...probably as talented as anybody we've seen since I've been here," said Swinney, who is 32-19 since replacing Tommy Bowden midway through the 2008 season. "If they dominate our offensive line, it's going to be a long night."And then...
...The love from Clemson fans is not always a two-way street.Swinney became the team's interim coach in 2008 when Tommy Bowden left in midseason. Swinney led the Tigers to win four of their last six games that regular season, including a victory...
...powerful aftereffects.Wake Forest's 12-7 win at home on a Thursday night in 2008 wound up being the last game for Tommy Bowden as the Tigers' coach. He stepped down a few days later while Dabo Swinney was elevated from coaching receivers to...
...championship three full seasons later.Swinney is in his third full season after taking over in the middle of 2008 when Tommy Bowden left.Current Clemson tight end Dwayne Allen understands it's far too soon to think about bigger pictures. The Tigers...
...000 at the start of the 2008 season. However, he was made the team's interim coach midseason when longtime leader Tommy Bowden announced he was leaving. Swinney did enough during his six-game tryout to earn the job full time at the end of that...
...the sidelines most of that season, and he expected to play sparingly again in 2008 behind Harper. He emerged when Tommy Bowden called on him to start against Georgia Tech with the Tigers struggling at 3-3. Bowden walked away from the job a...
...performance in a 2006 victory over Wake Forest in which he broke up a field goal try and returned it for a touchdown. Tommy Bowden, Adams' coach at Clemson, was jolted by news of his death. "I just couldn't believe it was Gaines," he said...
...ACC the past month. It was easy to slot the 39-year-old Swinney, former receivers coach for ex-Clemson coach Tommy Bowden, as a holdover from a failed era when ther Tigers opened 2-3 - including a mistake-filled loss at Maryland. Since...
...Bowden -- he turns 80 on Sunday -- to walk away for the good of the program. Swinney, who got to know Bobby when son Tommy Bowden coached Clemson from 1999 through the middle of 2008, couldn't believe what he heard. An Alabama native who railed...
...talented playmakers like Ford and tailback C.J. Spiller couldn't produce points. To some, it looked too much like Tommy Bowden's time as coach when Clemson generally had to climb out of early holes only to come up just short of the ACC title...
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