The AntiBowden

What was promised by your dedicated blogger has now come to pass: Korn to start against Georgia Tech. Tommy Bowden, feeling the lake water draining out from under his jetski, has decided to throw 5th year senior Cullen Harper under the bus in a last ditch effort to save his floundering coaching career. Will it work? Sadly, it probably will. This is going to make my Georgia Tech prediction more difficult. Regardless, someone who isn't sitting in an airport and who has time to do such things should photoshop a "Tommy Bowden's Career" bus with X out stamps on it like the old WWII fighter planes with pictures of Willie Simmons, Mike O'Cain,  Levitte (or whatever that defensive coordinator's name was), and now Cullen Harper. Poor guys.

Clemson SID Tim Bourret: Coach Bowden would like to make a statement first.

Oooohhhh how official, like he's the frapping president or something.

Tommy Bowden: "We're going to make a change at quarterback. We've got to find a spark, offensively. A more mobile quarterback will give us more options."

Too bad, I thought the statement was going to be "I resign." Unfortunately you've decided to take the CYA move by throwing a hardworking player under the bus to hide your coaching deficiencies.

Some notable quotes:

Question: Have you talked to either or both of the young men?

Tommy Bowden: "When I made my mind up about 1 p.m., we started calling Cullen's cell phone. Rob was still calling that cell phone as of about 15, 20 minutes ago."

Oh wow. So not only are you throwing the kid under the bus, but you also are so classless that you tell the press first before you even talk to the kid? Man, you must be a dumb ass redneck, or just really desperate to save your job, or both. You damned asshole.

Question: You have been against this for a while. What was the final straw?

Tommy Bowden: "I made the decision based on the things that I just said. We need to find a spark offensively. And we need to re-evaluate our plan of attack. A more mobile quarterback gives you more options. That's why I made the decision. (Cullen) He has been a pretty productive quarterback, but has struggled some this year."

Question: So he is going to start?

Tommy Bowden: "I think I said that. I think I opened up with that."

What a pompous ass. What a momma's boy. Damnit why is he still employed?

Question: Why did you wait this long?

Tommy Bowden: "I think we have gone six quarters without a touchdown. We just need a spark. We have to find something that sparks us a little bit. I've waited so long because it was the appropriate time."

"When you make a move like this, I want to make sure it's done for the right reasons, and appropriately off of evaluation."

Yep, the appropriate time to divert attention away from your complete lack of coaching ability. I'm sure this is done for the "right reason," if you mean the right reason is saving your own ass.

Question: How about with play-calling and play selection? Any chance you would become more involved?

Tommy Bowden: "Not right now. Rob has been here for about three years. He has had a pretty productive track record. I think over the last couple of years we have had a couple of lapses in productivity. He didn't forget how to coach or call plays or coordinate an offense in six games. I have not thought about that."

Interviewer: are you fucking insane? Tommy's already too involved now. Go back and watch Spence's offense before Clemson, it operated much better and had far fewer moronic plays in situations that they simply were doomed to failure. I'm not saying Spence's offense is good, I hate it, but Bowden is already handcuffing him.

Question: I know how difficult you said this was for you several years ago when you started Charlie Whitehurst ahead of Willie Simmons. Was this similar?

Tommy Bowden: "Yes. One is a fifth-year senior and one is a freshman, plus because of his performance last year."

Similar? It's fucking identical. Bowden knows that Korn is the savior to the multitudes and he's the only way he can save his ass from being run out of town, which is exactly what was going on with Whitey and Willie.

I have a hard time even thinking about this stuff. Why is he not fired yet? You've got a head coach of a college football program benching his quarterback in the press... really? Good God. That's reason enough to fire his sorry ass, even without the last 10 years of fraud.

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Posted by Tom on Friday, October 10, 2008 | Permalink