TCU coach Sonny Dykes calls out SEC scheduling
TCU head coach Sonny Dykes was talking about TCU’s strength of schedule and took a shot at the SEC’s non-conference games in November.
Most teams in the SEC usually schedule a non-conference game before the end of the season to secure a win outside of the conference schedule. On Thursday, Dykes mentioned how TCU played conference opponents for most of the season and did not look to schedule a lesser opponent at the end of the season. While speaking to the media ahead of the Fiesta Bowl, he discussed TCU’s schedule.
#TCU coach Sonny Dykes with a shot at the #SEC on the Horned Frogs’ schedule.
“We don't have the good fortune to play an out-of-conference game like the the SEC does in Week 10 or Week 11. You're not going to catch The Citadel in Week 10. We caught Texas.”
— Brandon Marcello (@bmarcello) December 29, 2022
“We don’t have the good fortune to play an out-of-conference game like the the SEC does in Week 10 or Week 11. You’re not going to catch The Citadel in Week 10. We caught Texas,” Dykes said.
TCU played its final 10 games of the regular season against Big 12 teams and Dykes believed that his team’s schedule was more challenging than teams in other conferences. The Horned Frogs finished the season with a 12-1 record.
The 1st loss came against Kansas State in the Big 12 Championship Game on Dec. 3. TCU had a remarkable season as the Horned Frogs were led by Heisman Trophy finalist Max Duggan.
TCU will take on Michigan in the Fiesta Bowl on Saturday at 4 p.m. ET.
He sounds like a moron considering they played Colorado, Smu, and Tarleton (is that a Catholic girls school?) out of conference.
@weagle99 – it appears he has never watched, coached or played in an Iron Bowl…
I was rooting for TCU. Now I’m torn!!! Well if Georgia gets past Ohio state God willing. And I believe we will!!!! If Sonny can survive Michigan. Then maybe he will get to answer for his TOTAL STUPIDITY!!!!
PS. He’s in the playoffs already not lobbying the committee!!! What a stupid thing to say!!!!!!!
TEXAS IS NOT BACK, NOR ARE THEY A BIG DEAL!!!
John 3:16 & after….
Negan
Agreed!
He thinks UGA awaits when he beats Michigan? Interesting.
Whatev’s there Sonny boy.
Still gonna root for the Frogs in the Fiesta Bowl.
Maybe that’s because big 12 schedule is easier anyway.
He’s not necessarily wrong. It’s kind of stupid to schedule another cupcake that late in the season.
He is wrong. As usual, so are you. Your kind of stupid if you don’t see the advantage of scheduling a cupcake late in the season. Resting players and getting healthy late in the season are just 2 easy answers.
It’s not like they are ducking an old rival in a bowl game. Is it better you lost to Wake instead if Kansas? Good news for you, basketball season started so you can watch yet another terrible Mizzu team not win a SEC championship.
Someone who has nothing arguing with someone who has nothing over nothing.
TCU is a private school and never had any $ limitations on recruiting dishonestly
Now Dykes wants to puff out his chest like he’s on the tag team WWF talking season team. Enjoy your p-ant flash in the pan, every one in your league will have $ and better coaches than your staff (except Kansas take heart)
@darthA If you want to disagree with someone, do it and lay out some facts. You follow the same comment format: you throw in an insult nearly every time you disagree with someone. Why is that? I have to ask: are you an adult?
I guess your mistaking me for someone else. Not surprising since you just told me to lay out some facts. I guessed you missed where I explained why it wasn’t stupid to have a late season cupcake. Funny how you gig me for insulting people yet end your post with one. Why is that? I don’t have to ask: you are a hypocrite.
@darthA Let’s review: He is wrong. As usual, so are you. INSULT
Your kind of stupid if you don’t see the advantage of scheduling a cupcake late in the season. INSULT
Resting players and getting healthy late in the season are just 2 easy answers. NOT CONVINCED THAT IS A FACT – SEEMS LACKING
It’s not like they are ducking an old rival in a bowl game.
Is it better you lost to Wake instead if Kansas? INSULT Good news for you, basketball season started so you can watch yet another terrible Mizzu team not win a SEC championship. INSULT
FOUR insults and one question mark. Wow, Four out of 5. That’s 80%
My question at the end was not an insult. It is a question? Are you an adult? I did not call you a child or assume that you are… I asked. That is not insulting.
