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What’s next for Gary Patterson?

December 4, 2019 by ianaboyd

The last two seasons at TCU have been defined by trying to win games by running the ball, controlling the game’s tempo, and playing great defense. Over those two seasons the Frogs are 12-13 with a 7-11 mark in Big 12 play. The trendy move for someone like Patterson after falling short for a couple … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Gary Patterson, Max Duggan, Shawn Robinson, Sonny Cumbie, TCU Horned Frogs

What about TCU?

April 18, 2018 by ianaboyd

One of the very difficult things about prognosticating in the Big 12 is how close the mid-level teams are to one another. This decade has typically included 3 teams at the top that were safely better than most of the league (generally OU plus 1-2 other squads) and then a wide morass of mid-level teams … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: 4-2-5 defense, Ben Banogu, Gary Patterson, Ranthony Texada, Shawn Robinson, TCU Horned Frogs, Ty Summers

Breaking down TCU’s 2018 recruiting class

March 23, 2018 by ianaboyd

I overlooked TCU in my preseason prognostications of the 2017 Big 12 football season. I probably oversteered a bit for having missed West Virginia the previous season and I also underestimated Gary Patterson’s ability to fix the defense with so many returning starters and Sonny Cumbie’s ability to mold Kenny Hill into a good game … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: 4-2-5, 4-2-5 Quarters defense, Air Raid, Big 12 recruiting, Gary Patterson, NSD 2018, Shawn Robinson, Sonny Cumbie, TCU Horned Frogs

The year of the QB in the Big 12 is over, who’s next?

November 28, 2017 by ianaboyd

The 2017 season featured the most returning talent at QB in the Big 12 since perhaps 2008 and now this crop is moving on, making way for a cast of young signal-callers some of which got their starts in 2017. Last year I broke down the contrasting styles of Charlie Brewer and Shawn Robinson about … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Baylor Bears, Charlie Brewer, Sam Ehlinger, Shawn Robinson, Skylar Thompson, TCU Horned Frogs, Texas Longhorns

TCU goes back to the spread-option

August 24, 2017 by ianaboyd

I was debating TCU’s offensive direction under Sonny Cumbie on the Inside Texas message board recently and found, as I often do, that the explanations I was giving of the current TCU process and philosophy on both sides of the ball would make for a rather good article. I’ve done so over at Football Study … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Gary Patterson, Justin Rogers, Shawn Robinson, Sonny Cumbie, Spread-option, TCU Horned Frogs, Trevone Boykin

Big schematic questions for the Big 12: Offense

July 18, 2017 by ianaboyd

Big 12 media days are continuing and I’ve been watching what I can from back home. Yesterday we talked about the big questions for the defense, here are my big questions for the offenses across the Big 12. The offenses often carry the weight for winning games in this league, because few teams can count … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Baylor Bears, Charlie Brewer, Iowa State Cyclones, Kansas Jayhawks, Kansas State Wildcats, Oklahoma Sooners, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Revenant offense, Shawn Robinson, Strychnine offense, TCU Horned Frogs, Texas Longhorns, Texas Tech Red Raiders, West Virginia Mountaineers

Big 12 Twitter-bag, Vol VI

June 13, 2017 by ianaboyd

It’s time for another twitter-bag! I took questions from Twitter users about this upcoming Big 12 season. I’m currently in the midst of a deep dive into about 25% of the college football world as I writeup previews for the 2017 Football Outsiders Almanac. It’s a publication with more NFL data and info then you … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, Recruiting Tagged: Alex Barnes, Bob Stoops, Duke Shelley, Holton Hill, Iowa State Cyclones, Jacob Park, Jordan Thomas, Kansas State Wildcats, Kris Boyd, Lincoln Riley, Oklahoma Sooners, Ranthony Texada, Shawn Robinson, TCU Horned Frogs, Texas Longhorns, Tom Herman

Breaking down TCU’s 2017 recruiting class

February 16, 2017 by ianaboyd

I speculated back when Doug Meacham left TCU for a fairly unimpressive gig at Kansas that TCU was looking to change things up on offense once again. Obviously the switch to the Air Raid was very good for them and resulted in back to back 10-win seasons. But the big key was that the switch … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, Recruiting Tagged: Gary Patterson, Jalen Reagor, National Signing Day 2017, NSD 2017, Omar Manning, Shawn Robinson, Smashmouth spread, Sonny Cumbie, TCU Horned Frogs

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