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Question from a new tiger fan


Aug 29, 2012, 9:44 AM

I have a question. I am a recent Clemson fan as I started grad school here 3 years ago. I was watching a foxsports classic game yesterday (Arkansas/Alabama) and noticed Danny Ford was the coach.

Can someone please explain to me why he left Clemson in the first place? He won a national championship with Clemson. Whey did we lose him?

Thanks

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got busted cheating


Aug 29, 2012, 9:45 AM

including the national championship season

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Re: got busted cheating


Aug 29, 2012, 9:54 AM

^^^wrong^^^

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^^^Drinks USuCk kool-aid by the gallon.***


Aug 29, 2012, 9:55 AM [ in reply to got busted cheating ]



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Screw Calford.


Not True. I smell chicken***


Aug 29, 2012, 9:56 AM [ in reply to got busted cheating ]



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pic of cutiger 51908...


Aug 29, 2012, 10:04 AM [ in reply to got busted cheating ]

What a maroon !!!!








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Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.


WRONG***


Aug 29, 2012, 10:22 AM [ in reply to got busted cheating ]



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Re: got busted cheating


Aug 29, 2012, 10:54 AM [ in reply to got busted cheating ]

totally wrong

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Aug 29, 2012, 11:15 AM

Ford went to Arkansas to replace Jack Crowe who lost to The Citadel in the 1992 season opener and was fired the next morning. Joe Kines served as the interim HC for the remainder of the season and Ford took over in 1993.

Ironically, Crowe is HC at Jacksonville St (D1-AA) and finally revenged that loss by beating Mississippi at home in 2011.

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Re: Question from a new tiger fan


Aug 29, 2012, 9:45 AM

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/19/sports/clemson-drops-ford-with-1-million-deal.html

Read this.

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Screw Calford.


Re: Question from a new tiger fan


Aug 29, 2012, 9:50 AM

Thank you so much for this information. It is extremely helpful.

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Long story but....


Aug 29, 2012, 9:51 AM

the condensed version is that he was essentially forced to resign by the President of the University at the time, Max Lennon, over an ongoing dispute concerning the construction of a football only dormatory among other things including alleged NCAA rules violations.




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Yeah, that and sleeping with Max's mama, wife and daughter.***


Aug 29, 2012, 9:53 AM



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Re: Long story but....


Aug 29, 2012, 9:56 AM [ in reply to Long story but.... ]

^^^more correct^^^

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Haha its funny in life when


Aug 29, 2012, 10:07 AM

you find out that your parents lie to you. My Dad told me it was because he caught "some kid" sleeping with his daughter and he beat the tar out of him. HAHA oh the lessons of life.

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The actual rumor at the time....


Aug 29, 2012, 10:09 AM

was that the person you referred to as "some kid" was one of Danny's players.

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Re: The actual rumor at the time....


Aug 29, 2012, 10:15 AM

In the words of Larry the cable guy, now thats just funny right there, I don't care who you are.

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Re: Haha its funny in life when


Aug 29, 2012, 11:17 AM [ in reply to Haha its funny in life when ]

lol and Rick Barnes was forced out for sleeping with a cheerleader.

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Yeah...but Rick was forced out by his wife....


Aug 29, 2012, 12:20 PM

and not the Clemson administration.

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Max Lennon thought football was taking precedence over


Aug 29, 2012, 10:09 AM

academics, and Bobby Robinson did whatever Max told him to do because he and Coach Ford never got along. The inquiry was just a convenient excuse to get rid of him.

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Here are some of the details . . .


Aug 29, 2012, 10:21 AM

http://www.shakinthesouthland.com/2010/1/18/1094219/20-years

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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
- H. L. Mencken


Danny Ford = Douglas MacArthur/George Patton


Aug 29, 2012, 10:36 AM

Danny wasn't into politics or trying to be a politician.
He just wanted to win, win every time, and win big, and tried to provide his people with what it took to accomplish that goal.

And also just like those men, he thought the righteousness of his mission and his popularity with those that also wanted victory would trump the fact he wasn't the "commander-in-chief."

It's a #### shame things couldn't have worked out differently.

Instead, America entered a long, costly, and wasteful 'cold war' with Kommunism; and Clemson entered a long, costly, and wasteful--and quite painful I might add--dark age of under-achievement in football.

Let's hope Dabo can once and for all "heal our land."

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