Behind the Pay Wall, Part 1: Fan Sites Play Ball

The University of Florida coaching staff was short on selling points when it set out to recruit high school football players in early 1990. For starters, the head coach was brand new, his predecessor having been unceremoniously dismissed in the middle of the '89 season because of rule infractions. What's more, one of the best players in school history, Emmitt Smith, decided to forgo the 1990 season and enter the NFL.

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