Alex Lepe
Dick Lowe in 2016
Dick Lowe, the legendary Texas oil and gas wildcatter who was busted in his 60s and then went on to rip off deals for more than $1 billion in the Barnett Shale, died. He was 92.
Lowe, who played football for Dutch Meyer at TCU, was the Frog booster who took the fall for a band of unnamed Horned Frog backers who got caught paying off recruits in the mid-1980s. Years later, Lowe and business partner Hunter Enis wrote a check for $15 million to help seed fundraising for the first phase of renovations to TCU’s Amon Carter Stadium.