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
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.
four front improve improved last pass rush saw tackling
Defensively we have to get a better pass rush from our front four linemen. We have to improve in that area. But, the tackling was improved from what I saw last Saturday.
close coach coaching excitement four games guys improvement perspective
A coach doesn't get giddy. The excitement from a coaching perspective is if we can get those guys to make improvement. And it's not like a lot of improvement because we were close in the four games we lost. We can get better.
course defensive freshmen games great improvement line offensive season strong win
You win games with strong offensive line play, but you win championships with strong play on the defensive line. The play of the freshmen defensive linemen will be important for us. They made great improvement over the course of the season and they will have to keep improving.
enthusiasm good looked
He has looked really, really good. He has good enthusiasm.
manages plays time
I want to see some big plays (offensively) and how Will manages the team. This will be the first time we will get to see him do that.
evaluation purpose
From an evaluation purpose, you don't get that much done.
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.
contain stop
You can't stop him. You can only contain him.
athletic drink teams
I think a lot of athletic directors, administrators and teams will drink from the well we dug.
dad might miss naps takes
Dad is 76. He takes naps during the game, so he might miss something.
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).
giving good heavy kicking work
He is a pretty good kicker. We are giving him some heavy work right now. He is kicking just as good if not better.
anticipate coming defense guys key playing possibly sign strongly
I strongly anticipate some of the guys we sign coming in and possibly playing some key roles, especially on defense the way we did this year.