MURPHY, TX - When it comes to starting a business, Corey and Brandon Wesley from Murphy, Texas are way ahead of the game.
The two are brothers who started their own line of hair products as high school students at Plano East.
"This right here is Corey's do dab," says Brandon. "His name is on the front. I'm on the back. But this is a great product."
"This is the wave pomade, the most popular one," says Corey. "This is a locking wax, and these two are shampoo and conditioner."
"He's cutting his hair constantly, every other day and always complaining about different greases, different brushes," says Brandon. "He wants waves all the time. So one day my mom said why don't you make your own product."
"Other products that I used, they were too thick so I wanted something thinner and I thought that would work," Corey says. "I told my mom and the chemist to fix it up for us and it worked."
That was the beginning of Corey do dab which they started selling on line 13 months ago at coreysdodab.com.
"At first I didn't know how it was going to work out, but as soon as it got together, it was pretty good," Corey says.
Both are active in sports and both are quarterbacks. Corey has two more years left at Plano East and is currently playing basketball.
Brandon was the quarterback at Plano East last year. Now he's the quarterback at Bucknell where he won rookie of the year honors.
The two have become celebrities in their own right, hosting product demonstrations at beauty supply houses, trying to get their product rolling. "We're the most interesting brother combination at our school," Brandon tells a small crowd at demonstration.
"For them to have the vision to want to their own product and to see it be as successful as it has been," says Renee Wesley, their mother. "They're learning great lessons."
"Most people are pretty surprised to see us come in there and have our own product," Brandon says.
They package their product at home and handling their own shipping. Through friends, they've also begun selling in California and Pennsylvania. The parents have also convinced them to save the money they make.
Monday, January 17, 2011
TCU Celebrates Perfect Season
FORT WORTH, TX - TCU's celebration to honor their football team filled Daniel Meyer Coliseum. 7,500 fans showed up to relive a season that they will never forget.
"I was a horned frog when horned frogs weren't cool," says Jim Vaughn of Granbury.
They talked about having a team good enough to win a championship.
"We could have beaten the hell out of Auburn," Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief told the crowd. "We could have beaten the hell out of you, you, you, you, you! Go Frogs!"
The last time TCU football got this kind of notoriety was 1938, that's the year they won the national championship. They didn't bring home a national championship trophy, but the Rose Bowl trophy is as close as they could come.
"The top of our pyramid, by the way we did color it in, I want you to understand, it says champs," says TCU head coach Gary Patterson. "We did color it in. The bottom line is they did everything they could do to be that, so in my mind, and since I’m keeping the pyramid, it's colored in."
Patterson accepted a photo from the Rose Bowl committee taken during the fly by and they handed him the Rose Bowl Trophy a second time.
Nine days ago, Patterson had two more years added to his contract which now extends through the 2018 season. That's eight more seasons and that lead the fans to a chant of "eight more years!"
"If I live through it, I’ll be here for 20 years," Patterson said after the gathering. "This will be my 14th season and everyone has been on the same page. Like I've told people, the greatest thing about Fort Worth and TCU, as a whole university, we're trying to be a national champion."
Jake Kirkpatrick leaves TCU having won the Rimington award as the nation’s top center. He and his wife Callie are expecting their first child before the end of the month.
"I've been trying to keep the baby in until Jake is settled and so now we're just ready to have a baby," Callie says.
"We made it past the season and winning the Rose Bowl was nice but having this baby is going to be one of the best moments in my life," Jake says.
Andy Dalton's parents were on hand to see a send off for their son who leaves as the winningest quarterback in TCU history.
"It's been exciting," Andy's father Greg said. "We haven't come down yet i don't think."
"It's just been such a fun ride," Andy's mother Tina said.
Andy Dalton and Jordan Jones will be married in July. For the seniors, it may have been the last gathering for the entire team.
"There will still be some other things," Dalton said. "We'll all come back but it's kind of crazy that it's all over with now."
"I was a horned frog when horned frogs weren't cool," says Jim Vaughn of Granbury.
They talked about having a team good enough to win a championship.
"We could have beaten the hell out of Auburn," Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief told the crowd. "We could have beaten the hell out of you, you, you, you, you! Go Frogs!"
The last time TCU football got this kind of notoriety was 1938, that's the year they won the national championship. They didn't bring home a national championship trophy, but the Rose Bowl trophy is as close as they could come.
"The top of our pyramid, by the way we did color it in, I want you to understand, it says champs," says TCU head coach Gary Patterson. "We did color it in. The bottom line is they did everything they could do to be that, so in my mind, and since I’m keeping the pyramid, it's colored in."
Patterson accepted a photo from the Rose Bowl committee taken during the fly by and they handed him the Rose Bowl Trophy a second time.
