Morning Dump

One 45-point effort helps end TCU's season Star-Telegram

TCU's three keys to victory Star-Telegram

No. 7 TCU hosts Texas Tech in three game series GoFrogs.com

Fogs open MWC tourney Friday against Utah GoFrogs.com

Team to host NCAA champs Daily Skiff

Fiesta Bowl loss provides motivation for TCU in 2010 Dallas Morning News

Red Raiders get ready to face the Horned Frogs Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Possible expansion on mind of MWC presidents Denver Post

TCU DE (their mistake, not mine) Daryl Washington took the long and hard route to the NFL USA Today

'09 class can improve the team in-house DallasCowboys.com

The Little Guy

Given that we are under a month to the spring game, lets talk some freakin football! I have always heard that we are one of the smallest schools that play Division I football, but I was never really sure where we ranked on that list. Turns out we are the 14th smallest school in Div I. So, how do we rank in that group of 20 smallest schools over the past decade? Well here it is. I have listed them from smallest to largest based on undergraduate attendance. The second number is their record since 2000, third is the number of bowls plus bowl records, and last is their record in BCS games.

1. Tulsa: 3,048; 57-57 (5 Bowls, 3-2 Record) 0 BCS Appearances
2. Rice: 3,102; 46-72 (2 Bowls, 1-1 Record) 0 BCS Appearances
3. Air Force: 4,000; 68-54 (5 Bowls, 2-3 Record) 0 BCS Appearances
4. Navy: 4,400; 64-63 (7 Bowls, 3-4 Record) 0 BCS Appearances
5. Wake Forest: 4,476; 61-60 (4 Bowls, 3-1 Record) 0 BCS Appearances
6. Army: 4,487; 11-127 (0 Bowls) 0 BCS Appearances
7. SMU: 6,000; 34-84 (1 Bowl, 1-0 Record) 0 BCS Appearances
8. Duke: 6,496; 19-97 (0 Bowls) 0 BCS Appearances
9. Tulane: 6,749; 43-76 (1 Bowl, 1-0 Record) 0 BCS Appearances
10. Troy: 7,970 - Troy entered Div I in 2002 so I didn't include them
    
11. Louisiana Monroe: 8,140; 36-79 (0 Bowls) 0 BCS Appearances
12. Notre Dame: 8,371; 70-52 (6 Bowls, 1-5 Record) 3 BCS Appearances (0-3 Record)
13. North Western: 8,684; 54-67 (5 Bowls, 0-5 Records) 0 BCS Appearances
14. TCU: 8,749; 95-30 (9 Bowls, 5-4 Record) 1 BCS Appearance (0-1 Record)
15. Boston College: 9,060; 88-40 (10 Bowls, 8-2 Record) 0 BCS Appearances
16. Miami: 10,370; 92-33 (10 Bowls, 6-4 Record) 4 BCS Appearances (3-1 Record)
17. Louisiana Tech: 11,289; 52-67 (2 Bowls, 1-1 Record) 0 BCS Appearances
18. Idaho: 11,947; 27-79 (1 Bowl, 1-0 Record) 0 BCS Appearances
19. Vandy: 12,093; 34-83 (1 Bowl, 1-0 Record) 0 BCS Appearances
20. Georgia Tech: 12,966; 81-47 (10 Bowls, 3-7 Record) 1 BCS Appearance (0-1 Record)
    

Not to bad for the Frogs ehh? The little old school on the hill can play some foolsball. It should also be known that were number 7 in over all winning percentage this past decade as well (full list here). Where is Boise in this mix? They are #26 with 19,667; 112-17 (9 Bowls, 5-4 Record) 2 BCS Appearances (2-0 Record)

*All these numbers come from Wikipedia (so who knows if they are right) and College Football Data Warehouse

The Hollow Men: 2009-2010 TCU Men's Basketball.

...This is the way the (season) ends

Not with a bang but a whimper.

And so we reach the end of the road.

Alright, sure, we haven’t TECHNICALLY reached the end of the road. The Frogs still have a quarterfinal game to play against BYU tonight in the MWC Tourney, but considering the Frogs have lost both meetings to the Cougars this season by a combined 50 points, including a season ending 30 point home loss after leading by 14, I wouldn’t get your hopes up. Greg Hill can say all he wants about the post season being a “new” season, but let’s cut the bullshit, Greg. Your team is terrible and doesn’t deserve to take the floor with half the teams in your own conference. You should've make it work at Purdue.

