Gil LeBreton
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PressBox DFW: Place in Sun started TCU's football resurgence
By CARLOS MENDEZ
PressBoxDFW.com
Days after the last game of 1998, TCU safeties and roommates Cody Slinkard and Landry Burdine loaded the truck and went deer hunting, ready to get going on their plan of “playing hooky for a couple of weeks.”
Offensive lineman David Bobo, too, had made his way to his deer lease to go off the grid.
They weren’t the only ones.
Most of the players had scattered following a 41-18 thumping of UNLV in Las Vegas on Nov. 21 that had brought the Horned Frogs' record to 6-5 -- pretty decent after a 1-10 season the year before, but not bowl-eligible, not at the time. In those days, you needed seven wins.
When they returned, messages were waiting -- get back to campus for a team meeting on Sunday, Dec. 6.
Read more at: https://www.pressboxdfw.com/place-in-sun-started-tcus-football-resurgence/
By CARLOS MENDEZ
PressBoxDFW.com
Days after the last game of 1998, TCU safeties and roommates Cody Slinkard and Landry Burdine loaded the truck and went deer hunting, ready to get going on their plan of “playing hooky for a couple of weeks.”
Offensive lineman David Bobo, too, had made his way to his deer lease to go off the grid.
They weren’t the only ones.
Most of the players had scattered following a 41-18 thumping of UNLV in Las Vegas on Nov. 21 that had brought the Horned Frogs' record to 6-5 -- pretty decent after a 1-10 season the year before, but not bowl-eligible, not at the time. In those days, you needed seven wins.
When they returned, messages were waiting -- get back to campus for a team meeting on Sunday, Dec. 6.
Read more at: https://www.pressboxdfw.com/place-in-sun-started-tcus-football-resurgence/