Nine days ago, Patterson had two more years added to his contract which now extends through the 2018 season. That's eight more seasons and that lead the fans to a chant of "eight more years!"
"If I live through it, I’ll be here for 20 years," Patterson said after the gathering. "This will be my 14th season and everyone has been on the same page. Like I've told people, the greatest thing about Fort Worth and TCU, as a whole university, we're trying to be a national champion."
Jake Kirkpatrick leaves TCU having won the Rimington award as the nation’s top center. He and his wife Callie are expecting their first child before the end of the month.
"I've been trying to keep the baby in until Jake is settled and so now we're just ready to have a baby," Callie says.
"We made it past the season and winning the Rose Bowl was nice but having this baby is going to be one of the best moments in my life," Jake says.
Andy Dalton's parents were on hand to see a send off for their son who leaves as the winningest quarterback in TCU history.
"It's been exciting," Andy's father Greg said. "We haven't come down yet i don't think."
"It's just been such a fun ride," Andy's mother Tina said.
Andy Dalton and Jordan Jones will be married in July. For the seniors, it may have been the last gathering for the entire team.
"There will still be some other things," Dalton said. "We'll all come back but it's kind of crazy that it's all over with now."
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
TCU football image changing on a national scale
PASADENA, CA – It was the return of greatness for TCU football. Tears of joy were flowing during a celebration that could have lasted all night after the Horned Frogs won their first game ever played in the Rose Bowl.
If it wasn’t for the perception of TCU as a member of a non-qualifying BCS conference, the Horned Frogs might have had a shot at playing for a National Championship.
“If you want to understand the emotion behind why TCU has won ball games, why we’ve done the things we need to do, you need to know where we came from,” says TCU head coach Gary Patterson. “If you know where we came from, you understand why we play with a chip on our shoulder.”
No longer are they in the shadows of other big time college football programs. Instead, they’re the ones bucking the system and enjoying the national spotlight.
“I'm extremely impressed and it doesn't matter what conference they played in,” says ESPN broadcaster Brent Musburger. “To put together back to back undefeated regular seasons, and do it in the fashion that they have done it, from my standpoint, I've got a lot of respect for them.”
TCU is getting used to playing on the big stage. Back to back appearances in a BCS bowl game will do that. It's slowly changing the national perception of a small private University that has less than 10,000 students.
TCU to put it in a word, is now a hot school,” says Bob Schieffer, a TCU graduate and CBS News anchor. “It's a school that some people used to think of as some little bible college out in some place where nobody knew where it was. All of sudden, people know where TCU is and they know what it is. I mean, this has helped the recruiting even for the journalism school.”
“Let's not forget that, they were left behind by the Big 12 and now the Big 12 is being left behind by college football and there is TCU is at the top,” says ESPN’s Ivan Maisel. “It's got to make all those guys feel really good.”
“I think that they've arrived at a point where people are willing to take them seriously as a national contender,” says Dallas Morning News columnist Kevin Sherrington. “I don't think that's a joke anymore.”
“Most of America, college presidents, media and fans, still separate the college football landscape into automatic qualifying teams and leagues and non automatic qualifying, and TCU in that regard still comes from the wrong side of the tracks,” says Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Gil Lebreton.
That will change in 2012 when they join the Big East Conference. At 13-and-0, TCU recorded their first perfect season since the school won a national championship in 1938 but there won't be a championship this year.
“ I've always thought that a championship should be determined on the field of play where you go head to head to find out who is best and not go by the polls,” says College Hall of Fame coach Hayden Fry. “So many of those people that vote on those polls, have never had a jock strap on in their life.”
“I've never been a whiner, I've never been somebody that's been out there griping about how it is, and I'm not going to start now,” says Patterson.
But TCU did prove that they belong on the national stage.
If it wasn’t for the perception of TCU as a member of a non-qualifying BCS conference, the Horned Frogs might have had a shot at playing for a National Championship.
“If you want to understand the emotion behind why TCU has won ball games, why we’ve done the things we need to do, you need to know where we came from,” says TCU head coach Gary Patterson. “If you know where we came from, you understand why we play with a chip on our shoulder.”
No longer are they in the shadows of other big time college football programs. Instead, they’re the ones bucking the system and enjoying the national spotlight.
“I'm extremely impressed and it doesn't matter what conference they played in,” says ESPN broadcaster Brent Musburger. “To put together back to back undefeated regular seasons, and do it in the fashion that they have done it, from my standpoint, I've got a lot of respect for them.”
TCU is getting used to playing on the big stage. Back to back appearances in a BCS bowl game will do that. It's slowly changing the national perception of a small private University that has less than 10,000 students.
TCU to put it in a word, is now a hot school,” says Bob Schieffer, a TCU graduate and CBS News anchor. “It's a school that some people used to think of as some little bible college out in some place where nobody knew where it was. All of sudden, people know where TCU is and they know what it is. I mean, this has helped the recruiting even for the journalism school.”
