Kick returner KaVontae Turpin reset his priorities well enough to earn another chance at football in the fall, TCU coach Gary Patterson said Tuesday during a conference call with reporters.
“He needs to understand you’re not entitled to play this game,” Patterson said. “It’s a great opportunity. If he wants to be able to do that, he has to treat everybody and his teammates like a team comes first and family comes first and not him.”
Patterson announced on March 3 when the Horned Frogs opened spring practice that Turpin would be held out so he could “get where he needs to get academically and do some other things.