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Posted by GuardianFrog

Three of the top targets in the 2013 recruiting class took a visit to  TCU today.  I'm not talking about just TCU's top targets, I'm talking  about the top targets in the nation for the 2013 class. These are the  types of players that elevate programs, the type that you worry about  leaving early to enter the draft.

Headlining today's visitors was Julius Randle the #1 power forward in  the country for the 2013 class per ESPN with offers from Kansas, Texas,  Georgetown and several others.  The 6'8 225lbs junior to be is a  nightmare to guard.  If there is a hole in his opponents defensive game  it will be exploited.  Randle can hit from anywhere on the floor, post  up, face the basket and score over or around you and has excellent touch  around the rim.  In short, he can do it all.  A franchise player. ...]]> Sat, 13 Aug 2011 01:27:33 +0000 2b44928ae11fb9384c4cf38708677c48
The Frogs are represented on the cover by Matt Jones (Class of 2008), Kelsey Kuehn (2010) and Dylan Sack (2008).

This issue's feature article is 20 Reasons to Love College Football and it is built around Skip Hollandsworth's profile of Gary Patterson.

Frog fans are getting a sneak preview of the cover and Killerfrogs is the only TCU fan site to have this preview.]]> Fri, 12 Aug 2011 02:01:51 +0000 5fd0b37cd7dbbb00f97ba6ce92bf5add FWST: Backups are pushing TCU linebackers for playing time

By Stefan Stevenson
sstevenson@star-telegram.com

         Tank Carder is about the biggest lock to start as there is on the TCU football team.

And  the preseason Mountain West Conference Defensive Player of the Year  will likely be in that familiar position at strongside linebacker when  the Frogs meet Baylor on Sept. 2 in Waco.

But Frogs coach Gary  Patterson is so high on the play of his second-team linebackers,  especially Kenny Cain, through the first five practices that he threw  down a little reminder to Carder on Tuesday, after the Frogs first  full-pad practice.

"Both No. 2s are pushing the No. 1s to start,"  Patterson said of the junior Cain and senior Kris Gardner. "Cain is  having the best camp of anybody right now. If I had to start somebody  tomorrow it would be Kenny Cain over Tank Carder. He makes plays. He's  losing 10 pounds of water weight every day and playing all day. He's  ready to go." ...]]> Thu, 11 Aug 2011 02:04:35 +0000 73278a4a86960eeb576a8fd4c9ec6997
The Stanley Washington Arkansas game.  I can't remember the year but Washington caught several TD passes and the Frog team got the biggest win of the FA Dry years.

The James Maness two point catch to beat the Pigs in Fayetteville under Wacker.  I just love beating the pigs.

The Sun Bowl victory over USC.  Has there ever been a turning point for a program like that game?

Utah 2009.  College Game Day, Standing room only, a strong revenge factor for the 2008 game and a butt whoopin over a good Utes team.  Talk about fun.

2011 Rose Bowl.  So this is what "big time" football is all about. I like it!]]> Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:08:30 +0000 7f6ffaa6bb0b408017b62254211691b5 Sporting News: Andy Dalton continues to win Bengals' confidence



The Cincinnati Bengals acquired veteran quarterback Bruce Gradkowski recently to bridge the gap to rookie Andy Dalton. It appears that bridge may already have been crossed.

Dalton, the former TCU quarterback who was the second pick in the second round of April's draft, is firmly in the running to be the Bengals' starter when the regular season opens.


"It would be great," Dalton told the Cincinnati Enquirer. "It's something I'm pushing and working hard for."]]> Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:34:21 +0000 698d51a19d8a121ce581499d7b701668
Details and theme to be announced soon but I'll give you a hint...Columbus, OH

Start thinking about it and don't post them yet.]]> Tue, 17 May 2011 15:01:52 +0000 5f93f983524def3dca464469d2cf9f3e TESTING Tue, 17 May 2011 13:05:46 +0000 1f0e3dad99908345f7439f8ffabdffc4
The administrator can configure the specifics of this feature in the ACP under My Apps -> IP.Content -> Promote Article Settings.  You can turn the system on and off, control which groups can copy and move posts to the articles section, and specify a few other details for the feature.  A new hook is included with IP.Content which adds a button to each post labeled "Promote to Article".  This button only shows up if you have permission to use the feature based on the ACP configuration.