“Let's not forget that, they were left behind by the Big 12 and now the Big 12 is being left behind by college football and there is TCU is at the top,” says ESPN’s Ivan Maisel. “It's got to make all those guys feel really good.”
“I think that they've arrived at a point where people are willing to take them seriously as a national contender,” says Dallas Morning News columnist Kevin Sherrington. “I don't think that's a joke anymore.”
“Most of America, college presidents, media and fans, still separate the college football landscape into automatic qualifying teams and leagues and non automatic qualifying, and TCU in that regard still comes from the wrong side of the tracks,” says Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Gil Lebreton.
That will change in 2012 when they join the Big East Conference. At 13-and-0, TCU recorded their first perfect season since the school won a national championship in 1938 but there won't be a championship this year.
“ I've always thought that a championship should be determined on the field of play where you go head to head to find out who is best and not go by the polls,” says College Hall of Fame coach Hayden Fry. “So many of those people that vote on those polls, have never had a jock strap on in their life.”
“I've never been a whiner, I've never been somebody that's been out there griping about how it is, and I'm not going to start now,” says Patterson.
But TCU did prove that they belong on the national stage.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
TCU players capturing preseason attention
FORT WORTH, TX - TCU football fans are expecting big things from their football team this season and so apparently is the press. The Horned Frogs are ranked seventh in the preseason coaches poll behind Alabama, Ohio State, Florida, Texas, Boise State and Virginia Tech.
Their only loss in a 12-1 season last year was to Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl in Arizona. Another indicator is the number of preseason All-American honors. Seven TCU players have received preseason All-American honors with six players appearing on watch lists for national awards.
After last season, TCU head coach Gary Patterson cleaned up by taking home virtually all of the national coach of the year awards. The final total was nine.
"I'm very apperciative, I'm very humbled by it, and I also understand that this year, it doesn't mean anything," Patterson said at the time. Now it's the players turn to pick up some recognition.
Below is an updated TCU preseason honor roll, as of Aug. 12. The list was complied by Mark Cohen, director of Media Relations at TCU:
Gary Patterson, Head Coach
*Preseason Coach of the Year, Playboy
Marcus Cannon, OT
*Outland Trophy Watch List
*Rotary Lombardi Award Watch List
*Preseason All-American, Playboy
*Preseason Second-Team All-American, Rivals.com/Yahoo! Sports
*Preseason Third-Team All-American, Phil Steele's College Football Preview
*Preseason Honorable-Mention All-American, NationalChamps.net
*Preseason All-Mountain West Conference
*Best Offensive Lineman in Texas, Dave Campbell's Texas Football
*Preseason First-Team All-Texas College, Dave Campbell's Texas Football
*All-Texas Team, Sporting News
*Ranked third among offensive tackles for the 2011 NFL Draft, ESPN's Mel Kiper Jr.
*Ranked fifth in the nation among offensive tackles, Lindy's
Tank Carder, LB
*Chuck Bednarik Award Watch List
*Bronko Nagurski Trophy Watch List
*Rotary Lombardi Award Watch List
*Preseason Third-Team All-American, Sporting News
*Preseason Fourth-Team All-American, Phil Steele's College Football Preview
*Preseason Mountain West Conference Defensive Player of the Year
*Preseason All-Mountain West Conference
*Best Linebacker in Texas, Dave Campbell's Texas Football
*Preseason First-Team All-Texas College, Dave Campbell's Texas Football
*All-Texas Team, Sporting News
*Ranked 10th in the nation among inside linebackers, Lindy's
*One of 12 "New stars you must know" in 2010, CollegeFootballNews.com
Andy Dalton, QB
*Davey O'Brien Award Watch List
*Manning Award Watch List
*Johnny Unitas Award Watch List
