TCU coach Gary Patterson has stuck with a similar message in his career when it comes to preseason rankings – overstate and underplay.
“The easiest saying I can have is, ‘We’re either spending our whole time proving them wrong or proving them right,’” Patterson said after a Fort Worth Chamber luncheon earlier this week.
“If you do that, then you’re going to give yourself a chance to be successful and you’re not going to say things you shouldn’t say.”
So Patterson has tried to downplay outsiders’ lofty expectations for TCU’s this offseason.