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Gary Patterson has been catching some heat from the media lately. There are writers and bloggers criticizing him for not speaking up against the BCS after TCU’s 21-19 victory over Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl last Saturday. A lot of fans believe Patterson was given a stage to speak out against the Cartel, but instead he made the right decision and kept it classy.

Jennifer Floyd Engel had this to say in Sunday’s Ft. Worth Star-Telegram.

Because by acting like they were just happy to be invited at all, CGP basically admitted the Frogs are not in a league with Auburn. It is a flawed premise he, Andy Dalton, Ed Wesley, Tank Carder and so many Frogs had spent an entire season, and 60 minutes in Pasadena, rather convincingly disabusing the E. Gordon Gees of college football. And then CGP goes and concedes the point.

Mr. Randy argued, in our weekly blogcast offering, time and place. OK, maybe, CGP needed to say something, Mr. Randy conceded, but right after TCU's biggest win was neither the right time nor the Rose Bowl the right place. Mr. Randy is so wrong. It made it exactly the right place. What better time to pull back the curtain on the fraud than when people were listening?

To start bashing the BCS immediately following the team’s victory would have been distasteful. Not only would it have sent the wrong message, it would have diminished TCU’s hard fought win and taken away from the celebration. The Rose Bowl WAS NOT a consolation prize. It is called the “Granddaddy of them All” for a reason.

If there was a proper time or place for a statement to be made, it would be Monday night or Tuesday after the fraudulent BCS Championship game took place. I wouldn’t expect it though. Gary Patterson is not Mack Brown. He isn’t known for lobbying and complaining. Patterson lets TCU’s product on the field speak for itself. When have you ever heard Patterson complain? The only time that comes to mind was in 2006 after the Frogs beat Texas Tech 12-3 and he went off on his rant about TCU not getting enough respect.

Gary Patterson’s stance on the BCS has not changed. Some people claim he didn’t speak out against the BCS because TCU is joining the Big East in 2012, and that isn’t the case. Patterson was asked about the BCS Wednesday morning on 1310 The Ticket and said this, "Well, right now I'd leave it like it is for the simple reason that no one has showed me a way, being a non-automatic qualifying school, that it would be easier getting into a playoff without being undefeated just like it is right now. I'd leave it as it is until somebody shows me a better way. But at this point and time, I don't know that anybody's come up with a better way of telling me that TCU would have a chance. Right now I only have to win a couple ball games. I'd have to win three or four to be able to win a national championship in that version."

On December 2nd, 2009, Gary Patterson said this "Is it easier to win one game for a championship? Or to have to win four?" Patterson asked. "If you have a playoff, you practice and get on a plane and play. And if you lose, it's over. If you go to a bowl game, you're there seven days and the kids can enjoy a place and get rewarded."

On February 7th, 2010, in an interview with the Orlando Sentinel, Patterson was asked why he supports the BCS, his response, “I've got an easier road to win a national championship than I do going to a playoff. Five years ago, people said the TCUs of the world, Boise and Utah would never play in a BCS game and be successful. Now we're doing that. It's only a matter of time before the other stuff's going to happen. You're going to find a team that's going to get a chance to be there.”

On January 5th, 2010, Mike Lopresti of USA Today asked Gary Patterson about the BCS and the possibility of a playoff. Patterson replied, "This is the thing about the playoffs, who says the playoff system would be any different than the BCS system is now? If you put in an eight-team playoff system and you have six automatic qualifying groups that are in the BCS, there's six teams. Another one of those conferences feel like they have another one (Florida, for instance). There's a seventh.

"Show me right now how a playoff system is going to make it easier for Texas Christian University and Boise State, unless you give us an automatic qualifying berth into that playoff system.

"If you're asking Gary Patterson to jump on the bandwagon, my answer is no right now, because you haven't given me the guidelines of what a playoff system would be about."

I could give more examples, but I think you get the picture. Gary Patterson’s stance on the BCS has remained constant throughout the years. Whether you agree or disagree with his position is a different story. I don’t agree with all of his points on a playoff, but like I said, that is a whole other discussion for another time. Patterson has always taken the high rout and I am glad he stayed on that path after the Rose Bowl. If the media wants a statement, how about you vote TCU number one in the AP Poll?