*Maxwell Award Watch List
*One of 30 "Players to Watch" for the Walter Camp Player of the Year Award
*Preseason Honorable-Mention All-American, NationalChamps.net
*Preseason Mountain West Conference Offensive Player of the Year
*Preseason All-Mountain West Conference
*Ranked 12th in the nation among quarterbacks, Lindy's
*One of 10 "Players who will take their game to the next level" in 2010, CollegeFootballNews.com
Wayne Daniels, DE
*Rotary Lombardi Award Watch List
*Preseason All-Mountain West Conference
*Preseason Second-Team All-Texas College, Dave Campbell's Texas Football
*One of 10 "Fresh new faces" in 2010, CBSSports.com
Ross Evans, PK
*Preseason Honorable-Mention All-American, NationalChamps.net
*Preseason All-Mountain West Conference
*Preseason First-Team All-Texas College, Dave Campbell's Texas Football
*All-Texas Team, Sporting News
Cory Grant, DT
*Preseason All-Mountain West Conference
*All-Texas Team, Sporting News
Kelly Griffin, NT
*Preseason Second-Team All-Texas College, Dave Campbell's Texas Football
Tejay Johnson, S
*Bronko Nagurski Trophy Watch List
*Lott Trophy Watch List
*Thorpe Award Watch List
*Preseason Second-Team All-American, Rivals.com/Yahoo! Sports
*Preseason Third-Team All-American, Phil Steele's College Football Preview
*Preseason Second-Team All-Texas College, Dave Campbell's Texas Football
*Ranked 10th in the nation among safeties, Lindy's
*Nominee for Allstate AFCA Good Works Team
*Nominee for Lowe's Senior CLASS Award
Jeremy Kerley, PR
*Preseason First-Team All-American, Phil Steele's College Football Preview
*Preseason First-Team All-American, Rivals.com/Yahoo! Sports
*Preseason First-Team All-American, NationalChamps.net
*Preseason Second-Team All-American, Sporting News
*Preseason Third-Team All-American, Athlon
*Preseason Mountain West Conference Special Teams Player of the Year
*Preseason All-Mountain West Conference, Return Specialist
*Preseason First-Team All-Texas College, Dave Campbell's Texas Football
*All-Texas Team, Sporting News
Jake Kirkpatrick, C
*Outland Trophy Watch List
*Rimington Trophy Watch List
*Rotary Lombardi Award Watch List
*Preseason First-Team All-American, Sports Illustrated
*Preseason First-Team All-American, Sporting News
*Preseason First-Team All-American, Rivals.com/Yahoo! Sports
*Preseason Second-Team All-American, NationalChamps.net
*Preseason All-Mountain West Conference
*Preseason First-Team All-Texas College, Dave Campbell's 2010 Texas Football
*Ranked third in the nation among centers, Lindy's
Jason Teague, CB
*Named an "Under-the-radar difference-maker to watch" in 2010, Rivals.com
TCU Offensive Backfield
*Ranked fifth in the nation, Lindy's
Their only loss in a 12-1 season last year was to Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl in Arizona. Another indicator is the number of preseason All-American honors. Seven TCU players have received preseason All-American honors with six players appearing on watch lists for national awards.
After last season, TCU head coach Gary Patterson cleaned up by taking home virtually all of the national coach of the year awards. The final total was nine.
"I'm very apperciative, I'm very humbled by it, and I also understand that this year, it doesn't mean anything," Patterson said at the time. Now it's the players turn to pick up some recognition.
Below is an updated TCU preseason honor roll, as of Aug. 12. The list was complied by Mark Cohen, director of Media Relations at TCU:
Gary Patterson, Head Coach
*Preseason Coach of the Year, Playboy
Marcus Cannon, OT
*Outland Trophy Watch List
*Rotary Lombardi Award Watch List
*Preseason All-American, Playboy
*Preseason Second-Team All-American, Rivals.com/Yahoo! Sports
*Preseason Third-Team All-American, Phil Steele's College Football Preview
*Preseason Honorable-Mention All-American, NationalChamps.net
*Preseason All-Mountain West Conference
*Best Offensive Lineman in Texas, Dave Campbell's Texas Football
*Preseason First-Team All-Texas College, Dave Campbell's Texas Football
*All-Texas Team, Sporting News
*Ranked third among offensive tackles for the 2011 NFL Draft, ESPN's Mel Kiper Jr.
