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Gary Patterson Has No Time For Your Unconsciousness

Gary Patterson is not only an exceptional football coach, but few realize that he has more insight into head trauma than a doctor and that he is fighting the good fight against the tyranny of healers.

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Last month during a win over SMU, TCU head coach Gary Patterson was caught on camera yelling at a trainer on the sidelines. Turns out that Patterson wasn't very fond of the trainer's decision to hold running back Ed Wesley out of the game with what he diagnosed as a concussion.

"Why isn't Wesley in there? What? Percussion? Well turn down the treble and get his ass in there!"

Diagnosing concussions can't be left solely in the hands of the medical elite:

"He was knocked unconscious, and any loss of consciousness is automatically considered a concussion," said Dr. Samuel J. Haraldson. "He had an unsteady gait and a few memory problems.

Blah blah blah. Diagnosis. Blah blah blah. Medical things. Player well-being. Blah blah blah.

Loss of consciousness is considered a concussion? Well, then I get a concussion every Saturday night after I'm done polishing off like 17 wine coolers. And has it occurred to the good doctor that Wesley's unsteady gait is a gangster lean? That's how the kids walk nowadays. It's cool to be disoriented. The memory problems are probably because the doctor asked him something like, "Who is our current president?" No one knows that bullshit, egghead.

Haraldson, I bet you were a band nerd.

Then five or six plays later, I literally was verbally accosted by the coach, screaming at me insanely at the top of his lungs that he doesn't think [Wesley] has a concussion and what right do I have to hold him out.

Well, what right do you have? I can't find anything about this in Frank Sinatra's autobiography or The Good Book. Those are my Stedman's. So you're using nine years of schooling, a fellowship, twenty years of clinical practice, and expert diagnostic skills?

Here's what I use: common sense. Does the player have small yellow chicks flying around his head? Is the player saying, "Which way did he go? Which way did he go?" No?

Then the player is not concussed. Now prepare to get cussed.

Haraldson says that after TCU had taken control of the game, Patterson did come over and offer what he termed a "pseudo-apology."

Patterson's apology: Listen Doc, you're a massive sissy and I should have taken that into account when you made your cowardly diagnosis as players become like you when pulled into your orbit. I shouldn't have yelled at you no matter how much you deserved it. Here's a pink feather-embedded stethoscope as a peace offering. Friends?

Sorry folks, I'm firmly in Patterson's corner on this one. Doctors have run medicine for far too long. It's time for a more practical gridiron-focused approach that takes into account game context, BCS bowls, and a total disregard for players.

That's true holistic medicine.

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Wow, holy shit.

This is like when Martin Sheen held the kid up to protect himself from the sniper in The Dead Zone. Or something.

He’s the anti-Mack.

by Sailor Ripley on Oct 21, 2010 5:07 PM CDT reply actions  

He’s always seemed like a prick to me.

by Savage Henry on Oct 21, 2010 5:21 PM CDT reply actions  

It’s getting a lot of attention on the interwebs today. I doubt he’ll pull this again.

by the Clapper on Oct 21, 2010 5:32 PM CDT reply actions  

What a guy.

by Bob in Houston on Oct 21, 2010 5:32 PM CDT reply actions  

Very Stoopsian from behaviour from GP. Golf Prick, obviously.

A little feistier your average visor-wearing head honcho. But that desensitized motherfucker can coach.

by Vasherized on Oct 21, 2010 5:34 PM CDT reply actions  

Dude needs to get Doperbo on staff.

by HenryJames on Oct 21, 2010 5:49 PM CDT reply actions  

That unsteady gait is probably something completely inconsequential, like Huntington’s Chorea….no big deal.

by J.R.69 on Oct 21, 2010 6:02 PM CDT reply actions  

Pat is a bit high strung, but when you are coaching in the shawdows of such legends as F.A. Dry and Pat Sullivan you have to push each and every day to make sure your career reaches into the sunlight.

by Davey O'Brien on Oct 21, 2010 6:13 PM CDT reply actions  

Jerry Schmidt uses Shake Weight.

by Homesick Alien on Oct 21, 2010 6:14 PM CDT reply actions  

It sounds like Coach Patterson is a true Old School football coach.

