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DMN: Highlights from Gary Patterson’s media availability before Saturday’s Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl
By Mike Heika / Reporter
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Some of the highlights of TCU coach Gary Patterson’s presser Friday on media day before the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl against Michigan State on Saturday.
On Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio saying it would be difficult to play a game against his good friend (Patterson):
“I feel the same way. It’s hard to play friends. All of us, every year you guys see 20 coaches lose your job in our profession, your part of a bowl game. We’re both great competitors. As I said, for three hours you have to be guys that hate each other, then you go back and do your job. For both of us, winning this bowl game would catapult us going into the next season. For instance, on defense, we only have one senior that plays really now, Kenny Cain, our starting linebacker. For us to move forward would be an experience. Him and Becky, coach’s wife, they’re very good friends. We go on trips with them.
On what is tough to stop about the Spartans:
“Over the years they’ve had a plan of playing great defense. They can throw the ball down your throat. Have a big tailback come at you. Coach Dantonio also has a deal where they’re faking punts on fourth-and-13 against Notre Dame. You can’t get lulled into sleep thinking he’s a conservative defensive guy. He has his own trickery.
Offensively, last team we played like this was probably Wisconsin. BYU has been a team that they’re a 340‑pound 6’7″ offensive line type group. Defensively, because of their zone schemes, I would say this is probably the best defense that we probably have faced this year as far as how they do things, the way they go about things. I think that shows, by their stats, the way they played. They’ve been in every ballgame they’ve played.”
By Mike Heika / Reporter
[email protected]
Some of the highlights of TCU coach Gary Patterson’s presser Friday on media day before the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl against Michigan State on Saturday.
On Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio saying it would be difficult to play a game against his good friend (Patterson):
“I feel the same way. It’s hard to play friends. All of us, every year you guys see 20 coaches lose your job in our profession, your part of a bowl game. We’re both great competitors. As I said, for three hours you have to be guys that hate each other, then you go back and do your job. For both of us, winning this bowl game would catapult us going into the next season. For instance, on defense, we only have one senior that plays really now, Kenny Cain, our starting linebacker. For us to move forward would be an experience. Him and Becky, coach’s wife, they’re very good friends. We go on trips with them.
On what is tough to stop about the Spartans:
“Over the years they’ve had a plan of playing great defense. They can throw the ball down your throat. Have a big tailback come at you. Coach Dantonio also has a deal where they’re faking punts on fourth-and-13 against Notre Dame. You can’t get lulled into sleep thinking he’s a conservative defensive guy. He has his own trickery.
Offensively, last team we played like this was probably Wisconsin. BYU has been a team that they’re a 340‑pound 6’7″ offensive line type group. Defensively, because of their zone schemes, I would say this is probably the best defense that we probably have faced this year as far as how they do things, the way they go about things. I think that shows, by their stats, the way they played. They’ve been in every ballgame they’ve played.”