*Ranked fifth in the nation among offensive tackles, Lindy's
Tank Carder, LB
*Chuck Bednarik Award Watch List
*Bronko Nagurski Trophy Watch List
*Rotary Lombardi Award Watch List
*Preseason Third-Team All-American, Sporting News
*Preseason Fourth-Team All-American, Phil Steele's College Football Preview
*Preseason Mountain West Conference Defensive Player of the Year
*Preseason All-Mountain West Conference
*Best Linebacker in Texas, Dave Campbell's Texas Football
*Preseason First-Team All-Texas College, Dave Campbell's Texas Football
*All-Texas Team, Sporting News
*Ranked 10th in the nation among inside linebackers, Lindy's
*One of 12 "New stars you must know" in 2010, CollegeFootballNews.com
Andy Dalton, QB
*Davey O'Brien Award Watch List
*Manning Award Watch List
*Johnny Unitas Award Watch List
*Maxwell Award Watch List
*One of 30 "Players to Watch" for the Walter Camp Player of the Year Award
*Preseason Honorable-Mention All-American, NationalChamps.net
*Preseason Mountain West Conference Offensive Player of the Year
*Preseason All-Mountain West Conference
*Ranked 12th in the nation among quarterbacks, Lindy's
*One of 10 "Players who will take their game to the next level" in 2010, CollegeFootballNews.com
Wayne Daniels, DE
*Rotary Lombardi Award Watch List
*Preseason All-Mountain West Conference
*Preseason Second-Team All-Texas College, Dave Campbell's Texas Football
*One of 10 "Fresh new faces" in 2010, CBSSports.com
Ross Evans, PK
*Preseason Honorable-Mention All-American, NationalChamps.net
*Preseason All-Mountain West Conference
*Preseason First-Team All-Texas College, Dave Campbell's Texas Football
*All-Texas Team, Sporting News
Cory Grant, DT
*Preseason All-Mountain West Conference
*All-Texas Team, Sporting News
Kelly Griffin, NT
*Preseason Second-Team All-Texas College, Dave Campbell's Texas Football
Tejay Johnson, S
*Bronko Nagurski Trophy Watch List
*Lott Trophy Watch List
*Thorpe Award Watch List
*Preseason Second-Team All-American, Rivals.com/Yahoo! Sports
*Preseason Third-Team All-American, Phil Steele's College Football Preview
*Preseason Second-Team All-Texas College, Dave Campbell's Texas Football
*Ranked 10th in the nation among safeties, Lindy's
*Nominee for Allstate AFCA Good Works Team
*Nominee for Lowe's Senior CLASS Award
Jeremy Kerley, PR
*Preseason First-Team All-American, Phil Steele's College Football Preview
*Preseason First-Team All-American, Rivals.com/Yahoo! Sports
*Preseason First-Team All-American, NationalChamps.net
*Preseason Second-Team All-American, Sporting News
*Preseason Third-Team All-American, Athlon
*Preseason Mountain West Conference Special Teams Player of the Year
*Preseason All-Mountain West Conference, Return Specialist
*Preseason First-Team All-Texas College, Dave Campbell's Texas Football
*All-Texas Team, Sporting News
Jake Kirkpatrick, C
*Outland Trophy Watch List
*Rimington Trophy Watch List
*Rotary Lombardi Award Watch List
*Preseason First-Team All-American, Sports Illustrated
*Preseason First-Team All-American, Sporting News
*Preseason First-Team All-American, Rivals.com/Yahoo! Sports
*Preseason Second-Team All-American, NationalChamps.net
*Preseason All-Mountain West Conference
*Preseason First-Team All-Texas College, Dave Campbell's 2010 Texas Football
*Ranked third in the nation among centers, Lindy's
Jason Teague, CB
*Named an "Under-the-radar difference-maker to watch" in 2010, Rivals.com
TCU Offensive Backfield
*Ranked fifth in the nation, Lindy's
Monday, July 19, 2010
16 Year Old Golfer Shoots Career Best 63
FARMERS BRANCH, TX - Like so many youngsters, 16 year old Talia Campbell is spending a lot of her time this summer playing golf. Last week at the Dallas City Junior Championship, Campbell may have surprised herself after she shot a 9-under par 63.
"Oh wow, it's how golf should be played," says Talia. "It was easy. Just hit the fairway, hit the green, get a two putt or a one putt, it was really enjoyable."
Campbell won the City of Dallas open division, ages 16 through 18. Her three day performance included rounds of 63, 72 and a 69.
"At first i thought, that's like a birdie and par every other hole, and then I realized it was my lowest round by at least five strokes," she said. "It was actually my first time to break 70 in a tournament.
That's not bad for someone who switched from soccer to golf in seventh grade just four years ago. "I think i was just burned out of soccer so that window was open," says Talia.
"Talia is definitely a future super star in the making," says Mike Kiesling, director of golf at Brookhaven Country Club in Farmers Branch. "You have a young golfer, especially a female, and if you want to see how it's done, come watch Talia play."
Campbell will be a junior at Ursuline Academy of Dallas where she helped her golf team win back to back TAPPS State Championships. She also won individual medalist honors this year. Her short game has been her biggest improvement.
"It has," she says. "I've really been putting in a lot more time effort this past year, just because that's what I was lacking the most last summer and it's really been coming around as my scores show."
"From a junior golf perspective, there's not a lot of kids with the work ethic that I see in Talia," says Kiesling. "She's here rain or shine or snow. You name it, Talia is out here practicing.
Campbell has won numerous tournaments including an AJGA tournament in Michigan where she will defend her title next week. She just missed qualifying for the US Women's Amateur by two strokes in Houston this week, but considering she's only 16, her opportunities are just beginning.
"Oh wow, it's how golf should be played," says Talia. "It was easy. Just hit the fairway, hit the green, get a two putt or a one putt, it was really enjoyable."
Campbell won the City of Dallas open division, ages 16 through 18. Her three day performance included rounds of 63, 72 and a 69.
"At first i thought, that's like a birdie and par every other hole, and then I realized it was my lowest round by at least five strokes," she said. "It was actually my first time to break 70 in a tournament.
