Goo
Active Member
I grew up with a Dad that went to every game and took me with him. My first distinct memory was of the Frogs playing UT in the snow at ACS in '74 and getting strummed. A whole bunch of similar memories followed (except for the 84 season). It was that way while I was a student at TCU and then the '98 season occurred. Didn't know it then, but that was the front end of, for the most part, a wonderful string of football seasons for the Frogs.
I was very much against letting GP go. I was very surprised that I was in the minority in that most seemed to support the decision to let him go. I made the comment a few times to friends-family that we would come to regret that decision down the road but then the '22 season happened and I looked like an idiot. Here we are a year and a half later though and I am haven't been this apethetic about TCU football since that last couple of years under Sullivan.
I was a kid during the F.A. Dry years but I remember my Dad always commenting about how hard the Frogs played and that win or lose they had earned his support. Despite some very rough seasons, I always felt the Frogs were as tough and physical as our talent allowed under Wacker (funny, I was against letting him go as well). The vibe that I get from watching this year's team is akin to how I felt during the last two years under Sullivan..... No overall identity, no juice or excitement, physically soft with some nice skill players that don't have the right parts around to let them truly shine and a coach that seems to have no answers for how to right the ship.
A lot of people both within and outside the program worked so, so hard for a lot of years to make TCU football a respected, national program. You have to fight just as hard once it's earned to keep it. I don't see that watching this team and I don't feel it when I'm in the stands. For as long as it took to get us to that point, it doesn't take much to lose it and I feel like we've now lost it. I don't see it getting better with this staff.
Agree 100%
These are my exact thoughts. I assume the thoughts of most TCU fans that have been around 25+ years