And the sad part is, in basketball, the MWC is perhaps even more unbalanced than in football. You have the good - BYU, New Mexico; the serviceable – UNLV, SDSU and Utah (most years); and then everyone else is just plain awful. AWFUL. Like, nauseatingly bad. TCU should have no problems cracking the top three, or even the top six. But we don't. And I don't know how we ever will. .

Yesterday Air Force won the TCU Invitiation 8/9 seed play- in game by 19 points over Wyoming. To put this win in perspective, Air Force entered the game with a 9-20 record and only one conference win – ironically over Wyoming. To put it in even better perspective, TCU enters the tournament with 5 conference wins… and four of them came against these two teams. New Mexico must be absolutely TREMBLING in their Nike’s over the prospect of facing the mighty Falcons.

TCU is 1-4 all time in the MWC tournament, with their one win coming in the 2007 version of the tournament against New Mexico in the play-in game. Neil P hangs his hat on that signature victory, hopes that you don't notice him still hanging around the program that he ruined much like a fat prom date hangs around the appetizer table, and politely asks you to stop making fun of his son.

The Frogs have found very creative ways to lose these tournament games though. In that same 2007 tournament, in the very next game, they were blasted by 13 points against BYU despite the good will generated from that opening victory. The following season, they lost to eventual champion UNLV, but only by one point in the opening round on a last second three-point play, despite hitting a tournament record SEVENTEEN three pointers. Not sure how a team can be that accurate from the outside, yet so poor from inside the arc, but the Frogs showed us how. Then last year the Frogs lost in the opening round to eventual champion Utah on a last second three pointer. The fourth loss came in TCU’s first year in the league against Colorado State in the opening round match.

But, let’s try and see a bright side in all of this. Let’s pretend that the conference tournament really IS a new season, everyone is on level ground for the one automatic bid, and anything can happen. For instance, if you adhere to the Wade Phillips coaching philosophy, by advancing past the play in game, TCU is actually 1-0 in tournament play. So Go Frogs.

If you look at the previous tournaments, TCU twice took the eventual champion to the wire, despite being swept by them in the regular season. In fact, just last year, TCU faced Utah in the final game of the regular season and was blasted. But for some reason that team, despite only winning one more game than this year’s squad and having roughly the same players plus Kevin Langford, was a lot more inspiring and I remember being genuinely excited about catching the game against Utah. And even though we lost, I remember feeling pretty good about it, and pretty great about this year’s prospects.

And then they actually played the games, and all hope was lost.

Forget what I said about trying to put a positive spin on this – this game will be over in the first half, just like the last two have been. TCU has never beaten BYU in 14 tries since joining the MWC. And you can’t tell me that BYU has better athletes – despite being one of the best players in the conference, no one should fear a grown man with the name Jimmer under any circumstances. There’s just something surrounding the TCU basketball program that won’t allow us to break through. I could take the easy road here and blame Neil, but that stink is only lingering now rather than ransacking my nostrils as it did last year, so I can’t really take that route. Perhaps it’s the curse of Billy Tubbs? After all, we did run the man off despite his on-court success and entertaining as hell coaching technique. Boston fans had the curse of the Bambino to blame for nearly 100 years of post-season failure. If this is the case, we’ve got a LOT of lean years ahead. I think this will be a blog post worth some research in the off-season…

The Frogs are just a strange team to watch – the best comparison I can make are the New Jersey Nets this season. Alright, perhaps that’s a harsh assessment; after all, the Nets are fighting to become the worst team in NBA history and Neil’s tenure was far more reprehensible than Christian’s has been to this point. But there are similarities. For instance, both teams have talent, and both teams are occasionally able to streamline that talent and put together some good runs (see: TCU leading BYU by 14 at one point, Tech by nearly 20 at one point, taking New Mexico to the wire in Albuquerque; New Jersey blasting the Mavs in the first quarter last night, sweeping a playoff-bound Charlotte team. Ok, that last one was a stretch), but nine times out of ten, they fall flat on their faces by the end of games. The Frogs losing a step this year after graduating Kevin Langford who was the heart and soul of the team for the past several years wasn’t a huge surprise; on the other hand, Zvonko Buljan’s regression this year was shocking. Both team’s had fairly recent success – The Nets in the early aughts with Jason Kidd, Richard Jefferson and Vince Carter; the Frogs as recently as the NIT run with Marcus Shropshire and Corey Santee – but have recently fallen off due to coaching changes and overall organizational apathy, although New Jersey, with their ownership in turmoil, their move to Brooklyn in doubt, derailing any chance they may have had in landing LeBron this summer, and the fact that they, you know, have to play in New Jersey, have a few more built in disadvantages to blame than the Frogs.