That's not bad for someone who switched from soccer to golf in seventh grade just four years ago. "I think i was just burned out of soccer so that window was open," says Talia.
"Talia is definitely a future super star in the making," says Mike Kiesling, director of golf at Brookhaven Country Club in Farmers Branch. "You have a young golfer, especially a female, and if you want to see how it's done, come watch Talia play."
Campbell will be a junior at Ursuline Academy of Dallas where she helped her golf team win back to back TAPPS State Championships. She also won individual medalist honors this year. Her short game has been her biggest improvement.
"It has," she says. "I've really been putting in a lot more time effort this past year, just because that's what I was lacking the most last summer and it's really been coming around as my scores show."
"From a junior golf perspective, there's not a lot of kids with the work ethic that I see in Talia," says Kiesling. "She's here rain or shine or snow. You name it, Talia is out here practicing.
Campbell has won numerous tournaments including an AJGA tournament in Michigan where she will defend her title next week. She just missed qualifying for the US Women's Amateur by two strokes in Houston this week, but considering she's only 16, her opportunities are just beginning.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
TCU's Gary Patterson needs more room for his trophies
FORT WORTH, TX - A quick stop by TCU Head Coach Gary Patterson's office these days reveals a corner filled with trophies. The thing that's really neat to me is when you go back and you find out what all these different awards stand for, says Patterson. For me it's a we thing. Head coaches get far too much credit.
During the off season, Patterson biggest job could easily have been trying to figure out what to do with all of his trophies. Not the Conference Championship trophy which sits in the lobby, but the awards he received for coach of the year. At last count, that number stood at nine.
All of them represent something different in what they were looking for, Patterson says. Again I think you have to have a little luck, it kind of has to be a perfect storm. II think you have to do a lot of things right. It's hard to keep all that group we just talked about in the same year. It was a lot of fum. I'm very apperciative. I'm very humbled by it and I also understand that this year, it doesn't mean anything.
Patterson says he doesn't like to brag about his awards, but when you receive all the major college coach of the year awards, its hard to overlook.
Another windfall were the checks that came with those awards.
The Liberty Mutual award included $50,000. He donated that to the Presbyterian Night Shelter plus another 20-thousand to the TCU Alumni Accosiation.
The Bobby Dodd trophy included $10,000 so he donated that to the Tarrant Area Food Banks.
Its neat that you can do some things that a lot of other people benefit from, so, those are things that showed up and were kind of surprise that it all happened.
Last week Patterson got yet another award when Playboy Magazines pick him as their choice for preseason coach of the year. It's just another honor in a string of recognitions.
In 2009, TCU posted just the second 12 win season in the schools history, matched only by the 1935 National Championship team which also went 12-1. The Frogs had their first undefeated regular season since their 1938 National Championship season.
Here is a list of the trophies that Patterson received:
(1) National Coach of the Year by the Walter Camp Football Foundation.
(2) Associated Press Coach of the Year
(3) American Football Coaches Association
(4) Sporting News Coach of the Year Award
(5) Bobby Dodd Award
(6) Eddie Robinson Award
(7) Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award
(8) George Munger Award
(9) Woody Hayes Award
During the off season, Patterson biggest job could easily have been trying to figure out what to do with all of his trophies. Not the Conference Championship trophy which sits in the lobby, but the awards he received for coach of the year. At last count, that number stood at nine.
All of them represent something different in what they were looking for, Patterson says. Again I think you have to have a little luck, it kind of has to be a perfect storm. II think you have to do a lot of things right. It's hard to keep all that group we just talked about in the same year. It was a lot of fum. I'm very apperciative. I'm very humbled by it and I also understand that this year, it doesn't mean anything.
Patterson says he doesn't like to brag about his awards, but when you receive all the major college coach of the year awards, its hard to overlook.
Another windfall were the checks that came with those awards.
The Liberty Mutual award included $50,000. He donated that to the Presbyterian Night Shelter plus another 20-thousand to the TCU Alumni Accosiation.
The Bobby Dodd trophy included $10,000 so he donated that to the Tarrant Area Food Banks.
Its neat that you can do some things that a lot of other people benefit from, so, those are things that showed up and were kind of surprise that it all happened.
Last week Patterson got yet another award when Playboy Magazines pick him as their choice for preseason coach of the year. It's just another honor in a string of recognitions.
In 2009, TCU posted just the second 12 win season in the schools history, matched only by the 1935 National Championship team which also went 12-1. The Frogs had their first undefeated regular season since their 1938 National Championship season.
Here is a list of the trophies that Patterson received:
(1) National Coach of the Year by the Walter Camp Football Foundation.
