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Given the specter of agents and uncertainty about their motives, Morris has turned to Kacyvenski and Nowinski for advice. And it’s not just the successful pros who advise Morris about how to run the gauntlet. Terrence Patterson ’00 was Harvard’s primary pre-Morris receiver, and has seen his protegé take an axe to his receiving records. Patterson, who worked out briefly for the NFL before winding up with a corporate job in the Walt Disney Company, never garnered the hype that surrounds Morris now, but he says that what chatter...
...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...
...course, the calls are not all business. Patterson routinely reminds Morris that only one of them ever returned a punt for a touchdown—one of the reasons Patterson playfully clings to the “Greatest Of All Time” title. And it’s hard to conceive that very many conversations with Nowinski could be serious for long. But here is another force to be considered in all this—the stabilizing influence of Harvard’s football network...
Since we’re traveling through time, let’s go a bit further back, back to the 1970s and to the man who held most of Harvard’s receiving records before Patterson and Morris were born. Pat McInally ’75, was selected in the fifth round of the NFL draft and made his living as, of all things, an All-League punter. McInally had been the Crimson’s highest-ever Crimson selection until Kacyvenski in 2000. The laws of physics don’t change over time, presumably...
...anchors and the middle of the lineup will probably make or break a lot of the tough matches,” Patterson said...