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GAME 1 • KENT STATE • NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP CELEBRATION • SEPT. 2, 2017 • NOON • MEMORIAL STADIUM • CLEMSON, S.C.

WHAT’S INSIDE 2 TODAY’S GAME 4 STATISTICAL MATCHUP 6 2016 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON

News and notes from today’s game between Clemson and Kent State.

Team stats, individual stats and schedules for Clemson and Kent State.

A look back at some of the behind-the-scene stories from the landmark season.

12 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS VISIT OUR NATION’S CAPITAL

Members of the 2016 team toured the White House and Capitol Hill in June.

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15 Q&A WITH KELLY BRYANT 113 TIGER BAND 115 MICHAELA FRANKLIN - VOLLEYBALL SPOTLIGHT Get to know the junior quarterback and some of his favorites.

Read what “The Band That Shakes The Southland” has in store today.

The new head coach brings her “championship behavior” approach to Clemson.

117 SOFTBALL COMING TO CLEMSON

The newest sport on the Tiger athletic landscape begins in 2020.

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119 2016-17 SPORTS IN REVIEW 121 2016-17 ACC ACADEMIC HONOR ROLL 122 APRIL GOSS 125 GREATEST MEMORIAL STADIUM GAMES 128 THE LAST WORD - UNUSUAL FACTS OF THE 2016 SEASON Last academic year goes down as one of the best in Clemson athletic history.

See the 228 Tiger student-athletes who were on the ACC’s honor roll last year.

Clemson’s graduate assistant accomplished a historic feat at Kent State.

In our year-long series, we look back at the 1967 NC State game.

122 CREDITS CO-EDITORS

Tim Bourret, Brian Hennessy

LAYOUT & DESIGN Brian Hennessy

COVER DESIGN Jeff Kallin

COVER PHOTO D.J. Gordon

WRITERS

Sam Blackman, Tim Bourret, Elaine Day, Joe Galbraith, Brian Hennessy, Cole Little, Dr. Mark Spede.

PHOTOGRAPHERS

Carl Ackerman, Scott Blackwell, Isabelle Davis, Phil Ellsworth, Daniel Green, Brian Hennessy, Mark Hoyle, Ashley Jones, Jessica Jones, Craig Mahaffey, Mark McInnis, Kim Montuoro, Bradley Moore, David Platt, Justin Pondexter, Dawson Powers, Josh Priddy, Allen Randall, Chris Sloan, Ned Taylor, Jacob Thompson, Vern Verna, Madison Williams, Patrick Wright, NFL.

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The 2016 national championship ring, which features 89 stones to highlight the 89 Tiger wins under head coach Dabo Swinney.

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Read Tim Bourret’s odds and ends from the national championship campaign.

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COACHES & PLAYERS Dabo Swinney, Head Coach Clemson Assistant Coaches Clemson Football Support Staff Clemson Football Staff Families Meet the Tigers Clemson Alphabetical Roster Kent State Alphabetical Roster & Profile Numerical Rosters & Starting Lineups

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TIGER TRADITIONS First-Team All-Americans First-Round Draft Picks Super Bowl Champions Pro Bowl Players Football Complex Indoor Practice Facility Memorial Stadium (“Death Valley”) Running Down the Hill & Howard’s Rock

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Board of Trustees Jim Clements, President Dan Radakovich, Director of Athletics Student Video Assistants Student Equipment Managers Student Athletic Trainers Cheerleaders Rally Cats Bowl Schedule Stadium Information Opponent Schedules Strength & Conditioning Student-Athlete Enrichment Center NCAA Compliance Athletic Department Staff IPTAY Radio Network & Affiliates Photo-of-the-Week

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TODAY’S GAME KENT STATE VS. CLEMSON

BY TIM BOURRET FIRST GAME AS CHAMPION SINCE 1982 As head coach Dabo Swinney has said many times in the preseason, “We aren’t defending anything. If we were like an NFL team and had Tom Brady back for his 15th year, that would be one thing. But in college football, it is a new team with new coaches.”

As a result, the Tigers start from day one like everyone else.

“We are all looking up the mountain, starting at the same point,” added Swinney.

While Clemson must replace 78 percent of its offense (including All-America quarterback Deshaun Watson and fellow first-round draft pick Mike Williams) and All-America defensive players Ben Boulware, Cordrea Tankersley and Carlos Watkins, there are 52 lettermen returning and a corps of 27 juniors who are 28-2 in the last two seasons.

Highlighting the experienced players returning on offense are Deon Cain, who had a 19.1-yard average and nine receiving touchdowns as a backup to Williams, and Hunter Renfrow, who caught the winning touchdown against Alabama in the national championship game.

Tyrone Crowder and Mitch Hyatt give Clemson two returning First-Team All-ACC offensive linemen.

The Tigers return the top defensive tackle duo in the nation in Dexter Lawrence and Christian Wilkins. Lawrence was the ACC Defensive Rookie-of-the-Year, while Wilkins was a first-team All-American and finalist for the Bronko Nagurski Award.

