Gary Patterson
Patterson at a press conference
Title	Head Coach
Sport	Football
Team Record	55-22
Born	February 13, 1960
Place of birth	Larned, Kansas
Career Highlights
Overall	55-22
Bowls	3-3
Coaching Stats
College Football DataWarehouse
Championships
CUSA - 2002 MWC - 2005
Awards
MWC Coach of the Year - 2005[1]
School as a player
1980-81	Kansas State
Position	Safety & Linebacker
Coaching positions
2000-Present	TCU

Gary Patterson (born February 13, 1960 in Larned, Kansas) is a college football head coach. He is currently the head coach at Texas Christian University. Patterson is a graduate of Kansas State University, where he played football as an undergraduate. Banjo Patterson File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The head coach in sports coaching is the coach who is in charge of the other coaches. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Larned is a city located in Pawnee County, Kansas. ... Conference USA, officially abbreviated C-USA, is a college athletic conference whose member institutions are located within the Southern United States. ... “Mountain West” redirects here. ... “Mountain West” redirects here. ... Kansas State University, officially called Kansas State University of Agriculture and Applied Science [2] but commonly shortened to K-State, is an institution of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas, in the United States. ... In American football and Canadian football, the termsafety can refer to: two positions in the most-common defensive backfield setup, the strong safety and the free safety, or a type of score, worth one or two points. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Larned is a city located in Pawnee County, Kansas. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... The head coach in sports coaching is the coach who is in charge of the other coaches. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Kansas State University, officially called Kansas State University of Agriculture and Applied Science [2] but commonly shortened to K-State, is an institution of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas, in the United States. ...

Early coaching career

Patterson began his coaching career in 1982 at Kansas State, as an assistant to head coach Jim Dickey. After subsequently serving a number of years as an assistant coach at a number of different schools, Patterson was hired as Defensive Coordinator at the University of New Mexico in 1996. He served in that job for two years before leaving to take the same position at TCU in 1998. He was named head coach at TCU prior to the Mobile Alabama Bowl in December 2000, replacing Dennis Franchione who left to become the head coach at the University of Alabama. Kansas State University, officially called Kansas State University of Agriculture and Applied Science [2] but commonly shortened to K-State, is an institution of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas, in the United States. ... A defensive coordinator typically refers to a coach on a football team in the National Football League (or at other levels of American football) who is in charge of the defense. ... The University of New Mexico (UNM) is a public university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The GMAC Bowl is a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division 1-A college football bowl game that has been played annually at 40,646-seat Ladd Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama, since 1999. ... Dennis Franchione (born March 28, 1951 in Girard, Kansas) is an American Football coach, who is currently the head coach at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. ... The University of Alabama (also known as Alabama, UA or colloquially as Bama) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. Founded in 1831, UA is the flagship campus of the University of Alabama System. ...

Head coaching career

In six years at TCU, Patterson's 54 victories place him in third place on the TCU career victory chart, and he is the only coach in school history to record four 10-win seasons. His teams have only failed to reach a bowl game once, the Frogs have earned a spot in the Final Top 25 four times. In 2005, Patterson led the Frogs to the Mountain West Conference championship in their first season of league play. Over the course of the 2005 & 2006 seasons, the Frogs have won 4 consecutive games against Big 12 opponents, with only one of the four coming at home. “Mountain West” redirects here. ... The Big 12 Conference is a college athletic conference of twelve schools located in the central United States. ...

Patterson's name constantly comes up for head coaching vacancies around the country, including his alma mater Kansas State, Iowa State, and the University of Miami. Most recently, he turned down a job offer from Minnesota worth over $2 million per year to stay at TCU.^[1] Kansas State University, officially called Kansas State University of Agriculture and Applied Science [2] but commonly shortened to K-State, is an institution of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas, in the United States. ... Iowa State University of Science and Technology (ISU) is a public land-grant and space-grant university located in Ames, Iowa, USA. Until 1959 it was known as Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. ... This article is about the university in Coral Gables, Florida. ... This article is about the oldest and largest campus of the University of Minnesota. ...

Head Coaching Record

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References

External links

• Official team biography
• CoachPatterson.com
• Gary Patterson Foundation