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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.

Don Meyer

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Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
Basketball Coach
Wayne
Nebraska
Donald Wayne Meyer
Basketball
Ones
Best
Sometimes
Recruits
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Nba

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