So what should we really expect tonight out of TCU? I think this team has pretty much thrown in the towel on the season. We’ve beaten one team with a winning record all year (Colorado State). We lost to Northern Colorado. We needed three overtimes to put away Texas State. We haven’t put together a win streak since January 6^th (Rice/Air Force) so even if we pulled the upset of the year in the conference, there’s little chance it’d last past the second round. Don’t get me wrong, a win tonight would inch us closer to the season being an “ abysmal failure” rather than the current “epic failure,” but if I were a betting man and you gave me TCU and 15 points, I’d put my current mortgage on BYU then take out a second lien on my house and double down.

BYU is hands down the worst possible draw TCU could’ve had in the opening round of the tournament. For whatever reason we match up worse against them than any other team in the conference. But, if there's a victory to be taken way from this defeat, it's this: They may whip us on the court in Las Vegas, but we’d whip them in enjoying all that Vegas truly has to offer everytime. And those are the victories in life that really matter.

As for the rest of the tournament, here is the schedule:

2:00PM #1 UNM vs #9 AFA

UNM won season series 2-0.

4:30 PM #4 SDSU vs #5 CSU

SDSU won season series 2-0.

10:30 PM #3 UNLV vs. #6 Utah

Utah won season series 2-0.

There doesn’t look to be a whole lot of drama in the first round as none of the teams split their season series. The most intriguing matchup is easily the late game with UNLV and Utah with lower seeded Utah beating UNLV both times they played this season. UNLV has the home court advantage, as they do every year in the tournament, so don’t put it past them to pull this one out, but don’t be shocked if Utah upsets the Rebels for a third time. If TCU manages to sneak past BYU, they’d play the winner of this game on Friday afternoon. If that situation manages to manifest itself, I will write a 10,000 word dissertation tonight previewing it, then hop the first flight to Vegas I can find. But I’m not cancelling my lunch plans.

The smart money is on a New Mexico vs. BYU final on Saturday which, if it lived up to the two epic matches during the season, would be must watch TV for college basketball fans everywhere… except for those who don’t have the mtn. Which is everyone. So nevermind. Even though both games during the season were won by the Lobos, considering the last one ended with New Mexico Coach Steve Alford calling a BYU player an asshole in the hand shake line, not to mention wrecked BYU's 21 game home win streak, I definitely wouldn’t count out the Cougars. The total margin of victory for both games was only six points.

The best case scenario for the conference though? A final with UNLV coming out of the lower half of the bracket and SDSU coming out of the top with the Aztecs pulling the upset in a close game. Don’t get me wrong, New Mexico getting a 3-seed and having a presumed geographic advantage (San Jose, Salt Lake City) in the NCAA setting up a deep run would be great for the conference. But right now we’re just a three bid league, with UNLV probably not being a 100% sure thing. A run to the conference final would surely lock them in while SDSU, having been in the bracket watch most of the season, probably needs a run through the entire tournament to make the final 64. With the Pac-10 having a down year in basketball and probably only getting their tournament winner in, the Mountain West has a chance to become more reputable than a major conference in yet another sport. Plus, a fourth team means more dollarz dollarz for the MWC and who doesn’t want that?

As for the Frogs, the game tonight DOES interfere with new episodes of The Office and 30 Rock, but just in case you’re a sadist and into cruel and unusual punishment, your last chance to catch the 2009-2010 team is at 8:00PM central on the mtn. I’ll be honest, I’m probably not reprogramming my DVR in order to watch it, but for those of you who do, even if you’re fatigued after a long work day and don’t want to commit to an eight o’clock tip, the game will be well in hand in time for you to make your usual 9:30 bedtime.

Fin.

Morning Dump

Forget Billy Gillispie; TCU has the right guy in Jim Christian Star-Telegram

TCU men get their shot at redemption Star-Telegram

Frogs square off against BYU in quarterfinals of MWC tournament GoFrogs.com

TCU-BYU preview Yahoo! Sports

Power rankings Yahoo! Sports

Bench could give BYU a huge postseason boost Deseret News

Coachspeak

In the video above, Coach Schlossnagle discusses his team's performance so far, including some pleasant surprises on offense, Matt Purke's development and the rest of the pitching staff. He also reminds us that there'll be quite a few Red Raider fans at Lupton when Tech comes to town this weekend, so TCU fans need to show up in big numbers (especially alumni, since the students will be on spring break).

