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FWST: ‘A lot of people in red and blue.’ TCU’s Patterson not happy with crowd for SMU game
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<blockquote data-quote="Deep Purple" data-source="post: 2765119" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Disagree. The crowd are the paying customers. They spend thousands of dollars per year on TCU football (at least I know I do). They're entitled to expect much better than what they saw on Saturday, and to criticize when they instead see a stumbling, fumbling, bumbling team effort, all topped off by completely dull and uninspired coaching.</p><p></p><p>GP, on the other hand, is being paid $5 million per year to produce teams that may not always win top accolades, but should at least be reasonably expected to beat the likes of SMU. He's not being paid $5 million to blame the fans when the team he coaches doesn't perform up to capability. I will never accept a head coach blaming poor team performance on the fans. There wasn't a single TCU fan on that field last Saturday, much less fans who fumbled the ball <strong>six times</strong>, turning it over on three of those fumbles to destroy TCU scoring attempts or set up SMU scoring opportunities.</p><p></p><p>Gary, there were at most 500 SMU fans in Amon Carter Stadium on Saturday. They did not win the game for SMU. Good coaching and good player execution won the game. Likewise, the 41,000 TCU fans at the game -- perhaps 10,000 of whom left at halftime -- did not lose the game for TCU. We lost because we got outcoached and outplayed.</p><p></p><p>Making a scapegoat of fickle TCU fans is not an acceptable response.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deep Purple, post: 2765119, member: 17"] Disagree. The crowd are the paying customers. They spend thousands of dollars per year on TCU football (at least I know I do). They're entitled to expect much better than what they saw on Saturday, and to criticize when they instead see a stumbling, fumbling, bumbling team effort, all topped off by completely dull and uninspired coaching. GP, on the other hand, is being paid $5 million per year to produce teams that may not always win top accolades, but should at least be reasonably expected to beat the likes of SMU. He's not being paid $5 million to blame the fans when the team he coaches doesn't perform up to capability. I will never accept a head coach blaming poor team performance on the fans. There wasn't a single TCU fan on that field last Saturday, much less fans who fumbled the ball [B]six times[/B], turning it over on three of those fumbles to destroy TCU scoring attempts or set up SMU scoring opportunities. Gary, there were at most 500 SMU fans in Amon Carter Stadium on Saturday. They did not win the game for SMU. Good coaching and good player execution won the game. Likewise, the 41,000 TCU fans at the game -- perhaps 10,000 of whom left at halftime -- did not lose the game for TCU. We lost because we got outcoached and outplayed. Making a scapegoat of fickle TCU fans is not an acceptable response. [/QUOTE]
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