LA Times: Preseason college football countdown: No. 13 Texas Christian

[TopFrog]

LA Times: Preseason college football countdown: No. 13 Texas Christian

By Chris Dufresne

They're Hermit Crabs as much as Horned Frogs, picking up and leaving every 10 minutes or so. The school could merge with a packing company and become TCU-Haul.

Next year's move to the Big East will mark Texas Christian's fifth conference affiliation since 1995, the school's last year in the now-defunct Southwest Conference.

The Horned Frogs then joined the Western Athletic, moved to Conference USA in 2001 and to the Mountain West in 2005.

One thing with the football program hasn't changed much, though: This is Gary Patterson's 14th season at TCU, his 11th as head coach.

"I'm about tired of all the moving," he said at his last Mountain West media day. ...

 

[Cougar/Frog]

A little better than 18 or 19....

 

[Frog-in-law1995]

A little better than 18 or 19....

Didn't we buy a full-page ad in their paper following the Rose Bowl? And people think advertising doesn't work...

 

[Frogo]

A little better than 18 or 19....

Better than a kick in the pants.

 

[GO_DJ]

Chris Dufresne is a big non-AQ supporter and typically has rankings that are different from the general consesus. He had Boise preseason #1 last year, and kept them there until they lost to Nevada. He had us #1 at the end of the year.

 

[Cougar/Frog]

So many CFB experts are knocking TCU back based upon AD's departure, but didn't these same folks knock AD for being merely a good game manager????

 

[TopFrog]

About where TCU will be as a consensus.