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...Murphy remembers Carl Morris and basketball. The first time he saw his star receiver, Morris was playing for Episcopal High in Alexandria, Va. Murphy watched from the stands as Morris dunked from all angles and didn’t quite see the polished football player right then—couldn’t have, since Morris didn’t pick up football until 11th grade—but saw an athlete. Murphy, a master recruiter who has stolen players from the clutches of Nebraska and other big-time programs since taking over in 1994, has an eye for these...
...shirt now, a portrait of controlled fatigue. He has gone from ESPN interviews early in the week to two Crimson reporters on Thursday—all the while with nationally-ranked Penn looming on the schedule. He has also seen the world’s reaction to Carl Morris—lived it the past few days—and so he’d be as good a person as anyone about the free-body diagram...
Morris pauses the interview to answer the phone. It’s Chris Nowinski ’00—and this, fellow physicists, is where our study of Carl Morris becomes as much a study in time as space, for Morris is supported by the growing network of Harvard alums who were once in his shoes. Nowinski has successfully broken into professional wrestling and is a regular in the WWE. He played defensive tackle in front of Kacyvenski, the Seattle Seahawk. Those two represent the lucky few Harvard alums that have somehow escaped the gravitational pull of I-banking...
...think it’s obvious from what he’s accomplished that Carl couldn’t have handled it better,” Murphy says. “Carl has the ability—and this is the case with anyone who is successful in anything—to focus. He narrows his scope of vision, and doesn’t let the peripheral things that are going on occupy his mind at critical times...
...told Carl that if he needs a point of reference, I’m here, and to keep his head on,” Patterson says. “Don’t let the hype and the pressure get to you. Because it can—you see your name in a couple of magazines, read ‘Terrence Patterson’s a pro prospect,’ and you start thinking about the future.” Patterson says that his own nervousness hurt his performance late...