Tony's comments are on the money. If we could be sure there wouldn't be any kind of scandal, the talent-upgrade ceiling Sanders offers is unmatched by any other candidate.
Michael's comments about TCU p*ss me off (and, yes, I know that's the point of the show). But who the heck is anyone to tell TCU that we were 'arrogant' to push GP out? Why wasn't he arrogant to run a program into mediocrity for four years and refuse to change anything? Why weren't we patient not to insist that he fire his assistants (naming no names--but, no I don't mean all of them) when they repeatedly proved themselves subpar year after year in the Big XII? Why is it arrogant not to want to pay a coach $6M for having been incredible ten years ago, and not expect a ROI now? The bottom line is that Michael Wilbon has no investment whatsoever in the TCU program and it doesn't matter to him a lick if we disappear back into the eternal irrelevance from which GP rescued us. We can be both everlastingly grateful to GP for rescuing our program AND want to stay rescued.
I don't want to slip into being a program about which people say: "They were terrible, then they were good for a while, and now they're terrible again; that Patterson era was a good story for a while. Anyway, moving on..." Talking heads lose nothing if TCU's deathless loyalty to GP costs us that; we're the ones that lose everything. So screw you, anyone who thinks it's 'arrogant' for us to have pushed GP out. We wanted him to stay but hire better staffers. If he'd done that when it was clear he needed to, we wouldn't be here right now.
Love you, Gary; thanks for everything. TCU football needs to win games now, not just be able to say that we won them in 2010. That's all.