Articles Posted in the TCU Category
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Time Out with Gary Patterson
FOX Sports Southwest Big 12 Showcase host Emily Jones recently sat down with TCU football coach Gary Patterson to discuss the Horned Frogs’ move to the Big 12 and the team’s expectations this season. Following are excerpts from the interview. Jones: How excited are you to be in the Big 12? Patterson: One thing about [...]
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Kenneth Davis to Tanner Brock – Another Bad Day In Fort Worth 26 Years Later
Heisman threat Kenneth Davis, the Temple Tornado, was swept away by the TCU football scandal in 1985 for taking money from boosters. Frogs Coach Jim Wacker cleaned house – perhaps fearing a death penalty situation like SMU at the time – more likely, Wacker was trying to do the right thing – for all his [...]
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Frogs Take Marino-Like Identity
Several Septembers ago, a long-haired quarterback burst on to the national prime time scene and displayed the skills and size that would rebuild his team quickly and launch his team into football’s title game the following season. The next Dan Marino may not have arrived at TCU, but Casey Pachall shook off continuous leg cramps [...]
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This Time Patterson’s Horned Frogs Ranked #1
ESPN The Magazine senior writer Bruce Feldman has ranked TCU No. 1 nationally for its ability to develop National Football League talent. TCU had 24 players drafted and 48 in NFL camps through Head Coach Gary Patterson’s first nine years as head coach. The Horned Frogs’ top ranking comes from Patterson being able to consistently [...]
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National Signing Day
Today is much more than just another day in the Metroplex leading up to Super Bowl XLV. For many high school athletes and college coaches it’s the biggest day of the year–National Signing Day. This is the first day high school players can sign scholarship agreements with universities. It’s not just for football players, but [...]
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Frogs Rule
I just wanted to make another compelling argument why TCU belongs with the big boys…even without moving to the Big East conference. First, the Frogs opened as 1 1/2 point favorites in Vegas over Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl. That has now gone to 2 1/2 points because most of the bettors were going with [...]
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Head Buckeye Jumps on Frogs
COLUMBUS, Ohio — “Even if TCU and Boise State run the table, they still don’t deserve to be in the Bowl Championship Series title game…….” Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee In a recent interview with The Associated Press, the president at the university with the largest athletic program in the country said that TCU [...]
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TCU and SMU – Time to Support the Local Teams
I consider myself a fairly intelligent person. I have a degree from Southern Illinois University (often referred to as “The Harvard of the Midwest”) and I graduated in the top 84% of my high school class but I still don’t get something. What’s up with college football fans in Dallas-Ft. Worth? Nobody seems to care [...]
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ScoreBoard Interviews TCU AD Chris DelConte
As TCU’s football team attempts to complete another perfect regular season and qualify for a BCS bowl game, possibly even the national championship game, a lot of eyes are on athletic director Chris Del Conte and his role in keeping the Frogs’ football team rolling while elevating the other athletic programs on campus. ScoreBoard recently [...]
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![slideImage-610px-225px[1]](http://www.scoreboarddaily.com/daily/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/slideImage-610px-225px1-270x120.jpg "The BCS Debate- How the Contenders Stack Up")
The BCS Debate- How the Contenders Stack Up
With Sunday night’s unveiling of the first college football BCS rankings, ScoreBoard thought we’d take a look at the top five teams and how they have actually performed so far, and what still needs to happen for them to be playing in the final game of the season. #1 Oklahoma (6 -0) Beat Utah State [...]
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