Sam Webb crystal balls LB Jeremy Patton to Michigan
Patton is a 6'1 210 LB from Tenaha, TX. Currently it's assumed that this is a Michigan/Texas battle with Texas in the lead (though from the front page recruiting post, it seems Patton likes Michigan more but distance may play a factor).
Webb put in a crystal ball with a confidence of 6 and then subsequently flipped his crystal ball for Deuce Spurlock from Michigan to Mississippi St. with a confidence of 1. It always seemed like the staff was waiting on what Patton would do to give Spurlock the go ahead to commit. If Webb is correct, things seem to be looking very good for Michigan to land Patton.
Of all Sam’s balls, crystal are my favorite.
And when they're held for pleasure, they're the balls that I like best.
WR skill sets with a LB mentality is good in this era!
He's more LB than WR.
So, not just a shooter?
If he ends up Blue, what are the chances the recruiting staff could make a commitment photo similar to this one?
Those pants, while assuredly practical, look very silly
I’m not so sure they’re practical. How many horses did Patton ride in World War I and II? It was his own nostalgia for his time in the Pancho Villa Expedition of 1916.
If you conjured the balls to tell Gen George S Patton that his pants looked silly, he'd slap them off and march you 100 miles to be a stable boy at a boot camp base. He'd use those slapped off balls to lubricate his tank treads...
Wait until you see grown males in skinny pants in the year 2000's.
He is certainly trending in our general direction.
I mean, with all due respect to the strategic legacy of George S. Patton, people would have probably taken any speeches even more seriously if there had not been an insistence on wearing old-style cavalry breeches.
And the fact that he had a high pitch voice. George C Scott was a better Patton than Patton.
I see George Helow is the recruiter. How do you pronounce Helow? Are we going to see a "Helow: Jeremy Patton" post?
Hee-low
It is like you would describe a good linemans pad level. HEEE-LOWWW
And were going to Georgia! And were going to Tennessee, and were going to Washington to take back the White House .....
BYAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
Despite his cool name, i wasn't overly impressed with Spurlocks film so this seems like a positive to me.
Now I have to go watch film on Patton.
George C. Scott is excellent in Patton. Great film. ?
If we're talking Generals, Scott made a better Buck Turgidson than he did a George Patton.
"I don't think it's fair to condemn the whole program because of a single slip up."
Is there any part of that movies that’s not hilarious?
Junior Highlights: link
Shows a good nose for the ball as a LB. a lot of his offensive film includes him taking handoffs and pitches and dusting the defense. His speed doesn’t look bananas but once he gets going in one direction he covers a lot of ground quickly. Not sure what the level of competition is like that he’s playing against but seems fast by comparison.
Dunno why he’s listed as a WR as that seems to be the least interesting part of his film, but appears to be one of those guys who likes to hit and likes to play football any way he can.
Watched his highlights: He seems to certainly like to use the "hit stick". ?
He's also got pretty decent speed, for a Linebacker.
Teneha? That takes me back to some looong drives from MI to College Station. I look forward to Seth's deep dive on asset forfeiture in the Hello post.
Ok, some airlines needs to give him and his family free airfare forever as a NIL sponsorship to make the distance not a factor.
Sam is also surprisingly optimistic about our chances with Sabb.
Going into the weekend it actually sounds good for Michigan. Sabb is one of the tougher reads this year apparently. I honestly think he goes blue. We’ll see what happen Saturday.
Seems like Michigan, Georgia, and Clemson are at the top. Clemson insider did put in a crystal ball for Clemson today, but I don't think he's had his final Zoom with Michigan yet, so we'll see what filters out after that.
I'm not holding my breath but the staff did an incredible job clawing back into this recruitment.
#588 Nationally Ranked
3*
hmmmm....
4* on ESPN if that makes you feel better
it doesnt. espn is a terrible service
With offers from Michigan, Texas, Oklahoma and LSU (to go along with a handful of other mid-level P5 offers). So maybe we should just ignore the arbitrary ranking from a website that still thinks he’s a WR coming off of a year with no camps so they have limited evaluation of him...
This has been brought up countless times on the board. The recruiting sites miss on guys all the time. Even moreso coming off of a pandemic year that severely limited in-person evaluations. Some guys shoot up the rankings late, some guys go unnoticed the whole process, some are overrated from the start.
Its lazy to sit there and judge a recruit solely on his recruiting ranking. Again, even more in a year such as this. Rankings are a PIECE of the puzzle. Offers and film can be just as telling, and even more telling in a lot of ways. Do you want a top 150 kid with low P5 offers or do you want a kid in the 600s with all the heavy hitter offers?
I would be quite pleased if he were to commit to Michigan.