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Maybe Herbstreit doesn’t hate TCU?

Smellslikeroses

Full Member
New article in The Athletic about Herbstreit’s kids:
What made this the most rewarding season of Kirk Herbstreit’s broadcast career
https://theathletic.com/753730/2019/01/07/kirk-herbstreit-espn-college-football-analyst/

“The family took visits to USC and TCU and was impressed. But after taking an unofficial visit for Clemson’s win against N.C. State, they knew they wanted to be Tigers. And their dad was thrilled.”

Surprised TCU was on that list... and no tOSU.
 

MTfrog5

Active Member
New article in The Athletic about Herbstreit’s kids:
What made this the most rewarding season of Kirk Herbstreit’s broadcast career
https://theathletic.com/753730/2019/01/07/kirk-herbstreit-espn-college-football-analyst/

“The family took visits to USC and TCU and was impressed. But after taking an unofficial visit for Clemson’s win against N.C. State, they knew they wanted to be Tigers. And their dad was thrilled.”

Surprised TCU was on that list... and no tOSU.
There is a reason they came to TCU for the Ohio State game. TCU treats that crew really well
 

Westsider

Full Member
I walked next to him for a few steps as he was going into the press box at the Rose Bowl. I asked him if we had a chance, expecting him to be a jerk, but he was very respectful and said absolutely.
 

Tre J

Full Member
It was a good article and Herbie thinks highly of Patterson. His boys will be walk-ons wherever they go, and his main goal was to send them somewhere with a family environment that prepares them for life. Says a lot that TCU was one of the schools they were looking into.,
 

Hoosierfrog

Tier 1
It was a good article and Herbie thinks highly of Patterson. His boys will be walk-ons wherever they go, and his main goal was to send them somewhere with a family environment that prepares them for life. Says a lot that TCU was one of the schools they were looking into.,

I believe his mother lives or was from Fort Worth.
 

Froginbedford

Full Member
How ever he may have been nice in personal encounters, I still recall his anguish in 2015 after the blowout over UT...stating several times that such a fate should never happen to UT, instead of considering the talent TCU had to pull off such an "upset"....
 

Wexahu

Full Member
How ever he may have been nice in personal encounters, I still recall his anguish in 2015 after the blowout over UT...stating several times that such a fate should never happen to UT, instead of considering the talent TCU had to pull off such an "upset"....

LOL. You really think he was "anguished" over that blowout win or just surprised at what he saw? Personally, I was amazed at how bad Texas was from about 2014-2016, and it is ridiculous for a program of that stature to sink to that level of suckness. They were at times completely and totally inept, and it wasn't just when they played us. The story of the day was as much how bad Texas was as it was how good we were, and that's probably fair. Because their team basically quit that day.
 

Ron Swanson

Full Member
How ever he may have been nice in personal encounters, I still recall his anguish in 2015 after the blowout over UT...stating several times that such a fate should never happen to UT, instead of considering the talent TCU had to pull off such an "upset"....
We beat them 50-7 and it could’ve been way worse if we hadn’t called off the dogs.

He’s right, no team should ever beat UT that bad (i.e. UT has too many resources and history to ever allow themselves to get beat that badly by anyone). We beat them like we were playing our FCS opener.
 

Zubaz

Member
We beat them 50-7 and it could’ve been way worse if we hadn’t called off the dogs.

He’s right, no team should ever beat UT that bad (i.e. UT has too many resources and history to ever allow themselves to get beat that badly by anyone). We beat them like we were playing our FCS opener.
Right. We beat Texas worse than we beat SMU. That shouldn't happen.
 

Tre J

Full Member
I believe his mother lives or was from Fort Worth.
Maybe, but here are a couple of quotes. I feel he respects Patterson and the program considering TCU was on the short list.
"Herbstreit’s job affords him an opportunity to peek behind the curtain of college football programs. He knows which coaches he’d happily send his kids to play for, but he wasn’t going to interfere"
"“Clemson is just a little different,” Herbstreit said. “The culture there, I think they genuinely care about the player and the person. I don’t think it’s just about production and what are you doing. It’s about developing. It’s real. If I smelled it was phony — and I’m pretty good at that — I wouldn’t be real comfortable sending my kids there."
 

WhiteHispanicFrog

Curmudgeon
We beat them like we were playing our FCS opener.

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