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ESPN: The best coach in Texas doesn't want to leave TCU

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ESPN: The best coach in Texas doesn't want to leave TCU

Chris Low ESPN Senior Staff Writer

FORT WORTH, Texas -- The average college football fan has probably wondered more than once why the most successful coach in the state of Texas is so content at TCU.

Gary Patterson, fresh off a fourth consecutive win over Texas and with his No. 6 Horned Frogs barreling toward a Saturday showdown with No. 5 Oklahoma that will have major implications in both the College Football Playoff and Big 12 races, has wondered the same thing himself. He keeps coming to the same conclusion, thanks in part to some advice Gary Darnell offered him more than 30 years ago, when Patterson was coaching linebackers under Darnell at Tennessee Tech.

"He told me, 'Gary, you want to get to a place where you have to say no more than you say yes,' and that's what I've found here at TCU," said Patterson, whose Frogs have been the winningest FBS program in the state of Texas (157-54) since his first season as head coach in 2001.

Read more at http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...-horned-frogs-coach-gary-patterson-need-leave
 
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