Patterson

[Topper]

I dont have the link but after the game he spoke to the Startlegram called out Rashee Rice and said Sonny has no class. Continues the theme that they "couldnt" play us last year.

[ponyboy]

They couldn’t play us this year either.

[Mustangs_Maroons]

If anything, it proves Sonny is all class and Fatterson continues to be a pompous, obnoxious hypocrite. I like who represents our school - that fatterson is a clown.

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Postgame scuffle irks TCU’s Patterson: ‘There’s a way to win. There’s a way to lose.’
BY DREW DAVISON UPDATED SEPTEMBER 25, 2021 7:40 PM

TCU head coach Gary Patterson congratulates SMU head coach Sonny Dykes after SMU’s win of a NCAA football game at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021. The SMU Mustangs defeated TCU Horned Frogs 42-34 to retain the Iron Skillet for another year. (Special to the Star-Telegram Bob Booth)


Gary Patterson wasn’t pleased with SMU players trying to “plant” the school’s flag at midfield after the Mustangs’ 42-34 victory over TCU.

It led to some heated exchanges between the players and even boiled to the point that TCU special assistant Jerry Kill was hit with a helmet by an SMU player.

In his opening postgame remarks, Patterson said: “I do need to find out who the player is that hit coach Kill with a helmet is. I will find that out.”

Patterson didn’t elaborate more on it when asked later, saying: “I don’t have any comments on all that. I’m just going to tell you, the word on the street is a player hit a coach. We’ll find out who that is.”

Patterson went on to express his displeasure with SMU attempting to plant its flag on midfield, referencing what former Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield did when his team defeated Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio, in 2017.

Patterson made several other references in his comments, including what SMU receiver Rashee Rice said about Fort Worth and TCU earlier this week. Patterson then went back to last season when SMU coach Sonny Dykes took part in a video frying frog legs in a skillet after TCU had to postpone an early-season game due to a COVID-19 outbreak within the program. And Patterson went even further back, recalling the time SMU’s band dropped grass seed on TCU’s field to grow its trademark “Diamond M.”

“Here’s the thing, I didn’t talk. I saw coach [Dykes] fry frog legs in the skillet when we couldn’t play them,” Patterson said. “I’ve been here 24 years. There’s one way that you handle things — you have class doing that. I’m not going to call people out and tell them they’re scared [like Rice]. I’m not doing all of that stuff. There’s a way to win and there’s a way to lose. Doing that? Just because Baker Mayfield did it at Ohio State?

“I’ve been here 24 years. This is the first time I’ve lost back to back to SMU since we’ve been here. The bottom line is we need to change that. It still doesn’t have anything to do with not acting the right way.

“They can keep acting that way. Just like they put grass seed on the field. To me, that tells me they still hold us in high regard. Simple.”

Patterson went on to say, “Our kids shouldn’t have acted that way.”

SMU coach Sonny Dykes addressed his players trying to plant the flag afterward, saying it’s not something they should have done.

“I’ll talk to them about that,” Dykes said. “We don’t want to do something like that. There’s nobody in the world that has more respect for TCU or for Gary Patterson and how they run their program, the longevity he’s had here, there’s nobody in the world that has more respect for him than I do. If that happened, that shouldn’t have happened. I feel bad for that. I apologize for that.

“Our guys were excited. It’s a battle for credibility for us. It always is. Nobody wants to pay attention to us and say we’re any good. And our guys pick up on that. When they have a chance to prove themselves on a big stage, they want to do the best they can to do it. I don’t blame them. I hope that didn’t happen. But if it did, I’m going to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Like I said, it’s certainly not out of a lack of respect for TCU. Our players feel the same way I do.”

[SMU_Alum11]

Fatterson it's a rivalry, get over it. Show me where the flag ok the field touched you.

[SMU Pom Mom]

How about Mr. Patterson go on his own university's #1 football forum and lecture them on the rampant racism, misogyny, homophobia, defamation, and anti-intellectualism that permeates that place and frankly makes the whole school, including him personally, look bad? Until then, his opinion about who has class holds zero weight.