In other words, a retrograde asshole.

by RedmondLonghorn on Oct 21, 2010 6:32 PM CDT reply actions  

I think Pat has a point here, just because Haraldson did his residency in Emergency Medicine at Henry Ford in Detroit does not mean that the doctor knows what someone looks like when they have suffered blunt, closed head trauma.

The saddest part is that many of these kids would run through a wall for Patterson and that can be a dangerous thing.

by Davey O'Brien on Oct 21, 2010 6:51 PM CDT reply actions  

Come into my coven.

by Mike Leach's Equipment Shed on Oct 21, 2010 7:26 PM CDT reply actions  

Is there a middle ground between overly-nice Mack and apparent asswipes like Stoops and Patterson (seemingly willing to endanger a kids health to win)?

by 2xHorn on Oct 21, 2010 8:43 PM CDT reply actions  

Hey, Patterson don’t need no MDs tellin’ him who’s concussed. He has his own medical degree. It’s from Baby Doc College of Medicine, one of the finest institutions in the entire Caribbean. (Obscure Doonesbury reference)

by Longhorn in Canada on Oct 21, 2010 8:58 PM CDT reply actions  

Maybe somebody like Bellotti or Tuberville could be considered middle of the road?

by Nero on Oct 21, 2010 10:36 PM CDT reply actions  

“Dr. Samuel J. Haraldson. "He had an unsteady gait and a few memory problems.”"

Any chance we can get this guy to diagnose Greg Davis outside the press box before each game? I’m sure he would meet the above criteria.

by tdwalsh on Oct 21, 2010 11:51 PM CDT reply actions  

Any chance we can get Patterson to teach Mack about redshirting almost all his players especially o-line and quartebacks and the maturation process of the these said players?

Also recruit the shit out of all quartebacks!!! Not just one player that is our one special baby, our little honey. Grab four during every recruiting class and let them play where they may.

Patterson has 4 quarterbacks committed this year and had seven last year. He still has 7 spots open.

Im tired of treating recruiting like we are Tommy Boy with his one precious doll, that he loves and plays with everyday. SON, NUTT UP!!!! You’re Big Tom Callahan’s son!!! You can have every friggin doll in the goddam playhouse, not just Chris friggin Whaley, get Christine Michael, Eric Stephens, and fucking Rex Burkhead too.

We are the ones who need to stop being selective, and get them all!!! I want Mack to get Connor Brewer, Trevor Knight, Matt Davis, AND Jalen Overstreet next year. That way the next Darron Tomas won’t slip threw our fingers, he’ll be sitting on Greg Davis’s bench or playing saftey

by UT wildcatter on Oct 22, 2010 5:25 AM CDT reply actions  

I’m assuming that’s sarcasm but since it’s not funny i’m having trouble telling.

by Biznesstime on Oct 22, 2010 8:12 AM CDT reply actions  

Patterson has 4 quarterbacks committed this year and had seven last year. He still has 7 spots open.

Rounding up 2 and 3 star QB’s is not a recommended strategy for Texas.

by srr50 on Oct 22, 2010 8:17 AM CDT reply actions  

Assholistic medicine, imo.

by Magnificent Bastard on Oct 22, 2010 8:26 AM CDT reply actions  

Proof that SMU is back baby!! That and the fact that at least 300 SMU students attended the first half.

by Art Vandelay on Oct 22, 2010 9:03 AM CDT reply actions  

Gary doesn’t suffer pussies gladly, unlike the billion-dollar coach in Austin.

UCLA.

UCLA.

UCLA.

That will never get old…..

GO FROGS!

by Philly Frog on Oct 22, 2010 9:10 AM CDT reply actions  

The concept of one of the exurban evangelical mommy’s precious angels who make up the entirety of the TCU student body calling someone a pussy for getting a concussion is endlessly hilarious.

by hodad on Oct 22, 2010 9:49 AM CDT reply actions  

That dude manage to merge two genres of asshole into one name…Philly AND Frog.

by Gman on Oct 22, 2010 10:03 AM CDT reply actions  

Philly Frog completely missed the point. It amazes me that TCU is ahead of us in the polls, yet they still have this inferiority complex.