Clemson has a national-best 597 tackles for loss for 2,481 yards in the last five years. The Tigers return many players who should continue that statistic, including Clelin Ferrell, Kendall Joseph and Dorian O’Daniel.

TWO-TIME DEFENDING ACC CHAMPION The Tigers have won the ACC championship each of the last two seasons, the first time the program has done that since the 1986-88 era, when Clemson won three in a row.

Clemson is one of five programs to win its conference title each of the last two years. The others are Alabama, Arkansas State, Oklahoma and San Diego State.

Alabama is the only school in the nation to win three conference championships in succession.

The Tigers have captured three league titles in the last six years. Arkansas State leads the nation in conference titles since 2011 with five, while Alabama is sec-

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ond with four. Clemson, Florida State, Northern Illinois, Oklahoma, San Diego State and Stanford all have three in the last six years.

GOLDEN FLASH LEADERS Kent State returns a quarterback who spent most of the first half of last season as an all-purpose player. But when Nick Holley moved to the signal-caller position, he responded with a strong performance against Akron, totaling 117 rushing yards and 285 passing yards. For the year, Holley had 920 rushing yards and 868 passing yards. He suffered a knee injury late in the season and did not go through spring practice.

Justin Rankin totaled 511 rushing yards as a freshman despite battling through some injuries, and he also led the team in receptions (28) and receiving yards (335). Senior wide receiver Kris White is back after suffering a season-ending leg injury in last year’s opener, while Kent State is also expecting junior college transfer wideout Donte Ross to make an instant impact.

Six of the top seven tacklers from last season have moved on, but eight players who started the final game

of 2016 return. The defense was strong against the pass, allowing under 200 passing yards per game, and has two former All-MAC cornerbacks returning in seniors Jerrell Foster and Demetrius Monday. Foster had 11 pass breakups and three interceptions. The top-six defensive backs are all seniors and juniors, and they will present a challenge for Clemson’s young cornerbacks.

KENT STATE ALUMS With Kent State playing in a conference that is not in the South, Clemson fans might not know a lot of current Golden Flash players, coaches or alums. But many are well known.

Two former Kent State players who became great head coaches are Lou Holtz and Nick Saban. Holtz won the national championship at Notre Dame, where he had 100 wins from 1986-96. Saban has won five national titles, one at Louisiana State and four at Alabama. The Tigers downed Alabama to win the crown last year, the first time Saban lost a national championship game.

TODAY’S HONOREES

HONORARY CAPTAINS

Two Clemson graduates who started on the 2016 national championship team return to Memorial Stadium as honorary captains for today’s game.

Jay Guillermo (2013-16), who started at center, was a key cog in Clemson’s offensive line that protected Deshaun Watson and paved the way for Wayne Gallman. Guillermo was a First-Team AllACC selection and played all 99 snaps in Clemson’s win over Alabama that clinched the Tigers’ second national title in history.

Jadar Johnson (2013-16), who started at safety, also played a pivotal role in Clemson’s national title last season. He had five interceptions in 2016 and was a First-Team All-ACC selection.

PROFESSOR-OF-THE-GAME Dr. Celeste “CC” Bates is an assistant professor of literacy in Clemson’s College of Education. After beginning her career as an elementary school teacher, she specialized in reading instruction. She continued on to become an educational consultant, helping elementary schools in over 38 states with

their reading education procedures. Her next step led her to Clemson, where she now serves as director of the Clemson University Reading Recovery & Early Literacy Training Center for South Carolina.

Along with computer science Ph.D. student Sam Bryfczynski, Bates developed the Record of Reading, an iOS app that assists with oral reading assessment. Record of Reading has been downloaded over 135,000 times and received the InnoVision Award in 2015.

STAFF MEMBER-OF-THE-GAME Mark Joseph serves Clemson as program coordinator for Call Me MISTER, a program that identifies and encourages a broader variety of teachers from diverse backgrounds. Joseph received his degree in education from Clemson because of the Call Me MISTER program, so he has chosen to give back by investing in the program’s future.

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ACC TIDBITS Team 1. Clemson* Louisville 3. Florida State 4. NC State Wake Forest 6. Syracuse Boston College

ACC Overall Home 7-1 14-1 6-1 7-1 9-4 5-1 5-3 10-3 4-2 3-5 7-6 4-3 3-5 7-6 4-3 2-6 4-8 2-4 2-6 7-6 3-3

Away Neutral 5-0 3-0 4-2 0-1 4-1 2-0 2-3 1-0 2-3 1-0 2-3 0-1 3-2 1-1

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ACC Overall Home 6-2 10-4 5-1 5-3 8-5 4-2 5-3 9-4 4-2 5-3 8-5 6-1 4-4 9-4 5-2 1-7 2-10 1-5 1-7 4-8 3-3

Away Neutral 4-2 1-1 4-1 0-2 4-2 1-0 2-3 0-1 2-2 2-0 1-5 0-0 1-5 0-0

TODAY’S GAME

2016 ATLANTIC DIVISION STANDINGS

* - ACC champion

2016 BOWL RESULTS

LINEBACKERS JUDAH DAVIS (#36) AND J.D. DAVIS (#33) WITH THEIR FATHER, JEFF DAVIS, WHO ALL OWN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RINGS.

