FWST: Questions for Patterson: A guide for Big 12 media
BY GIL LEBRETONÂ glebreton@star-telegram.com
Twenty years have passed since the last Skywriters Tour DC-3 chugged down the runway in Stillwater.
Nowadays, to gather the conference’s preseason football scoop, the media convenes in ballrooms at a fancy hotel in Dallas or Kansas City and the coaches go to them.
They travel lightly, as it turns out.
Some head coaches — ahem! — don’t even bring their starting quarterback. Others conveniently forget to pack recollections of their players’ off-season mischief.