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| Montclair's rising senior fullback-linebacker Christian Dorsey (1), seen here bulling his way ahead in last November's North 1, Group 4 playoff semifinals vs. Hackensack, is one of the Mounties' trio of Division 1-A prospects busy showcasing what they have on the summer college camp circuit. (Photo by Doug Allen) |
Montclair Busy With Its Summer Regimen
As Potential D1-A Prospects Strut Stuff
By Steve Tober
For sidelinechatter.com
Virtually every potential recruit’s real value and his ceiling of potential are at least somewhat over-inflated at this early point of the summer as rising seniors and even juniors are tabbed by so-called experts as 1-A or 1-AA prospects.
If you’ve been around the high school football scene for any length of time it becomes increasingly obvious that most kids won’t be 1-A for a variety of reasons, including-most predominantly-their actual academic prowess along with their physical size and speed.
Just this past week, a reporter for a recruiting news web site e-mailed Sideline Chatter asking if Montclair High actually had three 1-A prospects as had been written in a recent piece. The three players in question: Mountie rising seniors (fullback-linebacker) Christian Dorsey, (wide receiver-defensive back) Kyle Gayle and (tailback-DB) Shane Harris, have all been making the rounds of the summertime college camp circuit, having already traveled to the campuses at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, Pittsburgh and Maryland, while going through what can wind up being a long and frustrating process as they’re being looked at by someone, whether it be a college assistant or a recruiting web site that claims to have expert talent evaluators on its payroll.
Dorsey, Gayle and Harris are just three of the thousands of kids on the East Coast alone going through this process which has been expanded the last several years to include visits to colleges during the summer in order to be looked at up-close, along with hundreds of other scholastic athletes, in a convenient manner for the college coaching staffs hosting the event.
Throw in the underclassmen combines that begin in the late winter and run throughout the spring, and it is a long process that you can only hope concludes with a solid college situation as the next national signing day approaches in February, 2010.
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