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<blockquote data-quote="Deep Purple" data-source="post: 244570" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>QUOTE(k-state-wildcats11 @ Nov 5 2008, 11:03 PM) [snapback]244548[/snapback]</p><p>link? proof?</p><p></p><p>This is an excerpt of the <a href="http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=10ED9C26A86F8060&p_docnum=1&s_accountid=AC0108110605243211873&s_orderid=NB0108110605213508244&s_dlid=DL0108110605244411919&s_ecproduct=DOC&s_ecprodtype=&s_trackval=GooglePM&s_siteloc=&s_referrer=&s_username=dalexander&s_accountid=AC0108110605243211873&s_upgradeable=no" target="_blank">full article</a>. To get the whole of it. you'll have to register and pay $2.98, since it's in the the S-T archives. But the rest of the article is TCU. No mention of Kansas State.</p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #000080">Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX)</span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #000080">December 31, 2005</span></p><p> <span style="color: #000080"><strong>Section: </strong>Sports Game Day</span></p><p> <span style="color: #000080"><strong>Edition: </strong>Tarrant</span></p><p> <span style="color: #000080"><strong>Page: </strong>CC8</span></p><p></p><p> <strong><span style="color: #000080">Playing Leap Frog</span></strong></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #000080"><strong>TCU coach Gary Patterson believes his program can move to an elite level and win a national championship in Fort Worth. He's either nuts or on to something.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000080"><em>DAMIEN PIERCE</em></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><em>Star-Telegram Staff Writer</em></span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>TCU coach Gary Patterson is aware that he might never have another opportunity to return home.</strong></span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>The Horned Frogs' coach was believed to be one of the leading candidates for the Kansas State coaching job after Bill Snyder announced in late November that he would retire after the season.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"></span> <span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>Patterson seemed like an ideal match for the job because he had proved that he could win at a school without the resources of college football's elite programs and he understood the ins and outs of Kansas recruiting as a K-State alumnus.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"></span> <span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>But Patterson didn't bother to take a phone call from his alma mater, choosing to remain with a program that doesn't even have an automatic tie-in to one of the BCS games.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>He signed a contract extension with TCU through 2012 and saw his childhood dream of coaching in his home state fade away.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong></strong></span> </p><p> <span style="color: #000080">What in the world was he thinking?</span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #000080">"We have a chance to do something at TCU that hasn't been done in college football," Patterson explained. "We want to win a national championship. Here. Why would I still be here if I didn't think it could be done?"</span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #000080">He's either nuts or about to shock the college football world.</span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #000080">Despite making a living in a sport in which the line between the haves and the have-nots couldn't be more clearly drawn, Patterson believes his so-called small program in Fort Worth has enough key components in place to eventually become a national power.</span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #000080">Patterson is convinced that the first giant step in his program's ascent begins with a victory against Iowa State (7-4) in the Houston Bowl.</span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #000080">After claiming an outright Mountain West Conference title in its inaugural season in the league, No. 14 TCU (10-1) could end this season with its highest national ranking since 1959, when it finished seventh in The Associated Press poll. And the Horned Frogs could have victories against two Big 12 schools — Oklahoma and Iowa State — in one season for the first time.</span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #000080">Patterson hopes that will be the springboard for transforming his program into college football's version of Gonzaga in NCAA basketball.</span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #000080">He understands that college football has been dominated over the past decade by schools with seemingly bottomless athletic budgets, and he's well aware that most analysts would give him a better chance of gaining membership at Augusta National than leading TCU to a BCS title game.</span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>But even though obvious challenges and nonbelievers exist, Patterson is convinced that his chances of winning a national title are as good in Fort Worth as at Kansas State.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000080">"I'm not saying we're there yet," Patterson said. "We've only closed the gap. But I don't think we can become one of the nation's top programs unless we're dreaming about it."</span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #000080">Patterson sent his most clear message to fans that he believes the Horned Frogs could compete on the national level when he signed his contract extension with TCU.</span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #000080">Before the extension, the TCU coaching position was viewed as a steppingstone to a better opportunity, a view held of every job outside the BCS conferences.