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
extended fair game ours players
I don't know if it's fair to the players to get an extended game as long ours was.
area continuing mistakes work
I was disappointed in some mistakes we made in the red-zone and that is an area we are continuing to work on this spring.
age age-and-aging choices decisions good guys humble man mature mother receive takes taught
It takes a very mature young man (to do what he did). He's made good decisions for his age, choices guys his age don't usually make. He's a very humble person and he's been taught well by his mother about how to receive praise.
change coach crazy games head learned losing stay yes
Are our games close? Well, yes they are close. It would be crazy for me as a head coach to go and change a lot of things. I have learned to stay the course. Now if we were losing games by 30 points, then yes we would have to change things, but we have not been doing that.
ball clock downs giving james milk needed team time worry
It was something where you wanted to milk the clock as much as you can. They were out of timeouts, but we still needed first downs to keep the ball out of their hands. It was a time where you worry about having your team buckle, but giving it to James made it easy.
beautiful time
It's the first time I've been over here. It's a beautiful campus.
draw hard manage today
His (evaluation) will be how he is going to manage the team. You couldn't see that today because it is hard to draw any conclusions from that.
ball clock drives giving james milk
It was one of those drives where you want to milk the clock as much as you could and giving the ball to James makes it pretty easy.
coaching
I don't know of anybody. I know he doesn't, and he's been coaching 50-something years.
battling guys
It's really not open. Those guys are battling for No.2.
knows until wait
I can't wait until he knows what he's doing.
knows special until wait
I can't wait until he knows what he's doing. He doesn't know what he's doing right now. He's a special talent.
concern confidence media pressure
My concern is how he handles the pressure and the media attention. We have a lot of confidence in him.
hoping hospital obviously ready saturday sitting week
I'm hoping he'll be ready Monday. But you're sitting in the hospital Saturday and you're a week away from the game, obviously it's not good.