Limey Frog
Full Member
Gallows humor.
He hasn't lost me-- I'll suffer with the bad and remember all the great things, like I've done for 80 plus years.
I also think I will stay a Frog fan-- if that makes me a fool, so be it. Am I happy? No, but I've seen worse, and this is a picnic.
A lot of you will do the same, because if you give up, you have no chance of winning. Go Frogs, 7 games to go, and get better.
Or offense.And if it happens it will be largely because he can't get his defense figured out.
Transfer portal could get really ugly!
This is going to come as a shock to you and others, but a lot of the people who gave the hundreds of millions to build those buildings care little about TCU football, have rarely if ever attended a game, and about half aren't even TCU alumni. They gave their millions out of other motives. A great many were more altruistic than who wins a football game.As to GMFP, take a look around campus. See all those new buildings? That nice new Stadium? None of that happens without him.
Not a shock at all. In fact, everything you have stated seems to be an obvious conclusion.This is going to come as a shock to you and others, but a lot of the people who gave the hundreds of millions to build those buildings care little about TCU football, have rarely if ever attended a game, and about half aren't even TCU alumni. They gave their millions out of other motives. A great many were more altruistic than who wins a football game.
When it comes to Amon Carter Stadium, Schollmaier Arena, Lupton Field, and the Justin Center, that's different. Those donors do care about TCU athletics -- but then, many of them are not only alumni, but former lettermen.
But venture outside of athletic facilities, and that just isn't the case. Gary Patterson had little or nothing to do with the money that built Leibrock Village, Smith Hall, the Tucker Technology Center, Rees-Jones Hall, the Hayes Business Commons, the Fine Arts Building, the TCU Music Center, the Walsh Center for Performing Arts, Palko Education Hall, the Tom Brown/Pete Wright Residential Complex, Scharbauer Liberal Arts Hall, the TCU Recreation Center, the Mary Wright Admission Center, etc, etc, etc.
I have great respect for Gary Patterson and want him at TCU until he chooses to retire. But good gawd, some of you act like he created the universe in six days.
A strong and reasoned case could be made that you are only half-right.This is going to come as a shock to you and others, but a lot of the people who gave the hundreds of millions to build those buildings care little about TCU football, have rarely if ever attended a game, and about half aren't even TCU alumni. They gave their millions out of other motives. A great many were more altruistic than who wins a football game.
When it comes to Amon Carter Stadium, Schollmaier Arena, Lupton Field, and the Justin Center, that's different. Those donors do care about TCU athletics -- but then, many of them are not only alumni, but former lettermen.
But venture outside of athletic facilities, and that just isn't the case. Gary Patterson had little or nothing to do with the money that built Leibrock Village, Smith Hall, the Tucker Technology Center, Rees-Jones Hall, the Hayes Business Commons, the Fine Arts Building, the TCU Music Center, the Walsh Center for Performing Arts, Palko Education Hall, the Tom Brown/Pete Wright Residential Complex, Scharbauer Liberal Arts Hall, the TCU Recreation Center, the Mary Wright Admission Center, etc, etc, etc.
I have great respect for Gary Patterson and want him at TCU until he chooses to retire. But good gawd, some of you act like he created the universe in six days.
Lordy, you can be a pedantic toad when the mood strikes you...This is going to come as a shock to you and others, but a lot of the people who gave the hundreds of millions to build those buildings care little about TCU football, have rarely if ever attended a game, and about half aren't even TCU alumni. They gave their millions out of other motives. A great many were more altruistic than who wins a football game.
When it comes to Amon Carter Stadium, Schollmaier Arena, Lupton Field, and the Justin Center, that's different. Those donors do care about TCU athletics -- but then, many of them are not only alumni, but former lettermen.
But venture outside of athletic facilities, and that just isn't the case. Gary Patterson had little or nothing to do with the money that built Leibrock Village, Smith Hall, the Tucker Technology Center, Rees-Jones Hall, the Hayes Business Commons, the Fine Arts Building, the TCU Music Center, the Walsh Center for Performing Arts, Palko Education Hall, the Tom Brown/Pete Wright Residential Complex, Scharbauer Liberal Arts Hall, the TCU Recreation Center, the Mary Wright Admission Center, etc, etc, etc.
I have great respect for Gary Patterson and want him at TCU until he chooses to retire. But good gawd, some of you act like he created the universe in six days.
They probably wernt asked. Lets credit the ExAD with that.Why weren’t these non football interested donors giving 25 years ago?
Pot, meet kettle.Lordy, you can be a pedantic toad when the mood strikes you...
It didn't. The vacuum was filled when Chancellor Tucker, who didn't like to spend money and wanted everything to go into endowment, retired and was replaced by Chancellor Ferrari, who took a look around and said, "Everything here is at least 20 years out of date. We're going to have to spend some money."That kind of flood doesn't just happen in a vacuum.
Because fundraising wasn't a strategic priority back then, so many weren't asked. Then in 1998 one Chancellor retired and a new one took office who had a vision for revitalizing the entire campus. That immediately elevated the urgency and importance of fundraising.Why weren’t these non football interested donors giving 25 years ago?
Post of the day......Why weren’t these non football interested donors giving 25 years ago?
I know because I was here through it all and raised external money for virtually all of those projects.
horizontal drilling had not yet been inventedWhy weren’t these non football interested donors giving 25 years ago?
Well, he has certainly lost this fan board. This place is ridiculous.