Most embarrassing football season in my lifetime.

[NorthDallas40]

I came to TCU in 85, the year after the Bluebonnet bowl. I went to TCU because of the football history and the recent success. That was the same year Wacker kicked the players off the team including star running back Kenneth Davis. Football was never the same from that point on through my graduation.

A few short years after graduation, I became a season ticket holder and a die hard Frog fan. So die hard that I once left a friend's wedding early to fly home to get to the 1994 Tech home game. I was also at Amon Carter when we were 1-10 to beat SMU and the students took the goal posts down. I have seen the ups and downs of TCU football and then got to enjoy some wonderful years and the rise of the program under Patterson. I enjoyed that time and we were always tough and competitive. We had chances to win every game even when we were under dogs.

I was very fortunate to be able to attend the national championship game even though the score was a beatdown. I thought we would learn from that experience and build on that then the next season came along. I figured, ok, we had a mulligan, but we also lost alot of talent from the NC team to the NFL. Now, there is this season and we have had two historically bad losses and this team may not win another conference game.

We cannot accept the results from this coaching staff and need to make immediate changes starting at the top. They get paid far too much money to be this mediocre. They are also setting TCU football on a trajectory that we may not be able to overcome if this continues multiple seasons. I know everyone on this board knows there will be another conference realignment and it will suck to be left out.

 

[Big Frog II]

Well I have seen worse but that was a time we didn’t spend any money on athletics. There is no excuse for this BS.

 

[NorthDallas40]

Well I have seen worse but that was a time we didn’t spend any money on athletics. There is no excuse for this BS.

When you invest the kind of money TCU has in athletics, especially football, it is shameful to not have those young men not coached better. SD is just not cutting it.

 

[Chongo94]

When you invest the kind of money TCU has in athletics, especially football, it is shameful to not have those young men not coached better. SD is just not cutting it.

Keep hearing from donors that run in those circles that he is just mailing it in basically.

 

[Horny4TCU]

Dykes has gotta go. He lost me when he hired Briles and told the alum to suckit basically, when he was challenged about. Well, Mr. Dykes, it's time for you to suckit. Go to the corner and get on your knees and outta our program.

 

[NorthDallas40]

That's pretty sad if true. College football has just gotten out of control with the kind of money that has been spent on coaching.

 

[Big Frog II]

Any one want to write the $28 million dollar check?

 

[EVOfrogMR]

Any one want to write the $28 million dollar check?

This is the problem. Maybe we can get it back in 27 more weight rooms.

 

[Horny4TCU]

Any one want to write the $28 million dollar check?

The AD needs to leave with him. Collusion needs to be found to nullify both their contracts.

 

[TopFrog]

I have been through much worse. You don’t know what embarrassment is if you came on board in 1985.

 

[NorthDallas40]

I have been through much worse. You don’t know what embarrassment is if you came on board in 1985.

Yeah, I know the 60s and 70s were rough times. 1-10 was pretty embarrassing for me under Sullivan. I have been to a few bowl games that sucked including the rainy weed wacker bowl and the gallery furniture bowl. I guess at least we got to play in bowls. Unless a miracle happens, this team won't be in a bowl and that's sad and why I posted. It is embarrassing to have spent the kind of money TCU has and not have a better product on the field. I thought we were building a program over the last two decades where we would be looking at programs like the SMUs and Houstons in the rearview mirror. Instead, the engine has fallen out of the bus.

 

[More Frogs the Better]

The buyout is the buyout. It's part of college football that a lot of schools suck it up and do. It's obviously over for Sonny. Another year isn't going to change anything. It's time to admit the mistake, pay up and move on. The consequences of not pulling the plug outweigh the short term finances of not doing so.

 

[Klaw]

Any one want to write the $28 million dollar check?

$28MM is small in the grand scheme if TCU get left behind in the next realignment.

