DMN: 'It’s our duct tape group here': Injuries continue to take center stage for TCU

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'It’s our duct tape group here': Injuries continue to take center stage as TCU prepares for date with Cal in Cheez-It Bowl

By Dean Straka
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Nobody ever told TCU football coach Gary Patterson that winning bowl games -- much less college football games in general -- would come easy. But nobody said that he'd be forced to play a skeleton-crew version of his team with everybody watching the day after Christmas either.

Just more than a week remains until the Horned Frogs go up against the California Golden Bears in the Cheez-It Bowl, set to be played at 7 p.m. MT on Dec. 26 at Chase Field in Phoenix, Ariz. And with only five days remaining until the team's Dec. 22 departure-date for the desert, nothing is coming easy for TCU on either side of the ball after hanging on for dear-life in the final month of the regular season to merely achieve bowl-eligibility.

"We have been working hard," Patterson told reporters Monday. "Once we got going, it's been okay. It's our duct tape group here."

Read more at https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/co...er-stage-tcu-prepares-date-withcal-cheez-bowl

 

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'It’s our duct tape group here': Injuries continue to take center stage as TCU prepares for date with Cal in Cheez-It Bowl

By Dean Straka
Sports Digital Editor Contact Dean Strakaon Twitterdwstraka49

Nobody ever told TCU football coach Gary Patterson that winning bowl games -- much less college football games in general -- would come easy. But nobody said that he'd be forced to play a skeleton-crew version of his team with everybody watching the day after Christmas either.

Just more than a week remains until the Horned Frogs go up against the California Golden Bears in the Cheez-It Bowl, set to be played at 7 p.m. MT on Dec. 26 at Chase Field in Phoenix, Ariz. And with only five days remaining until the team's Dec. 22 departure-date for the desert, nothing is coming easy for TCU on either side of the ball after hanging on for dear-life in the final month of the regular season to merely achieve bowl-eligibility.

"We have been working hard," Patterson told reporters Monday. "Once we got going, it's been okay. It's our duct tape group here."

Read more at https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/co...er-stage-tcu-prepares-date-withcal-cheez-bowl

Our guys didn’t “hang on for dear life”. They battled their asses off to get out of a hole and bowl eligible. Big difference in my opinion.

 

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Our guys didn’t “hang on for dear life”. They battled their asses off to get out of a hole and bowl eligible. Big difference in my opinion.

Dean had that take covered, as well:

But after fighting the competition until "Hell froze over", as legendary TCU coach Dutch Meyer would say, to qualify for a bowl game, one more win is the only present Patterson is asking for -- aside from the team's planned gift exchange -- this Christmas.​

I thought it was a well-written article.