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FWST: Gary Patterson built TCU football through methods now unwelcome in sports | Opinion
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<blockquote data-quote="Purple Hearted" data-source="post: 3098984" data-attributes="member: 73606"><p>I'm also a long time HS football coach and though I didn't have this conversation with you, I've had one's like it with peers.</p><p></p><p>The Monday following GP's departure, the talk in our coaching office was all about GP and TCU. The guys on my staff and friends from staff's that I've worked with in the past were already shocked at all of the negativity about Coach Patterson from TCU supporters. I'd get texts asking things like "has TCU lost their mind" or "is there suspicion of him for some disgression", etc. I responded that it was just a few younger hot heads making a lot of noise (It seems that I was pretty far off with my opinion). The shock that HS coaches expressed at GP's ouster was unanimous among the guys that I know and I'd imagine that feeling was pretty prevalent among all Texas HS football coaches.</p><p></p><p>The game hasn't passed GP by. He's a football savant and is just as genius as he was 10 years ago. I've had the opportunity to hear him speak at clinics a few times and in that domain, his natural setting, he is clearly a special coach. All of the lay folk saying that he's been figured out, etc frankly don't know what they are talking about. The man can coach and as an aside about the yelling, etc, I've worked for HS head coaches that were just as volatile. The last guy I worked for would've given GP a run for the most animated and vocal award. It's part of the game and to your point, sorry, your friends point; he's absolutely correct. Kids today are just softer than they were when I grew up and they are softer than the kids I coached in the 90's and early 2000's were. HS football isn't near as big a deal on campuses as it used to be and kids that play it look at it more as their right than a privilege earned.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Purple Hearted, post: 3098984, member: 73606"] I'm also a long time HS football coach and though I didn't have this conversation with you, I've had one's like it with peers. The Monday following GP's departure, the talk in our coaching office was all about GP and TCU. The guys on my staff and friends from staff's that I've worked with in the past were already shocked at all of the negativity about Coach Patterson from TCU supporters. I'd get texts asking things like "has TCU lost their mind" or "is there suspicion of him for some disgression", etc. I responded that it was just a few younger hot heads making a lot of noise (It seems that I was pretty far off with my opinion). The shock that HS coaches expressed at GP's ouster was unanimous among the guys that I know and I'd imagine that feeling was pretty prevalent among all Texas HS football coaches. The game hasn't passed GP by. He's a football savant and is just as genius as he was 10 years ago. I've had the opportunity to hear him speak at clinics a few times and in that domain, his natural setting, he is clearly a special coach. All of the lay folk saying that he's been figured out, etc frankly don't know what they are talking about. The man can coach and as an aside about the yelling, etc, I've worked for HS head coaches that were just as volatile. The last guy I worked for would've given GP a run for the most animated and vocal award. It's part of the game and to your point, sorry, your friends point; he's absolutely correct. Kids today are just softer than they were when I grew up and they are softer than the kids I coached in the 90's and early 2000's were. HS football isn't near as big a deal on campuses as it used to be and kids that play it look at it more as their right than a privilege earned. [/QUOTE]
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