Steve, I still have all those. Love the one w jammi. I called national recruiting advisor and canesport. Couldn't wait to hear the report Monday morning after a weekend of visits, who committed, etc.
I remember when we didn't have Canesport. Before there was Canesport, there was a pub called Hurricane Watch, as I recall. It was started by a former beat writer named Daniel Oudinot. He started right after we lost the Fiesta Bowl at the end of the '86 season. It didn't do too well and folded. I remember Oudinot used to do the publication out of Tom Curtis' office for Dolphin Digest.
Back then, there were a lot of national newsletters, and I used to subscribe to most of them: G&W, Lemming, Emfinger, SuperPrep, Bill Buchalter, etc. I'd sometimes call those guys. Most were pretty slimy to talk to.
One time Emfinger gave me a huge scoop that the NCAA was doing another investigation on UF, and I told some friends, and it ended up with Charlie Nobles of the Miami News and he called me at work to get the story. I lived up north but had mail subscriptions to the News and Herald. My home was filled with newspapers. It was awful. Couldn't keep up and threw everything out. There was no internet.
One of our biggest recruiting seasons was for the 1988 class, Jimmy's last. I posted about it in another thread: Jesse Armstead, Kevin Patrick, Rusty Meadearis, Darren Krein, Bryan Fortay, Kevin Williams, Rudy Barber. That might have been our best class ever. I think I got all the names in the right year. Jimmy never coached that class, since he left just after signing day. I think Horace Copeland was in that class too. They won two NC's.
