Pulling hard for TCU

I can't remember when was the last time that I was watching every play with as much angst as I will be watching the Natl. Championship game tomorrow night. Maybe, hopefully the boys in purple can pull it off!

Right there with you!

Go Frogs!

Go big 12!

Im going for TCU for many reasons.

But, I think they are gonna be overmatched and it won’t be close.

Save this reply for tomorrow. I hope I’m wrong. But I think TCU gets pile driven.

They counted us out all year, but I wouldn’t bet against this group of HORNED FROGS!!

Just landed in LA. Let’s GO FROGS!!


Pretty cool article written by a teammate and does a great job of explaining all the excitement/emotions of former Letterman!

https://frogstoday.com/former-tcu-p...kqS2Os7pt7u6_t9ULL-LxtsXyrmS9fQAOWI6Vo4M

Awesome.

Bring it home to Texas.

YES !!!

GO FROG'S

Shock The World !!!

I’m on board.
Hope Duggan gets 100 yards, on the ground.

This Aggie is for "Texas" and "Christian" for the win!

Pulling for the Frogs! Alum of a couple of Big 12 teams perhaps the champ this year.. ..Also have a good friend that is an alumni and his father is a former H/C at TCU.

Can't do it...... Go Dogs!

Uga by 17

Go Toads

Go Horny toads! I'll be watching from the recliner with my 30+ year old TCU blanket.

Gotta win one for “the purple cloud”. If anyone knows who that is.

Curious to see TCU uniform combination. Georgia is wearing red jersey
So I assume TCU will be in white. I prefer the white helmet.

Sent 2 daughters to school there, first one graduation with Andy Dalton. We are purple all the way through

Great read Barney. I got the Frogs!!!

I’m too old for this LA night life crap, but when in Rome I guess…..

Sic’em

Mattress Mac in Houston put 1.5 Mil on the Frogs.

Enjoy your T-shirt.

Go Frogs!!! And thank you TCU for giving the Great State of Texas a chance at the NC!!!

Fancy!!!!!

Dudes down in San Antonio chanting SEC, SEC!

Great food w/good friends. Sprago did not disappoint!!!

Really Weird that’s for sure.

Im stilling enjoying Ol Gorilla spending some coin in Hollywood. Do you think he did the stars tour this morning?

Ha J and J are there too… man I feel left out now 🤣🤣🤣

Keep john out of trouble!!!

No Hollywood tour. Been trolling dawgs all morning



Maybe Boozer’s plane won’t be down for service on the next one, and he can fly us out.

You get barked at yet???

For sure!!!! Did momma bear bring any bread and butter pickles?

Probably not he is a giant purple people eater

I assume the Georgia fans are staying on the other side of town from the TCU folks.

Ha! No barking around here.

Throw back pic where it all started!



Found my vintage SunBowl hat. Figured I might as well channel that good luck for the game today!

Bro do you even like football?

Great pic! Which one is you? Was that the year you buys beat USC?

He is the one that looks 12

Yes, they beat USC that year, also same year they had to come from behind to beat AF by 1. AF went 12-1.

Thanks. #54. Yes. SunBowl was my last game. Carson Palmer was USC’s QB that year and Chris Claiborne that won the Butkus that year was their linebacker.

Awesome.....thanks!

Awesome! Our daughter spent 6 years at TCU, so we spent a lot of time and money up there, lots of purple in the closets here. Go Frogs!

All roads to the title go through the SEC. The Frogs can avoid it no more.

So what you are say is this could be real embarrassing for SEC?


It’s already demoralizing for A&M and UT and all their booster money

Yes, no other colleges have boosters that pour money into the program and are not successful. Only those two.

Ya but A&M keeps buying top 10 recruiting classes and still don’t do any thing…. Did any other top 10 recruiting class not go to a bowl game?

An SEC program has taken the title for 12 of the last 16 years, and had at least one team in all but one of those 16 games.

You can say what you want about the Aggies and Longhorns but you can't say they've avoided getting on the field with SEC teams.

If the Frogs win, they will have definitely earned the title.

Link

😂.

I really dislike Stetson Bennett. His story was cool when he was 21. But he’s 26. Older than Tua, Burrow, Hurts, Mac Jones, Lamar Jackson. Dudes old.

Very cool. I used to work with Kevin Colon and Quinten Ellis. I think they might have been on the team with you at that time.