Elsewhere, in his college baseball position power rankings, Kendall Rogers of Rivals (an Aggie, just FYI...) has Bryan Holaday ranked as the #1 catcher in the nation. He's also got Coach Schloss as the #9 coach.

Hughes Moving Up

For weeks, neither one of these guys have had Hughes as a first round pick, dropping him late in the season to a 2nd or 3rd round pick. But after his combine performace, he has skyrocketed on almost every scouts draft board. Kiper and McShay both have him going at #26 to the Cardinals. Huges proved that he has the speed and skills to move to OLB and the potential to be a immediate impact wherever he ends up. And from everything else I've read, it looks like Washington shouldn't follow to far behind him in the draft.

Arizona Cardinals

Jerry Hughes

LB, TCU

Kiper: Productivity was never a question for Hughes -- he was a sack machine in Fort Worth -- but he also has proved he has the physical skills to succeed as an OLB and dangerous situational pass-rusher in the NFL. Hughes could help fill the productivity void left by Dansby's departure.

McShay: Hughes would give the Cardinals' base 3-4 scheme the explosive outside pass rush it currently lacks. Bertrand Berry and Chike Okeafor are free agents on the wrong side of 30, and Arizona's two best pass-rushers are five-techniques Darnell Dockett and Calais Campbell

DFW celebs sing "this kiss" for Super Bowl XLV

Well this is 2 minutes and 39 seconds I can never have back. GP has a brief part and thankfully is better than most. For you Dallas sports fans, prepare to be embarrassed by your athletes.

Lessons in SMU Hate - Mean Mr. Mustard.

An Eyewitness photograph of Robert Mustard before his shooting spree.

Mean Mister Mustard sleeps in the park

Shaves in the dark trying to save paper

Sleeps in a hole in the road

Saving up to buy some clothes

Keeps a ten bob note up his nose

Such a mean old man

Such a mean old man

His sister Pam works in a shop

She never stops, she's a go-getter

Takes him out to look at the queen

Only place that he's ever been

Always shouts out something obscene

Such a dirty old man

Such a dirty old man

"Mean Mr. Mustard" - The Beatles.

For those of you who have ever tossed your hat into the respective rings of the stock market, bond market or, for that matter, been to a casino, you know that there is never a “sure thing” when it comes to making money. If there was such a thing as a flawless financial advisor, he’d be so wealthy and so overrun with business that his lifestyle would make Lindsay Lohan’s seem stable by comparison. She’d still probably have him in the cocaine department, but then again, if he had to put in that many long nights to keep up with his business, he might acquire a pretty solid taste for the dulce de nariz himself. What I mean is, when you invest your money with a financial advisor, you’re basically saying, “Here, I trust you to do your research and give me the best advice possible, given the current trends, to have a positive return on my investment; if it doesn’t happen, it sucks and I might be angry, but it’s a risk I chose to take and I have to accept the consequences, no matter how grim.” And, unless you hitched your horse to Bernie Madoff, that’s a reasonable way to view investments. It’s common sense.

Unfortunately, you can check your common sense at the door if you attend SMU.

For those of you who missed this story earlier in the week, Robert Mustard, a former SMU law student, apparently decided he didn’t think his financial advisors had acted in his best interests when investing his money. In most cases such as this, you’d expect this person to perhaps fire his advisors or, if they had truly wronged him, sue them for losses and maybe at least recoup his initial investment. But, like I said, apparently common sense isn’t a pre-requisite for SMU students, so Mr. Mustard decided to take matters into his own hands and attempt to murder said advisors, Richard and Chris Smith, before taking his own life. As fate would have it though, much like most SMU alums in their overall lives – or the Mustangs' performance on the football field – he failed at all three attempts, injuring himself and both of his advisors, but killing none. I've always thought that if you can't kill yourself, how do you expect to kill anyone else, but that's neither here nor there and it's fortunate that no one was mortally wounded in Mustard's rampage. Such a mean old man, indeed.

Now, you might ask, “Well, you mentioned something about bringing a lawsuit against his advisors. Seeing as how Mr. Mustard was an SMU law graduate, wouldn’t bringing legal action against his advisors play directly to his core strengths?” A valid argument, and an A for your diligence, but unfortunately for Mustard, this was never an option. Because he was disbarred. After he was convicted of bribery and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Such a dirty old man, indeed.

