TOMMY BOWDEN FANNING THE FLAMES, WHICH DOESN'T MEAN WHAT YOU THINK IT MEANS
Tommy Bowden is uncomfy with your favorable assessment of his football squad, sirs:
The Tigers, who capped last season with a 9-4 record and ranked No. 21 in the final Associated Press Top 25, seem to be everyones pick to win the ACC. Well, that was until Tuesday.
Clemson coach Tommy Bowden did his best to fan the flames on his teams hot projections while talking with the media following his annual media golf tournament at The Reserve at Lake Keowee. Bowden even speculated whether his team deserves to be a top 10 squad when the AP and the Coaches polls debut in a few weeks.
Thus far, every preseason magazine has picked Clemson as a preseason Top 10 as well as the favorite to win the ACCs Atlantic Division.
I would say it would be premature, Bowden said.
Setting aside the fact that we're almost positive "fanning the flames" connotes exacerbating, not lessening---what is this, Oberlin? Are we to expect "A for effort" stickers to multiply on the helmets of the purple Tigers throughout the season? TB, we're as puzzled as you are to see your team creeping up the polls, but forth, and fear no darkness, brah. The ACC is largely devoid of entertainment since the fall of Miami. Let's see some showmanship.

The Clemson Tigers: An alligator in spelling.
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Does this mean that there is a 5th Bowden who requested that his face never be shown?
by Jube0 on Jul 16, 2008 2:12 PM EDT reply actions
“I would say it would be premature,” Bowden arrogantly delcared.
by Biggus Rickus on Jul 16, 2008 2:17 PM EDT reply actions
I love Maby’s report card. Glad someone else thinks thats funny. I miss Arrested development
by pasta troy on Jul 16, 2008 2:25 PM EDT reply actions
“Well, frankly, I’m just not all that good of a coach, Will.”
by Doug on Jul 16, 2008 2:32 PM EDT reply actions
To use that same logic, I love the Clemson Tigers! Like the kind of love you have for life when you’re hungry as hell and you realize you just wolfed down your QPC lunch without realizing it or enjoying it while reading a funny college football blog.
by Out of Conference on Jul 16, 2008 2:35 PM EDT reply actions
I sure could go for a QPC lunch, or even a KFC lunch for that matter. Really, I’d just like some food.
by Homeless Clemson Guy on Jul 16, 2008 2:58 PM EDT reply actions
I’m pretty sure that if you set the pic of TB to Europe’s “Final Countdown,” Tommy Bowden will morph into Gob Bluth.
Paging LSUFreek…..
by lance harbor on Jul 16, 2008 3:36 PM EDT reply actions
Put a dagger in his teeth and you don’t even need the music.
by Biggus Rickus on Jul 16, 2008 3:41 PM EDT reply actions
I under stand that “Dr Fünke’s 100% Natural Good Time Family Band Solution” worked that golf tournament and they tore the house down.
by Kernel on Jul 16, 2008 4:11 PM EDT reply actions
“You either learn and get an L, or you fluctuate in your learning.”
“What do you get for that?”
“An F.”
by carlinthemarlin on Jul 16, 2008 4:14 PM EDT reply actions
In a white man’s overbite kinda way, TB is shown supermanning dat ho.
by SportsJacket on Jul 16, 2008 4:23 PM EDT reply actions
I would say thats a pic of him teaching his dad the song and hand movements to
“Itsy Bitsy Spider”…..that is before he gives his dad some chocolate milk and puts him to bed, at 7:30pm nightly
by Mr. Pelican Pants on Jul 16, 2008 4:39 PM EDT reply actions
TB’s demonstrating how he’ll walk up behind Kyle Parker on his knees and toss that salad.
by Out of Conference on Jul 16, 2008 5:10 PM EDT reply actions
There’s not enough Oberlin smack in the world, though I wonder if that particular jab was better suited for Antioch.
by Chuck on Jul 16, 2008 6:13 PM EDT reply actions
Yeah, like the guy with the $4300 golf clubs is going to validate the opinion of a guy who doesn’t make that much in three months.
