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How Clemson's Failure to Land a Top Recruit Turned into a Great Success Story

If you can imagine taking all the craziness of college football recruiting, balling it up it and throwing it at one little town, then you might understand what things were like a few years ago at Grayson High School in Loganville, Georgia, where Robert Nkemdiche was widely considered the nation's top prospect.

Grayson High coach Mickey Conn had a story that says a lot about it. He remembers one of the recruiters, an SEC head coach, who was there to see Nkemdiche. "The guys that were showing up, they were looking at one thing," Conn says. The coach was watching Nkemdiche so intently he ran right into one of Nkemdiche's teammates, running back Wayne Gallman.