ESPN's website is currently featuring the top high school recruits for 2005 as decided by Tom Lemming. Lemming is one of those relatively unknown but influential people whose rankings of high school football players all over the United States figure strongly in which stars go on to be recruited and developed at the big I-A programs, and which are fated to be small college players and I-A walk-ons.
Here is his list of the 25 top wide receivers: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/recruiting/news/story?id=1827 354
Of the 25, looking at their names and the schools they're going to, it's possible that #6 and #14 are white, but maybe not. None of the top 25 tailbacks would appear to be white, big surprise there.
From the link above you can click to Lemming's top 25 at the other positions. We need to learn a lot more about these individuals and "services" that rank high school football players and the criteria they use to compile their rankings. We also need to get to the point where we can compile our own list of high school stars from the 50 states, both white and black, and then systematically track what happens to them after high school.
Here is his list of the 25 top wide receivers: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/recruiting/news/story?id=1827 354
Of the 25, looking at their names and the schools they're going to, it's possible that #6 and #14 are white, but maybe not. None of the top 25 tailbacks would appear to be white, big surprise there.
From the link above you can click to Lemming's top 25 at the other positions. We need to learn a lot more about these individuals and "services" that rank high school football players and the criteria they use to compile their rankings. We also need to get to the point where we can compile our own list of high school stars from the 50 states, both white and black, and then systematically track what happens to them after high school.