ESPN: TCU got head start on life without Trevone Boykin, Josh Doctson

Trevone Boykin is not walking through that door. Josh Doctson is not walking through that door.

Gary Patterson doesn’t have to say it. He doesn’t have to have all the answers right now, either. But he does need his TCU players to start figuring how to win without them.

“It doesn’t matter who you lose — you’ve got to turn the page and the next guy has to grow up,” Patterson told reporters last week. “You’ve got to put your back against the wall and keep climbing the ladder. So we’ll see how we do.”

The dangerous unit co-offensive coordinators Doug Meacham and Sonny Cumbie constructed around those departed game-changers helped win 23 games in two years. This offseason, they’re facing the challenge of reloading and replicating that success. …

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