Now the longest-tenured coach in the Big 12, TCU coach Gary Patterson was asked at Big 12 Media Days if he should take on a bigger voice for the conference.
He took the ball and ran with it.
“I’m excited about being part of the Big 12, and I think the Big 12 is a great league,” he said last week at the Ford Center in Frisco. “As coaches, we have a responsibility, all of us do, to recruit better players, play better on the field, and have a responsibility to our league and our people that we do well.