There isn’t a whole lot of information to what constituted Mustard’s bribery charge, but given his background it shouldn’t be surprising. SMU kids typically come from extremely privileged (read: TRUST FUND!!!) families which normally means they rarely have to accept responsibility for their lives. Mom and dad have breastfed them from the teat of prosperity and no remorse for their entire lives to this point, so why should that change now that they're in college, right? Given that assumption, coupled with the fact that half the student body hasn’t been suspended for drug abuse, should tell you all you need to know about the dirty money that exchanges hands on the SMU campus. Seriously, look into any of the recent drug murder scandals involving SMU students. The fact that no one has been locked up, nor any administrators fired, is shocking. SHOCKING! I typically liked George Bush just fine, but the fact that he's allowing his presidential library plans to go forward at SMU despite such a shitstorm of bullshit like that should make anyone question his judgment. Well, that and Dick Cheney.

So anyway, a case can be made that the bribery scandal wasn't really Mustard’s fault; he’s simply a product of his environment. As such, he’ll probably be pardoned by Obama for his actions, much like his bribery charge was pardoned by former Texas Governor Bill Clements. I have to be pretty sure this pardon on bribery charges involved more bribery. And I didn't even need an SMU law degree to tell you that!

Fortunately, it looks like all three victims – or 2 victims, one SMU dickhead – are going to be ok despite each suffering gunshot wounds in the incident. As time moves forward, I’m sure more will come out about exactly what prompted Mustard’s actions, and if it turns out Richard and Chris Smith were dishonest with him, this thing could get dicey. Probably not, "Ok, we're completely throwing out the laws on record and legalizing revenge killings in this state," dicey, but dicey nonetheless.

The Smith family has reported that Mustard entered their offices shouting, “You’ve taken all my money!’ before firing. In these troubling financial times, it’s easy to see how a person could become overwhelmed with grief and stress over their monetary situation, and while most people in their right minds wouldn’t choose to take their anger this far, there are a lot of nutty people in this world who simply need the right set of circumstances to be pushed over the edge. If I’m the SMU Athletic Department, I might hire some extra security for a while, because people have been yelling, “You’ve taken all my money!” at them for years and, if they look at their fellow alumnus for inspiration, a boiling point can’t be too far around the corner.

And that’s today’s lesson in SMU Hate.

Morning Dump

Frogs' Holle responds to ultimatum by pitching gem against UTA Star-Telegram

Mountain West tournament title not always a lock for top seed Star-Telegram

No. 7 TCU explodes for 15-2 win at UT-Arlington GoFrogs.com

Cougars prepare to face the Frogs again Provo Daily Herald

2010 Mountain West Conference tournament preview The Sports Network

Will LT join forces with AP? Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Hughes Has Immediate Pro-Impact Potential

I know we all think Jerry has immediate impact capabilities, but I like seeing the media thinking the same way us Frog do.

http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/Impact-potential-of-34-rush-linebacker-class.html

Kyle Whittingham better watch out

...because it looks like he's recruited himself quite the meathead. Tyler Shreve, the 6'4", 210lb quarterback from The Redlands, California that signed with the Utes in February, has been expelled from his high school after fighting his baseball coach.

If Utah honors his scholarship, which from reading the article it seems as if they still want to, I'm sure Tyler will thoroughly enjoy his trips to Amon Carter with myself, Sir Wesley Willis and WWHD sitting just behind the visitors' bench...

Jean-Jacques Taylor: Closet SWW Fan?

Not since my 7th grade self

has anyone rocked a hoodie and jorts as hard as JJT.

In this morning's dump, some of you may have noticed an article by Dallas Morning News sports columnist/noted jorts enthusiast Jean-Jacques Taylor belying how unacceptable it is for TCU and SMU to have such terrible basketball programs. And while I typically just view the DMN sports page as a necessary evil, truth be told? It's a pretty solid article - he hits on all the major points about how Dallas produces some of the best basketball talent in the country, yet neither of the D-I programs in the area have ever proven able to harness it. He does a very nice job of making his points without being a complete dick which is a very common issue in most of his writing.

However, there is something else about this article... something below the surface that inherently makes me appreciate it on another level.

Oh yeah, it's because I WROTE THE EXACT SAME ARTICLE IN JANUARY!!! Or at least half of it.