(2) Associated Press Coach of the Year
(3) American Football Coaches Association
(4) Sporting News Coach of the Year Award
(5) Bobby Dodd Award
(6) Eddie Robinson Award
(7) Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award
(8) George Munger Award
(9) Woody Hayes Award
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Marathon runner lucky to be alive
HEATH, TX - Sam Killian is a typical eight year old. He's adventurous and outgoing with one exception.
Sam has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a rare disorder that strickens one in every 35 thousand births. It's because of Sam that his father John, became a fund raiser for Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy to help find a cure.
"Sam's muscles when he's running around, he lacks the protein to repair those muscles," says John Killian. "So instead of regenrating muscle tissue when he exercises or does things, his muscles form scar tissue. Eventually, that eventually overcomes the muscles. Boys are usally in a wheelchair by the age of 10 to 14, and eventually effects all the muscles in the body."
Sam's degenerative disease is what lead his father to become a marathon runner. He raises money for the charity by organizing groups of runners to participate in marathons.
Four weeks ago while driving from his Rockwall County to home to White Rock Lake in Dallas for a training run, Killian was involved in wrong way crash on interstate 30, east of downtown.
"I've been driving interstate 30 for 15 years now and every morning i hear something going on at the Ferguson curve," John says. "I finally found out why that morning. Your really driving around that corner blind, and literally, I think the other car was on the highway gonig the wrong direction from downtown out to Ferguson. 5:20 everybody was able to miss her until we met coming around that corner. We really couldn't see anything but I did see it right before the impact, i remember seeing headlights and thinking that's really bad. I don't remember the impact, but I remember the aftermath, the airbag, and was conscious throughout the whole thing."
The Crash killed a passenger in the oncoming car. Killian survived and suffered severe injuries, including a compound fracture of his right leg. To this day, he keeps asking why.
"It's tough to deal with, and there's a lot more emotions than i would expected, that come from that," John says. "I hope the aftermath of this, the only thing that I could hope something positive could come from this is that she turns her life around, the driver of the other car, and I hope somebody along the way sees this or hears about it and says i'm not going to have that drink and go drive."
The crash happened on fathers day morning, the same day that he and his wife were celebrating their 18th wedding anniversary.
"I got the call about 6:15 in the morning, I was asleep and I got a call from Baylor meidal center, and I answered it and it was John," says his wie Stefanie. "My first response was, why are you calling me from a hospital. 27:56 it was pretty scary, but he was calm, he was pretty calm, but it dawned on me later that it was our 18th wedding anniversary. I think that I got the best anniversary because I got John.
Because of the accident, Killian won't be running at all this year. He hopes that part of his life will return sometime in 2011.
"They said expect a year to sort of get everything recovered," says John. "I asked very specifically, will I run again, they said as well as your willing to tolerate the pain, he thinks i'll be able to out and do it again."
"For years, our family and friends have been calling John marathon man because he runs so many marathons, and is so dedicated to his marathons," Stefanie says. "Training and fund rasing is which is actually why he runs marathons, but now they're calling him miracle man instead because he survived this really bad wreck."
While Killian's injuries are expected to heal, the future for his son Sam remains much more uncertain. For John, the fund raising for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy continues.
Sam has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a rare disorder that strickens one in every 35 thousand births. It's because of Sam that his father John, became a fund raiser for Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy to help find a cure.
"Sam's muscles when he's running around, he lacks the protein to repair those muscles," says John Killian. "So instead of regenrating muscle tissue when he exercises or does things, his muscles form scar tissue. Eventually, that eventually overcomes the muscles. Boys are usally in a wheelchair by the age of 10 to 14, and eventually effects all the muscles in the body."
Sam's degenerative disease is what lead his father to become a marathon runner. He raises money for the charity by organizing groups of runners to participate in marathons.
Four weeks ago while driving from his Rockwall County to home to White Rock Lake in Dallas for a training run, Killian was involved in wrong way crash on interstate 30, east of downtown.
"I've been driving interstate 30 for 15 years now and every morning i hear something going on at the Ferguson curve," John says. "I finally found out why that morning. Your really driving around that corner blind, and literally, I think the other car was on the highway gonig the wrong direction from downtown out to Ferguson. 5:20 everybody was able to miss her until we met coming around that corner. We really couldn't see anything but I did see it right before the impact, i remember seeing headlights and thinking that's really bad. I don't remember the impact, but I remember the aftermath, the airbag, and was conscious throughout the whole thing."
The Crash killed a passenger in the oncoming car. Killian survived and suffered severe injuries, including a compound fracture of his right leg. To this day, he keeps asking why.
"It's tough to deal with, and there's a lot more emotions than i would expected, that come from that," John says. "I hope the aftermath of this, the only thing that I could hope something positive could come from this is that she turns her life around, the driver of the other car, and I hope somebody along the way sees this or hears about it and says i'm not going to have that drink and go drive."
The crash happened on fathers day morning, the same day that he and his wife were celebrating their 18th wedding anniversary.