Antonio Gates and Jack Lambert are two former Golden Flashes who combined for 17 Pro Bowl appearances. Gates is one of the most unusual stories in NFL history. He never played a down of football at Kent State, but was a 20-point scorer in basketball. He led Kent State to the 2002 NCAA Tournament, where his team won two games in Greenville, S.C. His #44 Kent State jersey is retired in basketball. At 6’4”, an in-between size to be a frontcourt player in the NBA, he turned to football and has been one of the top tight ends in NFL history.

Lambert made nine Pro Bowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers during his 11-year NFL career. He married former Clemson volleyball star Lisa Harbison, who was the first three-time All-ACC volleyball player in Tiger history.

Few realize that Kent State has also been the cradle of comics. Drew Carey, Arsenio Hall and Steve Harvey are all alums of Kent State.

SECOND-GENERATION TIGERS

• J.D. Davis (LB) - Identical twin brother of Clemson linebacker Judah Davis and son of former Clemson All-America linebacker Jeff Davis.

• Judah Davis (LB) - Identical twin brother of Clemson linebacker J.D. Davis and son of former Clemson AllAmerica linebacker Jeff Davis.

• Brian Dawkins Jr. (CB) - Son of former Tiger AllAmerican and nine-time NFL Pro Bowl safety Brian Dawkins.

• Jarvis Magwood (LB) - Son of former Clemson wide receiver Frank Magwood, who played on the 1981 national championship team.

• Cannon Smith (TE) - Son of former Clemson starting defensive end Bill Smith, who was a starter on the 1981 • 2016

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WILKINS ON NINE WATCH LISTS Defensive lineman Christian Wilkins was on watch lists for an ACC-high nine national awards. Second was Derwin James (Florida State) with six, while Harold Landry (Boston College), Jordan Whitehead (Pittsburgh) and Quin Blanding (Virginia) were on five lists apiece.

Wilkins was a preseason candidate for the Bednarik, Lott and Nagurski awards that go to the nation’s top defender. He was a finalist for the 2016 Nagurski Trophy.

He is also on the watch list for the Wuerffel Trophy and AFCA Goodworks Team that combine excellence on the field, in the classroom and community service.

The junior, who expects to graduate in December, is also a candidate for the Maxwell and Walter Camp Awards, which go to the national player-of-the-year, and the Outland Trophy, which goes to the top interior lineman in the nation. Finally, he is a candidate for the Paul Hornung Award, which goes to the nation’s top all-purpose player.

Six other Tigers are on at least one watch list. Defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence is a candidate for the Bednarik Award, Nagurski Trophy, Walter Camp Award and Outland Trophy. Wide receiver Deon Cain is on the watch list for the Biletnikoff Award and Greg Huegel is on the watch list for the Groza Award, which goes to the nation’s top placekicker.

Offensive linemen Tyrone Crowder and Mitch Hyatt are on the watch list for the Outland Trophy, while Kendall Joseph is on the watch list for the Butkus Award, which goes to the nation’s Clemson is 4-0 (1.000) all-time on September 2. The last game top linebacker.

ON THIS DATE

on this date was Clemson’s 54-6 victory over Florida Atlantic at Memorial Stadium in 2006.

THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE Presbyterian College at Wake Forest ACCN *6:30 p.m.

Central Connecticut at Syracuse ACCN 7 p.m.

Boston College at Northern Illinois CBSSN 9:30 p.m.

Kent State at Clemson ESPN Noon California at North Carolina ACCN 12:20 p.m.

Bethune-Cookman at Miami (Fla.) ACCN 12:30 p.m.

Youngstown State at Pittsburgh ACCN 1 p.m.

NC State vs. South Carolina (Charlotte, N.C.) ESPN 3 p.m.

William & Mary at Virginia ACCN 3:30 p.m.

North Carolina Central at Duke ACCN 6 p.m.

Louisville vs. Purdue (Indianapolis, Ind.) FOX 7:30 p.m.

Florida State vs. Alabama (Atlanta, Ga.) ABC 8 p.m.

West Virginia vs. Virginia Tech (Landover, Md.) ABC º7:30 p.m.

M Tennessee vs. Georgia Tech (Atlanta, Ga.) ESPN 8 p.m. * - Thursday; ^ - Friday; º - Sunday; M - Monday; Note: All times are EDT.

