Tom Lemming
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"Tom Lemming" is a high school football recruiting analyst. Tom Lemming serves as the host of The Lemming Report on CBS Sports Network, the only national weekly high school football recruiting show. He is the editor of The Tom Lemming Prep Football Report, considered by many to be “the bible” of college football recruiting.

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, interviewing John Elway, Dan Marino and Eric Dickerson, and filed his first Prep Football Report in 1979.

Lemming was featured in Michael Lewis's critically acclaimed book, The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game/The Blind Side, and played himself in the 2009 Oscar winning The Blind Side (film)/movie of the same name. He also appeared in The Hopeful in 2011, an award winning documentary on high school football. He travels the country each year and personally interviews hundreds of high school athletes in order to produce his prep football report, a 360 page magazine. He has also co-authored a book, Football's Second Season, which chronicles his cross country journeys and his passion as a recruiting analyst. Lemming has written for ESPN, USA Today and is often quoted in newspapers across the country and appears on over 200 radio shows a year.

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They liked the way Burkhart was kicking. He blew everybody away at their summer camp.

I think the Irish coaches' preparation and work ethic toward recruiting before the two wins is 95 percent of the momentum they have. I think the two wins are 5 percent of it. It's almost as if the recruits, because of the confidence Charlie Weis exudes, kind of expected this to happen, expected early success.

What you see on film is sort of a tall, rangy, instinctive linebacker. He makes plays, and that's what I really like. He's a guy who's always around the ball, not just every now and then.

There's some really good talent in the western part of the state. Virginia Tech used to have its way over there until Al Groh got to Virginia. Now there is some really good battling going on for those players. It reminds me of Iowa and Iowa State. You see battles that you didn't see 5-10 years ago and it's really good for the state.

I would go visit Virginia and miss players -- I wasn't aware until 5-6 years ago how good the talent was across the state.

He's a great athlete. He's the kind of guy that Iowa, who has a great coaching staff, can really get and turn around and make into a fantastic player.

But you watch him on film and they may have made a mistake. He's got a lot of people offering him. You get him, redshirt him a year and let him get into Iowa's weight program -- which is probably the best in the country -- and let him take off.

It's added some spice to the rivalry.