So you think Max is the lead dog?
1.) I do not live in Fort Worth.
2.) I have no access to, or gossipy friends next to any TCU Coaching Staff or Trainers or Anyone At All Connected With The Football Program.
3.) I pay for no "exclusive access!" or any other sites offering hot takes on TCU Athletics.
4.) Considering all of the above, all I have to go on is my roughly 50 years of watching and paying attention to football, the opinions and gossip in this here site, and my increasingly shaky gut. Those intuitive metrics say that Sonny would be an idiot to bench a 4-year starter unless he "had a knee" and a sore on his pecker. Sonny didn't walk onto the job with a 5* recruit he promised the starting job to, and the Morris kid is a
damned fine talent, but Max has one year to go and he has looked good and made good decisions given the chaos he has been forced to deal with. Like TB2, I believe there are a great deal of wins there for the taking provided you utilize his talents intelligently.
I have great respect (still) for Patterson's Football Kung Fu. Sonny came into Fort Worth twice running, with less talent, and pulled Patterson's underwear over his head both times. Evidently, his Football Kung Fu is superior, and much of it is Proper Utilization of Talent.