2016 TEAM STATS Team Boston College Clemson Duke Florida State Georgia Tech Louisville Miami (Fla.) North Carolina NC State Pittsburgh Syracuse Virginia Virginia Tech Wake Forest

Yards Off. Def. 292.8 314.2 503.5 311.5 393.3 414.7 466.4 349.1 387.2 401.6 532.7 322.2 425.9 344.2 439.0 408.1 416.7 352.8 446.8 452.8 440.8 501.1 352.9 446.6 444.5 340.7 311.5 370.5

Points Off. Def. 20.4 25.0 39.2 18.0 23.3 28.2 35.1 25.0 28.2 24.5 42.5 23.8 34.3 18.5 32.3 24.9 27.0 22.8 40.9 35.2 25.7 38.6 22.5 33.8 35.0 22.8 20.4 22.2

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Car. 260 209 156 151 60

Yards 1571 1117 589 623 631

TD 21 14 6 4 5

Y/G 120.8 85.9 58.9 51.9 48.5

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Cm. 230 230 235 270 243

Att. 355 409 400 430 402

Yards 2679 3543 3350 2836 3059

TD 15 30 20 16 18

Y/G 297.7 272.5 257.7 236.3 235.3

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Rec. 49 76 90 36

Yards 934 983 822 870

TD 3 5 6 10

Y/G 71.8 70.2 68.5 66.9

KENT STATE VS. CLEMSON

Clemson has nine second-generation Tigers on its 2017 roster. That is tied for most in the nation with Michigan. The list includes five former Tigers who played on the 1981 national championship team. All five sons were on the Tiger roster last year, so Clemson has five second-generation national champions. Those five current players are J.D. Davis, Judah Davis, Jarvis Magwood, Cannon Smith and Kanyon Tuttle.

Below is a list of the nine second-generation Clemson players:

1981 national championship team and is now on the Clemson Board of Trustees.

• Baylon Spector (LB) - Son of former Clemson wide receiver Robbie Spector.

• Will Spiers (P) - Son of former Clemson punter and baseball All-American Bill Spiers.

• Amir Trapp (CB) - Son of former Tiger starting defensive back James Trapp, who played 10 years in the NFL and won a Super Bowl title with the Ravens.

• Kanyon Tuttle (WR) - Son of 1981 Clemson All-America wide receiver Perry Tuttle.

Maryland 30 vs. Boston College 36 (Quick Lane Bowl) Ohio State 0 vs. Clemson 31 (Fiesta Bowl) Clemson 35 vs. Alabama 31 (CFP National Championship Game) Michigan 32 vs. Florida State 33 (Orange Bowl) Georgia Tech 33 vs. Kentucky 18 (Taxslayer Bowl) Louisiana State 29 vs. Louisville 9 (Citrus Bowl) West Virginia 14 vs. Miami (Fla.) 31 (Russell Athletic Bowl) Stanford 25 vs. North Carolina 23 (Sun Bowl) NC State 41 vs. Vanderbilt 17 (Independence Bowl) Pittsburgh 24 vs. Northwestern 31 (Pinstripe Bowl) Arkansas 24 vs. Virginia Tech 35 (Belk Bowl) Temple 26 vs. Wake Forest 34 (Military Bowl)

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STATISTICAL MATCHUP CLEMSON Category Total Offense Plays Yards/Play Yards/Game Rushing Yards/Game Passing Yards/Game Passing Efficiency First Downs/Game Points/Game Touchdowns Field Goals Punting Average Punt Returns Kickoff Returns Penalties Turnovers Third-Down Conversion % Time of Possession/Game Interceptions By Defense Sacks

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Clemson 7552 1221 6.2 503.5 169.5 333.9 152.2 26.9 39.2 78 14-19 38.2 35-278 34-723 95-870 28 50.2 30:36 20-309 49-322

Opp. 4672 1008 4.6 311.5 129.6 181.9 100.2 17.0 18.0 34 12-20 41.9 10-52 57-1123 118-1012 27 28.1 29:00 17-169 21-117

2016 SCORING BY QUARTERS Team Clemson Opponents

1st 176 34

2nd 157 74

3rd 111 78

4th 137 84

OT 7 0

Tot 588 270

2016 RETURNING RUSHING LEADERS # 28 27 26 34 2

Player Tavien Feaster C.J. Fuller Adam Choice Ray-Ray McCloud Kelly Bryant Clemson Opponents

Car. 37 47 45 5 12 592 525

Yards 221 211 158 28 22 2543 1944

Avg. 6.0 4.5 3.5 5.6 1.8 4.3 3.7

TD 2 0 0 0 1 30 20

LG 45 27 16 17 27 59 70

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Category Total Offense Plays Yards/Play Yards/Game Rushing Yards/Game Passing Yards/Game Passing Efficiency First Downs/Game Points/Game Touchdowns Field Goals Punting Average Punt Returns Kickoff Returns Penalties Turnovers Third-Down Conversion % Time of Possession/Game Interceptions By Defense Sacks

Cm. Att. 6 9 4 4 422 629 252 483

Yards Int. 48 0 25 0 5009 17 2728 20

TD 1 0 45 13

Player Ray-Ray McCloud Hunter Renfrow Deon Cain Cornell Powell Trevion Thompson Clemson Opponents

Rec. 49 44 38 12 11 422 252

Yards 472 495 724 87 108 5009 2728

Avg. 9.6 11.2 19.1 7.3 9.8 11.9 10.8

TD 2 6 9 0 1 45 13

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Player Kendall Joseph Van Smith Dexter Lawrence Dorian O’Daniel Christian Wilkins Clelin Ferrell Ryan Carter Tanner Muse Jalen Williams Tre Lamar Albert Huggins Marcus Edmond Chad Smith

