Sam Webb Says Michigan now interested in Shea Patterson

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Michigan now interested, along with the schools out west. All compliance offices of interested suitors are trying to see if he can become immediately eligible. Webb also says some Ole Miss players have retained legal counsel in an effort for immediate eligibility, though he says he’s not sure if Patterson is among them. Why the change? IMO likely tied to Speights decision. *Title edit for clarity
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FLwolvfan22

December 1st, 2017 at 8:49 PM ^

was awesome, guy turned into Neo the matrix QB in front of our eyes, if we had another year with him we would have been in the playoffs. That's the thing with Harbaugh QB school of excellence, you either take it all in and become Neo or you freakin' explode, blow a gasket, seals fail. O'Korn had it for one game, then, too much power to handle. Even look at Shane Morris, transfers and has a great season, all that Harbaugh training turned him into a decent QB. 

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DrMantisToboggan

December 1st, 2017 at 8:47 PM ^

If Speight or Brandon play the entire MSU, UW, and OSU games we are probably playing tomorrow night, which is why I say I don't like bringing Patterson in. He doesn't raise our ceiling significantly, and it would undoubtedly disturb the lockerroom, at least the QB room. Patterson turns the ball over against good teams and he's coming off an injury. I'm just not nearly excited about him being here as some seem to be.

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war-dawg69

December 1st, 2017 at 9:26 PM ^

Good than Peters will beat him out. Sick of losing games because our QB is terrible at football and the forward pass. Harbaugh wants a QB that is not only physically, but also mentally tough.

Has to be tough calling plays that will win football games but the QB never delivers. I know I am sick of the same shit two years in a row. The QB is suppossed to lead the team not lose games for them. Harbaugh may just be crossing the T's and dotting I's. Will see.

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JTrain

December 2nd, 2017 at 7:56 AM ^

I think the other main ingredient we are missing here is an OLine good in pass pro to help prevent our talented QB’s from getting killed every time the the Dline throws a twist at us. We can have the most talented qbs in the world but if they are only in the game for 2 qtrs. before they get blind side by a 360 lb nose tackle then we have to put our second qb in. And go back to a one dimensional game plan where everyone in the stadium knows we are gonna run the ball 90% of the time because our lass pro is incompetent.
I don’t have a problem with another great qb in the fold but I hope the coaches are searching even harder for great OT’s...because I believe the two guys we have at qb in the bullpen are more than talented enough and that Oline is a way bigger issue than finding another qb.

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The Mad Hatter

December 2nd, 2017 at 12:12 AM ^

If bringing in a transfer makes the current players sad, tough shit. They can transfer. Speight and Morris didn't bail when Rudock was brought in and Wilton became the starter the next season. Also, I can't shake the feeling that Harbaugh just doesn't like Peters. I don't know if it's a personality conflict, practice play, or something else. But I just get a weird vibe whenever Harbaugh talks about him. And he was behind O'Korn, despite being the better player.

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ThadMattasagoblin

December 1st, 2017 at 9:08 PM ^

Brandon Peters did play the majority of the Wisconsin game and we lost. It's time to acknowledge that Speight isn't the superstar that people make him out to be. The Wisconsin game was won by Darboh making a play on the ball and the defense. In the Colorado game he was around 50 percent passing. Illinois, MSU, and Maryland all had some of the worst secondaries in the big ten. Is he terrible? No, but if he was good we wouldn't have thrown two interceptions to Ohio State from the goal line and we would've scored more than 10 points against Iowa.

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DrMantisToboggan

December 1st, 2017 at 9:17 PM ^

I didn't say majority, I said entire. He played a minority of the second half in Wisconsin, in a game that we led in the 3rd quarter. Additionally, I have never caped for Speight. I think he's been fine, but the fact is that "fine" quarterbacking for 60 minutes against MSU and Wisconsin and OSU wins us those games. Instead we got disastrous quarterbacking for 60 minutes against MSU and OSU, and we got good quarterbacking for 40 minutes and disastrous quarterbacking for 20 minutes in Wisconsin. The difference between status quo and championships for this program right now is not Heisman-level QB play, it's merely above average QB play. Peters showed that he is well above average.

