CLEMSON — One day, Graham Neff will discover his place in Clemson Athletic history. Until then, the second-year athletic director will have to wait to see what his legacy will indeed be. History already wrote the verdict on some of Clemson’s athletic leaders of the past. Though he sometimes saved a dollar or two, Frank […]
Former Clemson athletic director Terry Don Phillips wraps up his four-part conversation with The Clemson Insider from the TCI studios in Clemson. In Part 4 of our Clemson’s Finest series with Phillips, he talks about the other big-name head coaches at Clemson he hired and worked with, including a revelation about former men’s basketball coach […]
Former Clemson athletic director Terry Don Phillips says what Dabo Swinney has done with the Clemson Football Program is “nothing short of phenomenal.” In Part 3 of our series with Phillips from our new studio in Clemson, Phillips tells The Clemson Insider how proud he is of Swinney. He also discusses Swinney’s record-breaking $93 million […]
It was an August practice in 2003 when former Clemson athletic director Terry Don Phillips knew there was something special about the Tigers’ new wide receivers’ coach. In The Clemson Insider’s Clemson’s Finest series, Phillips describes the first time he saw Dabo Swinney coach in person and what an impression the young coach made on […]
The Clemson Insider sat down with former Clemson Athletic Director Terry Don Phillips earlier this week in our new TCI studio in Clemson. Phillips discussed the first time he came to Clemson as a young football coach at Virginia Tech and the lasting impression Clemson and its fan base had on him. From that point […]
When he was an inspiring coach at Virginia Tech in the early to mid-1970s, Terry Don Phillips made his first trip to Clemson as a graduate assistant coach. He was assigned to come to Clemson to scout both the Tigers and Virginia, two opponents on the Hokies’ schedule. At the time Clemson was not what […]
When he hired Dabo Swinney to be his head coach back on Dec. 1, 2008, Terry Don Phillips knew a large group of Clemson people were not going to be happy about it. “And I don’t blame them,” Phillips said to The Clemson Insider. Phillips said the fans’ passion for their football program is what […]
Even before he knew Dabo Swinney had what it takes to be a successful college head coach, Terry Don Phillips saw something in the Pelham, Ala., native that no one else did. As a wide receivers coach with no coordinator experience, Swinney was not an obvious choice to become Clemson’s head coach when Tommy Bowden […]
When Terry Don Phillips thinks of the success Clemson has had under Dabo Swinney, he does not take any credit for it. To Phillips, all he did was his job and hire who he thought was the best candidate to lead Clemson’s football program. Eighty nine wins, three ACC Championships and a national championship later, […]
If you are ever around Dabo Swinney long enough, you will hear him talk about making life decisions. How do you live your life? How do you want to live your life? Everyone’s life is a sequence of decisions we make when we are younger and live with as we move forward. With each decision […]