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This Year, The Battles Were Won Early

WR Percy Harvin		By Franz Beard GatorCountry.com Date: Feb 1, 2006 A year ago, in the wee hours of the morning before the faxes started rolling in on his first recruiting class at the University of Florida, Urban Meyer was on the telephone doing one of the more remarkable sales jobs you'll ever see to save linebacker Jon Demps of Pensacola from signing with arch-rival Florida State. The coach was sweating bullets, turning on the charm and firing away with every logical counter-point he could think of on short notice.

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