Category: Sports Tags: College Football, Clemson University, Tommy Bowden, Coach
Not only has Tommy Bowden been shown the door, his former players are leaning out the windows to mock him, while he slowly retires down a lane of wilted yellow jessamines (the South Carolina state flower, for any non-botanists).
At season's outset, no one would have predicted this. The #9 Tigers were ACC favorites and national title contenders. Really, with traditional conference powers like Florida State and Miami recently taking residence in the ACC cellar, Clemson looked to be the team to beat for the next few years. Bowden, already in his ninth season at the school, must have been envisioning a career at Clemson not unlike his father's at Florida State
But it wasn't to be, and Bowden's fate got me thinking about other coaches whose times at their respective universities were cut shorter than some may have expected:
5. Ron Zook - In 2002,...
Ah, yes! Finally! The moment we've all been waiting for. After a decade on the sidelines, Tommy Bowden and Clemson have parted ways.
