The Houston Nutt Rule: Updating the 2009 Ole Miss Recruiting Class
While Patterson can defend his name with a claim that he never did anything that put him in the police blotter — as seems to be all the rage this summer among college football players — he cannot defend the number of chances he squandered to get himself on the right track.
The headline news on the dismissal is how thin an already unproven Rebel receiving corps finds itself sans Patterson, whose 12 catches for 180 yards as a freshman last year would have placed him third in number of receptions and second in receiving yards among this year’s WR unit heading into the season.
However, keeping the affects of Patterson’s booting only in future tenses misses what may end up a much larger concern for head coach Houston Nutt and the Rebel faithful:
The star power from the 2009 recruiting class is losing its luster.
BleacherReport.com
7/12/10
