247 Sports: Gary Patterson calls out false rumors on recruiting trail

[TopFrog]

247 Sports: Gary Patterson calls out false rumors on recruiting trail

By AUSTIN NIVISON

Recruiting in major college football is as competitive as the games on the field — sometimes even more so. No coaches are immune to recruiting battles — not even veteran TCU head coach Gary Patterson.

Negative recruiting is a tactic used by coaches to make another program look less desirable to recruit, and every coach and program has fallen victim to it at one point or another. That’s apparently what’s been happening to Patterson this season. He caught wind about a rumor that other coaching staffs have been telling TCU commits in order to get them to flip, and he aired them out in a tweet on Sunday.

“Thanks to all the Frog family out there who watched or joined us in Waco thank you!” Patterson tweeted. “The guys played hard! To all the recruiters out there who are saying I am retiring after Oklahoma State so our commits would visit you, you aren't that lucky! Lol Go Frogs!”

Read more at https://247sports.com/college/tcu/A...son-calls-out-rumors-in-recruiting-124959060/

 

[Pure Purple]

"No honor among thieves".....revealing schools involved might prove interesting.

 

[Hoosierfrog]

Tom H would never do such a thing...

 

[Moose Stuff]

"No honor among thieves".....revealing schools involved might prove interesting.

I don’t see any good coming from that. They’d just deny it and I doubt GP has actual proof beyond kids and parents telling him. Best to leave it as it is.

 

[MBAFrog]

Agreed. GP handled it the right way. Make the statement and roll on.

I don’t see any good coming from that. They’d just deny it and I doubt GP has actual proof beyond kids and parents telling him. Best to leave it as it is.

 

[texas_sicilian]

They should have outed the school. We all know who it was.

 

[Frogk]

Where is the Star Telegram's support to reinforce Coach Patterson?

 

[Eight]

They should have outed the school. We all know who it was.

best that tcu stay above this type of mess, but if some of you want to set up a go fund me account for zach smith to continue to buy "party supplies"

here is zach in between tweets

after a long night "recruiting" with mensa

 

[Casey T]

Interesting tweet, but this is another lame article based entirely on one tweet with no additional content

 

[Eight]

Interesting tweet, but this is another lame article based entirely on one tweet with no additional content

so your normal fwst article

 

[BABYFACE]

They should have outed the school. We all know who it was.

Yep, that is Tommy Boy’s style.

 

[Land Frog]

Where is the Star Telegram's support to reinforce Coach Patterson?

You must be new here.

 

[TxFrog1999]

24/7 has access to recruits directly from the program and coach's blessing, so I doubt this article was written in the same vein as the ones Drew is authoring at the BuzzFeed-Star-Telegram.

 

[Eight]

24/7 has access to recruits directly from the program and coach's blessing, so I doubt this article was written in the same vein as the ones Drew is authoring at the BuzzFeed-Star-Telegram.

so when you say author you really mean copy and paste right?

 

[TxFrog1999]

so when you say author you really mean copy and paste right?

I was feeling generous.

 

[CryptoMiner]

Funny last week saw on several UT sites that they were complaining about CGP negative recruiting with parents by using the OSU situation. Doubt it is true but at least that would be fact based unlike what they are trying to do.

 

[LSU Game Attendee]

Where is the Star Telegram's support to reinforce Coach Patterson?

I don't think any of the mullets on staff have the talent or work ethic to get to the bottom of this kind of stuff. Hopefully somebody like Gil can get it done.

 

[Gary's Shirtless Revenge]

By the way, in case you were wondering, 247 writers confirmed that Gary's message is intended for Texas recruiting staff.

 

[Moose Stuff]

Funny last week saw on several UT sites that they were complaining about CGP negative recruiting with parents by using the OSU situation. Doubt it is true but at least that would be fact based unlike what they are trying to do.

Is it negative if it’s true?

 

[Moose Stuff]

Go ahead and get your tickets for the UT game next year. I enjoy watching us play when GP is seething with hatred.