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So whom should Clemson hire to replace Tommy Bowden permanently as the Tigers' head football coach?
Everybody seems to have his or her own opinion. What's yours?
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If Clemson's smart and he makes some positive strides with an already mentally challenged team, they'll make the offer to Dabo Swinney at the end of the season. He's a grade-A recruiter, national championship ring wearer, with every reason in the world to go home to Alabama.
Bobby Johnson!
Let find a good assistant, such as Dabo Sweeney. That's how we found Danny Ford. We don't need another head coach from another school. That's how we found Ken Hatfield, Tommy West, and Tommy Bowden. If not Dabo, the how about the Offensive Coordinator from Missouri?
I cannot believe anyone thinks we should BRING BACK BOWDEN!! He had way too much time to get the job done and didn't!!!!! Go Coach Swinney!!!!!
If you want the job done RIGHT, start talking with Bill Cowher! He said he would coach college football after taking a break from the pros. Also, most people are not aware that Clemson's AD and Jimmy Johnson have ties from the past.
Hey, don't think small, go for the big one!
Rich Rod!
in response to UseCommonSense
YOU SAID: Coach Johnson turned Vanderbilt around from the door mat of the SEC to a very good football team.
Vanderbilt has never been the doormat of anything. Everyone in the SEC knows that Vanderbilt is at a disadvantage be cause of it's real nickname, "the Harvard of the South." Recruiting is an issue, but everyone in the SEC also knows that Vanderbilt ALWAYS plays you tough. They might lose often but they always keep it suspenseful. Florida, over the years, have often had to fight to win
YOU SAID: Imagine what he could do with real talent.
I think you speak in extraordinary hyperbole. A redundant way of asking, "Leave the SEC to coach in the ACC?" How is that trading up? He developed a top NFL quarterback and many others over time. I think he will do just fine with talent in Nashville. Obviously, Johnson can make up his own mind, *IF* offered, but I suspect he will be getting a nice boost at Vanderbilt at the end of the season. He's a hero at Vanderbilt, he would just become another victim at Clemson.
Speaking of door mats... seems like the game that finally cost Bowden his job was Wake Forest. Have we not heard Wake and mat mentioned in the same sentence from time to time? What irony!
Why go for a big one? As soon as he loses the first game the calls will start for his firing! If Swinney is such a great recruiter, he better start talking to the two top ten recruits who have already told ESPN that they are withdrawing their verbal committments and looking at other schools. Horrible timing by the inept administration.
I am sure Michigan would love for Rich Rod to leave. We thought "big" with Tommy Bowden because of his name and look what that did. The base needs to realize that this program is not a national contender. At least the folks in Columbia don't get their hopes up that high and they don't fire coaches in the middle of a season.
Swinney is an outstanding recruiter, and is an Alabama alum like our two best coaches of the past(Ford and Howard). Bobby Johnson played for Clemson? Good coach.
Speaking of Ford, he lives out in Central.He is one of the best coaches in the USA. Certainly the best Clemson ever had. He's only 60 now (five years younger than Spurrier and twenty-one years younger than JoePa). Maybe he would like to give it another whirl for a few years. He and TDP are old pals, too. Talk about regenerating excitement at Clemson!
Please, enough with the Bill Cowher talk. He was a good pro coach, but he would install a cumbersome offense with results similar to Walt Weiss at Notre Dame or Nebraska under Callahan, or Alabama under Mike Shula. You get the picture. Pete Carroll is the exception. Not the rule.
Unless they allow Bud on the sideline I don't think Danny would be interested!
in response to cutigerfan0908
Just curious, who said anything about bringing Bowden back?
in response to will
I read an earlier comment today from a Bowden fan, who stated he is an insurance salesman & pastor, that he is starting a BRING BACK BOWDEN campaign, that Clemson made a "stupid" move letting him go...I nearly gagged....
come on people! danny?? sooner or later you've got to Move On! we need someone that has the proper mindset to coach the way the game is played today- three yards and a cloud of dust has nothing to do with the spread. tulsa's todd graham, providing we could get his supporting staff would be nice. one of the best offenses in the country, which ironically does wonders for recruiting. don't forget about the hokies' defensive guru, bud foster who consistently has his defense at the top of the national rankings.
go tigers!
do not bring in overpaid former coach...from any division.
Set a salary of 1.5 million a year. Give the coach 1/3, the professors 1/3 and the students 1/3...see who jumps at the offer...then hire.
Clemson is a university, not a football coach.
Tired of hearing that? Then your love for the game has mislead you far away from your understanding of tax funded educational institutes.
Ban alcohol till after the game...simple solution to big problem.
Rich Rodriguez...Clemson gets a new scapegoat, Mich can find a real coach ;>)
in response to atlanticcontracting
No I don't get the picture. Bill Cowher is a winner and would be a winner at Clemson. The other names mention never impressed me as being a winner.
And if think bring Danny back is the answer I can understand your thinking.
Lou Holtz, if he wasn't retired. I know some of ya'll won't like that, but he would be great.
I am all for Bill Cowher! Shake things up!
Danny Ford the only choice. Then after rebuilding the program within five years allow him to take a position and hire the next coach similar to what Osborne has done at Nebraska. Bowden shouldn't be allowed back. He was a mistake other than some values he instilled on his players but it did not get them playing. Cowher is unemployed for a reason. Lou no that's ok he tried it at SC and we already have one of those coaches here. He (Scott) is a good recruiter though. If you want to have the winning record such as before get Ford. If not, same thing five to ten years later.
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