Patt commits to UL football

[wcd35]

I'll say like I said on CRZ.com, I've seen every game that this kid has played. He is a great athlete that rarely gets beat (like all of the BB defense). He has great recovery speed and is a playmaker at the corner. I'll be more keyed on him this season now that I know he's more than likely going to be a Cajun.

Also, its great to finally have a BB player in the Vermilion and White. I cant remember the last one and with the amount of talent we put out, I'm glad the Cajun coaches are getting closer to the BB program. This will likely be Mowad's last year, so no more Tech bias excuses.

[DrumRoll]

_ this guy looks like the real deal. key part of a very, very swift breaux bridge defense. this is one player whose 40-yard dash times are not exagerrated. geaux cajuns. _

Agreed, but I would like to point out that sometimes stats can be publicized that are misleading in the other direction as well. As an example, combine stats can be extremely misleading IMO. A guy that runs first as opposed to doing bench press, vertical, shuttle, broad jump and whatever else they have scheduled, has a huge advantage from a fatigue perspective. Combine events are not always run in the same order across the country, nor do they have the same temperature, same humidity, etc...

I saw one Nike Combine where the fastest player ran a 4.68 40, of course there was a wind chill factor of 38 degrees when it started, some of the participants legs were visibly blue! The top recruit in the state that year, who signed with LSU, ran a 5.1.

The problem is that for many of those players, their stats were publicized by people in the media, without mentioning the minor detail that the Nike guys had as footnote concerning how the 40 times should be adjusted downward due to extreme weather conditions, seems like 8% was the concensus. If they never had another chance to run an official recorded 40, they had to live with the erroneous time posted all over the internet.

40 times, height, and weight, often change quite a bit as a kid's body matures...and the old stats often linger on the internet. Look at Ladarius Green, his nickname was Pee Wee in HS, and then he grew 5" in 2 years I think :-)

[CajunT]

_ Agreed, but I would like to point out that sometimes stats can be publicized that are misleading in the other direction as well. As an example, combine stats can be extremely misleading IMO. A guy that runs first as opposed to doing bench press, vertical, shuttle, broad jump and whatever else they have scheduled, has a huge advantage from a fatigue perspective. Combine events are not always run in the same order across the country, nor do they have the same temperature, same humidity, etc...

I saw one Nike Combine where the fastest player ran a 4.68 40, of course there was a wind chill factor of 38 degrees when it started, some of the participants legs were visibly blue! The top recruit in the state that year, who signed with LSU, ran a 5.1.

The problem is that for many of those players, their stats were publicized by people in the media, without mentioning the minor detail that the Nike guys had as footnote concerning how the 40 times should be adjusted downward due to extreme weather conditions, seems like 8% was the concensus. If they never had another chance to run an official recorded 40, they had to live with the erroneous time posted all over the internet.

40 times, height, and weight, often change quite a bit as a kid's body matures...and the old stats often linger on the internet. Look at Ladarius Green, his nickname was Pee Wee in HS, and then he grew 5" in 2 years I think :-) _

I agree with you, athletes hurt themselves more by running the forty at combines and camps. I have had four college coaches tell me the same thing in the past year.

Patt's 4.5 time was ran indoor at the Cajun practice facility. I watched him on both runs, it is legit.