Pat White is back in Alabama doing his thing, perhaps for the last time, as a quarterback. Practices for Saturday’s Senior Bowl began Monday and one review revealed his early struggles.

No, one review doesn’t cement the week and I’ll give Pat the benefit of the doubt early on. In fact, I’d be stunned if he didn’t light it up one day soon. Seems to me like he embraces a challenge and tries to prove people wrong. In football terms, he’s down a score early in the game. That’s never intimidated him in the past.

And what a past that was — and almost never was. White’s arrival at WVU was a long, determined effort and Rick Trickett was largely responsible for luring Pat from professional baseball as well as SEC football after discovering the quarterback quite accidentally.

“I was at one of his football games,” Trickett said. “They were playing a team with another kid I was looking at. In the first quarter, he had an 80-yard touchdown run, but he must have run 120 yards. Nobody could touch him.

“I was sitting with a boy who had played for me. I said, ‘Where’s his daddy?’ He said, ‘There’s his dad, walking to the bathroom.’ I got up and went down there. I said, ‘We want him and we want him as a quarterback.’

“He said, ‘Well, just get after him.’ So, I started recruiting him hard right then and there.”