Tac. TFL 124 13.5-53 114 5.5-17 78 9.5-44 60 10-35 56 13-52 50 12.5-65 29 5.5-31 24 24 1-2 22 2.5-4 20 3-13 19 1-3 19

Sacks 3.5-31 7-33 2.5-15 3.5-23 6-38 1-16

2nd 78 84

3rd 49 85

4th 58 99

OT 19 22

Tot 247 344

2016 RETURNING RUSHING LEADERS # 4 11 21 84 2

Player Nick Holley Justin Rankin Will Matthews Kavious Price George Bollas Kent State Opponents

# Player 4 Nick Holley 2 George Bollas Kent State Opponents

Car. 195 108 31 20 23 473 537

Yards 920 511 138 128 109 2010 2277

Avg. 4.7 4.7 4.5 6.4 4.7 4.2 4.2

TD 10 3 0 0 1 15 24

LG 68 47 51 28 85 85 85

Cm. Att. 72 146 27 57 147 292 183 353

Yards Int. 868 3 402 2 1700 8 2361 12

TD 4 2 11 16

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LG 36 35 65 18 25 65 68

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2016 RETURNING TACKLE LEADERS # 34 23 90 6 42 99 31 19 30 57 67 29 43

1st 43 54

2016 RETURNING PASSING LEADERS LG 15 17 65 68

2016 RETURNING RECEIVING LEADERS # 34 13 8 17 1

Opp. 4638 890 5.2 386.5 189.8 196.8 116.2 21.7 28.7 43 13-17 42.3 21-185 43-871 58-550 24 39.8 31:02 8-110 33-267

2016 SCORING BY QUARTERS Team Kent State Opponents

2016 RETURNING PASSING LEADERS # Player 2 Kelly Bryant 10 Tucker Israel Clemson Opponents

Kent State 3710 765 4.8 309.2 167.5 141.7 106.2 14.8 20.6 29 15-22 39.2 22-123 40-750 65-539 13 33.1 28:58 12-157 21-127

Player Justin Rankin Raekwon James Nick Holley Kavious Price Myles Washington Kent State Opponents

Rec. 28 25 13 12 7 147 183

Yards 335 225 135 86 63 1700 2361

Avg. 12.0 9.0 10.4 7.2 9.0 11.6 12.9

TD 1 0 2 0 0 11 16

LG 54 47 28 18 29 57 55

2016 RETURNING TACKLE LEADERS

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Player Tac. Juantez McRae 59 Jerrell Foster 39 Jim Jones 37 Jon Cunningham 34 James Alexander 33 Jamal Parker 28 Theo Eboigbe 22 Dominic Hill 19 Darryl Marshall 19 Demetrius Monday 18 Matt Sommers 8 Nick Faulkner 7 Mandela Lawrence-Burke 7

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2017 SCHEDULE

2017 SCHEDULE

Date Opponent TV Time 9-2 Kent State ESPN Noon 9-9 Auburn ESPN 7 p.m.

9-16 * at Louisville 3:30 p.m.

9-23 * Boston College 9-30 * at Virginia Tech 10-7 * Wake Forest 10-13 * at Syracuse ESPN 7 p.m.

10-28 * Georgia Tech 11-4 * at NC State 11-11 * Florida State 11-18 The Citadel 11-25 at South Carolina * - ACC regular-season game; Note: All times are EDT; home games in bold.

Date Opponent TV Time 9-2 at Clemson ESPN Noon 9-9 Howard ESPN3 3:30 p.m.

9-16 at Marshall 6:30 p.m.

9-23 at Louisville 9-30 * Buffalo 10-7 * at Northern Illinois 3:30 p.m.

10-14 * Miami (Ohio) 3:30 p.m.

10-21 * at Ohio 10-31 * Bowling Green 11-8 * at Western Michigan 11-14 * Central Michigan 11-21 * at Akron ESPNU 7 p.m. * - MAC regular-season game; Note: All times are Eastern; home games in bold.

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LEMSON SECURED ITS SECOND NATIONAL TITLE BY DEFEATING ALABAMA 35-31 ON A LAST-SECOND TOUCHDOWN IN TAMPA ON THE NIGHT OF JAN. 9, 2017. TODAY, CLEMSON CELEBRATES ITS 2016 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. HERE’S A LOOK BACK AT SOME OF THE BEHIND-THE-SCENE STORIES FROM THE LANDMARK SEASON.

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1981 • 2016

ON FOURTH DOWN, MARCUS EDMOND STOPPED JAMES QUICK ONE YARD SHORT OF A FIRST DOWN TO PRESERVE THE TIGERS’ 42-36 WIN OVER NO. 3 LOUISVILLE. TWO WEEKS LATER AGAINST NC STATE, EDMOND ENDED THE GAME WITH AN INTERCEPTION IN OVERTIME.

