gohornedfrogs
Tier 1
Of all the Tech fans that visit here, InterestedObserver is the last guy I'd pile on. He's been more than gracious on here.
Gary Patterson on Sports Nation
- Thread starter West Coast Johnny
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BrewingFrog
Was I supposed to type something here?
Perhaps he's counting Louisville, Cincinatti and South Fla., since they are all BCS teams now.
InterestedObserver
Active Member
Thanks. To be fair, I support TCU more than I do Tech but alot of that is because of where I live and the fact my wife went to TCU. Not that I don't personally support the Frogs, but they're my second team for certain. My four year olds favorite song right now is the TCU fight song, so I guess we spend some time at different events (this is actually brutal as she figured out how to play it on the iPad and would play it non-stop if we didn't make her stop).
Anytime a poster on this forum, much less a head coach or media outlet, makes any statistical reference that is incorrect, several pages of comments are made asking for facts. The reality is, Patterson mispoke, but I've heard him make this same statement at speaking engagements around town, so it's not new. The fact is, Patterson has plenty to boast about and I don't think anyone would dispute that. Just seems strange he wouldn't check that fact before making the statement.
Also, for the most part I was just stirring the pot and the usual suspects took the bait. Keeping entertained during this weather week is becoming tougher and tougher.
Limey Frog
Full Member
By my reckoning, with GP as head coach, TCU is 8-0 vs. BCS schools not from the Big XII, and 6-5 vs. the Big XII, so 14-5 overall.
http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/mountainwest/texas_christian/yearly_results.php?year=2005
http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/mountainwest/texas_christian/yearly_results.php?year=2005
froginaustin
Active Member
A growing number of those wins are against Baylor, so I wouldn't boast too much except on baylorfans.com. :biggrin:
roddog
Banned
sounds like hes attended the goo and gunner seminar for football statistics
Duquesne Frog
Member
16-5
http://www.cfbtrivia...&tIA=on&tNIA=on
Broken down by conference:
http://www.cfbtrivia.com/cfbt_records.php?fry=2001&thy=2010&teamname=TCU&major=on&vcn=on
Edit: you are right, 16-5 overall. Forgot Stanford. 20-9 if you count current BCS members.
2010
Oregon State - W
Baylor - W
Wisconsin - W
2009
Virginia - W
Clemson - W
2008
OU - L
Stanford - W
2007
Baylor - W
Texas - L
Stanford - W
2006
Baylor - W
Texas Tech - W
2005
OU - W
Iowa State - W
2004
Northwestern - W
Texas Tech - L
Cincinnati - L
Louisville - L
South Florida - L
2003
Arizona - W
Vanderbilt - W
Cincinnati - W
Louisville - W
South Florida - W
2002
Northwestern - W
Cincinnati - L
Louisville - W
2001
Nebraska - L
A&M - L
Louisville - W
Duquesne Frog
Member
You missed Stanford 2007 ...
helcap
Full Member
The statistic I heard repeated several times on ESPN leading up to the Rose Bowl was that TCU was 15-3 in their last 18 games against teams from BSC conferences. No time frame was mentioned. With the win against Wisconsin that makes it 16-3, so Gary was off by one. On a technical note, if you are going to throw in the former Conference USA teams now in the Big East, you probably should add Utah as well into that tally.
SnoopFrogs11
Active Member
16-5 against AQ schools is pretty dang good.
No kidding! Have I mentioned the picture on your sig is amazing? Smoke show. Anyhow, I heard Doug Gottlieb about 2 weeks ago say something like, "TCU barely averaged 35,000 fans per game this year." I was almost tempted to call, since being off by 20% is kind of a big deal. He's usually really good for hoops talk but he's sometimes difficult to listen to and is often out-to-lunch when it comes to other sports/politics.
