The halls of the IPTAY office are clamoring with rumors of the Clemson football program being turned upside down. Many of our coaches are being courted by other programs and a lot of money is in the talks.
First and foremost, The University of Georgia has offered Clemson Offensive Line coach Brad Scott a juicy contract for his services to be rendered in Athens. This is official and not just a rumor. Word is that they have been talking to him since early 2006 about jumping ship.
Secondly, all I'm gonna say is that Alabama has been doing a mating dance for Dabo Swinney practically since Clemson hired him. I wouldn't blame them since he's a ridiculous recruiter for Clemson. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't pick him up now that Saban is packing his bags for Tuscaloosa.
Finally, it seems that Danny Ford has been answering prayers after all. Word is that some guys with a lot of money that swing big sticks and donate bundles of money to IPTAY and Clemson have been visiting the offices and with the higher ups about getting rid of Bowden and finding a new head coach. I don't know what it is that Bowden does to keep his job usually, but he'd better really turn up the effort.
Please, this is all rumors and watercooler talk, so don't take it as cold hard facts.
I'm disappointed in Tommy, but I'm not on the firetommmy.com bandwagon yet
ReplyDeleteSports talk, this is in now way a firetommy.com type post. This is just what I heard through the grapevine from a usually reliable source. I didn't say he was going, just said some people with money want him gone.
ReplyDeletewilly mac, what have you heard about west?
ReplyDeleteMeh, I don't wanna say just yet. West and at least one other coach is being talked to by other universities. Check back in a few days.
ReplyDeletei heard rich rod is wooing west. if he leaves, we need to seriously consider our head coach.
ReplyDeletebeat me top it, i was gonna touch on it tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteAs much as I wish Danny would come back,I won't fall for that one again.Let's see;$2.5 million buyout divided by 20,000 IPTAY members= not a lot of $$$$$. Even if only half that # of donors were willing to do that,it still wouldn't be that much.I give $350 a year,but if we canned Tammy and got Danny back,I'd increase that to $1400 a year.Bill Cowher in '08! The timing will be perfect;he will have a year off like he wanted;lives in NC already;great motivator,great coach.I think we need someone like him,not another hair dresser trapped in a golf instructor's body.
ReplyDelete1) He would go to NC State if he coached college because he's an NC State grad...
ReplyDelete2) Danny will never come back to coaching period because he's old, hasn't coached in years, and he's made too many enemies at Clemson.
3)I'm more than sure that there are some IPTAY donors that have more than enough money to buy out Bowden 20 times over, and if you don't think they're knockin on TDP's door right now, you're sorely mistaken... take Hatfield as an example, if you were around for that era. Coach that was great and won a lot of games, just not the right ones.
Gee,let me see;Mike O'Cain played for Clemson,but coached against us while at NC State.Spurrier went to Florida but coaches against them now,so don't give me that crap about NC State being the only college job Cowher will consider.Also,I do remember Hattrick,and he sucked just like every other loser we've hired since the administration crapped on Mr. Ford 17 years ago.
ReplyDeletePS-Check your facts before calling Danny " too old ". He's younger than Spurrier,and I seem to recall him taking Arkansas to an SEC title game in the mid-90's;that's more than Tammy has accomplished.(and no,Tulane doesn't count because he was riding Rich Rodriguez's coattails,and that's a bitch ass conference)
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