RESOLVE FOR 2016 SEASON Clemson’s drive to the 2016 national championship really began on Jan. 11, 2016. The Tigers had been 14-0 during the 2015 season, the only perfect FBS team, entering the national championship game against Alabama, but came up short 45-40 in one of the best national title games in history.

The locker room after that game was one of disappointment, but also one of resolve. That resolve was led by Dabo Swinney, who told his team, “It took us 34 years to get to this game, but it is not going to take us 34 years to get back.”

You could see it on the faces of the players in that locker room. While it had been a landmark, record-setting and satisfying season in 2015, the players and coaches were not too satisfied.

As the players left the locker room in Arizona that night, there was a motivation to get back to the final game the following season.

OPENING WIN AT AUBURN Dabo Swinney is always ready for the season opener, but opening at Auburn was a little extra special for the Alabama graduate. He had been involved in that rivalry for over a decade and had suffered some heartbreaks at Jordan-Hare Stadium.

That would not be the case on this warm night in Auburn. While former Clemson defensive coordinator Kevin Steele held the ACC Tigers to season lows in points (19) and total yards (399), Clemson came out on top with a 19-13 victory.

Clemson had a 19-6 lead thanks to a diving touchdown catch by Hunter Renfrow on a third-and-goal situation with 10 minutes left, but Auburn came back to 19-13 and had the ball for a final drive. But Jadar Johnson batted away two straight “Hail Mary” passes and Clemson earned a hard-fought win over an Auburn team that finished the season in the top 25 of both polls.

While some media downplayed the importance of No. 2 Clemson’s victory,

the Tigers were the only top-25 team to win a game on an opponent’s home field in the first week of the season. It was Clemson’s first season-opening road victory over a team currently in the SEC since the Tigers won at Georgia to open the 1903 season under head coach John Heisman.

EDMOND DELIVERS, PART I Deshaun Watson and Lamar Jackson had lit up the scoreboards the first month of the 2016 season, and they were set to face each other in a primetime matchup that would be talked about for years.

Not since November 1977, when Notre Dame and quarterback Joe Montana came to Clemson to face Clemson and quarterback Steve Fuller, had Memorial Stadium seen such a talented matchup of signal-callers.

Louisville entered the game ranked No. 3 in the nation and Jackson was averaging over 500 yards per game after he shocked the nation with a 63-20 win over Florida State, who was No. 2 in the nation entering that game.

With ESPN College GameDay in town and the Clemson crowd ready for a night thriller, the Tigers jumped out to a 28-10 lead in the first half, as Watson had two passing touchdowns to Deon Cain and one to roommate Artavis Scott.

However, Louisville had earned their No. 3 ranking and showed the audience the dynamic nature of its attack. Jackson led Louisville on a 26-0 run, as he ran for one score and threw for two.

It was time for Watson to return serve.

Thanks to Scott’s 77-yard kickoff return, perhaps the most important play of the regular season, Watson only had to take the Tigers 23 yards for a touchdown. He did it in just two plays, hitting Mike Williams for a 20-yard score.

The back-and-forth scoring continued late into the game. After a passing touchdown to Jordan Leggett allowed Clemson to retake the lead, Jackson took the Cardinals down the field. They had a fourth-and-12 at the Clemson 14 with just seconds left. Jackson connected with James Quick near the sideline. An alert Marcus Edmond closed quickly and

forced Quick out of bounds at the three, one yard short of a first down.

The 42-36 victory was the third in a row by seven points or less for the Tigers against Louisville. It is just the second time in history and first since three straight wins over Duke from 1965-67 that Clemson beat a team in three consecutive years by a touchdown or less.

EDMOND DELIVERS, PART II NC State came to Clemson with a 4-1 record and had a history of giving the Tigers trouble when they were having a good year. In 2011, Clemson was No. 7 in the nation, but the Wolfpack beat the Tigers 37-13. That was the last time Clemson had lost to an unranked foe.

Clemson had some turnover problems, including the only “pick six” of Deshaun Watson’s career, high school or college. On the final play of regulation, Kyle Bambard lined up for a 33-yard field-goal attempt to give the Wolfpack the upset of the day in college football.

But his attempt was wide right and the game went into overtime.

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Prior to overtime, Hunter Renfrow told the offensive coaches about an NC State defensive back who was guarding him a certain way and that a specific play would work. On Clemson’s possession, the Tiger offensive coaches took Renfrow’s advice and Watson hit Artavis Scott over the middle for a touchdown.

NC State went for the score on its first play in overtime, but Marcus Edmond made his second game-saving play of the season, hauling in an interception in the endzone that proved to be the first defensive walkoff play for the Tigers since 1997, when Rahim Abdullah had an overtime, game-ending interception for a touchdown against Duke.

JORDAN LEGGETT SCORED THE GAME-WINNING TOUCHDOWN LATE IN THE GAME AT NO. 12 FLORIDA STATE. FOUR WEEKS LATER, DESHAUN WATSON LED CLEMSON TO A 56-7 WIN AGAINST SOUTH CAROLINA, COMPLETING HIS 3-0 CAREER RECORD VERSUS THE GAMECOCKS.

