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Corey Marshall Chats With Tom Lemming

Corey Marshall was visited this past Sunday by Tom Lemming.  Tom Lemming is recognized as the top recruiting analyst in the game today (see bio below).

Bio: Tom Lemming, a Chicago native, got his start as a stringer for suburban Chicago weeklies covering high school football games. In 1978, he began scouting football prospects, logging his findings in a newsletter he circulated to college coaches and fans alike. Tom Lemming was called “the mailman” as he delivered information about the best recruits to hundreds of college coaches and football fanatics by personally interviewing and scouting players from coast to coast. He continues his delivery by evaluating 1,200 of the top football recruits every year in his prep football tour, powered by NCSA. By traveling 50,000 miles from December through June with his tour, he diligently and tirelessly produces the Tom Lemming Prep Football Report, considered by many to be “the bible” of college football recruiting.  He joined College Sports TV (CSTV) after spending decades as the leading preps analyst for ESPN. Lemming has written for ESPN, USA Today and Sporting News and currently has his own show, “Tom Lemming’s Generation Next,” on CSTV. Lemming also assists with the annual selection process of the top football prospects to participate in the US Army All-American Bowl Game and Combine hosted in San Antonio, TX.

Today recruiters still visit his home during the May evaluation period to watch film on players from across the country. Michael Lewis, author of The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game recognized Lemming as the “only national football scout in America.” To this day, Tom Lemming remains one of the leading experts on college football recruiting and high school talent.

Offseason Combines

COMBINES

We had four players take part in the Nike SPARQ combine on January 2nd in Caroline, VA.  Juniors Deandre Allen, Corey Marshall, Chris Hall, and Sophomore Drakar Harvell all were in attendance and had did very well.

Chris Hall and Corey Marshall were invited to participate with 500 of the Nations top underclassmen in the U.S. Army Junior Combine in San Antonio, TX.  Chris Hall was 9 for 12 in the one on ones and did well in his testing despite not specifically training for the event due to basketball.  During the Tom Lemming report show on CBS Sports he was seen throwing in a piece shown describing the segment of some of the nations top juniors.  Corey Marshall dominated 1 on 1s winning 10 out of 12 and tested extremely well.

You can read the article in the ProgressIndex at http://progress-index.com/sports/marshall-plan-1.575205  Due to his performance he was named to the first team US Army Junior Combine team at DE, you can see the entire team at http://sectionv.talksback.com/showthread.php?p=174384 .  You can also see video of his one on ones at  http://rivals.yahoo.com/video/recruiting-football/AMP-OL-vs-DL-part-5-Gold-59584?NICK_NAME=Cat45&LEVEL=2&TIME=1265846092&SIG=a18ea93d2c0c770f716aea6ae156e11b  He is in the middle of the video.