MANHATTAN, Kan. | Lamark Brown already had made his oral commitment to play football for Kansas State, but Wildcats coach Ron Prince wasn’t taking any chances.Here’s why.“Coach Prince came to our school last spring, and he’s in my office,” said Hazelwood, Mo., West High School coach Keith Herring, “and a coach from Oklahoma State knocks on my door and says he wants to see Lamark. Coach Prince pokes his head around the corner and looks at him. We kind of ran him out of there.”
“I thought he’d be an impact defensive player in college,” Herring said. “In the first game he played for us as a freshman, he was laying the wood to people, playing like he’d been there all the time. Mo Latimore (K-State assistant) even said he could see Lamark at defensive end.”
I'm shocked, shocked I say, that Mo looked at a great athlete and thought he could play on the DL.