TALLAHASSEE THRILLER The 2016 schedule featured three games in opponent stadiums where Dabo Swinney had never won. The Tigers were a combined 0-8 at Auburn, Georgia Tech and Florida State since Swinney became head coach in 2008. Having conquered Auburn and Georgia Tech stadium demons, the Tigers headed to Tallahassee on October 29 to attempt to make it a clean sweep and continue to show this was going to be a special season.

Clemson was masterful in the first quarter and fourth quarter, scoring 31 points in those quarters combined. But the Seminoles won the middle two quarters 28-6 and had a 28-20 lead entering the fourth quarter.

Watson had not had to lead many comebacks previously, but they were commonplace in his final season. First, he led Clemson on a 75-yard touchdown drive that culminated with a Wayne Gallman two-yard touchdown run.

Then, Greg Huegel made a clutch 46-yard field goal to put Clemson ahead 29-28 with just over five minutes left.

But Florida State came back on another Dalvin Cook touchdown run, this time from eight yards out with 3:23 left.

Watson had been saving some plays for Jordan Leggett the entire game, and he completed four passes for 70 yards to the talented tight end on the final drive. That included a 34-yard passing touchdown to the Tiger All-American with 2:06 left. Leggett showed his athletic ability by diving over a defender to complete the play.

Florida State still had 2:06 remaining in the game to drive for a tying field goal and send the game into overtime, but consecutive sacks by Dexter Lawrence and Ben Boulware snuffed out the drive and Clemson had its first win in Tallahassee since 2006 and just its second since 1989.

COMPLETING A PROMISE Deshaun Watson and Mike Williams were on the cover of the Clemson vs.

South Carolina gameday program in

2016. While they were not seniors in terms of athletic eligibility, they were academically, and obviously ready to turn professional. They knew and Clemson fans knew that this would be their final appearance in Memorial Stadium.

They made that final appearance count as Watson totaled six passing touchdowns, the most ever by a Tiger against South Carolina, and Williams became the first Tiger with three receiving touchdowns against the Gamecocks. All three came in the first half.

Their performance led Clemson to a 56-7 win, the largest victory margin ever for an ACC team over an SEC team.

When Watson was a freshman, he stated that he was not going to lose to South Carolina during his career. Clemson had lost five games in a row to the Gamecocks before he joined the Tiger program.

In legendary fashion, including a performance with a torn ACL as a freshman, Watson lived up to that statement with a 3-0 record. In the three games, he completed 61-79 passes for 895 yards and nine touchdowns against just one interception. The 207.4 passing efficiency was his best career figure against an opponent.

BACK-TO-BACK ACC TITLES The ACC Championship Game in Orlando, Fla., which was similar to the 2015 title clincher, saw the Tigers victorious with a 42-35 win when Clemson’s offense was at its best. That included Deshaun Watson, who was the offensive MVP for the second straight year.

As it had four times previously in 2016, the Tigers scored the first two touchdowns of the game, first on a threeyard run by Watson, then on a 21-yard pass from Watson to Jordan Leggett.

Watson would have his best combination passing and running game of the year, as he passed for 288 yards and rushed for 88 yards, as Clemson beat Virginia Tech for the fourth straight time, including two wins in ACC title games.

He finished with five total touchdowns, as the Clemson offense had just one turnover and averaged 6.3 yards per play.

Cordrea Tankersley led the defense with two interceptions and freshman Dexter Lawrence had two sacks, as Clemson recorded its 12th win of the season, including its eighth against a team that finished the year with a winning record.

The victory gave Clemson back-toback ACC championships for the first time in 28 years.

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AFTER DESHAUN WATSON LED CLEMSON TO ITS SECOND STRAIGHT ACC TITLE WITH A 42-35 WIN OVER VIRGINIA TECH, CLELIN FERRELL, CARLOS WATKINS AND THE REST OF THE TIGER DEFENSE BLANKED NO. 2 OHIO STATE 31-0 IN THE FIESTA BOWL.

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the Fiesta Bowl. The Buckeyes were the first program to reach the playoff without winning their conference title.

The Tigers had the Buckeyes just where they wanted them from an intangible standpoint, and it was never a contest. Clemson’s 31-0 triumph was so dominant that Dabo Swinney pulled his offensive starters for the last two drives.

The Tigers gained 205 rushing yards and 265 passing yards against the nation’s third-best defense that had allowed just 282 yards per game.

The shutout was the first for the Buckeye program since 1993 and the first for Urban Meyer, the third-winningest coach in college football history in terms of percentage, in his 194 games as a head coach.

On the same day, Alabama defeated Washington 24-7 in the other semifinal in Atlanta, setting up the first rematch of a national-championship-deciding game in college football history.

tional defensive player-of-the-year Jonathan Allen.

Both teams were in the top 10 in total defense and scoring defense entering the game, and it appeared it would be a defensive battle in the first half. Alabama led 14-7 at halftime, the first time all year Clemson did not have the halftime lead.

