re: To those who followed recruiting before it became popular do you remember

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When exactly do you think this period of time occurred?

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I would say recruiting went big with the growth of the internet. Before we had recruiting sites the only info was the magazines that you could get twice a year. (I believe the name was Deep South Recruiting) They sold one before the season with recruits listed by state and one after signing day to let you know where they went. I had to subscribe to them to get them in Texas. Lemming, Wallcae and Max Emfinger were the only experts that newspapers got quotes from.

The USA Today was the only outlet for national recruiting. If you lived in Texas like I did in the 80's, you had to go buy it the day after signing day to even find out who had signed with LSU for both football and basketball.

Back then the only publication I could get that covered recruiting was the tabloid Tiger Rag. I've got stacks of them on a shelf in a closet.