SeniorFrog
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Bigger pond will allow little fish TCU to grow
TCU built its program under Gary Patterson on home-grown talent.
Assuming this year's verbally-committed class all signs with the Frogs next month, TCU has signed just 17 players from outside the state of Texas since 2009. The Frogs, meanwhile, have made a big dent in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Over that same time period, 30 of TCU's 108 signees hailed from the metroplex.
That number looks to be growing, too. TCU has 10 of its 19 commits in this year's class coming to Fort Worth from the metroplex, and have had 23 in the past three years alone, thanks to two BCS bowl bids -- including a win over Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl -- and a ticket to join the Big 12, where TCU had longed to be since being exiled to college football's minor leagues after the breakup of the Southwest Conference...
TCU built its program under Gary Patterson on home-grown talent.
Assuming this year's verbally-committed class all signs with the Frogs next month, TCU has signed just 17 players from outside the state of Texas since 2009. The Frogs, meanwhile, have made a big dent in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Over that same time period, 30 of TCU's 108 signees hailed from the metroplex.
That number looks to be growing, too. TCU has 10 of its 19 commits in this year's class coming to Fort Worth from the metroplex, and have had 23 in the past three years alone, thanks to two BCS bowl bids -- including a win over Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl -- and a ticket to join the Big 12, where TCU had longed to be since being exiled to college football's minor leagues after the breakup of the Southwest Conference...
