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What % of Bill Foster teams made the NCAA tourney?
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What % of Bill Foster teams made the NCAA tourney?


Mar 27, 2019, 1:11 PM

and what was his winning percentage an Clemson?

He came here after Tastes Locke and had a few things to clean up. But we had some great teams under him. I remember beating UNC by 20 points in 1977.
Dwight Coles
Colon Abraham
Tree Rollins
Stan Rome
Moose Campbell

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I don't know but point for Moose Campbell. That's an awesome


Mar 27, 2019, 1:12 PM

name.

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Re: I don't know but point for Moose Campbell. That's an awesome


Mar 27, 2019, 1:15 PM

Backboard at Fike says hi to Moose.
It’s the first backboard I ever saw smashed from a dunk.

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We made the NCAA's once (1980)


Mar 27, 2019, 1:20 PM

We went to the Elite 8 that year.

Afterwards, there was steady disappointment and seasons that were well below expectations. Even though we had some good players.

After the 84 season we let him go and hired Cliff Ellis. Cliff, while definitely a showman, was a spark we needed at the time.

Brownell and Foster have some similarities for sure. Both are/were good coaches and good people. Neither were/are at the level an ACC program demands. Foster went on to coach Miami and Va Tech before they were in major basketball conferences.

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Only 48 made the tourney back then, not 64 or 68***


Mar 27, 2019, 2:37 PM



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Re: What % of Bill Foster teams made the NCAA tourney?


Mar 27, 2019, 1:23 PM

He made the NCAA Tournament once at Clemson. His first 3 years were largely with Tates Locke’s players. Other than those years, his only other year of note was the one Where Clemson made the Tourney. Otherwise it was a wasteland.

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we beat unc by 17 last year and went to the sweet 16...


Mar 27, 2019, 1:47 PM

so whats your angle?

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I recall Bill Foster


Mar 27, 2019, 1:51 PM

Retiring, sort of, but not fired. A year or so later, he resurrected Miami's program, then eventually retired from there.

One of his early games at Clemson, the Tigers were playing Maryland. When Lefty came out, Bill was dressed in a sweater. Lefty asked why not suit...Bill said, 'I wear suits for the big games'...laughing, of course. When the Tigers went to College Park later that season, Lefty was well-attired in a suitable for 'Ugly Christmas Sweater Party' attire...and a wink to Bill! LOL!

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Re: I recall Bill Foster


Mar 27, 2019, 1:53 PM

They gave him the option of retiring or getting fired. Anyone who misses him as coach is living in a fantasy land.

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We were on NCAA probation his first three years.


Mar 27, 2019, 2:15 PM

Those teams would have made a couple of tourney’s if they’d have been eligible *and* there was a “Field of 64” as there is today.

Making the tourney was a LOT harder back then with only 24 teams.

We didn’t make it until 1980 after they expanded to 32 teams.

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don't know but there was probably a higher % of


Mar 27, 2019, 2:39 PM

Bill Foster's in the ACC .... 2/7 = 28.6%

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