Still-bitter Baker Mayfield: TCU ‘hung me out to dry’

A day after Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield said TCU “hung me out to dry” in the recruiting process, he didn’t get drawn into a prolonged back and forth after Horned Frogs coach Gary Patterson responded later Monday. Being a walk-on means he didn’t have a scholarship, and on Monday he was asked which school that didn’t offer him to a full ride upset him the most. Mayfield led the Red Raiders to a 20-10 victory over Gary Patterson and the Horned Frogs in 2013 before defeating them again last November, 30-29, with the Sooners.

OU’s Baker Mayfield told me TCU “hung him out to dry” regarding a scholarship.

Sooners coach Bob Stoops said Mayfield, with 3,389 yards and 35 TDs this year, has been the missing piece.

For the majority of the season, it was unclear which Big 12 team would have the best chance to make the College Football Playoffs this season among Baylor, TCU and Oklahoma.

Unsure what his future held, he left Texas Tech and walked on at Oklahoma, and now at 6-foot-1 has the Sooners in the national semifinals in the Orange Bowl Thursday against Clemson. This time, the target was TCU, one of a handful of FBS schools which recruited Mayfield at Lake Travis High School when most major colleges believed he was too small.

His team practicing in preparation of the Alamo Bowl game against Oregon, Patterson told Campus Insider’s Bonnie Bernstein Mayfield’s comments are untrue.

“I told other schools that I wasn’t interested because I thought I was going to go there”. Ask about Baker’s dad [James]. “Remember what was going on then”, Patterson continued. “If people knew the whole story, they might not have a great opinion of Baker or his father”. “Baker’s been out for us for a while”.

“[Patterson] doesn’t like me and I have no comment about that”.