Sonny Dykes was introduced as TCU's new head football coach during an evening event at TCU's Amon G. Carter Stadium on Monday, November 29. He and his family arrived in the stadium in a TCU helicopter. Watch: here
A press conference featuring Dykes was held on Tuesday, November 30. Watch: here
Dykes replaces TCU interim head football coach Jerry Kill, who replaced longtime head football coach Gary Patterson, who resigned on October 31 after being told he would not be retained as the Frogs’ head coach in 2022.
Kill,
who went 2-2 as TCU's interim head coach, has been named the head
football coach at New Mexico State (Las Cruces, New Mexico), replacing
Doug Martin, with whom the school parted ways after the Aggies' season
ended on Saturday, November 27.
Patterson had been with the TCU
football program for 24 years, the last 21 years as head coach. He was one of college football’s longest-tenured head coaches,
ranking behind only Iowa’s Kirk Ferentz.
Patterson joined the TCU football program in 1998 as the defensive coordinator on head coach Dennis Franchione's staff. He took over head coaching duties in 2000, when Franchione became Alabama's head football coach.
Patterson accumulated a 181-79 record at TCU, becoming the Horned Frogs' winningest head football coach.
In 2016, Patterson was honored when TCU unveiled within the school's athletic complex a statue of him and statues of former TCU quarterback Davey O'Brien and former TCU football coach Dutch Meyer.
Reportedly, Dykes received from TCU a six-year agreement with compensation nearing $30 million.
Including Kill on an interim basis, Dykes becomes TCU's 32nd head football coach since 1897 (see list below).
Dykes went 30-17 at SMU, including 25-9 the past three seasons. The Mustangs achieved rankings in the AP top 25 in each of his last three seasons. That hadn’t happened in Dallas since the 1980s.
In 2019, Dykes led SMU to a 10-2 season, becoming the first Mustangs coach to win 10 games in a season since Bobby Collins in 1984, prior to the NCAA's "death penalty" for the program. His .659 winning percentage is the second best in school history behind Collins among coaches who worked at SMU for more than two seasons.
Dykes is regarded as an offensive-minded head coach. The Mustangs averaged 39.7 points and 483 total yards over 35 games since the start of the 2019 season.
Ironically, prior to joining the SMU football program, Dykes was an offensive analyst at TCU during the 2017 season, when the Horned Frogs posted an 11-3 record, reached the Big 12 Championship Game and finished ninth in the country after a 39-37 victory over Stanford in the Alamo Bowl.
TCU is Dykes' fourth head-coaching job. In addition to SMU, Dykes has led the football programs at Cal and Louisiana Tech.
Dykes came to Fort Worth for the 2017 season from Berkeley, California, where he had been head coach of Cal, 2013-2016.
Dykes went 19-30 as head coach of the Pac 12 Golden Bears, progressing from one win in 2013 to an 8-5 finish in 2015. He was fired after going 5-7 in 2016.
As head coach of Louisiana Tech, Dykes went 22-15 over three seasons (2010-2012). He was the 2011 Western Athletic Conference (WAC) Coach of the Year.
Dykes, a native Texan, is the son of former Texas Tech football coach Spike Dykes.
Sonny graduated from Texas Tech and earned a master’s at Kentucky. In Lexington, Dykes was a graduate assistant and later an assistant coach at wide receiver. After stints at Texas Tech and Arizona as offensive coordinator, he began his head-coaching career at Louisiana Tech.
Sonny and his wife, Kate, have two young daughters, Allie and Charlie, and a young son, Daniel.
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