Gary Patterson
Gary Patterson
Gary Pattersonis an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach at Texas Christian University. Patterson has led the TCU Horned Frogs to six conference championships—the Conference USA title in 2002, four Mountain West Conference titles, and Big 12 Conference co-championship in 2014—and eight bowl game wins including a victory in the 2011 Rose Bowl. His 2010 squad finished the season undefeated at 13–0 after a 21-19 Rose Bowl victory over the Wisconsin Badgers on...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth13 February 1960
coming helped
They helped us out by coming out throwing.
biggest both center class current except group hardest lost offensive positions recruiting replace
The biggest group in our current recruiting class is offensive linemen. Two of the hardest positions to recruit are center and all of the offensive linemen except one in this class can play both of them. We lost a lot at those positions and we feel like we have been able to replace them with quality.
chance conference ourselves playing unless win
The BCS still is a long way away for us, ... We know we don't have a chance unless we win the conference title. . . . But we feel like if we keep playing better we'll give ourselves a chance.
defensive enjoyed football game people plays
It was just a game with a lot of plays and a lot of football action. I think most people enjoyed it. I even did, and I'm a defensive guy.
defense earned final finish high jump opportunity played proud second team top
I'm really proud of the team and really proud of the way the defense played in the second half. We wanted an opportunity to finish high and jump into the top 10 in the final rankings. I feel like we've earned it.
chemistry fortitude handled sure
I'm not sure that we would have the fortitude and chemistry that we have right now and how we've handled things if it wasn't for that loss.
ballgame knows last lost neither oklahoma team until year
Oklahoma lost a lot from last year but still has a lot. Neither team knows what it has until the ballgame is over.
last oklahoma question sure team watching year
Oklahoma has more question marks, I think. If I'm them watching film I'm not sure what kind of TCU team I'm getting. Last year was an uncharacteristic year for us defensively.
alumni great happy move time win
It was a great win for the program, but now it's time to move on. I'm very happy for TCU, the alumni and the players. It's been a lot of fun, but now it's back to work.
against beat chance fortunate gained gave happy lose oklahoma people winning
We feel very fortunate and are very happy to be 1-0. I don't think many people gave us a chance to be 1-0. But you lose everything you gained winning against an Oklahoma if you go and get beat by SMU.
credit though worse
Even though it's only 70, the humidity is a lot worse than you give it credit for.
coming defense jump knew
We knew coming in that we were going to have a dogfight, and we had to jump on them early, ... We did that, and our defense was swarming.
best gets goes job lose policy starting
You do what's best for the team. But we've always had a policy that you don't lose a starting job because of an injury. We'll see how it goes when he gets back.
game
To be honest, I think that game probably put us in this situation,