USC DC Gary Patterson finds harmony in football and music

Muffled strumming and husky, choppy notes – Bob Seger, maybe? – radiated from Gary Patterson’s office. A calendar wasn’t needed to know it was Monday. It was the Texas Christian football staff’s game-planning day, which meant Patterson had shut himself up in his office to do nothing but study film and listen to his music. “Music has always been a passion of his,” TCU Senior Deputy Athletics Director Mike Sinquefield said. “He’s always picked a guitar, he’s always showed up with a guitar. He loved to do that.” Sinquefield started as an equipment manager at TCU and was the one to pick up Patterson from the airport when he first arrived in Forth Worth in 1998. He watched Patterson rise...