Yea, but. Traylor's two predecessors could not win against those same teams. The first coach was Larry Coker who won a national championship at Miami. Frank Wilson the second guy, was known as a good recruiter when he was at LSU. But, UTSA struggled under both.
TCU used to hear same argument when in Mtn. West, from Big 12 teams. Remember? You can only play who's in your Conference for most of your games.Winning 70% of them nothing to be sneezed at IMO.
For sure. But look at who was in those leagues compared to who is in these leagues I’m mentioning. It blows my mind all the teams that have moved into D1 football…
I hear that. It takes a lot of $ to field a D1 football team.
Ok. So a tie into Kingsbury from elsewhere.
Someone had linked to the rumor a few posts above that but it doesn't seem to have been based on much of anything at this point.
Yes, GP is clearly the fall-back option, which strongly suggests exactly what many of us said at the end of 2021 when he leaked his interest in coaching again in future: his ceiling in the market is probably a G5 job, which seems entirely beneath him and wouldn't give him a chance to prove any of what he seems to still feel a need to prove. Is he still young enough to put in 2-3 good years at somewhere like UTEP then convince a P5 school that he's got 4-5 more good years still in the tank for them? By that point you're asking an AD to sell his alumni-donor base on a hire that intentionally plans for having a nearly 70-year-old coach. Or is GP thinking he'd take UTEP and make it be his last job? If so, what can he possible do there that he hasn't done already?
1). What sort of bridge did he burn really? We fired him, he chose not to work out the rest of the year, oh well. It tells you that Gary is stubborn and could get Moody....which anyone who paid attention to him already knew. I don't think that's too big a deal.
Patterson is "wired differently." I don't think there is any sort of gearbox on him, allowing him to coach in a different manner, only a big switch that says "ON-OFF" and nothing else. When it's on, it's on. Full speed and intensity.
I think you answered some of your own questions. He's stubborn. Not something people on a team (school/AD and coach) want to deal with. He could have made a million+ by choosing what TCU offered him back then. Instead, TCU had to fire him. Considering the totality of circumstances, including today's version of the game and NIL, I think it's an uphill desire for him to be a HC at a prominent university.
This, plus, beyond his undeniably quick and fertile mind for x and o thinking, his most recent history is that many aspects of coaching have passed him by.
they said this about bill snyder back '03. he went on to win another b12 championship in 2012 and had the #1 team in the country. he was 73 at the time. gary patterson is 63. have you seen what jerry kill is doing at nmsu? he's 62. mack brown is 72. the game has passed him by is an easy, lazy, but failed canard.
To be fair, he then got curb-stomped by Baylor and Oregon, both "new school" offensive teams, finished outside the Top 10, and never sniffed a conference title after that.
Traylor isn't going to Houston. He wasn't even interested enough to talk to TCU. He wants an elite job when he takes one.
he won nine in 2014 and 2016.
