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Tim Stevens, J. Mike Blake, Clay Best, Aaron Moody, and Elliiott Warnock follow all the news for high school athletes from Wake, Orange, Durham, Chatham and Johnston Counties. 

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Miami's recruiting class

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 2008 record: 4-4 Coastal, 5-6  overall  ACC

ACC Recruit ranking: 3.

National Recruit ranking: 9.

Five star: Armstrong.

Four star: Dye, James, Johnson, McGee, Miller, Reid, Robinson, Vernon, Washington.

Average stars: 3.60.

 

Analysis: This Hurricanes' group looks like one of the best in the country. Led by five-star players Ray Ray Armstrong of Sanford, Fla.(he's an "athlete" whose college position isn't set yet) and running back Bryce Brown (Wichita, Kan., committed but unsigned), Miami is on many recruiting experts' top 10 lists.

Ray Ray Armstrong • Sanford, Fla. • ATH • 6-4 • 218
Dyron Dye • Sanford, Fla. • DE • 6-4 • 215

Shayon Green• Tifton, Ga. • LB • 6-2 • 235

A.J. Highsmith • Fort Bend, Texas • ATH • 6-0 • 186
Mike James • Davenport, Fla. • RB • 5-11 • 211
Jermaine Johnson • Chatham, Va. • OL • 6-6 • 309
Prince Kent • Norcross, Ga. • ATH • 6-3 • 195
Brandon McGee • Lauderhill, Fla • DB • 5-11 • 186
Lamar Miller • Miami, Fla. • RB • 5-11 • 205
Stephen Plein • Fort Myers, Fla. • TE • 6-6 • 240
Curtis Porter • Charlotte • DT • 6-2 • 334
Jamal Reid • Mayo, Fla. • ATH • 6-1 • 175
Luther Robinson • Fort Pierce, Fla. • DT • 6-3 • 280

Billy Sanders • Coeur d'Alene, Idaho• tE • 6-4 • 235

Olivier Vernon • Miami, Fla. • DE • 6-3 • 239
Brandon Washington • New Berlin, N.Y. • OL • 6-5 • 330
Jared Wheeler • Plantation, Fla. • OL • 6-5 • 310
Cory White • Jacksonville, Fla. • TE 6-4 • 225


 

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Tim has covered high school sports for more than 40 years. He is the only active newspaper reporter in the National High School Sports Hall of Fame and is a member of the N.C. High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame. He was the co-author of the original NCHSAA record book. When he not writing about boys and girls, he often is at church or in a theater. Email Tim.
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