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Leak not awed by facing Miami

By Pat Forde
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, September 3, 2003

Following in the footsteps of Chris Simms, Tim Couch, the Brothers Manning and so many other quarterbacks who have gone before him, Chris Leak arrived in college with everything but palm fronds laid at his feet. When schools start offering you scholarships in eighth grade, you develop an aura. When you go on to throw a national-record 185 touchdown passes in high school, recruiters twitch uncontrollably. And when you choose a college that just lost a quarterback who threw for 9,000 yards in thr ...

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