Lemming parlayed that hard work into his career today, in which he travels 50,000 miles each year to evaluate 1,200 of the nation?s top recruits.
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