The Clemson Tiger football team came into the season ranked ninth overall in the AP Poll. They were a unanimous pick to win the ACC title - and picked by many to win the national title. They were led by quarterback Cullen Harper, the pre-season pick for ACC player of the year. In the backfield they had arguably the two best running backs in the country: the powerful James Davis and the dynamic C.J. Spiller. Or at least we thought these players were as good as billed.
Instead of pinning the teams three losses on the coach, I think the university needs to take a serious re-evaluation of how good their team really was. Sure the team was loaded with players that, at times, looked better than anyone else in the country. But the whole team was never clicking on cylinders. To navigate a college football season and remain undefeated takes one thing: consistency and the Tigers lacked that.
Now consistency is easy to pin on the coach, but some players just can't turn in the same performance week in and week out and to expect that is ridiculous. I personally think Tommy Bowden was fired prematurely.
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