You’ll have to look up those statistics. But I stand by what I said. These guys making a lot of programs look foolish and I like it. You picking out a few is goofy, but you do you.

As for the Aggies they need no help looking foolish. But tonight is about TCU vs Georgia. Suppress your ADD and stop talking with trash can Dan

Wtf was that punt? The punter could’ve thrown it further!

Not a good start. Nerves showing.

Can we get a welfare check on Who's Bernie.....

Why?

Because he went to see his old team play for a NC? What do you have on your wall? On your Finger?

Him, and every Frog that’s played on that field since the first TCU football team are proud of that team.

They were. Know both of them well. I see Quinten from time to time, but I haven’t seen Kevin since college.

1000%.

I’m fine. I tend to watch the game vs post on a forum when I’m inside a stadium.

spot was earned.

1st year Coach.... Early on they were getting behind but they fought. End of the night they brought a knife to a gun fight

Stop being a db troll.

it’s all good Payne. I trolled him pretty hard this year on his Horned Fans only thread.

Lol, let the men talk would you, Anyway.......

Well hell, barney...... I would love nothing more then to rub it in but, I respect you for being a man about the whole "turn about is fair play" thing.

Good run, but yall just got out athlete...... I thought Georgia would get to the QB, and negate the passing game, I was surprised on how well they contained the QB run game. Georgia's offense just wrecked that 3-3-5. They got side to side, ran the QB, and most importantly threw it over the top. They kept yalls D guessing. Their game plan was on point. I would say there is always next year.......but I'd be lying.

Ha! You know the answer to that. SA has never stepped on any field of competition in his life. There's a word for those like im who've failed miserably at a task while at the same time continue to criticize those who have.

You're right....TCU has lots to be proud of.

Lol, I failed so bad yet here I am living life and being happy.

Sorry you're such a miserable person.

SA's modus operandi.......When you have no expectations about yourself, you're never disappointed.

I'm also never miserable.....

Just a freaking idiot.

A happy freaking idiot.......

It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds, who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

Congrats frogs, great season!

Didn't pull hard enough is a Under Statement.

Rub it in all you want. Like it, love it, or hate it TCU played their way into the playoffs. They were picked 7th pre-season in the Big XII. They played for a Natty last night. Yes, they got their azz kicked. Sucks after such a magical season. Any Horned Frog that would tell you pre-season they wouldn't have signed up for a 13-2 finish with a spot in the National Championship game is a liar. Knowing the outcome I'd still go to ever game. Memories made with family and friends that will never be erased. Granted I hope I can flush that game last night. Don't buy things, but invest in memories. Still proud to be a Horned Frog. Bleed Purple or Bleed OUT!!!

I haven't watched the game on TV, and from our arguments in other threads we have vastly different understandings of the game of football, so I'm not going to give me take.



So you are saying Texas is back? I look forward to kicking y'all azz again in Fort Worth this year. Buy you a beer at the game.

Yep, you and everyone else with half a freaking clue has a better understanding of football than this idiot.

Happy idiot!

And just remember this happy idiot called a blowout.... yep you're right.

You also said it was a pipe dream for A big 12 team to make it to NC. Also said Michigan was going to stomp TCU, You keep saying a teams success is via their recruiting class. All three of those were wrong.

Congrats you picked “a” game right.

Wow don't remember anything about a pipe dream. Although I did think Michigan was going to beat TCU they s*** the bed. And national championships are 100% tied to stacking top 10 recruiting classes year in and year out. Look it up.

How is that recruiting strength working out for UT and A&M? That strength number means nothing if you can’t run the ball for more than 28 yards in a game. 28 yards isnt coaching its will to win.

Look I’m for ALL Texas based schools to be dominate. Whether it’s TCU or UT or ACU or TSU . I want all Texas based FCB and FSB teams to excel. I don’t understand the whole strict Tshirt fan school thing, but I will always support Texas schools and Kids.

Duggan needs to re-think going into the 2023 NFL draft IMO.

You mean his oline shouldn’t enter the draft this year.

Both oline and him are fine. It’s one game. You have a team that started re-preparing for an NC the minute they beat Bama in 21 season NC vs a team that hadn’t even meet their coaches yet during same time. TCU had National expectations of 5-5. Hat tip to GA probably the most prepared and focused NC game I’ve seen. That’s football at its finest. At same stand point TCU just had an unbelievable will to win against a lot of odds.

