When you think of Clemson Football, who is the first person you think about? There is no right or wrong answer. This was the question thrown out on the Out of Bounds Show Thursday afternoon on 105.5 The Roar in the Upstate of South Carolina. I liked the question so I figured I would borrow […]
Do you remember 1987? Probably not? However, it was a nervous time for Clemson fans. Why? Alabama was looking for replacement for Ray Perkins, who left the Crimson Tide at the end of the 1986 season to be the head man of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Clemson fans became nervous when Danny Ford’s name came […]
CLEMSON — Thanks to Clemson’s 42-21 victory over Georgia Tech on Saturday, the Tigers are once again going bowling. But what does that exactly mean at Clemson? Granted, there are some schools in the ACC or in the Palmetto State where playing football over the Holiday Season is a great accomplishment. I ask again, what […]
There are ton of things former Clemson tight end K.D. Dunn can remember about the Tigers’ magical run to the 1981 National Championship. But what he remembers the most was “Victory Meal Monday.” “Our training table was something else. It was out of this world,” he said. “On Mondays, was the victory meals. We had […]
It is finally here. It is game week! This Saturday the 2021 football season will begin for third-ranked Clemson, as the Tigers play No. 5 Georgia in the Duke’s Mayo Kickoff Classic at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte. Clemson vs. Georgia, what a way to kick off the football season, right? Like a lot […]
It did not take Dabo Swinney long to win Levon Kirkland over. While everyone else became a fan when Clemson started to win ACC and National Championships on a regular bases, Kirkland was a Swinney fan a longtime before. Actually, the All-American linebacker whose name is etched into the Ring of Honor at Memorial Stadium, […]
When Jess Neely left Clemson for Rice in 1940, he left the job to Frank Howard, who accompanied him to Clemson from Alabama in 1931. Neely thought a lot of Howard, and he wanted to see him succeed as a head coach. Neely gave Howard one piece of advice before heading to Houston. “Don’t ever […]
Dabo Swinney surprised some of Clemson’s top student-athletes Friday, and it was not his football players. The Clemson football coach surprised the men’s soccer team before they headed off to Cary, N.C. to participate in the men’s NCAA Tournament. The Tigers are the No. 1 overall seed in this year’s tournament. #ClemsonUnited received quite the […]
How excited is the city of Jacksonville, Fla., to get former Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence in Thursday’s NFL Draft? Excited enough to light up one of its famous bridges Orange & Purple once the Jacksonville Jaguars select Lawrence with the first overall pick in the draft. Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry tweeted Wednesday he asked the […]
From the second the bus pulled up at the Holiday Inn in South Bend, Ind., Notre Dame was trying to get into Clemson’s head. “Everything they did from the time we landed in South Bend, Indiana, was coordinated by Notre Dame,” former Clemson quarterback Billy Lott remembers about the Tigers’ last trip to South Bend […]