Nearly two decades into his tenure at TCU, Gary Patterson has built the Horned Frogs into a nationally prominent program. An impressive feat, to be sure, but far more notable is that he and his staffs have largely done so by digging up diamonds in the rough and not only surviving but thriving on what’s oftentimes the scraps left behind from regional recruiting powers and college football’s blue bloods.
Since the recruiting services began tracking rankings at the tail end of the 20th Century, TCU has never once capped a cycle with a class ranked within the top 20 nationally.