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Should Dabo bring Tommy Bowden back to head up the
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Should Dabo bring Tommy Bowden back to head up the


Oct 15, 2015, 2:16 PM

football relations department? I don't think it would be a bad idea.

With all the negative press Clemson is receiving lately, combined with the new challenges coaches are facing with recruiting, PED's, alchohol issues, etc... someone like Bowden would be an excellent "face" of our program. I think he still has a love for Clemson.

This would allow Dabo to delegate the stuff he really hates (like giving interviews), and would free him up to get more involved in the day to day coaching and offensive and defensive schemes.



- dr. york_tiger

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"I've been working since I was 15 continually until now. I worked 40 hours a week at 15, when it wasn't even legal for 15 year olds to work that many hours."


"ASWING, annamiss, for Strike One!"***


Oct 15, 2015, 2:19 PM



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Is that you, LiGhTbUlbBilL?***


Oct 15, 2015, 2:21 PM



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Re: We don't need to waste money on crap. Plus,TB should


Oct 15, 2015, 2:25 PM

never get another penny from Clemson. Money does not grow on trees.

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yes - this is a great idea, and Jack Hines too


Oct 15, 2015, 2:26 PM

we need these guys

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NOT! i hope you are being sarcastic?***


Oct 15, 2015, 4:14 PM



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Re: Should Dabo bring Tommy Bowden back to head up the


Oct 15, 2015, 2:27 PM

What negative press? Did a google news search and the worst I could find was a non-story about the dining hall "offending" a few students with some kind of Taco Tuesday on a Friday (or whatever) event.

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right, "what neg. press" - that RANT was one of the best


Oct 15, 2015, 4:16 PM

p r developments ever - even Nationally! Even Sapakov of Charleston paper praised it today!

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I've never gotten the feeling that Dabo hates giving


Oct 15, 2015, 2:28 PM

interviews. He seems to be the type of guy who has never met a microphone he didn't like.

As to you idea. I like it, but isn't that kind of what Brad Scott and or Jeff Davis are supposed to be doing? I'm not sure, but it seems like we have a large enough staff already that we could have someone already on staff fill this roll. I agree Tommy still has love for the program, but I think he would rather go into a studio once a week talk football, get paid, and go back to the beach than take a full time position back at Clemson. I could be wrong.

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Re: I hope that is the way he feels.***


Oct 15, 2015, 2:32 PM



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Re: Should Dabo bring Tommy Bowden back to head up the


Oct 15, 2015, 2:33 PM

Well as long as you leave out player's domestic abuse and a few other big problems CTB had here you might have something there. Personally I have enough trouble watching him on that ACC show. Maybe he and SOS can start their own network and get Louser to handle their PR!
Next idea to get Dabo fired?

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it's only unthinkable


Oct 15, 2015, 2:44 PM

if you don't think it

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Re: Should Dabo bring Tommy Bowden back to head up the


Oct 15, 2015, 3:00 PM

Have you lost your ever loving mind. NoNoNoNo!!!!!!

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LIKE:"have you lost your mind" York!***


Oct 15, 2015, 4:20 PM



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Genius. Sheer genius.


Oct 15, 2015, 3:07 PM

Said no one ever.

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Screw Calford.


Re: Genius. Sheer genius.


Oct 15, 2015, 6:09 PM

York should have stayed at a holiday inn express last night.

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instead of the prison where he is locked up?***


Oct 15, 2015, 7:54 PM



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It would suit me fine if TB never step foot at Clemson again***


Oct 15, 2015, 3:20 PM



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Why are people thumbs upping this?


Oct 15, 2015, 3:28 PM

If its supposed to be sarcastic/ironic, its just dumb. If its supposed to be serious its just sad.

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maybe we should all thumbs up your post instead?


Oct 15, 2015, 3:31 PM

will that help?

i bet that would help.

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Re: Why are people thumbs upping this?


Oct 16, 2015, 12:25 AM [ in reply to Why are people thumbs upping this? ]

Apparently some people are taking York's post serious?? I am pretty sure he's just bored and trolling up some excitement. Nevertheless... some CTB supporters are unhappy with you judging by your thumbs down. Smh. BTW, I gave you a thumbs up brother!
Go Tigers!

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Re: Why are people thumbs upping this?


Oct 16, 2015, 12:25 AM [ in reply to Why are people thumbs upping this? ]

Apparently some people are taking York's post serious?? I am pretty sure he's just bored and trolling up some excitement. Nevertheless... some CTB supporters are unhappy with you judging by your thumbs down. Smh. BTW, I gave you a thumbs up brother!
Go Tigers!

