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DR. PANTONI? Mark Pantoni is the Godfather of college football recruiting and is almost unnaturally good at his job. But he very nearly got into sports a completely different way – medicine.

Blessed with a sharp mind, Pantoni set his sights on attending medical school. As a pre-med student at Florida, he could retain medical jargon from anatomy and biology classes.

“Luckily the good Lord gave me a good strength of memorizing stuff and remembering things,” he said.