Even amid the second-longest active tenure at a single school in college football, 21 seasons in Fort Worth -- 18 as head coach -- aren’t blending together for TCU head coach Gary Patterson.
Certainly not the latest installment of spring practice that Patterson orchestrated, anyway.
For all the springs the 59-year-old has been through with the Horned Frogs, through thousands of snaps and whistles over the past two decades, what went down on the practice fields from early March through early April was a bit different than anything he’s ever seen.
At a glance, that may seem obvious.