Patterson Has 2005 Regrets

[The PonyGrad]

It's hard, like impossible, for TCU coach Gary Patterson not to forget the 2005 game against SMU at Ford Stadium. Losing 24-10 to a bad team has a way of sticking in your head. The previous week, TCU won at No. 5 Oklahoma and were the talk of the football world.
One week later, humility kicked TCU in the collective face in Dallas.
This is the first team that features no TCU player who was a part of that game, which means almost nothing in the way GP prepares now.
"I can tell you this much - I will show the celebration part of the game on video to all of them and how it looked," GP said today. "They made a DVD of the game and sold it. I guess it was a big deal."
Patterson said he saw something coming in the week leading up to the game, so he called a team meeting because "we didn't get our heads out of the cloud after the Oklahoma win."
Now that he's had years to review it, he can see where he thinks he screwed up. The day after defeating Oklahoma, he said he was asked by the TCU athletics marketing dept. if he would allow the media to watch his team practice. No one really showed up, but there were just enough to provide what he thought was a distraction.
"The mistake I made was I should not have let anybody come to my practice," he said. "I should have taken them right down to the bottom but I let people me out and talk to my players on the field on Sunday and treat them like celebrities and that's the way they played all week."
This partly explains why GP handles his practices like an NFL coach - no one sees anything less there be a trade secret that suddenly pops on the Internet or something else.
That is fairly standard paranoid coach stuff; if the team is successful, the paranoia remains. If the coach decides who watches practice or how many interviews a player does has no bearing on the game, then it changes.

- Mac Engel

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[StallionsModelT]

That human turd really has a chip on his shoulder about SMU.

[Pony ^]

I can hear his squeaky voice from here

[koolherc]

Heaven forbid some kids who won a handful of games in their entire college career celebrated beating TCU right after their famous OU win. What an @ss.

[SMU 86]

I do like how Patterson handles the media. You don't really know who is injured or how anyone is doing in practice. He also, to my understanding, has some of his people looking at opponents media info and reports. I king of wish we would do the same.

[Treadway21]

He just cannot accept we were better than his team that day. Excuses are like...

[koolherc]

I do like how Patterson handles the media. You don't really know who is injured or how anyone is doing in practice. He also, to my understanding, has some of his people looking at opponents media info and reports. I king of wish we would do the same.

How do you know we don't?

[SMU 86]

I do like how Patterson handles the media. You don't really know who is injured or how anyone is doing in practice. He also, to my understanding, has some of his people looking at opponents media info and reports. I king of wish we would do the same.

How do you know we don't?

We don't as much as he does.

[SMUfiji43]

Patterson has crabs

[RE Tycoon]

Shocker...Engel works at tcu and got a degree there...

Turd tcu bio



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[ponydawg]

Per the title: Patterson Has 2005 Regrets

I thought it was going to be along Peter Griffin's regret from Family Guy.



Peter: You gotta find out for sure. You don't want to spend your life wondering what could have been.

[cut to restaurant]

Waiter: Sir, I need a decision.

Peter: Uh, uh, salad. No, wait! Soup!

[back in living room]

Peter: But it was too late. And to this day, I still lay awake at night wondering about the soup that got away.

[Big Hoss]

I like how the blogger gave us 3 more points. Last I checked, we only won 21-10, but I'll take 24.

[SMU89]

Shocker...Engel works at tcu and got a degree there...

Turd tcu bio



Cool Shirt!

Thought this was an attempted sell.....

This partly explains why GP handles his practices like an NFL coach

Assume there is a difference in having been an NFL coach and pretending to be like an NFL coach.

[gostangs]

I thought this thread was going to be about a plate of donuts he let go by once. Hasnt happened since apparently.

[koolherc]

Thought this was an attempted sell.....

This partly explains why GP handles his practices like an NFL coach

Assume there is a difference in having been an NFL coach and pretending to be like an NFL coach.

Fair comment.