While I don’t claim to possess a crystal ball and actually know what’s going to happen in the upcoming college football season, I do have a gut sense that there will be some teams who will rise to the occasion and some other programs who are going to hit a make-or-break year. New head coaches are going to have a …
Although certain Big 12 programs became defensive-oriented last season, this conference still remains the purview of offensive-minded coaches and new TCU head coach Sonny Dykes fits the typical conference mold. The more points you can score in 2022, the better your season will be. As an offensive-type of coach, Sonny Dykes has built a track record of working with great …
With the creation of the NCAA earling signing period in December, as college football fans we forget that there is a “traditional” signing day in early February. This year, Punxsutawney Phil had to share his Groundhog Day with eager football recruits ready to make their names known at the collegiate level. TCU and new head coach Sonny Dykes were busy …
One of the great ‘soft” skills needed in football coaching is the art of relationship building and TCU has lost one of its great defensive players, due to the pull of a coach-player relationship. It’s up to new head coach Sonny Dykes to create new relationships with student athletes still on the roster and with incoming recruits and transfer players. …
The only thing constant in this world is change and in the universe surrounding the TCU campus in Fort Worth, change is whirling around Sonny Dykes and his new coaching staff choices. As the new year starts, it’s nice to realize that spring football is only a few months away. If the last name Riley is familiar, realize that the …
I have and will continue to mention that there is no such thing as the off-season in football. The moment a current season ends, either after the last regular game or a bowl game, the players and especially the coaching staff are already working on next season’s roster moves. There is little rest over in Forth Worth in the TCU …
As the old saying goes, “what goes around comes around” and in this case the future of the SMU football program has been turned over to Rhett Lashlee. Lashlee is basically celebrating a bit of a homecoming of sorts in returning to Dallas to take over a resurgent, revitalized Mustang football team who finished 8-4 this season and got an …
There is an old, well used saying that says “what goes around comes around” and in the carousel that is the world of college football coaching, this saying is true. Coach Gary Patterson has parted ways with the Horned Frogs and leaves a legacy of being the winningest coach in TCU history. But history is exactly that – history. If …
