Gary Patterson loves to talk about paper tigers.
The head man of the Horned Frogs has seen it all in his 20+ years in Fort Worth, as he and his program crawled its way up from the WAC to the Big 12 over the course of his tenure. With the rise in prominence that came from dominating the Mountain West Conference, earning a spot in a Power Five Conference, and building facilities to rival the biggest and best programs in the land, doors have been opened to attracting players that wouldn’t have given TCU the time of day back when LT was setting rushing records left and right.