free topic....tommy bowden

ok, its time for me to get this all out. this has been building up for me and most other clemson fans. tommy bowden needs to go. i would say the alabama game was the last straw but i think it was long before that. this is tommy bowden's best team that he's had during his entire tenure here and the best he can come up with is 34-10. we know its not the players. cullen harper had an awesome year last year, we know he's capable. same with davis and spiller. our o-line did not give one down where everybody was blocked for at least 3-4 seconds. i know they're young but it was ridiculous. and we had some struggles with the cupcake teams that should have never come up.

there is no reason for tommy bowden to still be here. he has coached here for 8 years and not even reached the acc championship game. there only 6 teams on our half. so just based on statistics it should have happened at least 1.33 times. we've had the players year after year and nobody to lead them to the orange bowl. i mean i could have dealt with a loss to alabama but that was more than a loss. 34-10. they didnt even look like they were trying. there was no fight. the sad thing is we had so many returners this year but i didnt recognize the clemson tiger football team. they were not out on that field. davis and kelly may have ruined their chances to be a high draft choice by not leaving early.

tommy bowden just cannot surpass mediocrity which, we all know, is not what clemson football is about. with other teams this is usually the point where people are like "if you think you know so much, why dont you get out there and coach" and then people shut up. and guess what? tommy bowden is at the point where i COULD probably coach. the playcalling is ridiculous. our playbook is full of beating a dead horse. direct snaps to davis and spiller, screen passes on 3rd and long. its idiotic. an acc championship is still possible but thats because all of the other acc teams suck and have had poor showings as well so far. not due to bowden's coaching ability. Everybody also says that Bowden is still here because of his recruiting. I'll admit he did a great job with that especially this year. But great recruiting does you no good if you can't develop them into a team at the college level which is what bowden lacks immensely.

the worst part of the alabama game is that we and the media all talked about what a great team we should have and we're favorited and we have a clean slate. and then it only took about an hour and a half (the point where we knew its probably over) to dirty that slate up. clemson fans went from excited to crushed so quickly and we all know the solution...