Four years ago, no one could pick a TCU runner off a base.
Not one all season.
That apparently was a careful, disciplined TCU team, but also one that didn’t score many runs. Or go very far — the 2013 Horned Frogs finished 29-28 and watched the postseason from home.
“The goal of offense is to score runs,” said coach Jim Schlossnagle, whose 2017 team opens the season Friday night against Penn State.
Ever since 2013, the Frogs have been scoring runs.
Their run total went from 246 that year (a little more than four a game) to 333 the next year, to 388 the next, to 467 last year.