TCU on SI: Dennis Franchione: The Man Who Taught TCU "Tough Times Never Last"

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Dennis Franchione: The Man Who Taught TCU "Tough Times Never Last"​

Story by JD Andress

Editor's Note: On Saturday, the 1998 Sun Bowl team will be honored during the TCU/UCF game. In advance of that recognition, we sat down with Dennis Franchione, the coach of that team, and Shannon Brazzell, a TCU linebacker from 1997 to 2000 and a member of the TCU Hall of Fame.

Ask a TCU fan their opinion of Coach Fran, and you will be met with varying answers. If they graduated before 2002, they might have a sour place in their mouth. Post 2010 graduate? They might not even know that Coach Dennis Francione is the reason TCU Football is where it is today.

Coach Fran was in his fifth year at New Mexico and was in a comfortable position, but if you know Fran, you know that isn't who he is. To the shock of many, he departed the UNM program for a lowly school in Fort Worth that just finished the 1997 season with a record of 1-10.

Read more at https://www.si.com/college/tcu/foot...-times-never-last-01j7mc5dfqph?utm_source=RSS

 

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He was at the game so felt sure he would be the Riff Ram spotlight.

Why would our SI writer not steal/use a picture of Fran at TCU instead of wearing Aggie maroon.