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Alumni Association promotes new Web site

Published Nov 17, 2009

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It's Froglinks Man.

The masked superhero Froglinks Man debuted at the Homecoming football game Oct. 31 against University of Nevada, Las Vegas and was one of the Alumni Association's marketing tactics for its new Web site, which launched Oct. 15, said Kristi Hoban, associate vice chancellor of alumni relations.



"In the last three weeks we've had 10,000 visitors and 51 percent of them have been new visitors ... We've had a 13 percent increase in the number of people visiting the site from September to October," Hoban said.

Game against Utah ranks highest in past four years

Published Nov 17, 2009

In reflection on this weekend, which I know was the greatest football experience, if not the greatest experience of any kind during my four years here at TCU, many of the other great football games I've taken in came back to me one by one. So, to honor this weekend, the growth of TCU football and my four years here at TCU, I ranked my top five games in the past four years:

1. 2009 TCU 55, Utah 28

Live from Amon Carter: TCU vs. Utah chat

Published Nov 14, 2009

Join staff reporter Cameron Lakey for a live chat during the TCU vs. Utah football game. Come chat about the game and give your commentary on the Frogs' performance. The chat will open at 6:30 p.m. and...

Horned Frogs take Utes, BCS dream still alive

Horned Frogs take Utes, BCS dream still alive

Published Nov 14, 2009

TCU kept its hopes of a BCS bowl alive Saturday night, beating No. 16 ranked Utah 55-28 before a sold out crowd.The announced crowd of 50,307, the largest ever at Amon G. Carter Stadium, watched the Frogs...

Many reasons for attendance woes, future uncertain

Many reasons for attendance woes, future uncertain

Published Nov 13, 2009

On Halloween, as the then BCS No. 6-ranked Horned Frogs took on University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Versus cameramen panned to rows upon rows of unoccupied seats, exposing a huge flaw for TCU's nationally prominent football team, now ranked fourth in the nation.

The average home attendance for the 2009 season currently stands at 34,247 fans, about 77 percent of the stadium's total capacity of 44,358 people. While Saturday's game against the University of Utah is sold out, the Horned Frogs' last home sellout was in 2006 against Texas Tech, more than three years ago.

Mormon Church should stay consistent in its beliefs

Published Nov 13, 2009

The Bible has been under scrutiny for centuries. Many of those who claim to follow the Bible's guidelines are considered oppressive, ignorant and closed-minded. Now, at least two of those adjectives can be removed from the Mormon Church's description.

Mormonism has long been known for its inconsistency and its vehement lack of acceptance.



However, the Mormon Church, which is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, supported a city law Tuesday that banned discrimination against homosexuals in their rights to housing and jobs, according to a USA Today article.

Journalists lack economic know-how

Published Nov 13, 2009

Sometimes it's good to be a journalism major. Seeing stories like Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's, which exposed the Watergate scandal, make me proud to one day be able to call myself a journalist. However, journalism frequently disappoints me, especially when it tries to talk economics.

Take a recent Associated Press article, "Productivity gains may be bad news for job seekers." The article claimed that companies were going to hire fewer people because productivity has been going up, so fewer employees are needed, and therefore unemployment would go up.

Satire: 2012 apocalypse a likely occurrence

Satire: 2012 apocalypse a likely occurrence

Published Nov 13, 2009

It is about time someone accurately depicts the end of the world.

Today, the long anticipated movie "2012" hits theaters and will tell the story of how the world will come to an end in a little more than two years.



But how could that be fair at all? Society won't get to witness the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics. What will our next president accomplish? Freshmen, we won't even be able to graduate.

University makes extra preparations for Utah game

University makes extra preparations for Utah game

Published Nov 13, 2009

The preparations around the university's sold out football game Saturday is a "total campus effort," university officials said.

Five different broadcasts, including ESPN College GameDay, will be streaming from campus before, during and after the game and that requires some extra planning, said Ross Bailey, associate athletics director of operations.



"The university will have installed 80 phone lines by the time the whole weekend is over for all of these groups," Bailey said.

New attendance rankings use enrollment numbers

New attendance rankings use enrollment numbers

Published Nov 13, 2009

By most accounts, TCU's attendance has been nothing to write home about. However, one Horned Frog blogger thinks a more fair method of looking at attendance should be considered.

The Purple Wimple, author of the TCU blog of the same name (wimplefrogs.blogspot.com), devised a ranking system comparing average football attendance to the schools' enrollment for the BCS Top 25 ranked teams on Nov. 2. The Frogs finished second, only behind Notre Dame.

Radio sports show to broadcast live from campus

Published Nov 13, 2009

The men of the Dallas-based BaD Radio sports show, station 1310 AM the Ticket, will broadcast live from the porch of the Sigma Chi fraternity house on Friday to celebrate the football team's success, production...

Community should back Frogs all season long

Published Nov 13, 2009

It's a great year to be a Frog fan. The football team is currently No. 4 in the nation and garnering national attention. The university even sold out the Amon Carter Stadium for Saturday's game against the Utah Utes. Purple is in again.

But in reality, purple should have never gone out. Why is it that it took most of the semester to sell out the stadium? For that matter, why didn't the university even come close?