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Re: Should Dabo bring Tommy Bowden back to head up the


Oct 15, 2015, 4:10 PM

> football relations department? I don't think it
> would be a bad idea.
>
> With all the negative press Clemson is receiving
> lately, combined with the new challenges coaches are
> facing with recruiting, PED's, alchohol issues,
> etc... someone like Bowden would be an excellent
> "face" of our program. I think he still has a love
> for Clemson.
>
> This would allow Dabo to delegate the stuff he really
> hates (like giving interviews), and would free him up
> to get more involved in the day to day coaching and
> offensive and defensive schemes.
>
>
>
> - dr. york_tiger

It's a terrible idea for one simple reason - people are political animals, and you get three of them together and they form a government.

You do not bring back a deposed king as the PR mouthpiece for the next one. He might smile and bob and nod, but deep down he still thinks he's the king, he still regards it as his kingdom, and he's going to try to get it back.

Tommy Bowden does not think he "failed" at Clemson. I guarantee if you could ever sit him down and get a couple drinks of him, he'd wax eloquently on the "political" situations and handcuffs on his regime that led to his ouster, and how Dabo is just benefitting from all the work Tommy Bowden put in. He might even have some good points. Tommy Bowden coached a very different Clemson program than Dabo inherited, and he did not have 1/10 the initial support that Dabo did, a BOT that was athletics-friendly, good facilities, and he was handcuffed by an academic review board that kept DQ'ing key recruits right as he was about to land them, only to see those same guys wind up at rival ACC schools and then head on to the NFL. So Tommy's got some legit beefs. Clemson football was in horrifyingly bad shape when Bowden arrived in 1999; Hatfield, West, and the Clemson administration had done a spectacular job of running Danny Ford's program into the ground.

Tommy got a lot of things turned around, fought and won a lot of battles...but at the end of the day, he was a bad gameday coach - which is why no one will touch him with a fork after that even at startup programs like Southern Alabama - and was not the man to get things over the top. And let us not forget the bait-and-switch job Tommy pulled on us by flirting with the Arkansas job just six games before he was fired; he essentially blackmailed the administration into a new contract with a massive buyout...he took a nice little $3.5 million severance package from Clemson on the way out the door, if memory serves, in addition to all the millions a year he got paid before that to drop at least four games a year he shouldn't have.

Bringing back Tommy B is throwing Clemson money away after he already leveraged Clemson out of a lot more of it than he really earned, and worse, it's likely creating political discord where none needs to exist.

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I wouldn't mind it...


Oct 15, 2015, 4:15 PM

Always felt things kinda ended on a sour note and TB didn't really deserve a mid-season firing ( even though it was the right thing ). He did a lot for this university and he'll forever be a part of the Clemson family. So I say why not?

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and we know what happened to King Louis


Oct 15, 2015, 4:19 PM [ in reply to Re: Should Dabo bring Tommy Bowden back to head up the ]

during the Revolution...





good point

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Re: Should Dabo bring Tommy Bowden back to head up the


Oct 16, 2015, 10:43 AM [ in reply to Re: Should Dabo bring Tommy Bowden back to head up the ]

I agree with many of your points. However the whining about players he could not get in school TB was prone to do never impressed me.
I remember the situation with one QB whose name escapes me that got kicked off the UTenn team for assaulting another student with help from a teammate. According to TB he was going to be the next Woody and UNC was going to get him if we didn't.
I didn't understand first why we would want someone captured on video assaulting a regular student with a baseball bat after previous trouble no less. Second, how he would be able to get in Clemson or UNC after being one of the few players ever actually kicked off a UTenn team that could play.
Maybe TB knew something about UNC's recently revealed academic "program". I don't know. I do remember the kid ended up in Miss. Perhaps Southern Miss and never set the world on fire.
It just seemed that TB used his battles with the academic committee as another excuse in the one player or one play away from football glory theme he rode into irrelevance.

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Oct 15, 2015, 4:11 PM



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NO, lets encourage Usuc (which u do York) to hire him***


Oct 15, 2015, 4:12 PM



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I tried, I really did


Oct 15, 2015, 4:13 PM

<----- could not find this "negative press" you speak of. Is it a new weightlifting move?

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would he bring his daughter?


Oct 15, 2015, 6:31 PM

And would that include more pics?

Asking for a friend of a friend

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Re: Should Dabo bring Tommy Bowden back to head up the


Oct 15, 2015, 7:24 PM

If it's not broke don't fix it. I understand where you're coming from but I don't think it's needed.

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York just likes to get attention by making outlandish posts


Oct 15, 2015, 7:50 PM

Get over yourself #### wipe!

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NOOOOOOOO more Tommy Bowden at Clemson.***


Oct 15, 2015, 10:04 PM



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It's a great idea..


Oct 16, 2015, 1:36 AM

As long as he gets to have Rich Rod handle everything for him.

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