Great read Scip. I wasn’t aware that Patterson was such a prick.

by UTomlinson on Oct 22, 2010 10:14 AM CDT reply actions  

At least that pussy is getting his middling-institution degree paid for – I suspect our phriend the Phrog dropped $23K a year for his, and found his marketability such that he was forced to relocate to…Philly. It’s easy to get hurt on a football field, but that REALLY has to sting.

by nobis60 on Oct 22, 2010 10:18 AM CDT reply actions  

Gary doesn’t suffer pussies gladly

Boise State called. They’re through with your sphincter.

by spider on Oct 22, 2010 10:19 AM CDT reply actions  

yeah, we need 12 quarterbacks on the roster, and 25 o linemen 25 d linemen 42 defensive backs, 18 kickers, 2 running backs and 62 linebackers.

somehow that equals 75 ships right?

by TCU Arithmatic on Oct 22, 2010 10:25 AM CDT reply actions  

Also, if Mack is making a billion dollars can he just pay off Cleve Bryant’s accuser and let us get back to football?

by nobis60 on Oct 22, 2010 11:43 AM CDT reply actions  

“maturation process”

You mean stuffing enough steroids and HGH into 5’11 160lb 2 star option qbs until they turn into 6’1 230lb olb’s?

Allsome.

by BatesHorn on Oct 22, 2010 12:19 PM CDT reply actions  

I hope we win the Big XII/get an at-large BCS bid and play them in the Fiesta Bowl so we can put them in their place. Remember when some people picked them to beat us in ’07 only for them to get stomped 34-13. Patterson has a classic case of Napoleon complex. He is extremely insecure about himself and his team.

By the way a TCU degree is absolutely worthless. Baylor and TCU grads/students are so annoying. They seem to think that if you go to a private school and have high tuition that you are going to a good school. Cougar High is a better option.

by PrimeTime on Oct 22, 2010 2:15 PM CDT reply actions  

PrimeTime – you need to settle down.

by Sailor Ripley on Oct 22, 2010 2:27 PM CDT reply actions  

How has the Patterson/Franchione express managed to go so long without being investigated for steroids and HGH anyway? Did you know that Brian Urlacher showed up on the New Mexico campus as a 175 lb Wide Receiver and a year and a half later was a 230lb linebacker?

by hodad on Oct 22, 2010 3:09 PM CDT reply actions  

Does the NCAA even test for performance enhancers?

Or does the thought of Brian Cushing pretending to be terminally ill and semi-pregnant simultaneously in a USC uniform scare them too much?

by Steroids on Oct 22, 2010 3:24 PM CDT reply actions  

Yes, IIRC, at bowl time.

by Bob in Houston on Oct 22, 2010 4:39 PM CDT reply actions  

My TCU degree was so fucking worthless I could only get into Texas’ MBA program. If had a real degree maybe I could have gotten into a real Master’s program.

The guy was an ass, an embarrassment to the the color purple, and they reaction he got was exactly what he was looking to get. Who proved to be smarter in that exchange?

The rumor of the enhancements have been there since Fran came to TCU and it is interesting that his strength and conditioning coach is now at Auburn. People should be very,very careful about that stone.

by Davey O'Brien on Oct 22, 2010 6:35 PM CDT reply actions  

Davey. God love ya’, you were one hell of a football player. If I caused you any embarrassment, it was with profound regret. Su MBA mejor mi MBA.

I just wanted to come back here and offer my condolences to the Longhorns. This, too, shall pass, right?

In the spirit of all that football means to us Texans – exiled or otherwise – I do ask one Longhorn favor: Please have the great good sense to allow Baylor to win this Saturday. There’s one team left in Texas with BCS hopes.

And GO RANGERS!

by Philly Frog on Oct 25, 2010 9:11 AM CDT reply actions  

Very effectively written information. Will probably be helpful to anyone who usess it, together with myself. Keep up the good work – for sure i will take a look at extra posts.

by Shantel Stutts on Feb 5, 2011 6:14 PM CST reply actions  

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