Darth is one the best voices on here. He just doesn’t post often enough.
Worship: I didn’t deny that I insulted Booches. I did refute your statement that I didn’t lay out facts. I also refuted your uninformed opinion that I always insult people that I disagree with. I usually just post my opinion and move on. I do find it weird that with all the ugly garbage that is posted that calling someone stupid is what triggered you. Especially since it was just using his own “kind of stupid” phrase. The basketball gigs are just that. A gig from a prior thread.
I do like your semantics of your last statement. You asked a question that implied that I wasn’t an adult. I guess you didn’t realize that I’ve read your posts also and you have insulted many people on this site. So we are back to you being a hypocrite. That is not meant as an insult, just an opinion. I guess I should have said no offense before calling you a hypocrite.
JTF: Thanks for the back up.
You mean like South Carolina scheduling that cupcake Clemson game out of conference?
Not going to happen, but too bad he couldn’t played an SEC schedule while say Missouri played their Big12 schedule. Missouri would like that I’m sure. They would probably have a 9 game win season. Which probably is the most wins TCU would have playing an SEC schedule.
They aren’t weak, but they aren’t SEC championship caliber either.
Mizzou would have been lucky to win a game in the Big12 this year.
Maybe WV and Kansas, that’s about it. Kansas State drilled us a new one.
Kansas would have routed you. It’s why y’all ducked them.
Mizzou has a BIG problem with Drinkwitz. He is a total pretender…
Dementia. Dykes already forgot who TCU played out of conference this year. Last season for TCU? Duquesne (most don’t even know where it’s at or how to pronounce it) and SMU.
“Doo-kane” is pronunciation, FYI.
Hmmmmm, not Doo-quez-nee?
It’s actually Duh-quez-nee.
I’m French, I speak the language par fate
Yeah Doo-quez-nee. No one can look at that name and guess it if they haven’t already been told.
I pronounce it “patsey”.
The cupcakes are already residing in the big 12.
What he should be calling out is how pointless it is for the Big 12 to have a conference championship game since everybody already plays everybody. Fortunately that will no longer be the case starting next year.
The Big XII schedules all their OOC games at the beginning of the season. Fine. That’s your conference. TCU played their first conference game on October 1st. South Carolina and Arky played Sept 10th. Now, the one thing I would LOVE to see in the SEC is 9 conference games instead of only 8. I think I’m gonna get that wish granted by 2025. That’s the only real knock on the SEC scheduling. When you play your OOC games is a matter of semantics.
No, they schedule tun up games same as literally ever SEC team. As well as just about any half decent program. playing bad OOC games late is a complete joke.
Well, if you’re LUCKY, you’ll get to catch Georgia. Have fun with that non-conference matchup.
If we could trade Utah for Colorado and Tarleton for FSU (like TCU played), we’ll play our OOC games whenever Sonny wants.
That’s right! It’s not like South Carolina played Clemson and Kentucky played Louisville, and I believe Vandy played all conference games in November. This coach needs to think before he speaks.
I’m trying to understand the point of Dikes’ rant. Does he mean that UGA didn’t earn their spot in the playoff because they played one less conference game? If that’s the case, then TCU should beat Michigan and clean UGA’s clock in the championship game.
Mr. Dykes, in stead of running off your mouth, you should let your play on the field do your talking. Consider your Big 12 was determined inferior enough going into this season to cause Texas and OU to abandon you for those “easier” SEC schedules to come.
Don’t make it sound as you didn’t play a cupcake and scheduled TEXAS. You are in the BIG12 with Texas so that was a required conference game Sonny boy. So you too my friend have your cupcakes on your schedule as well.
Texas was a 8-5 team. So what. The SEC got to play Tennessee, Bama, LSU, and Georgia. Put those 4 on your schedule and see if you make the playoffs.
Well, he doesn’t have to play Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Auburn, Mississippi, Arkansas, South Carolina, LSU, Mississippi State on his regular schedule, so what does he know what that’s like?
I guess that the SEC having the 2 hardest schedules is irrelevant. 4 of the top 10 are from the SEC while the B12 has 2.
I like TCU the best of the remaining teams. But if their coach is that disrespectful of a moron I hope they get slaughtered.
