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NEXT: NOEL DEVINE

By Bruce Feldman

Thursday, October 9, 2008

There are many ways to gauge a tailback's worth: yards, touchdowns, 40 time. With Devine, it's about buzz. Before the 5'8", 170-pound freshman hit the field for West Virginia this season, his prep highlight reelfull of spinning, zigzagging runsmade him a YouTube phenom and the most talked about Florida recruit since Deion Sanders. But while the ankle-breakers and killer 4.3 speed dropped the jaws of D1 coaches everywhere, none of it could drown out Devine's troubled backstory. Both of his p ...

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