</span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #000080">Urban Meyer departed Utah immediately after guiding the program to a BCS game in 2004 because Florida lured him away with a gaudy contract and budget, and Dan Hawkins recently left Boise State for Colorado because he wasn't sure what he had could accomplish greater goals in Idaho.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><strong></strong>But Patterson hasn't packed his bags.</span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #000080">He believes TCU is in a fertile recruiting area and he is confident that the university's administrators are committed to building an elite program.</span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #000080">The administration has discussed giving Amon G. Carter Stadium a face-lift and eventually will have work completed on an indoor practice facility.</span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #000080">"Gary has shown with his commitment that he believes TCU can compete on the highest level," TCU athletic director Danny Morrison said. "He believes this is a destination where he can win."</span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #000080">Despite public displays of such optimism, Patterson knows he has his work cut out.</span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #000080">The Horned Frogs are in a league — the Mountain West — that is hoping to gain automatic inclusion into the BCS and the conference schedule isn't as tough as one Big 12 teams face.</span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #000080">Former Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz, an ESPN analyst, said TCU has to play a tougher nonconference schedule to make amends for its league schedule if it wants to have the perception of having an elite program.</span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #000080">Holtz believes that as long as that perception is to the contrary, the Horned Frogs will have trouble pulling top recruits away from Texas and Oklahoma.</span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #000080">"The only way you can gain respect is on the field," Holtz said. "Look at what Florida State did in the 1970s and early 1980s. It played at Nebraska, Notre Dame, it competed and it recruited. As independents, Florida State had the flexibility in how it could schedule. TCU doesn't have that."</span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #000080">Still, Holtz believes the Horned Frogs have as good a chance as any program outside a BCS-automatic conference to crack the nation's elite.</span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #000080">TCU has gained national credibility with three 10-win seasons in the past four years, and a marquee victory over Oklahoma — a team that played in the previous two national championship games — on the road enhanced its reputation.</span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>The program also has a coach who decided the lure of home wasn't enough to pull him away from doing something that hasn't been done in college football.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong></strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000080">"We learned from the Oklahoma game that we could play at that level," Patterson said. "I don't think we're crazy to think that we can do more."</span><span style="color: #000080"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deep Purple, post: 244570, member: 17"] QUOTE(k-state-wildcats11 @ Nov 5 2008, 11:03 PM) [snapback]244548[/snapback] link? proof? This is an excerpt of the [URL="http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=10ED9C26A86F8060&p_docnum=1&s_accountid=AC0108110605243211873&s_orderid=NB0108110605213508244&s_dlid=DL0108110605244411919&s_ecproduct=DOC&s_ecprodtype=&s_trackval=GooglePM&s_siteloc=&s_referrer=&s_username=dalexander&s_accountid=AC0108110605243211873&s_upgradeable=no"]full article[/URL]. To get the whole of it. you'll have to register and pay $2.98, since it's in the the S-T archives. But the rest of the article is TCU. No mention of Kansas State. [COLOR=#000080]Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX)[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]December 31, 2005 [B]Section: [/B]Sports Game Day [B]Edition: [/B]Tarrant [B]Page: [/B]CC8[/COLOR] [B][COLOR=#000080]Playing Leap Frog[/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000080][B]TCU coach Gary Patterson believes his program can move to an elite level and win a national championship in Fort Worth. He's either nuts or on to something.[/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080] [I]DAMIEN PIERCE[/I][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][I]Star-Telegram Staff Writer[/I][/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff0000][B]TCU coach Gary Patterson is aware that he might never have another opportunity to return home.[/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][B] [/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#ff0000][B]The Horned Frogs' coach was believed to be one of the leading candidates for the Kansas State coaching job after Bill Snyder announced in late November that he would retire after the season.[/B] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff0000][B]Patterson seemed like an ideal match for the job because he had proved that he could win at a school without the resources of college football's elite programs and he understood the ins and outs of Kansas recruiting as a K-State alumnus.[/B] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff0000][B]But Patterson didn't bother to take a phone call from his alma mater, choosing to remain with a program that doesn't even have an automatic tie-in to one of the BCS games.[/B] [B] He signed a contract extension with TCU through 2012 and saw his childhood dream of coaching in his home state fade away. [/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080] [/COLOR][COLOR=#000080]What in the world was he thinking?