pastorfrog
Active Member
I love college football. I love the game, the beauty of a Saturday in October in FW and I love our great University. But, what I love about being a TCU fan is how we got to where we are today. For as "well to do" as our school is, our football team is not the product of taxes, trust funds, billionaire backers or "tradition." We kick people in the teeth on the field.
I do my part as a fan to cheer, throw a couple hundred bucks to the Frog Club, talk up the university and football team wherever I go and wear my bumper sticker proudly. Yet, that is about all I can do (I went to Brite not the MJNSB!)
Our team has been built by the hard work of Coach Patterson and the kind of players he brings to TCU to wear the purple and white. Yes the university has made a major commitment to football and no I was not around when the bottom fell out of the program as Rome burned down. But we can't thank LCGP enough, not only for the 4-2-5 but for the young men who have made us into a Top 10 program.
There have been days in the last month when I wish we would have had a "sugar daddy" like Boone Pickens or a Frog in high places in Austin. But we don't. All we have is a coach and a program that will kick you in the teeth so hard your mom will cry and you will pay a million dollars to not have to play us again (cough, Tech, cough). I for one would take that any day over a high power or high dollar alum who calls plays from the luxury box.
We play the game on the field as well as anyone else. The Okie States, Iowa States and KSUs sit in awe, even if in silence, to what we put on the field week in and week out. That is because we come to play football, not impress ESPN.
I do my part as a fan to cheer, throw a couple hundred bucks to the Frog Club, talk up the university and football team wherever I go and wear my bumper sticker proudly. Yet, that is about all I can do (I went to Brite not the MJNSB!)
Our team has been built by the hard work of Coach Patterson and the kind of players he brings to TCU to wear the purple and white. Yes the university has made a major commitment to football and no I was not around when the bottom fell out of the program as Rome burned down. But we can't thank LCGP enough, not only for the 4-2-5 but for the young men who have made us into a Top 10 program.
There have been days in the last month when I wish we would have had a "sugar daddy" like Boone Pickens or a Frog in high places in Austin. But we don't. All we have is a coach and a program that will kick you in the teeth so hard your mom will cry and you will pay a million dollars to not have to play us again (cough, Tech, cough). I for one would take that any day over a high power or high dollar alum who calls plays from the luxury box.
We play the game on the field as well as anyone else. The Okie States, Iowa States and KSUs sit in awe, even if in silence, to what we put on the field week in and week out. That is because we come to play football, not impress ESPN.