 

[TopFrog]

Yeah, I know the 60s and 70s were rough times. 1-10 was pretty embarrassing for me under Sullivan. I have been to a few bowl games that sucked including the rainy weed wacker bowl and the gallery furniture bowl. I guess at least we got to play in bowls. Unless a miracle happens, this team won't be in a bowl and that's sad and why I posted. It is embarrassing to have spent the kind of money TCU has and not have a better product on the field. I thought we were building a program over the last two decades where we would be looking at programs like the SMUs and Houstons in the rearview mirror. Instead, the engine has fallen out of the bus.

Just because some of us have been through worse doesn't make this acceptable.

 

[HToady]

The buyout is the buyout. It's part of college football that a lot of schools suck it up and do. It's obviously over for Sonny. Another year isn't going to change anything. It's time to admit the mistake, pay up and move on. The consequences of not pulling the plug outweigh the short term finances of not doing so.

They can build the East side expansion out of clapboard instead of brick….

 

[tetonfrog]

$28MM is small in the grand scheme if TCU get left behind in the next realignment.

If we are going to fire Sonny, then we have to fire the guy who hired him. We cannot let ADJD botch the next hire, too. Might as well clean out the entire athletic department, too.

 

[Paint It Purple]

I saw a Houston coaching staff that skillfully recognized every single weakness in TCU, and exploited them. QB draw for 72 yds is as good an example as any.
I saw a TCU team that wasn't prepared to play at all.
Briles running a failed QB sneak on 4th and 1-1/2 at the 40 was the tell of the game on offense.

Sonny got out coached and badly.

PS: the Abe Camara hit was the best clean football hit I have ever seen. 1 minute later, he's gone.

 

[Froggy Style]

I saw a Houston coaching staff that skillfully recognized every single weakness in TCU, and exploited them. QB draw for 72 yds is as good an example as any.
I saw a TCU team that wasn't prepared to play at all.
Briles running a failed QB sneak on 4th and 1-1/2 at the 40 was the tell of the game on offense.

Sonny got out coached and badly.

PS: the Abe Camara hit was the best clean football hit I have ever seen. 1 minute later, he's gone.

Agree on the QB sneak. 90% of the time when we run to the line with 1 yard to go, we have run that play. Not only is it obvious, but our success rate is about 40%...yet we continue to do it. Entire staff jumped the shark on that one play that changed the game.

 

[fanatical frog]

If we are going to fire Sonny, then we have to fire the guy who hired him. We cannot let ADJD botch the next hire, too. Might as well clean out the entire athletic department, too.

Good point. Agree 100%

 

[Frogs1983]

I came to TCU in 85, the year after the Bluebonnet bowl. I went to TCU because of the football history and the recent success. That was the same year Wacker kicked the players off the team including star running back Kenneth Davis. Football was never the same from that point on through my graduation.

A few short years after graduation, I became a season ticket holder and a die hard Frog fan. So die hard that I once left a friend's wedding early to fly home to get to the 1994 Tech home game. I was also at Amon Carter when we were 1-10 to beat SMU and the students took the goal posts down. I have seen the ups and downs of TCU football and then got to enjoy some wonderful years and the rise of the program under Patterson. I enjoyed that time and we were always tough and competitive. We had chances to win every game even when we were under dogs.

I was very fortunate to be able to attend the national championship game even though the score was a beatdown. I thought we would learn from that experience and build on that then the next season came along. I figured, ok, we had a mulligan, but we also lost alot of talent from the NC team to the NFL. Now, there is this season and we have had two historically bad losses and this team may not win another conference game.

We cannot accept the results from this coaching staff and need to make immediate changes starting at the top. They get paid far too much money to be this mediocre. They are also setting TCU football on a trajectory that we may not be able to overcome if this continues multiple seasons. I know everyone on this board knows there will be another conference realignment and it will suck to be left out.

And I thought last season was bad. Apparently just an appetizer for this seasons debacle.

I am so out on Dykes .Amazing how in less than 2 seasons how he has crashed TCU football.

Team is undisciplined and very ill prepared to play. Very questionable play calling D still sucks! Kicker can't make kicks. It's all fallen apart( again) very quickly.