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re: Terry Bowden Becomes a Grad Assistant at Clemson

Posted on 6/10/19 at 10:56 am to
Posted by plazadweller
South Georgia
Member since Jul 2011
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Posted on 6/10/19 at 10:56 am to
I’m surprised he’s even still alive. He’s gotta be pushing 300 lbs at 5’5ish
Posted by NocaHomas Teepee
Nor Al
Member since May 2019
1480 posts
Posted on 6/10/19 at 10:57 am to
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He was fricking Bobby Lowder’s daughter.

Posted by Vecchio Cane
Ivory Tower
Member since Jul 2016
17918 posts
Posted on 6/10/19 at 11:03 am to
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He was fricking Bobby Lowder’s daughter





Posted by Irons Puppet
Birmingham
Member since Jun 2009
25901 posts
Posted on 6/10/19 at 11:08 am to
Looks like a HS Female Softball Coach. Selfish of him taking a spot from a young coach starting out.
Posted by John Gotti
Vestavia HIlls, AL
Member since Jul 2013
3449 posts
Posted on 6/10/19 at 11:26 am to
Got to start somewhere.
Posted by TheDeathValley
New Orleans, LA
Member since Sep 2010
18218 posts
Posted on 6/10/19 at 11:27 am to
GA at his brother's old gig is an interesting tidbit, and I also find it interesting that he is 63 years old as a GA.

He just wants to be a part of football at this point.
Posted by Icoachfb
Greenville SC
Member since Jan 2019
1796 posts
Posted on 6/10/19 at 11:30 am to
Eh, unpaid grad intern in his sixties doubt he will actually do much other than breakdown film. Guy just don’t want to retire or go to work in TV.
Posted by Jake_LaMotta
Coral Gables
Member since Sep 2017
5700 posts
Posted on 6/10/19 at 11:31 am to
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The article says he's pursuing a master in "Athletic Leadership"


Pretty sure I heard Terry and Tommy are going to start some sort of Football consulting business where High Schools and colleges can pay them to come in and look for ways to improve the football programs.

Posted by Leto II
Arrakis
Member since Dec 2018
22813 posts
Posted on 6/10/19 at 11:45 am to
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heard Terry and Tommy are going to start some sort of Football consulting business where High Schools and colleges can pay them to come in and look for ways to improve the football programs.

You mean to peak their first year and steadily decline after that? Pretty sure Gus doesn't need to pay somebody for that wisdom!
Posted by LSU Patrick
Member since Jan 2009
74545 posts
Posted on 6/10/19 at 11:46 am to
I haven't seen ole Tater Tot for ever.
Posted by LSU Patrick
Member since Jan 2009
74545 posts
Posted on 6/10/19 at 11:48 am to
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Pretty sure I heard Terry and Tommy are going to start some sort of Football consulting business where High Schools and colleges can pay them to come in and look for ways to improve the football programs.



Sounds like a great way to make money by helping programs commit recruiting violations without getting caught.
Posted by jthomas666
Member since Jul 2008
462 posts
Posted on 6/10/19 at 12:27 pm to
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From what I understand, he was a good game day coach but an awful recruiter. Terry Bowden's gameday coaching plus Pat Dye's players worked well his first few years, but the bottom fell out when all those guys left.
One of the reasons his recruiting sucked was that he attempted to shut down Brother Chette's gravy train. That was also why he got a huge going away package--he had documentation.

Regardless, after that first undefeated season, his ego was out of control, and he was pissing people off right and left.
Posted by tigeroarz1
Winston-Salem, NC
Member since Oct 2013
3558 posts
Posted on 6/10/19 at 12:33 pm to
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I would think the Bowdens would avoid Clemson like the plague.
Tommy Bowden recommended Dabo (a WR coach) as his replacement in his exit interview. Dabo basically stalked Tommy at a conference to get back into coaching. I don’t think there’s any sour grapes there. Tommy just seemed burned out and was finished with coaching.
This post was edited on 6/10/19 at 12:35 pm
Posted by John Milner
Member since Jan 2015
7029 posts
Posted on 6/10/19 at 12:37 pm to
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He was also a damn coward for bolting.



LOL

When Terry Bowden was hired in 1993 to coach Auburn, he was a bright and audacious young (mid-30s) coach eager to make his legendary father proud and make a name for himself.

Everything changed within his first week. An assistant coach from the previous staff, whom Bowden was told he had to retain, walked into his office and placed a black ledger on his desk. It was a list of players who were being paid.

This is how we do it around here, Bowden was told.

Bowden told the assistant coach, “Pay off the players that were promised and never do it again.”

Of course, he did come around and Auburn kept cheating as always, but he bucked Lowder and the powers that be too often. He was forced out, but not before signing an agreement that he would not discuss the rampant cheating at Auburn.

LINK
Posted by WilliamTaylor21
4035 Vanderbilt Lane
Member since Dec 2013
36564 posts
Posted on 6/10/19 at 12:38 pm to
Posted by myflabbersghasted
Member since Jan 2019
168 posts
Posted on 6/10/19 at 1:30 pm to
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He had Stephen Davis ...who was a Heisman front runner and wasted him. He was interviewed before a bowl game and something to the effect of “We play a finesse offense now. He will have a great NFL career and that’ll mean more than some articles written about him and a $200 trophy.” He completely wasted the guy’s talents and instead wanted mini-scat backs like Demontray Carter. His Red Lobster recruiting dinners were a joke and disaster, etc., etc., etc. He never got another offer because he was a complete and total disaster.


Stephen Davis remains the most impressive high school player I've ever seen -the true embodiment of the "man among boys" phrase. I would have bet the house he would have won at least one Heisman trophy. It had to take some effort to squander that level of talent.
Posted by Leto II
Arrakis
Member since Dec 2018
22813 posts
Posted on 6/10/19 at 1:32 pm to
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Of course, he did come around and Auburn kept cheating as always

If he was cheating, he wasn't doing a very good job of it. He was taking the rejects that daddy wouldn't take.
Posted by RT1941
Member since May 2007
30772 posts
Posted on 6/10/19 at 1:40 pm to
My Lord! Tot is going to stroke out carrying that much weight.

Posted by coachcrisp
pensacola, fl
Member since Jun 2012
30695 posts
Posted on 6/10/19 at 2:51 pm to
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From what I understand, he was a good game day coach but an awful recruiter. Terry Bowden's gameday coaching plus Pat Dye's players worked well his first few years, but the bottom fell out when all those guys left.


Hell, he quit paying'em! If Dye had stayed another year, the Auburn players would have formed a union and gone out on strike for higher wages. Tot told the whole story to the media after he left....read it.
Posted by Leto II
Arrakis
Member since Dec 2018
22813 posts
Posted on 6/10/19 at 2:53 pm to
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Tot told the whole story to the media after he left....read it.

The NCAA took that one really seriously
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