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Letterman [264]
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How did we get so Good all of a sudden?
Dec 7, 2017, 1:16 PM
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When I was a student, we were happy with a 8 or 9 win season. Tommy Bowden was at the helm and we played the likes of Kentucky and South Florida in bowl games. We tore down goal posts when we beat Florida State. I just wish we were this good when I was a student. These current students don't know how good they got it!
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [98918]
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That's easy. One word:
Dec 7, 2017, 1:19 PM
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NewSpring
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All-American [590]
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LOL*******
Dec 7, 2017, 1:24 PM
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Solid Orange [1324]
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Top TigerNet [32133]
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Ask google?
Dec 7, 2017, 1:20 PM
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Orange Immortal [63036]
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Finally some real evidence, not just rumor and speculation.***
Dec 7, 2017, 1:37 PM
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Top TigerNet [32133]
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Google knows all***
Dec 7, 2017, 1:45 PM
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110%er [6694]
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Is this real?***
Dec 7, 2017, 2:06 PM
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Starter [393]
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Smoke and mirrors.***
Dec 7, 2017, 1:20 PM
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Top TigerNet [29447]
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You were lucky
Dec 7, 2017, 1:20 PM
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Signed, Student during Tommy West's years
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Heisman Winner [83918]
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Re: You were lucky
Dec 7, 2017, 1:22 PM
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Signed student during Hatfield years.
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Clemson Conqueror [11305]
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Re: You were lucky
Dec 7, 2017, 1:29 PM
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Does anyone remember Hootie Ingram and Red Parker? UGH!!!!
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110%er [4029]
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Re: You were lucky
Dec 7, 2017, 3:10 PM
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Sure do
I was there
Up the middle, up the middle, pass, punt offense
but Red changed that from Hootie
Red also got screwed but he laid the foundation for our first NC
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110%er [3620]
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Re: You were lucky
Dec 7, 2017, 6:19 PM
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I was at Clemson for Howard's last year, 3 of Hootie (dont forget Hootie would go run, run, punt on 3rd down so we vould play defense) and Red Parker's first year. 5, count 'em, 5 losing seasons! Stayed around to see what Red could do in '73 and it was exciting. '74 was even better and Red's recruiting after that season set the stage for Clemson's surge.
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TigerNet Elite [72423]
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Re: You were lucky- I have never understood why we
Dec 7, 2017, 1:22 PM
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named an end zone for him.
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110%er [3620]
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Re: You were lucky- I have never understood why we
Dec 7, 2017, 6:12 PM
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Just glad Hootie got us the Paw and we didn't name the other end zone after him instead of Tommy West.
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TigerNet Elite [77343]
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Ditto. Signed, student during Hootie Ingram and Red Parker
Dec 7, 2017, 1:25 PM
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years. Playing ANYBODY in a bowl game would have been euphoric back then. 1974 for example, had our one winning season during that time, went 7-4 and put out a special commemorative Pepsi bottle. I wish I still had mine, got fried in a house fire in 1977.
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Clemson Conqueror [11305]
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Re: Ditto. Signed, student during Hootie Ingram and Red Parker
Dec 7, 2017, 1:32 PM
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Ha! Me too. Clemson slaughtered UNC that year and the Tarholes got the bowl invite over us. They lost to Mississippi State in the Sun Bowl. They done got sun burned.
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Orange Blooded [2527]
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Re: You were lucky
Dec 7, 2017, 1:32 PM
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I was present for the last of Ford's and the beginning of Hatfield's tenures.
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Tiger Spirit [9627]
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Re: You were lucky
Dec 7, 2017, 1:42 PM
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Same here. Graduated in 91. Got to experience our last ACC Championship for a long time, and saw some great bowl games - particularly wins over Paterno and Penn St and Switzer at Oklahoma. I graduated Dec 91, we lost our bowl game to Cal later that month, and it was all downhill from there until the 2000s.
Great to see how well Dabo has done with our program, recruiting, and general outstanding leadership!
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110%er [4029]
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Re: You were lucky
Dec 7, 2017, 3:14 PM
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Agree that they were great bowl wins and what happened afterward
Some great bowl games - particularly wins over Paterno and Penn St and Switzer at Oklahoma. we lost the bowl game to Cal later that month in 1991, and it was all downhill from there until the 2000s.
Hatfield killed us
as did what they did to Danny
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Clemson Icon [26399]
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I was lucky, John Heisman was coaching when I was here
Dec 7, 2017, 1:33 PM
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signed, Hartins
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Heisman Winner [80056]
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irie ites mon***
Dec 7, 2017, 1:25 PM
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Top TigerNet [28159]
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This truly is the Golden Age of Clemson football
Dec 7, 2017, 1:31 PM
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I tell my kids to enjoy it while it lasts ... it won't go on forever ...
just ask Nebraska, Miami, and Notre Dame.
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Legend [16940]
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Re: This truly is the Golden Age of Clemson football
Dec 7, 2017, 1:34 PM
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I'm guessing your parents told you about Notre Dame...no sense going with a re-tread!
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Clemson Conqueror [11305]
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CU Medallion [18418]
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Started obviously with Dabo, but then the 2010 Tire Bowl.
Dec 7, 2017, 1:36 PM
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Tajh at the end of that game showed great promise for the future. Four losses the next year, including the WVU debacle, which brought us BV, Two losses each of the next two seasons with Boyd, followed by 2-1-1 and a championship with Watson at the helm. Improved recruiting, coaching, and effort have got us to an AWESOME position of competing for the championship again in a "rebuilding" year. This year it's defense leading the way. Just great times to be a Tiger!
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Rival Killer [2623]
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Re: How did we get so Good all of a sudden?
Dec 7, 2017, 2:05 PM
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I had 4 years of Danny. I never thought it could get any better!
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All-In [27366]
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The coaches, players, and administration all started
Dec 7, 2017, 2:07 PM
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doing what TNet told them to.
If Tommy had listened to TNet he would still be here.
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TigerNet Legend [144582]
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Go back and get your masters.***
Dec 7, 2017, 2:10 PM
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Top TigerNet [29716]
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all of the sudden??
Dec 7, 2017, 7:25 PM
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and i was never content with 8 or 9 wins
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CU Guru [1701]
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If you ask Chad Morris it's all thanks to him.
Dec 7, 2017, 4:52 PM
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Without Chad gracing our campus we would be looking at 6 wins every year and would probably be running non stop bubble screens and QB keepers out of shotgun.
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Clemson Sports Icon [57243]
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Well, he is still taking credit for our offense
Dec 8, 2023, 7:01 AM
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as of today.
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Orange Elite [5125]
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Not all of a sudden. We’ve been working on this since
Dec 7, 2017, 5:21 PM
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at least 99. It’s been a process that began (arguably) with Bowden after the West years. Sure there have been several hiccups along the way but TB really put us on the upswing and gave us Dabo. It takes time to build a program like we have now.
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110%er [6938]
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Re: Living right.***
Dec 7, 2017, 6:06 PM
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Recruit [77]
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Re: How did we get so Good all of a sudden?
Dec 7, 2017, 6:15 PM
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From an outsider's perspective, I felt like the last second FG win over LSU in the Peach (I'll never call it the Chick fil a bowl), was the beginning of the ascendancy of your Tigers.
I also thought that once Jameis Winston left FSU, Jimbo would take the backseat to Clemson in the years to come.
I'm not right about a lot of things, but I called those two correctly.
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