PISCATAWAY – The highly touted linebacker from Jersey City looked at the elite defensive lineman from Paterson who in turn locked eyes with the dynamic halfback from Montclair.
All wondered the same thing.
Gathered together in a room at the Hale Center training complex at Rutgers, the top high school football recruits in New Jersey in 2001 just had been asked to do the unthinkable: Turn down scholarship offers from established winning programs around the nation to unite as a state to play for the Scarlet Knights.
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