Even amid the second-longest active tenure at a single school in college football, 21 seasons in Fort Worth -- 18 as head coach -- aren’t blending together for TCU head coach Gary Patterson.
Certainly not the latest installment of spring practice that Patterson has orchestrated, at least.
For all the springs that the 59-year-old has been through with the Horned Frogs, through thousands of snaps and whistles over the past two decades, what went down on the practice fields from early-March through early-April was a bit different than anything he’s ever seen.
At a glance, that may seem obvious.