Clemson's Bowden whinning about close losses

[GT Ace]

I really do understand what he's saying 'bout close losses costing his team higher rankings in ACC & nationally. What irks me is that all teams go thru that same thing. Didn't GT just lose 3 straight high profile gms by 3 pts ea, & very late in the gm to boot????
Hush, Tommy Boy, & keep trying.

http://www.thestate.com/186/story/24060.html

 

[GT65_UGA89]

First it was "Whinin' Weis" crying about dropping in the polls during an off week and now we have "Boo-hooing Bowden" crying about close losses.

My high school basketball coach would tell us to keep it close late and if we didn't win it was his fault. Maybe Mr. Boo-hoo needs to look in the mirror for the answer as to why Clemson isn't finishing higher in the ACC or ranked higher nationally.

:crybaby:

 

[ncjacket]

Not to sound like a Bowden supporter or anything, but I don't read any whining there. He's simply saying they're close to being at the top, and a couple of game a year have made the difference. It's his response to the fact that some Clemson fans act like they're miles away. Why would that irk you?

 

[techfowl]

Funny thing is that Bowden pretty much always wins as many by the skin of his teeth as he loses close ones.

Last few years they pretty much could have started 0-6, or 6-0 depending on a couple of breaks here and there. They were teetering at the edge of every game early in the last few years.

Tommy is an absolute machine when it comes to excuses. I don't listen to any thing Tommy says.

He's like an old gambler who tells you all about the $2,000 he won on the third day of his trip to Vegas, but never remembers to tell you about the $5,000 he lost in the first two days of the same trip.

I am 'almost' surprised he would say something like this - but not really:

"Let me graduate 50 percent and win 11 games, and I'll be here for a long time."

This guy needs to be coaching in the pros with that attitude. And all his crying about lack of control academicly? GOOD FOR CLEMSON. That's just another reason I like that school, because they plan on being a school - even if Tommy doesn't.

Could you imagine Tommy at GT? His head would pop off his neck.

Tommy and Chan have absolutely opposite goals, and opposite veiws on personal accountability.

 

[lonestarjacket]

Not to sound like a Bowden supporter or anything, but I don't read any whining there. He's simply saying they're close to being at the top, and a couple of game a year have made the difference. It's his response to the fact that some Clemson fans act like they're miles away. Why would that irk you?

I agree that the talk abou tthe close games doesn't count as whining. But this stuff does in my opinion.

Then there was a firestorm that flamed through the athletic department and academic community this past winter over the denied admissions of two Bowden recruits. Neither was approved by Clemson's special admissions committee, much to the chagrin of Bowden and his coaching staff.
Bowden says such run-ins are part of heading a top-level program over an eight-year period. He says more-established coaches in the country, such as Mack Brown at Texas, Phillip Fulmer at Tennessee and Mark Richt at Georgia, probably have encountered the same problems in building their programs. But he is not certain he has the same authority as those others, or works under the same guidelines.

And this last part is a little sad, but true.

"The bottom line is wins and losses," he says. "Those (graduation rates) are nice things. They might get you through this 8-5 year. Those are important to write about and talk about, but they're not important. It comes back to wins and losses.
"Let me graduate 50 percent and win 11 games, and I'll be here for a long time."

Maybe that's why he is upset at the denials of admission. He can afford to have that graduation rate slip but not the games.

Of course, by these standards O'Leary did quite a bit of "whining" in his day as well.

 

[ContactBuzz]

This guy needs to be coaching in the pros with that attitude. And all his crying about lack of control academicly? GOOD FOR CLEMSON. That's just another reason I like that school, because they plan on being a school - even if Tommy doesn't.

Could you imagine Tommy at GT? His head would pop off his neck.

Let's not forget where his dad and bro' coached. Not exactly academic juggernauts - both places where football always comes before academics. He wants it like they have/had it.

 

[gnats67]

Just another reason to despise this throw-off excuse for a college football coach.

Can't the Bowdens join forces and open a catfish restaurant in Tallahassee and leave us alone?