Gary Patterson

For the English footballer, see Gary Patterson (footballer).

Gary Patterson

Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	TCU
Conference	Big 12
Record	131–45
Annual salary	$3 million (2012)
Biographical details
Born	(1960-02-13) February 13, 1960 Rozel, Kansas
Playing career
Position(s)	Safety, linebacker
Head coaching record
Overall	131–45
Bowls	7–4
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
1 Big 12 (2014) 1 C-USA (2002) 4 MWC (2005, 2009–2011)
Awards
AFCA Coach of the Year (2009) AP Coach of the Year (2009, 2014) Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year (2009) Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year (2009) George Munger Award (2009) Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award (2009) SN Coach of the Year (2009) Walter Camp Coach of the Year (2009) The Woody Hayes Trophy (2009) C-USA Coach of the Year (2002) 2 MWC Coach of the Year (2005, 2009)

Gary Patterson (born February 13, 1960) is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach at TCU. Patterson led the TCU Horned Frogs to six conference championships—the Conference USA title in 2002, four Mountain West Conference titles, and Big 12 Conference co-championship in 2014—and seven bowl wins including a victory in the 2011 Rose Bowl. His 2010 squad finished the season undefeated at 13–0 after the Rose Bowl win on New Year's Day 2011, and ranked second in the final tallying of both major polls.

Early life, playing career, education, and family

Patterson grew up in Rozel, Kansas and played football at Dodge City Community College and at Kansas State University. Patterson is married to Kelsey Patterson (née Hayes). He has three sons: Josh, Cade and Blake. He received his bachelor's degree in physical education in 1983 from Kansas State University, where he became a member of the Acacia Fraternity. While coaching at Tennessee Technological University he earned a master's degree in educational administration in 1984. Outside of coaching, Patterson plays guitar and performs at charity events around the Dallas-Fort Worth area during the off season.

Coaching career

Early years

Patterson began his coaching career in 1982 at Kansas State University 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 Texas Christian University (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.

Patterson remains friends with current Minnesota head coach Jerry Kill from their time as coaches on Franchione's staffs. Kill served as the best man during Patterson's wedding to wife Kelsey in 2004.

Head coach at TCU

Patterson won his 110th game at TCU with a 56-0 rout of Grambling, passing Dutch Meyer as the winningest coach in program history. His teams have won at least 10 games in a season eight times. Only twice have they failed to reach a bowl, in 2004 and 2013. Patterson's Frogs have earned a spot in the year-end top 25 nine times, counting his partial season as head coach in 2000. In 2005, Patterson led the Frogs to the Mountain West Conference championship in their first season as a member. Over the course of the 2005 and 2006 seasons, the Frogs won four consecutive games against Big 12 Conference opponents, with three of the victories coming on the road. Patterson was named the 2005 Mountain West Conference Coach of the Year. In January 2007, Patterson turned down a head coaching offer from the University of Minnesota worth over $2 million per year.

Patterson led the 2009 Horned Frogs to a perfect 12–0 regular season record, a Mountain West Conference championship, a #4 final BCS ranking, and an invitation to the 2010 Fiesta Bowl--their first major bowl appearance in 51 years. They ultimately fell by a score of 17–10 to undefeated #6 Boise State. The 2009 Horned Frogs became the second "BCS Buster" from the Mountain West Conference (and the fourth, overall) and seriously threatened to "bust into" the 2010 BCS National Championship Game. Earlier in the day, Cincinnati defeated Pitt on an epic fourth-quarter rally. Cincinnati's win denied the Horned Frogs a shot at playing for the national championship, as it assured that two teams from Automatic Qualifying conferences would finish the regular season undefeated (whoever won the 2009 SEC Championship Game would have also finished undefeated). Patterson was named the 2009 AP Coach of the Year, becoming the first head coach of a non-BCS conference team to win the award. He won a total of seven national "Coach of the Year" awards in 2009 in addition to being named the Mountain West Conference Coach of the Year for the second time (his third conference "Coach of the Year" award, overall).

The following year, Patterson led the 2010 Horned Frogs to a second consecutive undefeated regular season and a #3 final BCS ranking. TCU received the first Rose Bowl invitation offered to a team from a non-AQ conference during the BCS era. The Horned Frogs won the 2011 Rose Bowl, 21–19, over Wisconsin to cap off only the second undefeated and untied season in school history. When TCU entered the Big 12 Conference in 2012, Patterson was faced with 7-6 2012 and 4-8 2013 seasons, but turned it around and led the Horned Frogs to their first Big 12 title in 2014, going 11-1, finishing in the top 5 of polls, with impressive wins over #4 Oklahoma, Minnesota, #7 Kansas State and scoring 82 points behind a 31-point third quarter against Texas Tech.

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs	Coaches#	AP°
TCU Horned Frogs (Western Athletic Conference) (2000)
2000	TCU	0–1			L Mobile Alabama	18	21
TCU Horned Frogs (Conference USA) (2001–2004)
2001	TCU	6–6	4–3	T–5th	L Galleryfurniture.com
2002	TCU	10–2	6–2	T–1st	W Liberty	22	23
2003	TCU	11–2	7–1	2nd	L Fort Worth	24	25
2004	TCU	5–6	3–5	T–6th
TCU Horned Frogs (Mountain West Conference) (2005–2011)
2005	TCU	11–1	8–0	1st	W Houston	9	11
2006	TCU	11–2	6–2	2nd	W Poinsettia	21	22
2007	TCU	8–5	4–4	5th	W Texas
2008	TCU	11–2	7–1	2nd	W Poinsettia	7	7
2009	TCU	12–1	8–0	1st	L Fiesta†	6	6
2010	TCU	13–0	8–0	1st	W Rose†	2	2
2011	TCU	11–2	7–0	1st	W Poinsettia	13	14
TCU Horned Frogs (Big 12 Conference) (2012–present)
2012	TCU	7–6	4–5	T–5th	L Buffalo Wild Wings
2013	TCU	4–8	2–7	T–7th
2014	TCU	11–1	8–1	T–1st	Peach	6	6
TCU:		131–45	82–31
Total:		131–45
National championship         Conference title         Conference division title or championship game berth
†Indicates Bowl Coalition, Bowl Alliance, BCS, or CFP / New Years' Six bowl. #Rankings from final Coaches Poll. °Rankings from final AP Poll.

External links

• TCU profile
• Gary Patterson Foundation
• Template:CFBCR
• Gary Patterson at IMDb