Come on!
by Bomb Ann Arbor Now on Jul 17, 2008 8:19 AM EDT reply actions
Is it even worth pointing out that both Bowden and the journalist seem indifferent to words and their meaning? “Fanning the flames” is just the kind of tired metaphor that got Orwell all pissed off in Politics and the English Language, but it’s equally foolish for Bowden to suggest that preseason predictions are “premature.” If the preseason predictions came out in October, everyone would be too busy watching football to pay attention.
http://www.calvinvanhoek.com/articles/2007/04/politics-english-language/
by The Gurgling Cod on Jul 17, 2008 8:21 AM EDT reply actions
- - if preseason predictions came out in October, they wouldn’t be preseason, would they?
by hobeg8r on Jul 17, 2008 9:23 AM EDT reply actions
This is just a pic showing the shock Tammy felt when he was told that his fans were “expecting Clemson to win this many games this year?!”
by charlestowne on Jul 17, 2008 9:30 AM EDT reply actions
- That was my point. It’s sort of foolish to call preseason predictions “premature.” What Tommy meant, perhaps, was “wildly optimistic, given concerns about our OL and LB corps.”
by The Gurgling Cod on Jul 17, 2008 11:12 AM EDT reply actions
Bowden is demonstrating the method employed by Deandre McDaniel to hold a comforter over his girlfriend’s face.
by Continuation T. Arranger on Jul 17, 2008 11:45 AM EDT reply actions
Fire his ass
Ever since he took over and we get ranked in the top 10, he loses miserably. Then we drop out of the top 10, usually down to the 20’s or worse, and then he rolls off a few wins over crappy teams.
He needs to go. Its clear he can’t get this team over the hump and as long as he stays, we will always be a 7-5, 8-4 team, losing at least one game each year that we shouldn’t and then winning one we shouldn’t too.
Todays loss to Alabama was a joke. The team was unprepared, unmotivated, and out coached by Saban and Alabama. Clear evidence – how many 3rd and longs did our db’s play 5 yards behind the first down marker and then give up the first down pass. That was ridiculous.
We have the recruits, facilities, and existing talent, we just don’t have a damn coach.
Fire Tommy Bowden NOW
by rob anderson on Aug 30, 2008 11:56 PM EDT reply actions
the unniversity should give the fans their money back.the defense didn’t know their assignments. the offensive play was terrible. the team had no intensity, looked like they were scared to hit somebody, when they tackled somebody they waited for them and then just kind of caught them. spence can shove that zone blocking up his butt. this is the first time i have ever been ashamed of being a tiger. we have always took pride in being a smack you in the mouth kind of team, they looked like a bunch of scared sissy’s. if these player’s are scared to run thru somebody then take off the uniform, but i don’t think it’s the players it is the coaching. get rid of the whole staff from the head coach down to the water boy. this is the worste coaching staff in america.
by james simpson on Aug 31, 2008 9:49 PM EDT reply actions
We want Mike Leach!!! Get Tammy Bowden out of Clemson….and Rob Spence. If we had an Offensive Playcaller that had some guts, we would be a perennial top 10. We do this every year. We play a team that stops the run the first 5 plays and we abandon it. If the O-Line is so bad then they don’t need to try throwing it 34 times. they need to give it to the guys that can make people miss…..aka Spiller and Ford and see if they can break one. Coach tammy Bowden will always be an Underachiever. We need to bite the bullet and let him go. Mike Leach from Texas Tech would have us competing for the National Championship this year with players he didn’t even recruit. Face it TDP, we made the wrond choice signing Tammy to an extension. Clemson is the only team in the Country that nunderachieved last year and then gave their Coach a new contract…….Real Smart!
by rich on Sep 1, 2008 11:21 AM EDT reply actions
Tommy Bowden must go. He was out coached by Saban. I have been a Clemson fan for 30 years and have never seen such a disappointing loss and effort. IPTAY – Get rid of Tommy now. He cannot coach and is not worthy of coaching at Clemson. Clemson has passed on so many coaches (Saban, Spurrier and others) hoping this clown would improve. Cut the cord.
by Chris on Sep 1, 2008 7:25 PM EDT reply actions
After that pitiful display of football on Sat. night Tammy is back on the hotseat! He was never considered for the job at Ark. that was all a hoax. I am not a Gamecock fan but if Darthvisor was coaching our talent we would win a national championship! We need to clean house at Clemson and that goes for the IPTAY office too. Their only concern is money not loyalty. After Sat. night I wonder how many of the big donors (who have no Clemson ties) are feeling?
by Rosemary on Sep 1, 2008 11:21 PM EDT reply actions

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