FWST: Patterson: TCU’s vision made it a ‘great addition’ for Big 12

As a handful of schools vie to win a spot in Big 12 expansion, TCU coach Gary Patterson said what made his school a good choice four years ago for the conference was that it already had “enough vision.”

During a news conference Wednesday to highlight the start of practices this week, he said TCU was building toward Power 5 status before it was a Power 5 school.

“I thought TCU was a great addition,” he said, asked by reporters about the league’s expansion search. “Why was it a great addition? Because we already had enough vision. We were building a new stadium. We were changing our facilities already, and not when we came into the new conference. We were changing everything we were doing academically, enrollment stuff, all of that was happening. We were a good choice.”