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Lifelong Frog
How much longer will the Gary Patterson show last at TCU?
By Big Steaming Pile
FORT WORTH
There will never be another Bill Snyder, and the man’s “young apprentice” is neither quite as young, but he is now The Master.
Horrendous Star Wars analogies aside, the retirement of Bill Snyder from Kansas State as head football coach leaves Gary Patterson as college football’s remaining Purple Wizard, not of the plains but the prairie.
TCU’s Wizard is now the second-longest tenured football coach in America, second only to Iowa’s Kirk Ferentz. Ferentz was hired in 1999, and Gary followed him the next year at TCU.
Read more here: https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/mac-engel/article232662642.html#storylink=cpy
By Big Steaming Pile
FORT WORTH
There will never be another Bill Snyder, and the man’s “young apprentice” is neither quite as young, but he is now The Master.
Horrendous Star Wars analogies aside, the retirement of Bill Snyder from Kansas State as head football coach leaves Gary Patterson as college football’s remaining Purple Wizard, not of the plains but the prairie.
TCU’s Wizard is now the second-longest tenured football coach in America, second only to Iowa’s Kirk Ferentz. Ferentz was hired in 1999, and Gary followed him the next year at TCU.
Read more here: https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/mac-engel/article232662642.html#storylink=cpy