NC is a whole different dance. You saw who was more tenured in dealing with the Bowl distractions. I do think regular season that’s a different ball game. Maybe not different out come but much different performance and score.

I hate seeing guys leave early for draft, but completely understand it.

Run the ball...... yep its that simple.

Thanks, thats a perfect example of Texas Footballs failure in recruiting. If you are big time football program like Texas you will have highly ranked classes on a regular basis. Too many times Texas recruits stars and not a team. So in the rankings it looks good, but on the field the stars don't complement each other

Heres an example, lets say you land a 5 star running back......lets call him Bijan, and you fail to bring in an offensive line to open holes for him. You can't run the ball, no problem we'll just throw it over the 3-3-5 defense.... Problem is that with no offensive line the five star QB doesn't have the time to get the ball to his high 4 star WR.

On the other side let's recruit a couple of 5 star safety and some high star CBs, but let's not pay any attention to the line, now the D is getting gashed by the run, and with all the time in the world the WRs will find separation from those high 4, and 5 star DBs.

Without a deliberate recruiting strategy those stars don't add up. Luckily Sark realizes the problem and has been deliberate in recruiting. Just look at the new look lineman he has brought in. Texas is on the right track.

Hell and to add to all that, firing coaches every other season doesn't help either.

I fell asleep 20 times typing this out, so it might just be a bunch of babble.

It’s clear you’re delirious. Sleep deprivation explains a lot.

Thread is titled, "Pulling hard for TCU"

He should stick around for another year, get some more experience/snaps. Get an NIL deal, he has street cred and should be able to get something substantial.

Texas' entitlement culture and mentality seems to overcome their annual recruiting efforts. Sark is a loser.

You are still missing it but I get why. Best of luck to ya.

Maybe more 5 stars will cure this.

13-1

You're the one who expense so much of your energy hating on Texas.....

What university did you attend? Just curious.....

I really want him to keep digging this hole

Hating no. You are still talking about “buying” an offensive line to be able to rush 28 yards. That’s the mentality disorder you can’t get over. Just go “buy” a recruiting class. How about build a “Team environment ” first. Fix the environment, stop trying to buy athletes to make a team. You have too build a program people want to be at and will be loyal too. That’s the difference. Just keep chasing recruiting class rankings, and not the right kids. The non-release /sit out a year transfer rules are gone. So now you can just keep bidding..lol

UT has had one 10 win season since 2010. TCU with a 1/10 the recruiting strength is at 6. Might be it’s time to change the mentality of the boosters and program.


Where did you go to college? Where did you play at? You go first, where I played is no secret.

This is starting to be embarrassing

The 2023 class would be Sarks second class..... so give that OLine some time, you'll see.

Well in this day and age you can pay players..... so, don't hate the players hate the game.

It's no secret I'm a T-shirt fan.....

Also if you spent the same amount of time talking about your university's football team, that you do about Texas it would be common knowledge.... this is why I ask.

LMAO..........this is like Mike Tyson vs the Permian Basin golden gloves champ.

My previous team has the number one rushing offense in the nation, and won their bowl game.
They don’t have a kid over 300lbs or a four plus star recruit on the oline.
They went 10-3.
They have had “5” 10 game winning seasons in the last 10 years, with not one five or four star recruit.
They actually turned down the Big 12 offer to join their conference.
They build teams that out play bought athletes consistently.
No one expects them to ever win a NC, but you probably shouldnt bet against them in individual games because how disciplined they are and tend to play way above their pay grade, ask Lou Holtz,
They would have caused UT to commit Seppuku this year, But TCU for sure and maybe Okla State would have murdered them though.
I was actually hoping they were going to play Okla St instead of Baylor in bowl game because I knew the Baylor out come already.

Any other questions?

No doubt about this BOBO!

I too would love to see it. But I will take aTm over any of the others simply because I spent a lot of money there over a 4 year time period. lmao

Reminds me of this commercial.....

I'm glad TCU made the NC game, wish it would have been a little closer. Impressive that a smaller school like TCU can compete with schools 4x-5x their size. I was pulling for them to keep it close, but unfortunately Georgia just outmatched them. No conference or team can consistently compete with the best of the SEC...not much else to it.

