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We endured enough under Tommy Bowden don’t ever want us to “suck” again
Sep 6, 2021, 11:07 PM
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No way we go back to those Days again.
I endured a Peach Bowl win as the best season Coach TB could give us when I was a student and we still weren’t
Top 10 that year.
I just don’t see the drop off that ESPN is saying might happen after just 1 loss to a Top 5 opponent.
Are they expecting us to return to Coach TB days again ?!?
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At some point it will happen
Sep 6, 2021, 11:13 PM
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It's just the way of college football.
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Re: At some point it will happen
Sep 7, 2021, 12:43 AM
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Tommy Bowden? You should have been around when Tommy West was the coach.
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Re: At some point it will happen
Sep 7, 2021, 7:02 AM
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You should have been around when Red Parker was the coach.
5 wins in two years. LOL
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Re: At some point it will happen
Sep 10, 2021, 10:00 PM
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That Tommy West 3-8 season is burned into my memory. It feels worse than the others since Danny Ford had been so successful just prior to the West era.
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Re: At some point it will happen
Sep 10, 2021, 11:42 PM
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That Tommy West 3-8 season is burned into my memory. It feels worse than the others since Danny Ford had been so successful just prior to the West era.
My freshman year! Oy, that was a tough year. Also the same year after Barnes had left. I had been excited, as my high school won ALL of 5 games over 4 years, but I was going to Clemson, a football school!
Between West's last year and Tommy's first, that was a rough few years. But happy memories too! Nothing beats marching down the hill looking over the stadium for the first time.
I still remember not being able to hear myself play Tiger Rag as the team came down the hill of the USuC game. And the shivers down my spin with the crowd being so loud! Still think of when the goal post was taken down and ended up in the reflection pond. Ha, good times!
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Re: At some point it will happen
Sep 11, 2021, 7:04 AM
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Agree. 1970-1974 for me.
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I remember sitting in a sparse Death Valley in 1998
Sep 10, 2021, 10:22 PM
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when Virginia Tech came to town. It was painfully obvious then that Tommy West was in way over his head. We were so outclassed that day on the field.
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We flat got smashed that day for sure
Sep 11, 2021, 7:32 AM
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Re: At some point it will happen
Sep 11, 2021, 8:39 AM
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Thank you. I was thinking the same thing. It took all of the joy out of CFB.
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Re: We endured enough under Tommy Bowden don’t ever want us to “suck” again
Sep 6, 2021, 11:18 PM
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When did Cola win a Peach bowl? Last I remember 11 years ago the Noles waxed your chickens.
1969, so you don’t have to google it, coot.
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Re: We endured enough under Tommy Bowden don’t ever want us to “suck” again
Sep 6, 2021, 11:22 PM
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I was AT the Peach Bowl in Atlanta when we beat Tennessee : the highlight and pinnacle of Tommy Bowden’s career.
That offense the other night looked like a Tommy Bowden offense that “sucked” just as bad.
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Re: We endured enough under Tommy Bowden don’t ever want us to “suck” again
Sep 6, 2021, 11:24 PM
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Were you wearing a cola for Tenn fan shirt?
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Re: We endured enough under Tommy Bowden don’t ever want us to “suck” again
Sep 6, 2021, 11:38 PM
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It's not a question of returning to the days of Tommy Bowden but it is a question of;
1)A schedule that does not have a top 10 opponent other than Georgia .We lost to Georgia.
2) a Conference so bad that the only 3 teams ranked in the top 25 all lost and all on the opening weekend.
3) A conference that could possibly have 2 teams in the CFP if Georgia goes undefeated yet loses the SECCG to Alabama. See 1)
4)What do you do with Notre Dame if they go undefeated. Do they get knocked out in favor of a one loss Clemson? Very unlikely.
So the problem that ESPN says might happen is not the result of just 1 loss to a top 5 opponent, but it is the result of that opponent being Georgia.
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Re: No No No No.....Thats Not Really Sucking ---
Sep 7, 2021, 12:34 AM
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Try enduring the Ken Hatfield Drop Off....or the Tommy West Struggle. Then you'll be sucking.
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And yet Tommy Bowden went 7-2 against your beloved coots.***
Sep 7, 2021, 8:49 AM
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Tell 'em 2-8 u6c coot
Sep 7, 2021, 9:11 AM
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Were you around for the Tommy West yrs? They were
Sep 7, 2021, 9:16 AM
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alot worse. We went 3-8 one yr.
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Dude, the Tommy Bowden era rocked
Sep 10, 2021, 10:25 PM
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Compared to the Tommy West or Red Parker eras.
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Re: We endured enough under Tommy Bowden don’t ever want us to “suck” again
Sep 10, 2021, 11:18 PM
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Times were good under Tommy Bowden if you were here through the West era.
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Re: We endured enough under Tommy Bowden don’t ever want us to “suck” again
Sep 11, 2021, 12:03 AM
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Been to Clemson games since Frank's last season. Hootie was by far the worst.
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We were good (not great) under Bowden. We have certainly
Sep 11, 2021, 7:31 AM
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sucked though, like end of Hatfield and West. But we've been even worse than that back prior to Pell. If Bowden is your "bad" reference point, you have it made!
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