Junior Year Box Set

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I’ve only known David for a relatively short time. I was between jobs when Joe Phips, University of Florida’s receivers coach and recruiting coordinator, called me about a prospect he’d met over the weekend. When he told me the kid was a high school freshman, I said there was no way in hell I’d waste my time and energy on some rich kid whose parents thought he was special.

Joe told me to call Don Berta, University of Kentucky’s recruiting coordinator, because they’d offered the kid. I have to be honest, I almost didn’t make the call. Joe also sent me film. If I hadn’t just wrapped up working for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, helping one of their backup quarterbacks fix a problem with his throwing motion, I would never have made the call.

When I called Don, he had quite a story. This raw kid, who’d just started his first varsity game, walked into a recruiting visit where the top quarterback prospect in Kentucky was attending. David had outthrown him. He also said this kid was a leader that other players instantly liked. He’d been instrumental in getting the majority of the recruits to accept offers to Kentucky’s nationally ranked recruiting class.

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