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ThadMattasagoblin

December 1st, 2017 at 9:48 PM ^

I said 3 drops not six which would have given him something like 70 yards passing for a quarter and some minutes. We definitely weren't going to win Wisconsin with any of our 3 quarterbacks on roster. We were losing when Peters got injured and hadn't done anything on offense since the 1st half drive. Our defense was wearing down too. 

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DrMantisToboggan

December 1st, 2017 at 10:03 PM ^

Sorry, I didn't see the part with the "3", my bad. I still disagree overall. I think we win that game with 60 minutes of either Speight or Peters. I do think the momentum changed with the trash PI call, but the coffin was nailed with Peters going out (also Peters should have a TD to his name in this game). When he left its was early in the 3rd, the defense didn't wear down until later on when O'Korn couldn't stay on the field a few times. We obviously aren't coming together on this, but Peters was making the throws we needed to move the ball on them.

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WolverineMan1988

December 1st, 2017 at 10:22 PM ^

You can't really say that we would have won the Wisconsin game if Peters had stayed in. We were losing 14-10 when he went out and the offense did absolutely nothing the entire third quarter with awesome field position with Peters at QB. I agree that Peters was showing promise overall during his stint as the starter, but it's still too early to classify him as "well above average" or think that he is for sure going to take this offense to the next level. The reality is that he was playing somewhat above average and being asked to do very little in most of the games that he played.

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WorldwideTJRob

December 2nd, 2017 at 3:53 AM ^

My how quickly we forget that Speight really struggled at the beginning of the year. Added onto the fact that he wasn’t playing well in the Purdue game before he got hurt. He in my mind would not have been good enough to beat UW, MSU, or OSU. A healthy Peters in those games and we have a shot, any other QB and we still probably lose.

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GhostofJermain…

December 2nd, 2017 at 8:40 AM ^

Let's be honest here.  In a hypothetical where Patterson is eligible and wins the starting job, BP would transfer is my guess.  Dmac (and hopefully his lil bro) sticks it out because he has 2 years to do his thing.  Not saying this is fact, but BP family is very involved and around schem plenty.  They have put their trust in Pep as a family, and watched BP grow and get better this year.  

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diehardalum

December 1st, 2017 at 8:33 PM ^

We haven’t even seen DMacaf in a game yet. We have no way of knowing if we already have our man on the team in Ann Arbor that will bring us a national title. But the more competition at QB the better. Go Blue!

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DrMantisToboggan

December 1st, 2017 at 8:38 PM ^

He's perfect for UCLA and it makes more sense for all parties, IMO. I don't think our ceiling is any higher with Patterson than Peters, call me crazy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Also I doubt he gets a waiver - the NCAA bylaws are pretty clear, and I doubt he has the balls to claim that Ole Miss unfairly misled him when they hired his brother and almost certainly funneled some improper things his family's way. I think he's at Ole Miss again next year, along with Greg Little.

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Maynard

December 1st, 2017 at 10:35 PM ^

Based on the fact that this may be settled instead of going to court in a case that could turn into a huge shitball for the NCAA. We'll see. I know the rules and it will depend on which school each guy wants to go to. Each situation will be different and it may be a case of the player (in this case Patterson) not being opposed to sitting out a year. I know a second transfer who is looking at Michigan as a landing spot but will wait a couple days to see if it becomes public. We also have one commit who is about to waver in a big way that might affect that decision.

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DrMantisToboggan

December 1st, 2017 at 10:57 PM ^

But there's no lawsuit. There's nothing to settle. Patterson would have to apply for a waiver, get denied, sue, and then the two parties would need to settle. At that point you're looking at months, at least, to get all that cleared up. Is Patterson going to decide to transfer here in July? I don't think so, and with all that being said, I don't even think he has a case for a waiver. He's got no real reason to leave Ole Miss other than "wanting to", and I don't trust that he's totally clean. 

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