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TCU’s Patterson: To keep playing, Turpin must put others first

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.