Video of TCU assistant Jerry Kill being struck during SMU flag scuffle emerges
The SMU-TCU rivalry came to a boiling point after the Mustangs’ win in Amon G. Carter Stadium. TCU assistant Jerry Kill was caught in the middle of a post-game skirmish and fell to the ground, leading head coach Gary Patterson to call for an investigation.
Video evidence has emerged since Saturday night to clear the air. The video shows it was actually a TCU player who inadvertently pushed Kill down while trying to rip the SMU flag away from midfield. Horned Frog center Coy McMillon then helps Kill up.
Patterson told media after the game that someone threw a helmet into the scuffle, which “hit” Kill, causing him to fall.
“I do need to find out who the player is that hit coach Kill with a helmet is,” Patterson told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “I will find that out.”
This *appears* to be the point where Jerry Kill is knocked down. This is from the video I took yesterday. You can see a TCU coach in white fall down between the C and the U on the 45-yard line. Doesn’t look like anyone from SMU is around him. pic.twitter.com/0KvKo05gUg
— Joseph Hoyt (@JoeJHoyt) September 26, 2021
TCU, SMU coaches disapprove of post-game antics
In Baker Mayfield fashion, SMU players attempted to plant their flag in the middle of the field after a 42-34 win over cross-town rival TCU. The disrespectful antics led to a scuffle, which both Gary Patterson and Sonny Dykes repudiated.
“Here’s the thing, I didn’t talk. I saw coach [Dykes] fry frog legs in the skillet when we couldn’t play them,” Patterson said. “I’ve been here 24 years. There’s one way that you handle things — you have class doing that. I’m not going to call people out and tell them they’re scared. I’m not doing all of that stuff. There’s a way to win and there’s a way to lose. Doing that? Just because Baker Mayfield did it at Ohio State?
“They can keep acting that way. Just like they put grass seed on the field. To me, that tells me they still hold us in high regard. Simple.”
Patterson referenced SMU junior receiver Rashee Rice’s comments on TCU during the week, in which he called the Horned Frogs “scared.”
“Sophomore year, after we won that [Iron] Skillet, they were scared to play us,” Rice said mid-week. “And now, junior year, I get to come out and I get to ball back in Fort Worth, where I went to high school.”
SMU coach Sonny Dykes issued an apology for his players’ behavior after the game.
“I’ll talk to them about that,” Dykes said. “We don’t want to do something like that. There’s nobody in the world that has more respect for TCU or for Gary Patterson and how they run their program, the longevity he’s had here, there’s nobody in the world that has more respect for him than I do.”
Dykes was an offensive analyst/consultant for Gary Patterson at TCU before taking the head job at SMU.