ARLINGTON - On Saturday night at a wedding in Southlake, Gary Patterson sang George Strait.
Then Monday at Big 12 media days, he shot straight. Consider the back and forth between the TCU coach and a TV type from West Texas:
"What's it like to play in Lubbock?" the reporter asks, innocently enough.
"Day or night?"
"Both."
"They throw tortillas at us in the daytime, and they throw frozen water bottles at us at night."
"What are your thoughts on that?"
"You can ask a couple of guys who had to have stitches when they got hit with 'em.