Ha!! I get it. My wife is an Aggie, well 1 of 15 in her family. Holidays come with 6 maroon vehicles in the drive way. It’s a little weird. I wish the A&M of the 90’s would come back but it’s going to be a while.

List of the teams to ever win a College Football Playoff game: Clemson, LSU, Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State, Oregon, and little 'ol TCU!

While I didn't enjoy the UGA butt kicking, it's cool to see them listed up there with the blue bloods now.

Bleed Purple or Bleed out!!!!

Though I agree with you that they must recruit good players across the board at every position, I don't agree with you that UT has lacked the talent needed up front. What they've lacked for a long, LONG time is development of good players to make them great!

2019 to 2022 Offensive & defensive line recruiting. These are kids that were signed by each school the previous 4 years!

Position............Player Rank......School........# Signed
Off Linemen.........4-star..............Texas..............12
Off Linemen.........4-star............Georgia.............11
Off Lineman.........3-star..............Texas...............3
Off Lineman.........3-star.............Georgia.............6
Def Lineman........4-star...............Texas..............10
Def Lineman........4-star..............Georgia............11
Def Lineman........3-star...............Texas...............9
Def Lineman........3-star..............Georgia.............4

Neither school signed a single 5-star big ugly in the previous 4 recruiting years!
Texas signed a total of 15 offensive lineman that were 3 or 4 star while Georgia signed 17
Texas signed a total of 19 defensive lineman that were 3 or 4 star while Georgia signed 15


Getting talent has NEVER been UT's problem. Developing that talent and getting the most out of it has!

I bet it was a blast going to the game.

Even SA should be able to understand this reality.......as I mentioned in a previous post, UT has an entitlement mentality and culture that they refuse to deal with. Their leader Sark fits right in.

Yup
And it's even worse probably by the numbers when looking at aTm's last 4 years of recruiting classes!
Granted, a huge chunk of their's were true freshman last year including 4 true freshman 5-star D-lineman.

aTm 2019-2022 recruiting classes for the big nasties:

5 Stars O-Line = 1
5 Stars D-Liine = 5
4 Stars O-Line = 9
4 Stars D-Line = 16
3 Stars O-Line = 7
3 Stars O-Line = 2

17 O-lineman from 3 to 5 stars & 23 D-Lineman 3 to 5 star. SMDH

I still think UT would have had a NC under Strong if the could have just given him time, and stayed out of his way.

Grant it I have a very defense type bias, but I think he had the right mentality to balance out that program.

Nope, Texas didn't give him the resources he needed, but they sure as hell did for Herman.... we were big fans of Strong, still are.

Herman recruited 270-285 lb lineman. When he came in he actually said some of his OL were fat....and out of shape. He wanted to spread the defense out and run the QB, he said he like the numbers game, so recruiting run blockers wasn't a priority.

Sark was surprised that he only had 8 offensive lineman on scholarship, and 14 WRs......he said those numbers should be flipped around....... Sark and Hand went after guys who can control the line. Almost all are very large humans.

Talk about recruiting strategy, after last years haul of two 5 star, and four 4 star offensive lineman that are huge. This year they went after large guys that can be bulked up, and are more of a project, because of the line he recruited were gonna play for three years. Sark is not hunting stars he being deliberate in who he recruits.

Next years projected line will be 1 senior, 2 sophomores, and 2 redshirt freshman. Thats how bad of a situation the o line was in. Texas got lucky that Jones used his covid year to come back.

I could be full of it, but I guess time will tell.

There were only five, 5 stars OL this year.
Miami has 2
LSU 1
Alabama 1
Pedo State 1

No one is buying more than Miami. They have the easiest path to success with a weak ACC.

They have a championship history, good school. They have no QB. Rumor is they tried to pay Dtake May five million dollars.

Holy chet 5 million!

I see only four total 5-star kids on the list signed by UT in the last 6 recruiting years and only one was an O-lineman listed as a guard in the 2022 class. The other 3 as a Safety in 2018 (BJ Foster), an Athlete in 2021, and Manning in 2023 class.

I think all 5 lineman UT signed last year were listed as 4-star kids.

Thats a good list to be on. Even more impressive is how they got there from a 5-7 season to a new coach with a bunch of 3 star players.Still dont see how yall beat my Baylor Bears.

I guess it depends on what site you look at. I always go to the 247 composite.