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PressBox DFW: For TCU, it was finally the right place at the right time By GIL LeBRETON PressBoxDFW.com In truth, it was an alignment of moons, fortuitous stars and impetuous conference mates that led TCU to its place in the Sun in December of 1998. The Horned Frogs, after all, had been...

PressBox DFW: Place in Sun started TCU's football resurgence By CARLOS MENDEZ PressBoxDFW.com Days after the last game of 1998, TCU safeties and roommates Cody Slinkard and Landry Burdine loaded the truck and went deer hunting, ready to get going on their plan of “playing hooky for a couple of...

PressBox DFW: No changes for now, Patterson says By GIL LeBRETON PressBoxDFW.com For a head coach who says he doesn’t have time to read anything that’s written or said about his football team, TCU’s Gary Patterson sure seems to know a lot about what’s being written and said. Read more at...

PressBox DFW: Season-opening win 'learning' opportunity for new Frogs By JOHN HENRY PressBoxDFW.com FORT WORTH — TCU pulled back the curtains on its men’s basketball season on Thursday, welcoming to Schollmaier Arena the team from Georgetown without the basketball history. The season-opening...

PressBox DFW: TCU still struggling with the Freshman Four By GIL LeBRETON PressBoxDFW.com The head coach was right. It’s Baylor week. And we ought to be talking about TCU’s chances of utterly ruining the Bears’ dream of a season. Instead, there’s this quarterback thing, where Horned Frogs...

PressBox DFW: Baylor has Frogs right where it wants them . . . and vice-versa By MATT MOSLEY PressBoxDFW.com The Baylor Bears are about to play a “trap game” against their biggest rivals. I know that sounds ridiculous, but the Bears lead the Big 12 Conference with an 8-0 record and No. 12...

PressBox DFW: Baylor week, but who's the Frogs' QB? By CARLOS MENDEZ PressBoxDFW.com You’ve no doubt heard. It’s Baylor week. The great rivalry — the “Revivalry” — is due for its 115th edition on Saturday morning at Amon G. Carter Stadium. All the trappings will be there. The bands, the...

PressBox DFW: TCU’s Duggan, Barber made it a red-letter day By CARLOS MENDEZ PressBoxDFW.com It was on the tip of his fingers, but he couldn’t bring it in. Somehow, the ball eluded Taye Barber’s grasp in the second quarter on a third-down play that could have gone for a mile. In the fourth...

PressBox DFW: At 3-3, Frogs facing challenges By CARLOS MENDEZ PressBoxDFW.com In their heart, people just want to help. They see Gary Patterson with his TCU team at 3-3, and they want to help. Have you thought about this play, coach? What about that game plan that worked two years ago? Hey...

PressBox DFW: Long QB run — and more — send Frogs to defeat at Kansas State By CARLOS MENDEZ PressBoxDFW.com The polite thing to say is that it never comes down to one play. And of course, logically, it doesn’t. A college football game can have nearly a hundred plays. Logically, they all...

PressBox DFW: Patterson, Frogs trying to escape up and down rut By CARLOS MENDEZ PressBoxDFW.com FORT WORTH — Gary Patterson spoke to reporters for 14 minutes Tuesday at his weekly press conference. That’s about half as long as usual. Oh, nothing was wrong. The TCU football coach was perfectly...

PressBox DFW: TCU defense dismal in 49-24 tail-kicking by Iowa State By CARLOS MENDEZ PressBoxDFW.com Analytics can’t make a tackle, play a coverage or take the ball away. Only live, actual defenses can do that, and right now, nobody needs any computer to see TCU is failing to do so. Against...

PressBox DFW: Horned Frogs got their house back in order By CARLOS MENDEZ PressBoxDFW.com FORT WORTH -- TCU got a lot done Saturday. In a 51-14 victory against Kansas to start the Big 12 schedule, three Horned Frogs quarterbacks played, all effectively. The defense reasserted itself. Darius...

PressBox DFW: Dutch would have approved of this throttling of Kansas By JOHN HENRY PressBoxDFW.com FORT WORTH -- There hasn’t been a husband and wife since Eden, not even Ward and June or Mike and Carol Brady, who haven’t at one time or another wondered if “we might be spending too much time...

PressBox DFW: Wallow has taken charge of TCU defense By CARLOS MENDEZ PressBoxDFW.com How many tackles is too many? Depends, probably. For TCU coach Gary Patterson, in the case of linebacker Garret Wallow last week against SMU, 19. “Too many,” the coach said. Now, they were fine tackles...

Press Box DFW: Frogs visualize Omaha as fall workouts begin By CARLOS MENDEZ PressBoxDFW.com FORT WORTH — In the home dugout, a picture of TD Ameritrade Park was tacked next to the lineups for TCU’s first fall scrimmage. “Begin with the End in Mind!” read the caption. The baseball stadium...

PressBox DFW: Patterson could feel SMU troubles coming By CARLOS MENDEZ PressBoxDFW.com FORT WORTH — Gary Patterson hates to say he told you so. But he told you so. Low-energy practices. An opponent his team had defeated seven times in a row. Much energy expended the week before. Nearly two...

PressBox DFW: About this Patterson-Cumbie kerfuffle . . . By GIL LeBRETON PressBoxDFW.com FORT WORTH — By my reckoning, I have personally sat through more than 10 dozen of these Gary Patterson postgame media affairs. I have observed him at his highest highs — the sheer joy after the 2010...

PressBox DFW: You could grasp SMU's difference at quarterback By CARLOS MENDEZ PressBoxDFW.com FORT WORTH -- The difference in quarterbacks Saturday at Amon G. Carter Stadium was palpable. What’s palpable? It means when something that you can’t feel, like a sense or an emotion, becomes so...

PressBox DFW: Now a star, Reagor made first mark against Ponies By CARLOS MENDEZ PressBoxDFW.com FORT WORTH — Jalen Reagor’s first touchdown catch for TCU sticks in the mind. It rises high above other memories, much like the wide receiver rose above five defenders to snag a Hail Mary pass at...