FWST: TCU quarterback position still not settled, Patterson says

BY JOHN HENRY Special to the Star-Telegram

Among the burning topics of the day — and in July in North Texas there is no better descriptor — TCU football coach Gary Patterson was emphatic about perhaps the most important one to college football want-to-knows.

Who is the heir to quarterback Trevone Boykin, the one-time All-Big 12 offensive player of the year now prepping for training camp with the Seattle Seahawks?

“I don’t know,” the coach said Tuesday to a lunchtime gathering of business leaders and TCU ambassadors in the Champions Club at Amon G. Carter Stadium in an event sponsored by the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce.

The two leading candidates — for now anyway — are, in alphabetical order, Texas A&M junior transfer Kenny Hill and junior Foster Sawyer. Like two years ago, the decision might not be made until a week or perhaps a day before the Horned Frogs’ season opener Sept. 3 against visiting South Dakota State, Patterson said.