To the Freshman who are so up in arms in this thread:
This topic bothered me greatly when I was a Freshman just a few short years ago. I had similar reactions. Eventually I gained enough perspective and awareness to understand that everybody plays their own role in making the Horned Frog Football World go round and those "gay frat boys," dumb females, and state school fan students help to make us what we are. Those frat boys will, generally upon graduation, regret that they failed to pay attention to our great football team and will become regular attenders and even Frog Club members. Those dumb females will eventually show their pride with pretty purple dresses and boots and they will pay attention to our football team and proudly support them in the workplace or at their afternoon lunches with other married housewives. They'll possibly marry one of the "gay frat boys," thoroughly shredding your pathetic attempt at a derogatory generalization, and they will become invested in the program. Those state school fans will, in time, realize what they've missed out on and show their remorse by becoming diehard TCU fans. Some of them may continue on their way down the path of ignorance, but at the very least, in the future they will not discount TCU Football as much as they do today.
To the rest of us:
Three generations of Frog Fans have been lost due to our 40 years of suckitude. Not only are those TCU alumni not invested in the program, but their children and grandchildren are not invested either. It's hard for us diehards to understand the concept that we are a marginal fraction of the TCU related population. For whatever reason, we bleed purple. For the youngsters among us, we are proud because of our athletic prowess and we only faintly recall, or in some cases have no recollection whatsoever, the bad days at TCU. That brings about a sense of pride and arrogance that you can't create when your school gets a winning season once a decade. Our children will be Frog fans because we are and they have no choice. My children will be Frog fans and it is highly likely that they will attend TCU. They will probably share my disdain for the state schools and BYU. They will proudly wear TCU purple to their elementary, middle, and high schools and, hopefully, they will remember fondly the times that they attended TCU games with their parents. They will be Frog fans long before they have the pleasure of attending a class at TCU. I assume that the same is true or will be true for many of you. This is what small private schools in metropolitan areas rely upon when it comes to establishing a fan base. You have to grow the fanbase internally before you can grow it externally. We're still in the process of growing the fan base internally while we try to supplement it externally. Patience friends.