Gary Patterson

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**Gary Patterson**
School as a player

Date of birth	February 13, 1960
Place of birth	Larned, Kansas
Sport	Football
Title	Head Coach
Record with Team	53-20
Overall Record	53-20
Coaching Stats	College Football DataWarehouse
1980-81	Kansas State
Position	Safety & Linebacker
Schools as a coach
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.

1 Early Coaching career
2 Head Coaching Career
3 Head Coaching Record
4 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] Head Coaching Career

In six years at TCU, Patterson's 53 victories place him in third place on the TCU career victory chart. He is the only coach in school history to record four 10-win seasons, and he has the best mark of any Horned Frog coach after 61 games since Dutch Meyer started 44-13-4 from 1934-39. Patterson also ranks 16th in winning percentage among active coaches in Division I-A. Patterson has coached 50 All-Conference selections, five All-Americans, six Freshman All-Americans and one Academic All-American.

In 2005, Patterson led the Frogs to the Mountain West Conference championship in their first season of league play.

[edit] Head Coaching Record

TEAM	YEAR	WINS	LOSSES	Bowl Game
TCU	2001	6	6	Galleryfurniture.com Bowl
TCU	2002	10	2	Liberty Bowl
TCU	2003	11	2	Fort Worth Bowl
TCU	2004	5	6
TCU	2005	11	1	Houston Bowl
TCU	2006	10	2	Poinsettia Bowl
CAREER TOTAL	6 years	53	20

Preceded by: Dennis Franchione	Texas Christian University Head Football Coach 2000–Present	Succeeded by: Current
Preceded by: Phil Bennett	Texas Christian University Defensive Coordinator 1998–2000	Succeeded by: Chuck Driesbach

TCU Horned Frog Head Football Coaches
Field • Morrison • Hildebrand • Cronk • Hyde • Langley • Lewis • Lever • Stewart • Cahoon • Boles • Freeland • Daniel • Tipton • Hackney • Driver • McKnight • Bell • Schmidt • Meyer • Martin • Taylor • Pittman • Tohill • Shofner • Dry • Wacker • Sullivan • Franchione • Patterson