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Head Coach Gary Patterson is pictured during a media briefing at the podium in the Four Sevens Team Room on the TCU campus, Texas photographed on Wednesday, August 3, 2016. (Louis DeLuca/The Dallas Morning News)
If anyone knows what it's like to be on the outside of the top tier of college football, it's TCU and coach Gary Patterson.
Patterson has first-hand experience of leaving a conference game after midnight and getting into bed just before dawn. He knows what it's like to have lesser facilities compared to those down the interstate.