[SMU_Alum11]

How about Mr. Patterson go on his own university's #1 football forum and lecture them on the rampant racism, misogyny, homophobia, defamation, and anti-intellectualism that permeates that place and frankly makes the whole school, including him personally, look bad? Until then, his opinion about who has class holds zero weight.

I like to agree with you but with all those "buzz words" it just seems silly. People were claiming the purple pimple guy was a racist and I've yet to find anything he said, albeit annoying, to be racist.

[SMU Pom Mom]

I saw a post where they made a monkey joke about a black person. No one called it out.

[SMU_Alum11]

I saw a post where they made a monkey joke about a black person. No one called it out.

Okay if they did that then their moderators are absolute horse shirts. Stuff like that absolutely should be condemned. People accused the pimple of racism so I made a bad assumption of sensitivities.

[SMU Pom Mom]

I think the mod did take it down eventually.

[PonyPride]

Interesting comments by Patterson. It's understandable to not like when another team tries to plant a flag — nobody wants to see that from an opponent. He's right that there's a way to win and a way to lose.

But there's also a way to respond to losing. The first game that comes to mind is the game when Oklahoma State came to Dallas (has it really been almost 20 years?) and WR Rashaun Woods caught an NCAA-record seven touchdown passes. After the game, SMU's Phil Bennett fielded questions about what went wrong, etc., and while he obviously wasn't happy about what had happened, he answered them politely and professionally. Then someone asked him about whether the game had gotten so lopsided that Oklahoma State coach Les Miles should have called off the dogs and stopped passing the ball, or at least stopped throwing to Woods. Bennett's reaction was (paraphrasing) "No. If we don't want to see him in the end zone again, it's our job to stop him."

Honestly, it was one of Bennett's most impressive interactions with the media. He could have whined about the Cowboys running up the score, or the way they celebrated, or anything like that. But he didn't. He owned it. It was a bad day for the Mustangs, and his general message was "we have to be better." End of press conference.

If one of his assistants got hit with anything, that's unfortunate and it's understandable why Patterson is upset. But it's surprising that he bothered to bring up the frog legs thing, though. Last year was the weirdest year any of us have lived through in countless ways, a rivalry game was cancelled and Sonny Dykes was making a light-hearted reference to a rivalry that was interrupted for a year — a mention that was clearly aimed at bringing a smile to the faces of SMU fans, not a dig at TCU fans. Losing is upsetting, and we've all seen interviews with players and coaches who are upset after a loss. But bringing up the frog legs thing a year later, when it affected absolutely nobody ... that's an odd choice by Patterson.

[bubba pony]

I remember when the Texas Tech Pirate ran up the score on SMU and Bennett rightly went after him.

[PonyPride]

I remember that, too. His composure after Oklahoma State game was, needless to say, far more impressive.

[jpe747]

Patterson, Smatterson; the planting of a flag (unless it hurt the turf) and the eating of frog legs (which is pretty funny) are stupid things to fuss over. Those are just fun celebrations. The hitting a coach with a helmet and planting grass in the form of an "M" are matters that should have been handled coach to coach. Even if he was upset with the flag and the frog legs those also should have been handled coach to coach. Otherwise, it sounds like "sour grapes."

[Sewanee Stang]

Patterson is a great coach, but he is sore loser.

[JasonB]

How about Mr. Patterson go on his own university's #1 football forum and lecture them on the rampant racism, misogyny, homophobia, defamation, and anti-intellectualism that permeates that place and frankly makes the whole school, including him personally, look bad? Until then, his opinion about who has class holds zero weight.

I like to agree with you but with all those "buzz words" it just seems silly. People were claiming the purple pimple guy was a racist and I've yet to find anything he said, albeit annoying, to be racist.

To be very clear, I never called him a racist. I just simply pointed out that the language he used to describe a black person was commonly used by people who were racist.

I'm sorry if anyone was offended by me pointing that out. But the easiest way to avoid things like that happening is not just not say mean things about people. When you speak negatively about people, you are eventually going to put your foot in your mouth. I'm sure we have all learned that lesson at some point in our lives.