Is this a turning point in TCU football?

[One Frog Nation]

In the past 3 years the team has gone 6-3 this season (most likely to end at either 7-5 or 6-6), 9-4, and 5-7 (after going to the NCG, which should have brought a lot of top recruits. So, looking at that 9-4 season, we beat exactly 1 team that had a winning record in the regular season, Tech 35-34, while losing to 2 teams that ended 4-8. So great record but... If this season plays out the last 3 games that will make last 3 years record to be either 20-17 or 21-16. Good enough to probably be somewhere between 50th and 75th best. TCU has to decide if they want to play major college football or start slowly eroding away. Note, I cancelled my season tickets after the 5-7 season and it will be a while before I go back. Season tickets are not cheap but I will pay to watch if and when TCU decides to play to WIN. Upgrades are needed all over, offense, defense and coaching. The choice is TCUs - get relevant again - or slide to be the SMU of the 90s. Gary Patterson and TCU together built TCU's football team from the deep pits and it could go back there. Don't let it happen!

 

[Panther City Frog]

I feel we are pretty far along on the downhill slide into irrelevance. And with a clown for a coach who’s not going anywhere anytime soon, the slide will continue. Dark days ahead for TCU football, I’m afraid.

But I will still watch and support, with guarded hope that things can and will change.

 

[Frog79]

I am thinking of giving up my club seats as well, partly because the games have become insufferable due to the ever-increasing number of long TV timeouts which completely destroy the flow of the game - at least for me. The game day experience is just not what it used to be unfortunately. And to your point, I don't see us competing well now that college football has become minor league pro football.

 

[HornyWartyToad]

 

[FroggleRock]

Sonny said at the beginning of the year that it is not a successful season unless we make it to Arlington. Well guess what, this is three straight years of not getting there. He’s not living up to his own expectations. Then he has to cover his tracks after each loss, including last night trying to justify the piss-poor performance because ISU was ranked 5 weeks ago. Who the hell cares? They were on a 4 game losing streak and you had 2 weeks to prepare and still lost at home. You can’t swipe back at reporters and your own fans when you constantly go out and lay [ Finebaum ]s against bad teams. Go back and look at his record in the last three years. About 70–80% of the teams he’s beaten, have finished at or below .500. We’ve benefited from, let’s be real, very easy schedules.

This is our ceiling with Dykes unfortunately. He and his staff have proven they cannot develop, nor prepare, nor instill discipline to their players for three straight years. And now our recruiting has fallen off a cliff, and our NIL deployment strategy has got to be one of the worst in the country.

 

[tyler durden]

Honestly thinking about dropping my season tickets. Can’t stand Briles on our sideline, the games are +3.5 hours long and boring for all but about 15 cumulative minutes. PA system is too loud by about 100 dB. Just not feeling it much these days.

 

[Trelvis]

The turning point should have been after beating Michigan but we've basically been inept since that night in Arizona. We couldn't capitalize on any of that positive momentum. That's hard to do but we've been able to speed run it. We're a rutterless ship with nobody taking accountability. Someone needs to step up and get this turned around, but our new AD seems incompetent so not a lot to be hopeful for right now.

 

[NORMLFROG]

I've heard much grumbling about the new AD. Admittedly I haven't paid much attention to what he's doing or not doing. What exactly has he done to make a determination that he's incompetent? ..or seems incompetent? Honest question. Any specifics?

 

[FloridaFrog76129]

I've heard much grumbling about the new AD. Admittedly I haven't paid much attention to what he's doing or not doing. What exactly has he done to make a determination that he's incompetent? ..or seems incompetent? Honest question. Any specifics?

All that will be determined by who the new coach is that will be hired after the 2026 season

 

[BrewingFrog]

All that will be determined by who the new coach is that will be hired after the 2026 season

Not gonna happen.

We're stuck with Sonny for at least two more years, unless some billionaire crawls out of the woodwork and runs him off.

 

[West Coast Johnny]

Yea, I don't see us improving any time soon.

 

[Chongo94]

The turning point should have been after beating Michigan but we've basically been inept since that night in Arizona. We couldn't capitalize on any of that positive momentum. That's hard to do but we've been able to speed run it. We're a rutterless ship with nobody taking accountability. Someone needs to step up and get this turned around, but our new AD seems incompetent so not a lot to be hopeful for right now.

I don’t know the ins and outs of the AD stuff so I won’t weigh in there but I agree with everything else here.

 

[Spread Formation]

Times are not the same as they were 10 years ago! You are only as good as the "portal" allows from one year to the next. Unfortunately, that is just the cold hard truth.

 

[Chongo94]

Perusing social media this weekend and Tech are the darlings of the football world currently. Will it last, who knows. But they can probably build on it given the money they are spending and willing to spend.

We were once that darling and instead of taking advantage of it, we fully scheissed it up beyond belief.

 

[FroggleRock]

Yea, I don't see us improving any time soon.

This was supposed to be the year it all came together. But here we are at 6-3 with three of our toughest games still to play. Next year, we lose the core of our o-line which was the only “bright spot” (if you can even call it that) on the line, our two best RBs, our two experienced starting TEs, our best receiver, starting slot WR, both starting LBs, two safeties, two CBs, and leading edge rusher.

Seriously, if this was supposed to be the peak, next year is going to be a DISASTER.

 

[Dogfrog]

Perusing social media this weekend and Tech are the darlings of the football world currently. Will it last, who knows. But they can probably build on it given the money they are spending and willing to spend.

We were once that darling and instead of taking advantage of it, we fully scheissed it up beyond belief.

As college athletics eventually devolves into an ego contest between a handful of billionaires, it will free up so much time for family and staying in shape. And there are other more deserving charities to contribute to. The losers will be the TV networks and the winners will be the NFL.

 

[Panther City Frog]

 

[Chongo94]

That is a damning statistic.

 

[tetonfrog]

How many ranked teams have we played the last three years? Our problem is not losing to ranked teams, it is losing to teams like CU, WV, UCF, UH and now ISU at home. None of those teams were ranked. Life in the new Big 12 is not beating ranked teams, it is beating teams you should beat..........like ISU and KSU this year.

 

[NorthDallas40]

We are past our turning point and are on the fast track to irrelevancy. It was the dumbest mistake ever to extend SD's contract after one season. That team was Patterson's and was lead by a warrior in Max Duggan who wasn't even going to start. All SD had to do his first season was get out of the way and let the seniors lead that team. We have now seen what SD coaching abilities truly are and the verdict is 8-4, 7-5, 6-6 teams if we are lucky. He and his coaching staff don't have his teams prepared to win games they should win and clearly isn't coaching them up. There is is no excuse for that. I couldn't believe last night post game he said that when the running back fumbled, that there needed to be better coaching. He makes 7.5 million a year to coach football and manage a group of assistants. The whole program needs to be evaluated top to bottom. SD needs to get rid of Briles whose contract is up this year and also get rid of Ricker. We have scored 10pts in the last 5 games in the 1st quarter and we can't run the football. This is do or die time for TCU football and not being ranked or playing for a conference title is greatly hurting us. We need to have the same chip on our shoulder that we did when we were left behind from the SWC and forced to join the WAC. There will be another re-alignment and it will be devastating to be left out.