When clicked, the button will take you to a new form where you can formalize the details of the new article.  You can tweak the text and title, upload an image, and specify other pertinent details.  If you are able to both move and copy posts to the articles section, you will also be asked which type of promotion you wish to use.  Upon submitting the form, IP.Content handles the rest.

This new feature can be used to showcase important content otherwise hidden in your forums by pushing this content to your frontpage.  It is then up to you whether you want a copy made in the articles section (leaving the original post in tact), whether you want to actually move the post to the articles section, and whether you want any cross-linking left in place.  With such powerful options, we are sure you will find many uses for this new promotion tool in IP.Content 2.0.]]> Tue, 17 May 2011 13:01:42 +0000 6512bd43d9caa6e02c990b0a82652dca
Firstly, you will now be able to define "frontpage" templates in the ACP for the Articles module.  IP.Content 2.0 will ship with 3 defaults:

• 1x2x2 Layout
  This layout will display articles in a traditional "news" style layout.
• Blog format
  This format will display articles in a blog-style format.
• Single column
  This layout will force articles to display in a single column, one per row.

You can use one or more of these frontpage layouts, or you can create your own.  Experiment with displaying articles in different formats on your homepage to determine which layout your users like best.

Articles must be set to "Show on front page" in order for them to display on the homepage frontpage.

In addition to the homepage frontpage, each category has it's own frontpage.  The category frontpage functions identically to the homepage frontpage, except for two important factors:

• Only records from within that category (and it's subcategories) will be displayed
• The "Show on front page" setting is not honored for the category frontpage

You will be able to easily review and manage the articles set to display on the frontpage from a new section of the ACP labeled "Frontpage Manager".  We feel that this new area of the articles section will help showcase important articles and increase user interaction with your articles section.]]> Tue, 17 May 2011 13:01:42 +0000 c20ad4d76fe97759aa27a0c99bff6710
From within the media module, you can create folders, upload files, move files and folders, rename files and folders, and delete files and folders.  Files can be listed and you can click on a file to view it (or right click on the file to copy the link).

This simple tool can be a timesaver when you simply need to upload an image quickly for use within a page template.  The media folder is defined in the media_path.php file in your forum root directory, giving you the freedom to move and organize your paths as needed.]]> Tue, 17 May 2011 13:01:42 +0000 c51ce410c124a10e0db5e4b97fc2af39
Firstly, the folder navigation utilizes AJAX to load the folder contents inline without requiring you to visit a new page to view the contents of the folder.  We found that folder navigation was a slow process, especially when working with many files and folders, so we wanted to speed up the interaction with the software in this particular area.

We have also updated some common management features to utilize AJAX to help facilitate management of your pages.  Actions like clearing folders and deleting folders, for instance, will now occur without page refreshes, making your managerial activities flow smoother and quicker.

Additionally, the interface as a whole has been updated to provide a nicer, smoother feel for the page management areas.  In practice, we found that many administrators spend the majority of their time setting up and utilizing IP.Content in the page management areas, so we wanted to update the user interface to make this experience as easy and enjoyable as possible.  Minor details like confirmation dialogs have been updated to bring everything together for a more consistent feel.

A new filter bar, utilizing AJAX to retrieve the results without the need for a page refresh, has also been added to the page management area.  You can begin typing in the name of a page and a live-search action will occur in the background, showing you the results of your search as you type.  If you have many pages and many folders (and many pages within those many folders), you will find that using the filter bar to locate your pages can dramatically speed up your navigation of IP.Content within the page management areas of the ACP.

Overall, we've modernized the IP.Content page management area of the ACP, polishing up the little details, in an effort to make your experience all the more pleasant.]]> Tue, 17 May 2011 13:01:42 +0000 aab3238922bcc25a6f606eb525ffdc56

• Page Templates
• Database Templates
• Article Templates

In IP.Content 1.x, database and page templates were combined into a single "Templates" section, which worked fine for our original intentions.  However, with the introduction of a separate Articles module, and additional template types related to the articles module, we decided to separate the templates so that each template type is displayed separately.  This should help finding and editing your templates easier in practice, as you will be able to filter the template types and work with fewer at a time.

