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Wow, what a difference a week makes. That, and a handy flight-tracking Web site. Until this past Tuesday, not a peep was heard out of Clemson University about its head coaching search since ex-skipper Tommy Bowden’s forced resignation Oct. 13. Athletic director Terry ...

If you had to point out the big orange scuttlebutt at Clemson, look no further than the recent news of athletic director Terry Don Phillips flying to Oklahoma to reportedly meet with Sooner associate head coach and co-defensive coordinator Brent Venables about the forme ...

The Clemson Tigers will take chances like never before. Interim coach Dabo Swinney has made that clear since taking over earlier this season for the departed Tommy Bowden, who served as their skipper for almost a decade. That's understandably refreshing to fans, who gr ...

Clemson’s defense has been hammered by media and by fans the past few weeks, with the point of attack being that the unit has allowed opponents to score their winning points late in games. Maryland, Wake Forest and Georgia Tech all scored go-ahead touchdowns in the four ...

It wasn’t pretty. Heck, it wasn’t even ugly -- it was full-blown hideous. To the average college football fan, Clemson's 27-21 weekend win over Boston College was meaningless. But to Clemson and its yearning fan base, the victory carries much significance. It’s not th ...

The long-anticipated removal of head coach Tommy Bowden has opened the floodgates on the rumor mill at Clemson. For a program starving for a winner, the Tigers need to make the right choice. Right now, there are a few names that seem to come up the most often, but wha ...

Historically, conservative college football programs and their fans cringe at the very thought of using two quarterbacks in a game, thinking it’ll only confuse the offense and subvert leadership. Flawed thinking in today’s college football world, especially when more th ...

You’d have to be flat-out blind to argue against the immediate, and positive, impact of the ACC’s new coaching hires over the past two years. In only their first seasons, Paul Johnson has Georgia Tech rolling with its top rushing offense in years and David Cutcliffe has ...

Most orange-clad recruiting junkies in Tigertown have long been hospitalized with chronic aneurysms caused by the stress of worrying about Clemson’s recruiting taking a big hit. Granted, the Tiger program has been punched in the mouth after the release of former skippe ...

Was there anything inherently wrong with athletic director Terry Don Phillips standing among the players and coaches during Clemson’s 21-17 loss to Georgia Tech in Death Valley on Saturday, just five days after the dismissal of longtime head coach Tommy Bowden? Accordi ...

In the aftermath of Tommy Bowden’s dismissal as head coach, Clemson must try to regroup quickly before squaring off against Georgia Tech this weekend. The Yellow Jackets' offense requires discipline to defend and when you’re heavy on emotion and light on preparation, d ...

Facilities improvements. Nationally ranked recruiting classes. Regularly beating South Carolina and Florida State. Academic progress. Responsible players with high character. Those are among the many good things former Clemson head coach Tommy Bowden accomplished durin ...

At this point, there’s no way to argue that Clemson head coach Tommy Bowden should be retained until the end of the season -- he needs to be shown the door now. Last week's 12-7 loss to Wake Forest and the subsequent move to replace quarterback Cullen Harper with Willy ...

Not that Clemson fans need any more reason to be down on the state of their beloved football program right now, but Thursday nights have not been kind to the Tigers under Tommy Bowden. His record in the made-for-ESPN tilts through his first nine seasons as Clemson coach ...

Clemson head coach Tommy Bowden knows Thursday's game against Wake Forest is key. "The most important game now is the sixth game,” he said during Monday’s press conference. If Clemson loses to coach Jim Grobe’s Demon Deacons in Winston Salem, N.C., it will likely seal ...

Regardless of what Clemson's Tommy Bowden says, Tigers fans aren't just disappointed in what appears to be yet another underachieving season shaping up under the longtime head coach's reign; rather, they’re either downright incensed or, worse, done with Clemson. This se ...

In a nutshell, Clemson head coach Tommy Bowden -- whose team is 3-2 heading into October and readying for the hardest part of its schedule -- basically stated during a Monday press conference that nothing is going to change. That undoubtedly adds insult to injury for Cl ...

How many times has everyone been down this road with Clemson? More importantly, how many more times will everyone be road-tripping with the Tigers down a long road to nowhere? Under Tommy Bowden, the Tigers have earned a reputation as one of college football's least co ...

Understandably, Clemson fans are frustrated with a perceived lack of production from Tigers starting signal-caller Cullen Harper. Helping to fuel the fans' fire is the production of backup quarterback Willy Korn during the team's recent 54-0 demolition of South Carolina ...

Like their two wins prior to Saturday, the Clemson Tigers' 54-0 annihilation of South Carolina State, a Football Championship Subdivision team, doesn't mean much. Even Tigers head coach Tommy Bowden agrees. “You always kind of take these games with a grain of salt be ...