TCU’s Gary Patterson rips SMU; Horned Frogs assistant Jerry Kill sustained concussion in postgame fracas

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TCU mentor Gary Patterson criticized SMU for its role in the scuffle that followed Saturday’s activity in Fort Worthy of, Texas, and for working with 1 of Patterson’s nation tunes to mock his group.

Patterson on Tuesday claimed SMU orchestrated an try to plant its flag at midfield at Amon G. Carter Stadium if the Mustangs won. Just after SMU’s 42-34 victory, numerous players attempted to plant the flag at midfield. TCU players responded to the try, and Horned Frogs assistant mentor Jerry Kill sustained a concussion soon after remaining knocked down 2 times on the area. Destroy, the previous Minnesota and Northern Illinois head mentor, has epilepsy, but he is Okay and has returned to do the job, Patterson claimed.

Kill, 60, was at first knocked down by a TCU participant during the fracas. Patterson explained he was not sure if a TCU or SMU player knocked Eliminate down the 2nd time.

“You really don’t believe it was planned?” Patterson mentioned of the flag-planting attempt, in accordance to the Fort Really worth Star Telegram. “They experienced a media human being from their workplace that was out filming the flag getting established in the middle of the area. … A dude [Kill] acquired hurt. He acquired pushed down by our kids after on film in the center of it, and he acquired hit, mainly because I have received the proof to present it.

“At the close of the working day, whether or not it’s SMU, TCU, I are not able to substantiate it. But at the stop of the working day, it wouldn’t have occurred if we didn’t have the flag problem.”

SMU athletic director Rick Hart, in a assertion Tuesday, explained the faculty had reviewed all video of the incident and discovered “no proof of any one associated with SMU” hanging Eliminate on the subject soon after the recreation. Hart explained he experienced spoken with TCU athletic director Jeremiah Donati, who agreed that there was no evidence and informed Hart that Patterson’s preliminary promises would be “walked back.”

Mustangs coach Sonny Dykes declined to remark, declaring he deferred to Hart’s assertion.

“Although Mentor Patterson acknowledged that his postgame declare are unable to be substantiated, he accused our program, various periods, of setting up to plant our flag on the industry following our get. This is a complete fabrication,” Hart stated in his assertion. “I can state unequivocally that there was no these plan.”

Hart said SMU experienced various users of its “artistic workers” on the discipline right after the recreation to gather footage for the team’s ESPN+ collection, The Hilltop. Dykes apologized to SMU for the incident after the game, indicating he would discuss it with gamers and that “there is certainly no person in the planet that has additional regard for TCU or for [coach] Gary Patterson … than I do.”

Dykes expended the 2017 time as an offensive analyst for Patterson at TCU, prior to landing the SMU head-coaching job.

“This activity was spontaneous and borne out of emotion,” Hart explained in his assertion. “To propose usually is irresponsible and offensive. I will not let Mentor Dykes, our software or our scholar-athletes to be unjustifiably attacked. Sonny is a remarkable leader and a male of terrific integrity.”

Patterson also took problem with SMU using a tune he recorded right after the COVID-19 pandemic struck, entitled “Take a Step Again,” to chide TCU adhering to the video game. SMU’s Twitter account tweeted the video clip for Patterson’s music, but it superimposed Dykes’ experience about Patterson’s and then provided shots of SMU followers and gamers. The tweet read, “THEY TOOK A Step Back.”

Patterson has prepared music for many several years, and he produced two tracks on streaming solutions in 2020, including “Get a Stage Back.”

“They loathe you ’cause they take a track that you wrote about COVID and getting again to people and they make fun of you,” Patterson claimed Tuesday. “If I experienced the time, I would go out and get all the copyright guidelines and I would get right after their ass, but I’ve obtained Longhorns on my head suitable now. Not them. I’m happy they preserve substantiating our existence of the place we are at and how we do factors.”

TCU will host Texas this 7 days, although SMU will host South Florida.