Pony_Law wrote:I've had respect for what GP has accomplished in building that team. This however was completely classless. It seems interesting that this is what he decided to saya few days after the loss. When you compare it to what he said in his post-game conference this smacks of trying to do something to boost his team and Alumni (who about 90% it seem seem to love this) moral i doubt he even believes it.
I expect that's true, but it's pretty small of him (how ironic) to pander to his alumni like that.
DiamondM wrote:What perceived insult from June does Patterson think he's responding to? Nothing I read in the paper on Sunday or yesterday personally attacked Patterson or TCU -- he just said he thought we deserved their ranking because we came into their house and beat them on their turf.
What other quotes could Patterson be referring to? If anything, I've always thought June was too complimentary of TCU, and it certainly isn't his style to go bad mouthing any particular coach or team.
Exactly what I was thinking. Even in his first year at SMU, JJ has been extraordinarily complimentary of Patterson and the job he has done at Froggy High. (Not sure why ... I always thought Patterson inherited a very talented team that allowed him to get a headstart while playing a schedule of largely crappy opponents.)
ericdickerson4life wrote:He should be passionate about how his team came out to play on Saturday and not on officials.
I don't think it's letting out any secret information from our coaching luncheon to quote Tom Mason, who said (paraphrasing), "I don't worry about officials, because I have never seen one change a call." Mason has the right approach. Patterson is obsessing about something he can not change.
PerunaPunch wrote:Seriously... However they had blocking Taylor Thompson looked sort of like Taylor's backpack by the way he was hanging suspended from Taylor's neck. Just sayin'.
Good point. It looked like Taylor Thompson was tackled more than Darius Thompson was...
ya wrote:Many of those years you did pay players. So congrats on the cheating and getting hammered for that effort.
So did TCU ... but ours at least won games when we did. EVERYONE was paying players then.
So back to Patterson ... what really strikes me here is that he seems to have forgotten one of the first staples of coachspeak: after a game — ESPECIALLY A DISAPPOINTING LOSS — you utter something about how "we're going to watch the tape, evaluate it and learn from it, and then move on to our next game against (opponent who instantly gets portrayed as an NFL-caliber team)." I can't think of a single coach in the country who cries about an opponent (regardless of the game) three days after a game ... or, to look at it from TCU's perspective, four days before San Diego State.
If you're a Frog fan (well, if you're a Frog fan, I feel sorry for you ... but I digress), it's all good and well that you support your coach in his effort to say "we're not going to put up with mean ol' SMU anymore," or whatever his agenda here is. But wouldn't you prefer his message to be something along the lines of "sure, we're disappointed that we lost, and we hope to beat SMU next year, but we have a lot of football to play between now and then and we're going to do X, Y and Z to try to play better and hopefully beat a very good San Diego State team this Saturday"? I know that's what I'd want to hear from my coach.