"I got the call about 6:15 in the morning, I was asleep and I got a call from Baylor meidal center, and I answered it and it was John," says his wie Stefanie. "My first response was, why are you calling me from a hospital. 27:56 it was pretty scary, but he was calm, he was pretty calm, but it dawned on me later that it was our 18th wedding anniversary. I think that I got the best anniversary because I got John.
Because of the accident, Killian won't be running at all this year. He hopes that part of his life will return sometime in 2011.
"They said expect a year to sort of get everything recovered," says John. "I asked very specifically, will I run again, they said as well as your willing to tolerate the pain, he thinks i'll be able to out and do it again."
"For years, our family and friends have been calling John marathon man because he runs so many marathons, and is so dedicated to his marathons," Stefanie says. "Training and fund rasing is which is actually why he runs marathons, but now they're calling him miracle man instead because he survived this really bad wreck."
While Killian's injuries are expected to heal, the future for his son Sam remains much more uncertain. For John, the fund raising for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy continues.
Monday, June 28, 2010
TCU's Bryan Holaday's college career ends
FORT WORTH, TX - When TCU was eliminated from the College World Series Saturday, it meant the end of a great college career for Bryan Holaday.
"I'm probably going to remember just the guys," Holaday says. "I mean it's unbelieveable how great of job coach Jim Schlossnagle has done bringing in just quality people. It just seems every year, i'm surrounded by my best friends."
Holiday returned to Fort Worth with his teammates on Sunday after leading the school to it's first ever trip to the college world series. Holiday addressed the huge crowd.
"Thank you all so much for being here," he said. "It means so much to all of us and like coach Schlossnagle said, the community around here is what's best about TCU. So, thank you very much. We couldn't have done it without your support."
Some analysts dubbed Holaday as the best catcher in the nation of his senior class. He was a 6th round draft pick of the Detroit Tigers in this year's amateur draft and the first player chosen from TCU.
"It's going to be a great experience for me," he says. "It's going to be a challenge. It's going to be a grind and i'm really looking forward to all those things and everything that pro baseball is."
After Holaday left W.T.White High School in Dallas, he went to Gainsville, Texas to play for North Central Texas College as a third baseman. They moved him behind the plate as a catcher and the rest as they say is history.
"I think he's one of the greatest athletes to ever to be at TCU," Schlossnagle says. "I think his number should be retired with Sammy Baugh and Davey O'Brien for what he brought to our university."
Holiday's first stop will be Wichita, Kansas where he is one of the three finalists for the Johnny Bench award, given annually to the best catcher in division one.
"I've come a long way, from being the guy that was missing balls all the time to being one of the top three in the nation," Holaday says. "You know it's just great coaching. I was really lucky to come here and have the opportunity to start. I worked really hard and had great coaches that pushed me."
Schlossnagle says he'll be surprised if Holaday doesn't win the Johnny Bench award. "There is heavy competition," Schlossnagle says, "For everything you need a catcher to do, offensively and defensively, he does it at the highest level."
"I'm probably going to remember just the guys," Holaday says. "I mean it's unbelieveable how great of job coach Jim Schlossnagle has done bringing in just quality people. It just seems every year, i'm surrounded by my best friends."
Holiday returned to Fort Worth with his teammates on Sunday after leading the school to it's first ever trip to the college world series. Holiday addressed the huge crowd.
"Thank you all so much for being here," he said. "It means so much to all of us and like coach Schlossnagle said, the community around here is what's best about TCU. So, thank you very much. We couldn't have done it without your support."
Some analysts dubbed Holaday as the best catcher in the nation of his senior class. He was a 6th round draft pick of the Detroit Tigers in this year's amateur draft and the first player chosen from TCU.
"It's going to be a great experience for me," he says. "It's going to be a challenge. It's going to be a grind and i'm really looking forward to all those things and everything that pro baseball is."
After Holaday left W.T.White High School in Dallas, he went to Gainsville, Texas to play for North Central Texas College as a third baseman. They moved him behind the plate as a catcher and the rest as they say is history.
"I think he's one of the greatest athletes to ever to be at TCU," Schlossnagle says. "I think his number should be retired with Sammy Baugh and Davey O'Brien for what he brought to our university."
Holiday's first stop will be Wichita, Kansas where he is one of the three finalists for the Johnny Bench award, given annually to the best catcher in division one.
"I've come a long way, from being the guy that was missing balls all the time to being one of the top three in the nation," Holaday says. "You know it's just great coaching. I was really lucky to come here and have the opportunity to start. I worked really hard and had great coaches that pushed me."
Schlossnagle says he'll be surprised if Holaday doesn't win the Johnny Bench award. "There is heavy competition," Schlossnagle says, "For everything you need a catcher to do, offensively and defensively, he does it at the highest level."
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