Tommy Bowden
Tommy Bowden
Tommy Bowdenis an American football coach who served as the head coach at Clemson University from 1999 until October 13, 2008. He is a son of Bobby Bowden, former head football coach of Florida State University, against whom he has coached in games nicknamed the "Bowden Bowl." He is also a brother of Terry Bowden, currently head football coach of the University of Akron...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth10 July 1954
blood hurting husband paid reflects
You see blood hurting, husband or son, ... Somebody's hurting Sunday, which reflects back on her. We get paid well to hurt. She doesn't.
biggest guy lose miss point productive run since weapon
You're going to lose right now, our biggest weapon back there. That's the most productive we've had a guy run since I've been here. We're going to miss that. ... Pretty significant at this point in time.
anticipate box difficulty guys line running
I didn't anticipate having that much difficulty running it. They put more guys in the box (at the line of scrimmage).
curse eventually
I didn't do anything different ... So I think the (Thursday night) curse will eventually turn.
coaching
I don't know of anybody. I know he doesn't, and he's been coaching 50-something years.
confidence gonna high
My confidence is really gonna be high in about two years -- if I'm still here.
concern confidence media pressure
My concern is how he handles the pressure and the media attention. We have a lot of confidence in him.
desire help next shows skills
I couldn't help but think he would get better in that aspect. He shows the desire and has the skills to help us out next year.
bear bryant gave lucky statement team
Bear Bryant made the statement that it's better to be lucky than good, and I think you have to be lucky. We weren't lucky. That's one thing about this year's team - we never, ever gave up.
fact game gave keys tennessee
One of the keys to this game was the fact that when Tennessee scored and we answered, and then we scored and it was not answered. That gave us confidence.
good half improvement shown split worried
I wouldn't be too worried. He's done too many good things and has shown too much improvement to be worried about half a day with split teams.
concerned good happened improvement split today worried
I wouldn't be too worried because he has done too many good things and showed so much improvement to be concerned about what happened today with split teams.
best last year
Last year was our best and this year was better.
game hard kicking open seven solid worked
We worked real hard on that during the open date. That's kind of a concern. The kicking game here has been pretty solid for seven years. I think we've got it solved.