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Dick Harmon: BYU recruiting: Lamb explains why he's not starstruck while searching for recruits

There’s no perfect recipe for recruiting superstar college football players. But BYU assistant coach Ed Lamb isn’t convinced the single greatest path is to chase prospects with a train of recruiting service stars next to their name.

Lamb likes the laboratory. He likes gathering raw materials, applying football science and molding players into a finished product. And he proved his theory as head coach at Southern Utah University which had three players invited to the NFL combine last year, two of whom, LeShawn Sims and Miles Killebrew, ended up being drafted.

Sims and Killebrew had zero stars as prepsters in Nevada.