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Part Deux – Round 2 Mock Draft
As promised, here is a look at the second round: New England Patriots – Akeem Ayers (Linebacker - UCLA). The Patriots just continue to get better. They are the Anti-Texans. Buffalo Bills – Brooks Reed (Defensive End/Linebacker - Arizona). They missed on Von Miller yesterday, but they will get a...
Gordon Gee Tadpoled by Super Frog
The Big Ten needs to be wary of amphibians. After Super Ginger (see below) asserted football dominance in the Rose Bowl over the Big Ten Conference Leader Wisconsin (or Legend?), TCU boosters assert billboard dominance over Gordon Gee. Adam Jacobi of CBS Sports and Black Heart Gold Pants has this...
2010 Manning Passing Academy Reviews Are In
I've been cobbling together some interesting stuff from the recent Manning Camp Passing Academy in which top college quarterbacks get together to learn, compete, and show off their wares for the NFL scouts and media. Some names you may recognize: Stanford's Andrew Luck, Florida State's Christian...
TCU 2011 Outlook-- Passing Attack
The Purple Wimple preview of TCU, part one: the quarterbacks, receivers, and tight ends (o-line to be previewed with the running game, in the next post). Take Pachall did a lot more rushing than passing in 2010. off the number one,...
Mountain West 2010 Retrospective: the Peaks
Peaks has to be plural, because in the conference, Utah beat 'em all too, except TCU. Both teams featured game-changing return men (Smithson and Kerley were first and second in the conference, first and 15th nationally in punt returns) and entered the season favorites to win the conference and...
Recruiting Tidbits
Kibbles and bits about the freshly inked classes of recruits of TCU and its opponents: Air Force is an out-of-state school that flexes the Texas connection better than most of the others. Its 13 Texan signees (caveat: because AFA signees must jump through more than the usual number of hoops...
The 2010 Wimple Awards
The fourth annual Purple Wimple Awards: Purple Wimple Player of the Year: Andy Dalton Dalton embodied the Frogs' success since 2008 as no other. (Photo: Keith Robinson) No single Horned Frog since LT has come to define TCU's...
Wrap up: in 2010 the Frogs got the monkey off their back
Way back on September 2nd (only in football does three months a few days seem way back) the Wimple offered, as a public service, five reasons to curb our collective enthusiasm for the newborn football season. Relax, was the message: 2009 rocked, and there're a lot of good reasons to expect 2010,...
TCU 21, Wisconsin 19
When a team gets out-gained, out-first-downed, runs 25% fewer plays than its opponent, but wins anyway, one assumes a gaggle of turnovers. Neither team committed one Saturday in the Rose Bowl. Instead, each team did what it did, and in the end, TCU was better. Wisconsin blew open massive holes...
2010 All-MWC Frogs
TCU placed nine players on the 2010 all-MWC first team, tying the league record (for the second consecutive year). Dalton and Daniels were the only two unanimous first-team selections. Offensive Player of the Year: Andy Dalton.* Defensive Player of the Year: Tank Carder. Special Teams Player of...
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