Within each templates section, you can create containers to group your templates into logical groupings.  For instance, you may wish to create a grouping for each database you create, and then place the database templates appropriately into the container representing the database itself.  Or you may wish to create multiple front page templates, and group them all together in the article templates area.  You can use containers for whatever purposes you may have, or not at all: it's up to you!

Templates can be reordered by dragging and dropping the rows up and down, and they can be moved from one container to another via drag n drop as well.  

Certain meta data about the templates are stored when you create new database or article templates, allowing IP.Content to tailor other areas of the ACP to help you out.  For example, in IP.Content 1.x the software did not "remember" what kind of database template you were creating, so all database templates were presented in each of the dropdowns when creating or editing a database.  Beginning with IP.Content 2.x, the software stores the template type when you create a new template.  This allows us to show only "category listing" templates in the "category listing template" selection dropdowns.  Similarly, the template tag help popup can automatically know which template type you are editing without you having to specify.

Properly making use of templates can help you push out pages on your site in a uniform manner quickly and easily, and without having to "reinvent the wheel" each time a new page is ready to be published.]]> Tue, 17 May 2011 13:01:42 +0000 9bf31c7ff062936a96d3c8bd1f8f2ff3
This new functionality can be enabled at a per-database and per-category level.  You can specify separate forums for each category in your article section, for instance, or you can turn off forum commenting for a specific category, while enabling it for all others.

A few additional configuration options, such as allowing you to automatically remove the topic when the record is removed, and specifying a prefix and/or suffix for the topic title so that your users can more easily identify that such topics were stemmed from the articles section help round out the feature, giving you better control over how these automatically posted topics are handled.

These new forum cross-posting capabilities allow the administrator to better tie in articles with the forums, giving you better opportunities to expose your content to a wider audience.  Additionally, forum management of comments provides for easier maintenance and stronger managerial options of the comments, utilizing IP.Board's powerful, proven feature set.]]> Tue, 17 May 2011 13:01:42 +0000 c74d97b01eae257e44aa9d5bade97baf sharing links.  IP.Content 2.0 makes use of this new feature in the custom databases (and articles) modules to allow you to more easily expose your content to a wider audience.

Along with supporting sharing of your content with third party services such as Facebook and Twitter, you can now also send an article via email, print the article, and download the article easily by clicking the appropriate icon under the article body.  The additional printing and downloading features allow the content to be shared, online as well as offline.

Within the articles module specifically, the article image that you upload when posting the article (optionally) will automatically be flagged for use with Facebook when someone uses Facebook to share the link.  This ensures that the correct image is the one Facebook displays to other users.  Similarly, we pull out an appropriate extract of textual content for Facebook to use as well.  If the user is logged in to Twitter or Facebook, sharing the content becomes even easier, not requiring you to even leave the site.

We hope that by providing tools to make it easier to share content on your site, your content will be exposed to a wider audience, bringing you more traffic and making your content more easily and readily available to the world.]]> Tue, 17 May 2011 13:01:42 +0000 70efdf2ec9b086079795c442636b55fb
However, with database and article templates, there are additional variables that are passed into the template to allow it to manipulate and display the HTML that represents the content.  For instance, different data is retrieved and available when you are looking at a list of articles compared to when you are viewing a single article.  You need to know what these variables are in order to be able to properly modify the template to display data in the manner you want, and as such, a template variable help popup is available that will detail the variables available for each template type.

When you are editing a template, click on "template variable help" and a new window opens displaying the variables you can expect to be available to the template with a short description of each variable.  If you get stuck, this help window can help shed some light on the variables that are available, what values they should contain, and how you can use these variables to your advantage to build a more dynamic and useful interface for your database.]]> Tue, 17 May 2011 13:01:42 +0000 6f4922f45568161a8cdf4ad2299f6d23