Mark Story: Kiffin, Kelly make visits to recruit Dawson

As you read this, five days remain until high school football stars can sign binding scholarship agreements with college programs. Around that storm, gale-force winds gather.

In Georgia, the recruitment of the state's top-ranked player, running back Isaiah Crowell, by Auburn, Alabama and the home-state Bulldogs, ginned up so many media phone calls that his poor high school coach had to ask the county school system's director of communications to start screening them.

Here in Kentucky, our state's top-ranked prospect, Boyle County linebacker Lamar Dawson, will announce his college choice next Wednesday. What, I wondered, is life like now for his coach, Larry French?

"I've never seen anything like this thing with Lamar," French said Wednesday. "This one's different."

French says the media inquiries in Dawson's recruitment have been manageable. What's been head-turning has been the revolving door of big-name college coaches passing through Danville.

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