In an age where any coach with success is deemed worthy of a statue, TCU appears to be working on adding a statue of long-time head coach Gary Patterson. Patterson has apparently yielded to the demands of TCU chancellor Victor Boschini and will allow a statue bearing his likeness to be sculpted and put on display.
“It’s taken me five years,” Boschini said to San Antonio Express-News this week. “I finally convinced him that it wasn’t for him, but TCU.”
Molding a statue of the current head coach’s likeness is far from unprecedented in college football. Nick Saban has one at Alabama. Joe Paterno had one at Penn State, although that one is now stored away in a secret location.
There is no question Patterson has had a tremendous impact on the TCU program. He has been in charge of the program through many changes including the growth of the program and realignment changes taking the program from one conference to the next before ultimately landing in the Big 12 a few years ago.