[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080] [/COLOR][COLOR=#000080]"We have a chance to do something at TCU that hasn't been done in college football," Patterson explained. "We want to win a national championship. Here. Why would I still be here if I didn't think it could be done?"[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080] [/COLOR][COLOR=#000080]He's either nuts or about to shock the college football world.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080] [/COLOR][COLOR=#000080]Despite making a living in a sport in which the line between the haves and the have-nots couldn't be more clearly drawn, Patterson believes his so-called small program in Fort Worth has enough key components in place to eventually become a national power.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]Patterson is convinced that the first giant step in his program's ascent begins with a victory against Iowa State (7-4) in the Houston Bowl.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]After claiming an outright Mountain West Conference title in its inaugural season in the league, No. 14 TCU (10-1) could end this season with its highest national ranking since 1959, when it finished seventh in The Associated Press poll. And the Horned Frogs could have victories against two Big 12 schools — Oklahoma and Iowa State — in one season for the first time.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]Patterson hopes that will be the springboard for transforming his program into college football's version of Gonzaga in NCAA basketball.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]He understands that college football has been dominated over the past decade by schools with seemingly bottomless athletic budgets, and he's well aware that most analysts would give him a better chance of gaining membership at Augusta National than leading TCU to a BCS title game.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff0000][B]But even though obvious challenges and nonbelievers exist, Patterson is convinced that his chances of winning a national title are as good in Fort Worth as at Kansas State.[/B] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]"I'm not saying we're there yet," Patterson said. "We've only closed the gap. But I don't think we can become one of the nation's top programs unless we're dreaming about it."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]Patterson sent his most clear message to fans that he believes the Horned Frogs could compete on the national level when he signed his contract extension with TCU.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]Before the extension, the TCU coaching position was viewed as a steppingstone to a better opportunity, a view held of every job outside the BCS conferences.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]Urban Meyer departed Utah immediately after guiding the program to a BCS game in 2004 because Florida lured him away with a gaudy contract and budget, and Dan Hawkins recently left Boise State for Colorado because he wasn't sure what he had could accomplish greater goals in Idaho.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][B] [/B]But Patterson hasn't packed his bags.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]He believes TCU is in a fertile recruiting area and he is confident that the university's administrators are committed to building an elite program.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]The administration has discussed giving Amon G. Carter Stadium a face-lift and eventually will have work completed on an indoor practice facility.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]"Gary has shown with his commitment that he believes TCU can compete on the highest level," TCU athletic director Danny Morrison said. "He believes this is a destination where he can win."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]Despite public displays of such optimism, Patterson knows he has his work cut out.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]The Horned Frogs are in a league — the Mountain West — that is hoping to gain automatic inclusion into the BCS and the conference schedule isn't as tough as one Big 12 teams face.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]Former Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz, an ESPN analyst, said TCU has to play a tougher nonconference schedule to make amends for its league schedule if it wants to have the perception of having an elite program.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]Holtz believes that as long as that perception is to the contrary, the Horned Frogs will have trouble pulling top recruits away from Texas and Oklahoma.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]"The only way you can gain respect is on the field," Holtz said. "Look at what Florida State did in the 1970s and early 1980s. It played at Nebraska, Notre Dame, it competed and it recruited. As independents, Florida State had the flexibility in how it could schedule. TCU doesn't have that."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]Still, Holtz believes the Horned Frogs have as good a chance as any program outside a BCS-automatic conference to crack the nation's elite.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]TCU has gained national credibility with three 10-win seasons in the past four years, and a marquee victory over Oklahoma — a team that played in the previous two national championship games — on the road enhanced its reputation.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff0000][B]The program also has a coach who decided the lure of home wasn't enough to pull him away from doing something that hasn't been done in college football. [/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]"We learned from the Oklahoma game that we could play at that level," Patterson said. "I don't think we're crazy to think that we can do more."[/COLOR][COLOR=#000080] [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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