As TCU’s fame has increased so has that of coach Gary Patterson – and it’s not always been positive.
Patterson has usually come off as a surly coach, who speaks his thoughts (sometimes to his detriment) and was under the microscope final offseason for a drug culture that was seemingly brewing in his program and left four gamers dismissed and one, quarterback Casey Pachall, in a rehab heart last season.
But that’s not the Gary Patterson the Fort Value Star-Telegram desires you to know. Because the Horned Frogs open the 2013 season in a marquee game in opposition to LSU at Dallas Cowboys Stadium, the Star-Telegram obtained a uncommon glimpse of Patterson as a guitar wielding, raspy voiced man, who likes to play music whereas his spouse swoons.
And he’s quite good at it.
In one of the Star-Telegram’s “Unplugged” movies, Patterson sings Hal Ketchum’s Small Town on a Saturday Night, and he sings it properly.
His taking part in is spectacular, his voice raspy but robust. Patterson introduces his second country song, Everything That Glitters (Isn’t Gold), by Dan Seals. It’s a couple of barrel racer who left her husband and younger daughter to pursue glory on the rodeo circuit.
“It always reminds me … as a result of coaching, we always seem to be gone,” he says. “We’re at all times doing something else. It’s a kind of songs I play each every now and then that units up the tone of what you’re all about.”
As he sings, his spouse, Kelsey, sits behind the cameras, eyes glistening. It’s a tender moment a world aside from the noise and depth of the sidelines. And the plaintive country songs say much in regards to the man who sings them.
This is a rare glimpse on the comfortable, extra jovial side of one of the nation’s most spectacular coaches. In reality, your complete story is crammed with anecdotes and data that make Patterson seem more like a buddy than a coach.
Not many coaches open like this, and quite truthfully, Patterson probably would have been the final person we’d have picked to do it, but it surely’s a fantastic opportunity to understand Patterson as a person and as an important coach.
Gary Patterson’s guitar and singing skills show a different side of TCU’s coach
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