As I had said during the last issue of the Top 25 picks that if Clemson didnt win against Wake Forest that Tommy Bowden could be on the hot seat. I never expected the Tigers to fire their coach this week. So many times in Bowden's career, people have claimed that he was this close to getting fired. Well now it actually happened.
He has been the coach of Clemson for 10 years but there is really nothing to be excited about. He saved his job multiple times with big wins against rivals and ranked teams. Bowden only had a .615 winning career is alright, also he never won/share an ACC championship. The last ACC championship for the Tigers was 1991. Bowden never provided the results that the Tigers expected when hiring Bobby Bowden's son and after Terry Bowden was somewhat successful. He was just an alright coach in most regards, I mean pretty successful against South Carolina their rival and did pretty solid against Bowden daddy's Florida State team. A couple bowl wins here or there with the Humanitarian Bowl, Peach Bowl, and the Champs Sports Bowl which we all know are all just minor bowls.
The one other thing that I would like to point it is how cold the starting quarterback Cullen Harper who said "he deserved his fate." Now that sounds like either an egotistical quarterback (Bowden just benched him after the Wake Forest game) or the fact that Bowden had no respect from the players. Another thing is they have lost some of their biggest recruits, one being losing the #1 safety in the nation.
Bowden is likely going to get another job somewhere because he is an alright coach but remember just alright.
-Charlie.
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