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This year's top high school basketball prospect, Moses Malone from Petersburg, Va., has been offered cars, a campus apartment and money. Jerry Eckwood, a fine football prospect from Brinkley, Ark., insists he has not been tantalized with extra benefits. But several big-time colleges have offered Eckwood's coach a job-provided Eckwood comes with...
...place is too remote. After 200 letters went out to Yankton, S. Dak., for Basketball Player Chad Nelson, some recruiters traveled there four or five times to make their pitch. Moses Malone's home in Petersburg has become a clearinghouse for college coaches, and Jerry Eckwood played one of his last football games in Brinkley with 50 recruiters cheering...
Even after a prospect has seen his last scout and heard his last offer, he still knows no peace. For weeks after returning from Ohio State, Bill Seibolt kept receiving giant postcards with pictures of the Ohio State stadium. Jerry Eckwood could not escape pursuit even at his brother's funeral; a recruiter from Oklahoma came to pay his respects...
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