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FWST: TCU persevered for winning record in first Big 12 season
By Stefan Stevenson
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From afar, TCU's first football season in the Big 12 looks like anything but a perfect season.
It was far from it, with the team making headlines for off-the-field issues. There was the dismissal of four players in February after their arrests in a drug bust and the loss of players for academic reasons in the spring. Then, four games into the season, quarterback Casey Pachall was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and left school to seek treatment.
But coach Gary Patterson has come to appreciate the Horned Frogs' 7-5 season as a valiant against-the-odds response to a season that could have gone south in a hurry. ...
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/12/03/4457282/2012-tcu-game-by-game-recap.html#storylink=cpy
By Stefan Stevenson
[email protected]
From afar, TCU's first football season in the Big 12 looks like anything but a perfect season.
It was far from it, with the team making headlines for off-the-field issues. There was the dismissal of four players in February after their arrests in a drug bust and the loss of players for academic reasons in the spring. Then, four games into the season, quarterback Casey Pachall was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and left school to seek treatment.
But coach Gary Patterson has come to appreciate the Horned Frogs' 7-5 season as a valiant against-the-odds response to a season that could have gone south in a hurry. ...
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/12/03/4457282/2012-tcu-game-by-game-recap.html#storylink=cpy
