When compiling a list of people most disliked by Texas Tech football fans, you won’t have to get too far past Baker Mayfield and Tommy Tuberville before you come to TCU head coach Gary Patterson. Now, that animosity is certain only to increase after Patterson’s remarks about Red Raider fans this week at Big 12 Media Days.
When asked by sports anchor John Sokoloff of Fox 34 in Lubbock about playing in Jones Stadium, as TCU will do this season, Patterson claimed that Texas Tech fans have thrown “frozen water bottles” at his team during night games. The same question was asked of Oklahoma’s Lincoln Riley (a Texas Tech alum) and Kansas’ Les Miles (though the Sooners and Jayhawks will not play in Lubbock this season) and neither of those coaches had an ill word to say about Red Raider fans.