TCU is an awesome school. Their academics are very good and their football team is exemplary. That is what Coach Dykes should be talking about
I am really pulling for the Frogs to get past Michigan so they can line up against Georgia in the national championship game. Georgia will be licking its chops. The game would be a total massacre, worse than the TKO UGA put on Hawaii that year when they were snubbed for the college playoff and Colt Brennan was mauled by the Dawgs… Wonder what excuses Sonny Dykes would come with after the game? It would be hilarious… Georgia annihilated TCU just about five years ago in a bowl where the media were hyping the Frogs…
Don’t really care about this guy’s opinion, but I am looking forward to nine conference games. I will trade the better competition and the increased probability of an occasional loss for the absolute boringness of watching SEC teams pound Directional State University. I usually don’t even watch those games: either it’s 35-0 at halftime and the starters are done, or it’s annoyingly close because we played down. Neither outcomes make enjoyable TV.
Someone needs to tell Sonny to check the recruiting rankings.
I have to assume that he was calling out Georgia, since that’s the only SEC team still in play for TCU.
Georgia’s last 5 teams on their schedule have more talent than the 5 that TCU finished with. Moreover, Georgia has had a standing game against Georgia Tech for many years.
Calling out Georgia’s schedule just before his team has to play Georgia, is not a good way to start preparing for that possible matchup. Not a smart move by the HC…
This is wonderful. Sonny Dykes’ 15 minutes of fame. Listen Sonny, the SEC’s non conference schedule is harder than TCU’s conference schedule. The Big 12 is a joke, and it will be a much bigger joke in a couple of years after Texas and OK jump ship… Enjoy your year of fame…
Lol You are a joke if you actually think that. They had the most ranked wins and one of the toughest SOS of any in contention for the playoff.
All of that aside, I seriously doubt TCU would have only 1 loss if they played in the SEC.
Dykes makes himself a clown act by talking about schedules… as if there was some sort of parity with the SEC.
I do have a problem with SEC teams playing Samford and Mercer and that caliber team. Scheduling teams from the Group of Five conferences is perfectly acceptable. It is still a likely win for the SEC, but at least they are playing a D-1 school.
What is his point? TCU is extremely fortunate to be in the playoffs. They were not a dominating team. They only won 2 games by more than 10 pts and needed to come from behind late in several games.
He has a somewhat reasonable argument, although he’s cherry-picking because TCU simply had its two cupcakes, one of which was in-conference, on the front-end.
The conference head-to-head bowl games no longer mean much because of opt-outs.
Sagarin Strength of Schedule
15th TCU
27th Georgia
45th Ohio State
55th Michigan
ESPN FPI Strength of Schedule
31st TCU
38th Michigan
41st Ohio State
42nd Georgia
Wouldn’t it be nice if SEC teams could play a BIG12 team each and every week?
Sure SEC teams take a breather in week 10/11. But that’s after they play the Georgia’s, Alabama’s, Florida’s, LSU’s, Tennessee’s, S. Carolina’s, Ole Miss’s, Miss State’s, Missouri’s, Auburn’s, Kentucky’s, Arkansas’s, Vandy’s, Texas A&M’s, (and in the coming years add Texas and Oklahoma) throughout the season. Then after that breather, they usually follow it up against 2 of the above listed teams. Put any BIG12 team in the SEC and let’s see if they can run the table. I don’t think so!
I was rooting for TCU. Now I’m torn!!! Well if Georgia gets past Ohio state God willing. And I believe we will!!!! If Sonny can survive Michigan. Then maybe he will get to answer for his TOTAL STUPIDITY!!!!
PS. He’s in the playoffs already not lobbying the committee!!! What a stupid thing to say!!!!!!!
TEXAS IS NOT BACK, NOR ARE THEY A BIG DEAL!!!!!!
John 3:16 & after….
Negan
Seems like we were playing # 1 Georgia in our 11th game. I would love for some of these pretenders play an SEC schedule and see how they do. For example, If Brian Kelly had been at Norte Dame and beat Alabama, he would have been in the playoffs. At LSU he still has to face several SEC teams that can knock you off and they did.
(September 10, 2022) TCU Horned Frogs 59, Tarleton State Texans 17
si.com: The good news for the Texans, they’re taking home a $550,000 check for playing TCU on Saturday. Games like this are important for FCS teams, particularly for funding their athletics department and for some TV exposure.
Michigan gonna rip sonny a new one
Probably…..Dykes should be putting his focus on Michigan and not the SEC.
Well, that’s about ignorant… They played the powerhouse that is Iowa State in week 12…