Miami safety Zaquan Patterson Plans To Enter Transfer Portal

[ST26]

What does Bama and GA have anything to do with our talent evals?

This had noting to do with Patterson not being talented and it wasn't a poor evaluation. He was showing up late to practices, workouts, film sessions, etc. Good on the staff for holding kids accountable. If Zaquan can get his head on straight, there is no doubt he can be a good player

 

[miamimike305]

That they are not better it than we are and miss on way more than we do.
They just hoard a bunch of talent and eventually several hit and the rest are forgotten.
This makes it seem like they are better at it when in essence they just increase their chances of landing a first rounder from the sheer number of elite recruits they get.

Anyone can seem like an evaluation and development expert when your team’s blue chip ratio is 90 percent.
That was Ohio states blue chipp ratio in 2024. So in essence most of their 2nd and 3rd stringers had a higher rating out of high school than most p4 teams starters.

I get what you're saying but we are not hitting on talent. Just look at the 2022 and 2023 recruiting cycles. Yes we've hit on a couple but what good is hitting on a couple if by the time we hit on our next ones, they are seniors. Luckily we have the portal but at some point we have to do better at talent evaluation.

Not having above average RBs (besides Lyle), WRs, CBs, LBs, Dline, Safeties, QBs is not a good look in Mario's tenure. If Mario can hit on the right recruits in 2025 which has a lot of speed, I think he can turn this around.

 

[DTP]

Not going to pretend I know the circumstances but the writing has been on the wall for a while. He couldn’t get into games last year despite having nobody good ahead of him on the depth chart and the staff immediately started targeting multiple safeties on the transfer portal, with the possibility of another coming on in the spring portal.

 

[Trav]

Poor evaluation/fit, along with a few other notable DBs.

Ridiculous. He was one of the top safeties in the country from a feeder school in our backyard. Unless there were massive off field red flags, he's always a take.

 

[Mr. Dynasty1]

That GT game was brutal

 

[NCCanefan]

Facts. Anyone who has followed this for a while knows even the best of the best evaluators and developers get it right half the time. The only solution to winning every year is to always be stacking chips.

I always remind people that the NFL spends millions on scouting and combines, has older guys to evaluate and tons of tape and we all know how that works out. It turns out it is very hard to project how well a guy is going to do at the next level.

 

[cowboycane]

You think it’s just us? I’m gonna break the surprise for you, it’s happening all over the country at every big program. Character issues are the number one reason for failure for kids that have top-notch talent. Because those issues are what is keeping them from putting in the work behind the scenes on all the little things. You can’t survive at a top-notch D1 program, unless you are all in. And Paterson wasn’t from the beginning, along with many other kids across the country.

Shocker, every program says every kid that’s leaving was a character issue or couldn’t hack it.

 

[simplycanes]

He could've grown. He didn't play great but was a freshman.

If we had different personnel, possibly; but we needed a safety with range and we still do. I don’t think that part of his game was going to evolve/develop. I question how much the latter will exist in the transfer world. Players will keep moving around until they fit.

 

[simplycanes]

Our HC evals are off.

People are going to have a hard time processing/accepting this, but there’s too many bad misses for the resources he’s been given.

 

[JHallCanes]

Ridiculous. He was one of the top safeties in the country from a feeder school in our backyard. Unless there were massive off field red flags, he's always a take.

Imagine if the staff had passed on him

 

[miamimike305]

People are going to have a hard time processing/accepting this, but there’s too many bad misses for the resources he’s been given.

Exactly. He has to surround himself with coaches that have an eye for talent and speed.

 

[Alex_Dynamix]

Imagine if the staff had passed on him

Yep, their ragging on the kid being a bad eval now after year 1 but most DEF would've had the pitchforks out if Mario/staff decided an elite borderline 5 star safety from south florida WASN'T a take for us , had this jit gone to FSU out of HS this place would've been issufferable.

 

[3FW]

Not a huge loss. Doubt he would have played much. Good luck to him

 

[cway313]

Ridiculous. He was one of the top safeties in the country from a feeder school in our backyard. Unless there were massive off field red flags, he's always a take.

If that is how evaluations are conducted we are cooked for 4 more years.

 

[RealRussellPumps]

Kid is a tremendous talent and I was ecstatic we took him. If he was not attending meetings and showing up late to team activities, good for Mario for holding him accountable. It didn't work here for one reason or the other. If he puts his head down and works, he still can be a **** of a player. Could be just a case of needing a change of scenery.

 

[pacusmc]

I get what you're saying but we are not hitting on talent. Just look at the 2022 and 2023 recruiting cycles. Yes we've hit on a couple but what good is hitting on a couple if by the time we hit on our next ones, they are seniors. Luckily we have the portal but at some point we have to do better at talent evaluation.

Not having above average RBs (besides Lyle), WRs, CBs, LBs, Dline, Safeties, QBs is not a good look in Mario's tenure. If Mario can hit on the right recruits in 2025 which has a lot of speed, I think he can turn this around.

Go look at Ohio state’s, UGA and Bama’s recruiting classes for the past 5-6 years. Now for each class look at each players history and rankings and where they are now.
5 stars hit at 50 percent historically. Those 3 schools alone get about half of the 5 stars each year. So just by default they are producing nfl talent.
Then go see down the list where most of those players in each class are now. We are talking about top 100 players every year on each team that dont pan out. This illusion of these frontrunners being some master evaluators is way off.

Let’s say that every year they get 25 players from high school? How many from each year see significant playing time or make the league?
It’s nowhere near what people think. They miss a lot.

We’ve had some good recruiting classes. But we haven’t stacked top 3 classes for a decade straight the way those 3 schools have.

 

[Mikesmith29150]

Go look at Ohio state’s, UGA and Bama’s recruiting classes for the past 5-6 years. Now for each class look at each players history and rankings and where they are now.
5 stars hit at 50 percent historically. Those 3 schools alone get about half of the 5 stars each year. So just by default they are producing nfl talent.
Then go see down the list where most of those players in each class are now. We are talking about top 100 players every year on each team that dont pan out. This illusion of these frontrunners being some master evaluators is way off.

Let’s say that every year they get 25 players from high school? How many from each year see significant playing time or make the league?
It’s nowhere near what people think. They miss a lot.

We’ve had some good recruiting classes. But we haven’t stacked top 3 classes for a decade straight the way those 3 schools have.

This

 

[TheOriginalCane]

If that is how evaluations are conducted we are cooked for 4 more years.

That would give you 4 years of oxygen.

 

[ST26]

If that is how evaluations are conducted we are cooked for 4 more years.

Maybe if Patterson chose to show up to practices and workouts on time, then he would have practiced this spring and probably would still be on the roster right now

 

[cway313]

Maybe if Patterson chose to show up to practices and workouts on time, then he would have practiced this spring and probably would still be on the roster right now

Maybe something the coaches should have looked into before signing him.