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FB Update: Photo: Danny Ford and Watson - Clemson's past meets the present
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FB Update: Photo: Danny Ford and Watson - Clemson's past meets the present


Jun 8, 2015, 9:47 PM

 
Photo: Danny Ford and Watson - Clemson's past meets the present

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see Danny's having to sit these days since looking out of playing shape!


Jun 8, 2015, 10:37 PM

GoTiGERS

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Re: see Danny's having to sit these days since looking out of playing shape!


Jun 8, 2015, 10:48 PM

I shook hands with him a couple years ago and he could have very easily had me crying uncle. still a very strong man with a strong grip. Maybe just a bad back or knees from football has him sitting

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after being out in the sun all day, I might have taken a


Jun 9, 2015, 6:43 AM

seat as well. Enjoyed the pic!

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Danny had at least one knee


Jun 8, 2015, 10:59 PM

replaced a couple of years ago, possibly both.

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Re: Danny had at least one knee


Jun 8, 2015, 11:08 PM

Yep Danny is starting to have some issues with his knees and really with his back. Talked to him at a speaking venue couple of years ago and he's walking hunched over a good bit these days. Still a very large man.

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Re: FB Update: Photo: Danny Ford and Watson - Clemson's past meets the present


Jun 9, 2015, 12:16 AM

Ummm.... Mark Drag was a NG.

Just sain'...

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Sometimes I wonder what would've been ...............


Jun 9, 2015, 5:41 AM

if all the egos could have kept in check back in '89.

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Re: Sometimes I wonder what would've been ...............


Jun 9, 2015, 5:57 AM

Don't we all.

I'm lucky enough (or old enough) to remember watching the 86-89 Ford coached teams...They were tough as nails.

Having said that, we're in a new "golden age" of Clemson football, so let's enjoy what we have now. Dabo & company are doing a tremendous job, and seem to be getting better and better.

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For relaxing times, make it Suntory time


I kept saying that last year when a lot of "focus" was on


Jun 9, 2015, 6:46 AM

our offense and many were missing the best defense we've had in years. It reminded me of the defenses we had in the past.

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Great perspective.***


Jun 9, 2015, 6:51 AM [ in reply to Re: Sometimes I wonder what would've been ............... ]



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Brad Brownell: Only Larry freaking Shyatt has a WORSE overall winning percentage among Clemson basketball coaches since 1975. Let that sink in. It's Larry Shyatt & then Brad Brownell.


I agree......


Jun 9, 2015, 10:19 AM [ in reply to Re: Sometimes I wonder what would've been ............... ]

I believe a National Championship was VERY possible in the early 90's.

I also believe a National Championship is possible in the 20teens as long as Dabo keeps things rolling.

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Thoroughly convinced danny would have won a...


Jun 9, 2015, 2:18 PM [ in reply to Sometimes I wonder what would've been ............... ]

second National Title in either 1990 or 1991 if left alone.

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Danny was fired my senior year, and I still remember the mob


Jun 9, 2015, 7:26 AM

of people that descended on the president's house that day yelling "Ax Max" (Lennnon).

Danny was one popular man.

It only took 20 years to turn the program around. It could be argued we might still have been a hair better overall back then (I don't remember Danny ever being blown out.). But never the less, it's good to finally see the consistency we have had the last 4 years.

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Re: Danny was fired my senior year, and I still remember the mob


Jun 9, 2015, 9:30 AM

CU'90-

I remember that day very well. I was 13 at the time, I vividly remember Stan Olenik reporting that Danny Ford was "out" at Clemson. Even at such a young age, it seemed surreal.

At that point in time, I remembered Clemson beating Penn State, Oklahoma, (Barry Switzer was very butt - hurt after that game) and West Virginia the following year. Major Harris had won the Heisman the year before, if I remember correctly.

Definitely great times for our football team, until that day, but even at 13, I could almost feel the football program dieing that day.

As someone mentioned earlier, it only took 20 plus years to recover.

I think the future is as bright as ever now, especially with the caliber of athletes and character we are recruiting. We are pretty well selecting whom we want now vs recruiting guys.


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For relaxing times, make it Suntory time


I guess that day was one of those days where we all remember


Jun 9, 2015, 11:53 AM

where we were and what we were doing....lol. Does this chant sound familiar....."we've got a rope and we've got a tree....all we need is bobby"

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Re: FB Update: Photo: Danny Ford and Watson - Clemson's past meets the present


Jun 9, 2015, 8:16 AM

What I like best about that pic is Danny is wearing some old dirty blue jeans, like he walked straight off the farm and on to campus. Gotta love a down to earth, don't care what people think, hard workin man.

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Re: FB Update: Photo: Danny Ford and Watson - Clemson's past meets the present


Jun 9, 2015, 9:40 AM

Because he did just walk off the farm...read the statement above the photos.

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dirty old blue jeans!!? those were the good ones! lol***


Jun 9, 2015, 11:55 AM [ in reply to Re: FB Update: Photo: Danny Ford and Watson - Clemson's past meets the present ]



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Danny is younger than steve, FWIW. And nicer.


Jun 9, 2015, 10:03 AM

Just throwing that out there.

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Coach Ford wearing the fashionably dirty jeans and polo...


Jun 9, 2015, 1:01 PM

Straight from the farm.

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