Shea Patterson puts on an Ole Miss hat during a press conference at Calvary Baptist Academy in Shreveport, La., Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. Patterson verbally committed to playing football at Mississippi. (AP Photo/The Shreveport Times, Douglas Collier) 

College football sometimes a murky business 

The new way of business in college football is not always exemplary. Former Arizona intern/GA Sean Patterson quit his UA job to be a “quality control” coach at LSU when his brother, top quarterback prospect Shea Patterson, reneged on his commitment to play for Arizona and become an LSU Tiger. Last month, the Pattersons were on the move again. Shea this time flipped his commitment to Ole Miss, and then the Rebels hired his brother to be “associate director for recruiting operations.” It can be a murky business, but it’s hardly new. How do you think ASU got its best basketball player of the last 50 years, James Harden? It hired his high school coach, Scott Pera, to be on Herb Sendek’s staff. 


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