Game 12: Is TCU finally ready for big boy football?

[HornSports Staff]

Mike Roach concludes our look at each of this season's opponents - GAME 12: TCU

 

[Matt Cotcher]

I'm going to watch TCU this weekend so I can listen to the announcer stumble over pronouncing Vatai Halapoulivaati.

 

[Mike Roach]

I'm going to watch TCU this weekend so I can listen to the announcer stumble over pronouncing Vatai Halapoulivaati.

It was a big enough pain to type.  I can't imagine having to say it.

 

[echeese]

Good stuff though I do not see TCU ever being more than a 2nd tier might make a bowl/might not type program in teh BigXII. . . We should have taken Louisville not TCU. . .but oddly, DeLoss didn't call looking for my opinion.

Is their RB Catalon any relation to ours?

 

[Mike Roach]

Echeese -

I believe they are cousins.  I also think TCU is going to struggle to ever be a year in year out contender in the Big 12.  I think best case scenario for them is to finish 2nd every few years and maybe even win the conference in a down year.  I think it was a lot easier to get up for games like the Rose Bowl against Wisconsin because of who they played the rest of their season while the week in week out battle in the Big 12 will take it's toll.  Gary Patterson at one time could have probably picked from a slew of big name jobs (a couple of years ago I liked him a lot as a successor at Texas), but his stock is really falling.

 

[echeese]

TCU is paying Gary big time money so he might be just fine in Ft Worth. . .don't blame him at all, ask Rich Rod about the grass being greener though I think he'll bolt Zona at the 1st chance.