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
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His hands have gotten better this year. You can lose confidence so quickly in that area because catching is such a mental thing. If you lose confidence, you will start thinking about dropping balls.
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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.
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I like what we're doing now as opposed to throwing a few more downfield and losing by 20 to Virginia and losing by 20 to Texas A&M, ... I feel pretty comfortable that I won't fall for the bait.
He's probably the least experienced of all the starters.
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I don't know if it's fair to the players to get an extended game as long ours was.
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I don't know how many touchdown passes (Whitehurst) threw last year. But I bet you by the end of the year we'll have more.
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I don't know how many touchdown passes (Whitehurst) threw last year, ... But I bet you by the end of the year we'll have more.
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He's looked good for a while in practice. I don't think his problem is going to be inconsistency in practice. That's one of the things that jumped out last year. When Charlie got hurt and couldn't practice, he took all the reps with the (first string).
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He's a pretty smart guy to jump around and play several positions. He might be taking a lot of guys' balls other than (injured receiver Kelvin Grant's).
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But it can be a negative if you run into injury problems.
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But I didn't like him leaving early (for the NFL), so what the heck. I don't know if (Kelly) knows who Gumby is.
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He's not a normal guy. The fact that he's a professional athlete in one sport means he has some pretty refined skills.
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He's now put three games together that have been really, really impressive. He's putting himself in position right now to do some things Leroy Hill was doing.
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I decided to cover all angles. ... I sent him chocolate-covered prunes and a box of Depends.