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your favorite clemson football coach?
Jun 16, 2018, 8:19 AM
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Not named dany or dabo. For me it would be ken hatfield. He did a good job as coach of the tigers. But alot of people didnt accept him.
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Re: your favorite clemson football coach?
Jun 16, 2018, 8:22 AM
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Re: your favorite clemson football coach?
Jun 16, 2018, 8:33 AM
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Charlie Pell was my favorite. He took over from the mess Red Parker had us in and produced 18 wins from 1977-1978 with Zero losses to SCAR. He put us on the map.
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Pell won with players Red Parker recruited, ie Fuller, Butler, Bostics
Jun 16, 2018, 10:32 AM
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Fuller, Butler, Bostics, Jim Stuckey, Bubba Brown, Warren Ratchford, Obed, Dwight Clark, Marvin Sims, Randy Scott, Lester Brown,
Rich Tuten, Steve Kinney and many more.
I think Red got the shaft myself and Pell got the glory then tucked tail and ran to Florida.
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People seem to be bipolar on Tommy Bowden too
Jun 16, 2018, 8:34 AM
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He could never win 10 or the ACC, but he did some good
things with the WEZ and starting the focus on facilities
improvement. He recruited decent if not lights out; I
think his last class in 2008 was top 10. And of course
he hired Dabo and the rest is history. While Tommy couldn't
lead us to the Promised Land, he set the stage for Dabo to do it.
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Tommy Bowden was a
Jun 16, 2018, 9:12 AM
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Good wingman for Dabo. He got the football rolling in the right direction after years of futility. He knew what Clemson needed. Never could really get us over the hump.
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Re: your favorite clemson football coach?
Jun 16, 2018, 8:42 AM
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Frank Howard. He was still very much part of campus life and lore in the early 80's, and really lived up to his larger than life reputation. Tradition has it that he seconded his own nomination as head coach, and he continued to let everyone know exactly what he thought during all 6 decades he was at Clemson. He was a bit rough around the edges at times, but smart enough to know that just because you came from Bama doesn't mean you ever have to go back!
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Brent Venables without a doubt.***
Jun 16, 2018, 8:44 AM
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Re: I second this.******
Jun 16, 2018, 9:13 AM
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Hatfield got stuck in a
Jun 16, 2018, 9:07 AM
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No Win situation. I think the Virginia game is where I turned against him. We won despite him. Recruiting suffered, but that was due to the lack of backing. Plus he was not innovative at all. He won with Danny's players.
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...and Danny won it all with Pell's...***
Jun 16, 2018, 9:28 AM
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81 was fords 3rd year so not exactly pells players,some
Jun 16, 2018, 7:17 PM
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though
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Lennon brought-in Hatfield for one reason...
Jun 16, 2018, 1:49 PM
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and one reason only, and that was to dial the program back a couple of notches or to decrease the level of performance and enthusiasm the program was experiencing on a national level.
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Re: your favorite clemson football coach?
Jun 16, 2018, 9:35 AM
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Hmmmm let me see....
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Re: your favorite clemson football coach?
Jun 16, 2018, 9:40 AM
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Gotta be Coach Frank Howard. I played for Coach Howard in the 60's. He would have nicknames for various players as well as groups. He would have the first team guys and everyone else he called the Others. I remember we Others painted an O on the front of our helmets. We were the first team to rub his rock at the top of the hill. I remember him telling us if we were not going to give 100% we could not rub his rock.
Coach Howard had a great memory & loved his players. I attended an IPTAY in Columbia in the mid-70's. Coach Howard who was retired at the time, was in attendance. He asked for every boy that played for him to stand up. He knew every ex-player by name & told a short story about them. What a great man!!!
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Re: your favorite clemson football coach?
Jun 16, 2018, 9:44 AM
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BV or Miles Aldridge both very intense and both animated as heck!
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Re: your favorite clemson football coach?
Jun 16, 2018, 9:48 AM
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Not to rain on your parade but Ken Hatfield should be on the bottom of the list
with 5 or 6 blank spots between him and the next coach above him. I was very close
friends with several players at the time and they have zero respect for the guy. I
would share some stories that were confirmed by many players but I will not demean
coach hatfield any more. On the outside looking in it was probably a decent view but
on the inside not a good situation at all.
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Clyde Wren told me years ago that he left Clemson when Hatfield
Jun 16, 2018, 10:36 AM
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told him to not recruit any more Chester McGlockton, Brenston Buckner types because he couldn’t control them.
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Re: Clyde Wren then went to where....?
Jun 16, 2018, 11:59 AM
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For that I cannot forgive him.
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Re: your favorite clemson football coach?
Jun 16, 2018, 10:18 AM
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In my lifetime, I'm going with Bowden. I think he started what Dabo is finishing. He was a breath of fresh air from the 90's. He was unable to get us to the next step like Dabo has but I think he started turning things around.
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Re: your favorite clemson football coach?
Jun 16, 2018, 10:32 AM
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Red Parker.
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Re: your favorite clemson football coach?
Jun 16, 2018, 11:18 AM
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Hatfield is the most intriguing of Clemson's coaches. I know he was accused of recruiting poorly, but he won 8 games in his last season, with many players he had recruited. I wonder how the situation would have played out if he stayed on as coach for a few years longer, with teams composed of entirely his own players. Would he have had more success than Tommy West?
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Re: your favorite clemson football coach?
Jun 16, 2018, 11:39 AM
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Tom Harper ( defensive coach )-- was a big reason we won the 1981 Championship
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Re: your favorite clemson football coach?
Jun 16, 2018, 12:57 PM
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wasn't Tiki and Ronde Barber coming to Clemson before he left, then decided to go to UVa.?
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Ken Hatfield, Kevin Steele, Jack Hines & Reggie Herring***
Jun 16, 2018, 2:17 PM
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Four of the finest coaches to ever don The Paw
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O.K......***
Jun 16, 2018, 2:24 PM
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Hatfield was worst coach of all time.The GOAT of destruction***
Jun 16, 2018, 6:04 PM
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BV in a romp if assts included ...***
Jun 16, 2018, 6:06 PM
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Brad Scott
Jun 16, 2018, 6:08 PM
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he destroyed the coots
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Sorta surprised out of all the great names listed.....
Jun 16, 2018, 6:22 PM
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no one mentioned Banks McFadden.
And even though he wasn't a coach, he was as integral to the Clemson athletic dept as any other individual (save possibly Coach Howard) and thats Herman McGee.
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Maybe..RED parker
Jun 16, 2018, 7:13 PM
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but of course Frank Howard who helped establish & grow IPTAY, personally helped build & mow Memorial Stadium..and took us to some quality bowl games..
and b/c I interviewed him for a Sports article & chatted with years later and learning about his “Frank Howard secretly-inspired Hwy 321 Bypass Construction Plan” involving a modern 4-lane road from G’ville to Tigertown which helped put Clemson on the map.
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Dabo then Danny followed by Tommy Bowden
Jun 16, 2018, 7:52 PM
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I still put Ken Hatfield before Tommy West as I suffered through a lot of losses while West was here but he had a pretty good staff!
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Brent Venables.***
Jun 16, 2018, 9:13 PM
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Tommy bowden
Jun 17, 2018, 10:20 AM
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He upgraded facilities and without him we wpuld never have Dabo!
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Re: your favorite clemson football coach?
Jun 17, 2018, 10:42 AM
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Lou Holtz because he was owned by Clemson
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