I spent some time today with a coach that was at the Elite 11. As some of you know, Trent Dilfer's kids go to the school where I work, so some of our guys went up to Oregon with him.
For those of you not aware, the Elite 11 is a separate event from the Opening. Elite 11 has 18 QBs from all over the nation that work for 2 1/2 days. Then a bunch more guys show up for the Opening and form the 7 on 7 teams for another 3 1/2 days. Also interesting that out of a total of 166 players, Florida State and LSU tied with the most at 7. He told me that after the #1 ranking, #'s 2-11 mean nothing. The only thing that really counts is coming out #1 which Patterson did. He told me some interesting things about Feleipe Franks who he worked with quite a bit.
First of all, he said he is built like a good looking Cam Newton. 6'6-6'7, wide shoulders, narrow waist and jokingly told Franks he should just be a model and make the same money rather than get beat up playing football. Franks is a very simple guy from a small town and not very worldly. He also said that Franks is NOT 100% sold on LSU. It was an early offer and still his best, but he is concerned about how we develop QB's. Franks wants to be a drop back pro-style QB (I wished he'd have pointed out that LSU had exactly that with 3000+ yards with Mett). Anyway, I was a little surprised to hear that because I thought Franks was 100% in our camp.
2nd interesting piece of news is that there was a lot of talk about IMG discontinuing their football program. What they are doing is looked at as cheating by everyone (how does one team have 8 5******?)Time will tell, but this guy doesn't think they'll have a team in a couple of years. Take all of this for what it is worth, but this guy is very very tuned in to the Elite 11.
For those of you not aware, the Elite 11 is a separate event from the Opening. Elite 11 has 18 QBs from all over the nation that work for 2 1/2 days. Then a bunch more guys show up for the Opening and form the 7 on 7 teams for another 3 1/2 days. Also interesting that out of a total of 166 players, Florida State and LSU tied with the most at 7. He told me that after the #1 ranking, #'s 2-11 mean nothing. The only thing that really counts is coming out #1 which Patterson did. He told me some interesting things about Feleipe Franks who he worked with quite a bit.
First of all, he said he is built like a good looking Cam Newton. 6'6-6'7, wide shoulders, narrow waist and jokingly told Franks he should just be a model and make the same money rather than get beat up playing football. Franks is a very simple guy from a small town and not very worldly. He also said that Franks is NOT 100% sold on LSU. It was an early offer and still his best, but he is concerned about how we develop QB's. Franks wants to be a drop back pro-style QB (I wished he'd have pointed out that LSU had exactly that with 3000+ yards with Mett). Anyway, I was a little surprised to hear that because I thought Franks was 100% in our camp.
2nd interesting piece of news is that there was a lot of talk about IMG discontinuing their football program. What they are doing is looked at as cheating by everyone (how does one team have 8 5******?)Time will tell, but this guy doesn't think they'll have a team in a couple of years. Take all of this for what it is worth, but this guy is very very tuned in to the Elite 11.
