Gary Patterson always has a skeptical eye toward the future.
He has been slow to adapt in some ways and ahead of the curve in others; willing to maximize the advances in and around college football for his program’s benefit but not entirely sure he supports them.
One such element is the transfer portal, an still not fully known entity that has both decimated the Horned Frogs and made them better. In fact, amongst all of the schools in Texas, TCU Football leads in transfers, having seen 18 players that started the 2020 season in purple leave town — with mixed results.