TCU Baseball

Just to pass the time I am going to bore you even more with stories of myself.

I grew up in Fort Worth and have only lived outside the city limits for a year of my life. As a kid I was consumed with baseball year round, with all the other sports taking a back seat to America's Pastime. TCU did not necessaraly have a dominant team during my youth in the 90s, but they did have one strong attractive appeal to attend thier home games. The recently retired Nolan Ryan's two sons played for the Horned Frogs. He attended almost everygame...usually making hime 1/25 of the total attendence. Because the games were so bare...naturally Nolan would give out autographs occassionly after each game.

Also, when Nolans second son signed his letter of commit with TCU, Nolan agreed to be taken on the staff as an assistant coach. Just to prove a point, Nolan agreed to work for a 1 dollar anual salary. This, I believe, was a statement that his becoming of a coach for the school had no factor on why his sons were recruited tpo play thier. Either way it is an admirrable thing of a living legend.

Since I am on the theme of reminiscing my younger days at TCU sporting events I will go ahead and shout out a few mroe things:

I scarcely attended TCU basketball games as a yougster but I distinctly remember a period in which I attended more than average. This was a period in which Lee Nailon was dominating the paint for the Horned Frogs and lead his team, along with long-time coach Billy Tubbs, to a NCAA Tournament bid where thier team would lose in the first round to Florida State--pretty sure that's right. The game I really remember going to was Billy Tubb's 500 victory--a game that Nailon scored a TCU record 52 points. Most likely the most momorable game in TCU basketball history.

Continuing the trend...
Their was one more occurence, in my opinion, that was more wicked then both of the the others. When LT rushed for 305 yards againsts UTEP in '00. The number of yards is irrelevant...his performance, though, was breathtaking...I remember moments of that dominating performance still. Mainly because he was shedding blockers like I am shedding hair and partially becausenwe sit in the end zome by the frog horn thing and I think it has permently affected my hearing over the years. Especially because the amount of times it was going off that day.