Y’all are some real keyboard warriors to sit here and trash talk Gary.
If Gary Patterson doesn’t walk the face of the earth we’re hanging out in utter irrelevance wondering how much longer we even field a D1 football team much less keep the door’s of TCU open.
No.
You can appreciate what Gary did his first 15 or so years and be critical of what he did his last 5 or so. The two are not mutually exclusive.
But your premise requires the belief that no other human existed during that time period who could have been successful at TCU, which is silly and borders on idol worship. It ignores the dozens of outstanding coaches who were his contemporaries, or who came along after. It also ignores and insults the incredible hard and successful work of all those who made the financial and structural commitment to enable that success.
Gary did a great job here for a relatively long time, and then he didn’t.