Now, I genuinely doubt that JJT has ever read or even heard of SpitBlood, nor do I fancy that I'm the only person who has ever thought it strange that TCU, a school with fantastic athletic programs including women's basketball, can't put together a halfway decent basketball team in a mediocre basketball conference.

But when you consider that I also penned another article just last week decrying how awful a coach Matt Doherty is, you can pretty much argue that I wrote his entire article for him; he's just getting paid for it.

So you have to ask yourself -should we just be happy that the DMN has finally mentioned the Frogs, albeit in a negative light regarding our basketball team, having already glossed over an entire season of Top 10 caliber Frogs Football? Still skeptical on that one. But,

is it also feasible that the Dallas Morning News, hearing our frequent complaints about their lack of Frog coverage, has taken to blogosphere and started pilfering information from our fair site to rectify this situation? I'd say it's entirely possible.

But know this, DMN - my legal counsel of Texas Hammer, buffalo, redbarron and counselorfrog are onto you and will be perusing all future Frog coverage in your publication with a fine toothed comb. And I'm still not scrapping my next lesson in SMU hate, in which the DMN plays a significant role. The tides are turning in our favor. The Frogs will rise again east of the sewage plant in Grand Prairie. Viva le Resistance!

Frogs vs. UTA tonight

Coming off of their 2-1 showing in Houston this past weekend, which prompted this interchange in the web-chat hosted by Baseball America's Aaron Fitt yesterday:

Steve (Owltown): You got to see Rice, Texas and TCU in depth over the weekend. How do they stack up? Can you foresee 3 texas national seeds to go along with LSU?

Aaron Fitt: Boy, it's going to be hard for three national seeds to emerge from the same geographic footprint, but it's possible — and all three of those teams are national seed-caliber clubs. At this point, TCU actually looks like the most complete team of the three (if there were questions about TCU's offense heading into the season, there shouldn't be any more — it's just another physical, deep TCU lineup, only more athletic than it has been in the past), and the Frogs will have a real chance at a national seed thanks to that series win at Fullerton. That series will like mighty fine by the end of the season, because the Titans will right the ship.


....the #7 Frogs wrap up a four-game road trip with a game at UT-Arlington tonight at 6:30pm. And even though the Frogs won't get the last at-bat, there's no reason for this to actually be a "road game", since UTA's Clay Gould Ballpark is only about 20 miles from both TCU's campus and downtown Dallas. In addition to the proximity, UTA's sparse crowds should make it easy for the purple & white contingent to take over tonight: UTA is averaging just 336 fans per home game this year, meaning that their seven-game total of 2,351 fans is about a hundred less than TCU's least-attended game of the year.

6'8" junior righty Greg Holle gets the start for the Frogs tonight, and it's important for him to distance himself from his shaky (at best) start to the season. With the Frogs looking like they'll be in contention for a Top-8 national seed (which comes with an NCAA Regional and Super-Regional at your home ballpark if you advance), they'll need every win they can get. And with midweek games still to come against OU, Baylor and A&M, the Frogs will need Holle to be solid.

LT in Purple Again?

You know I would like this.

I don't know if LT has the juice in his legs to be a starting back somewhere, but I do know that he can still play and would be a good change of pace back/pass catching back/third down back.

If he wants to be the lead back somewhere, this is probably not in his best interest, but hot damn I would love to see him in purple again.

Plus he could teach Peterson a thing or two about holding onto the ball.

What do the rest of you LT fans think?

Frogs Add Sixth Recruit: Deryck Gildon

The Frogs have added their sixth recruit of the 2011 class, Deryck Gildon. This 6'2, 205 pound kid played stand up defensive end for Arlington Martin, he will probably move to a linebacker spot for the Frogs. Also with this kid's 4.5 forty speed, he can no doubt wreck shop in CGP's nasty defensive scheme.

This kid had offers from schools like Tech, Baylor, and Kansas, but did the right thing in choosing the Frogs.

Welcome to the Frogs!

Morning Dump

Imperfect TCU roars into MWC tournament Star-Telegram

TCU's Sverrisdottir, Mittie earn top MWC women's honors Star-Telegram

Holaday named MWC hitter of the week GoFrogs.com

No reason SMU, TCU shouldn't be dancing in March Dallas Morning News

Merrillville grad Greg Hill's Horned Frogs ready to pounce NW Indiana Times

Rivals Top 25: Virginia remains in control Yahoo! Sports