They always say you have a great long snapper on your team when you don’t know his name. It’s a position that is as routine as it gets, until a bad snap costs you points or a troubled punt. A lot of colleges gain a reputation for producing players at a specific position, like LSU and their “DBU” moniker. Well, Buford High School in Georgia may be able to boast they have turned into a pipeline.
There really is not much to the recruitment of Skinner. Following in the footsteps of the Ferguson brothers, Reid and Blake, Buford has had over a decade of ease in knowing any long snap was taken care of between the three.