Alabama could have taken a dominant 21-7 lead early in the third quarter when the ball was stripped from Wayne Gallman and recovered by Ryan Anderson, but Hunter Renfrow made the hid-

den play-of-the-game by stopping Anderson short of the goal line. Clemson then held the Crimson Tide to a field goal.

Alabama actually increased its lead to 24-14 through three quarters.

Just as Clemson had won 51 games in a row when leading entering the fourth quarter prior to the 2015 title game, Nick Saban had won 97 games in a row with a double-digit lead as a head coach entering the fourth quarter.

The cumulative affect of the Tiger offense took its toll on Alabama in the fourth quarter. First, The Tigers drove 72

THE REMATCH Alabama had won 26 games in a row, the longest winning streak by an SEC team since 1980, and had won 16 games in row over top-25 teams, tied for the longest streak since the poll era began in 1936.

While Alabama was noted for its defense in winning the national championship in 2015, its numbers were even better in 2016. The Crimson Tide allowed just two yards per carry and 244 total yards per game, 40 yards per game fewer than any other team.

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yards in nine plays to cut the margin to 24-21 when Deshaun Watson connected with Mike Williams on a four-yard touchdown pass.

After a trade of punts, Clemson drove 88 yards in six plays to take a 28-24 lead with 4:38 left. But Alabama drove right back.

The Crimson Tide was faced with a third-and-16 and a fourth-and-one, but converted. One trick play later and a 30yard run by Jalen Hurts, and Alabama had a 31-28 lead with 2:07 left. Just 2:07 until a fifth national championship in eight years, something no one had ever done.

What followed was the “drive of the ages” for the Clemson program.

Sixty-eight yards away with 61 seconds on the clock after C.J. Fuller’s kickoff return was the challenge.

Clemson drove to the Alabama two yard line with just six seconds left behind great catches by Williams and Jordan Leggett.

Knowing this could be the final play of the game and his career, Watson rolled to his right and found an open Renfrow in the endzone. He went to the ground with the ball in his stomach. There was just one second left on the clock.

The catch, Renfrow’s 10th of the game, the most against Alabama in four years, gave Clemson a 34-31 lead. The ensuing extra point made the score 3531. How fitting that Clemson had scored 35 points when it had been 35 years since the Tigers had won their only previous national championship.

After recovering an onside kick, just Clemson’s fourth onside kick recovery in the last 39 years, all the Tigers had to do was kneel down. Fittingly, Watson had the ball in his hands on the last play. @CLEMSONFB

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NATIONAL CHAMPIONS VISIT OUR NATION’S CAPITAL MEMBERS OF CLEMSON’S 2016 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM TOURED THE WHITE HOUSE AND CAPITOL HILL IN JUNE.

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hat do you do when you win the national title? You visit Washington, D.C., of course. Just over five months after Clemson celebrated its first national title in 35 years with a dramatic 35-31 win over Ala-

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bama in Tampa, Fla., players, coaches and staff boarded buses and planes for a one-day trip to our nation’s capital on June 12.

After arriving into Washington, D.C., in a bus convoy lined with a police escort, the team first headed to the White

FORMER TIGERS BILLY DAVIS (LEFT) AND KEVIN YOUNGBLOOD (RIGHT), BOTH MEMBERS OF THE SECRET SERVICE FAMILY, WERE ON HAND WHEN CLEMSON VISITED THE WHITE HOUSE IN JUNE.

House. It took about an hour to go through security in order to gain access to one of the world’s most secure houses.

One of the members of the Secret Service who greeted the team at the White House was former Tiger wideout Kevin Youngblood (2000-03), whose mile-wide smile was hard to miss.

The team members made their way into the White House, where they had free rein to roam on the first floor.

There was the Red Room, Green Room and other historical rooms with priceless antique pictures adorning the walls.

While the team had an hour to enjoy lunch inside, away from the sweltering weather outside, many players heard stories of worldwide leaders who visited those same rooms.

It was time for the national championship recognition on the south lawn.

President Donald Trump made his entrance with the team lining the area and steps behind the podium and with executives and legislators, including Henry McMaster, Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott, in attendance. The president, who highlighted some of the big moments and players from the game in Tampa, made congratulatory remarks and even called some players, including Deshaun Watson and Hunter Renfrow, to the podium to shake hands.

After Clemson University president Jim Clements spoke, head coach Dabo Swinney gave a passionate account of his team and the 2016 season. In typical Swinney fashion, he received many rounds of applause for his ability to tell stories about the season like only he can.

The team boarded the buses and traveled a few blocks away to the Capitol, where they took a team picture on the steps. The team then toured the inside of the Capitol, including the massive rotunda. After an hour there, the team headed back to the airport and traveled home with hopes of returning back to the district in 2018.

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THANK YOU, CLEMSON FAMILY, FOR GIVING 110%.

This year was a victory on the field and off. The dreams were big and the goals were lofty, but yet again, the Clemson Family pulled us through.

Over 22,000 alumni, friends, parents and corporations made gifts this year, bringing our total dollars raised to over $151 million. Your gifts have a direct impact on our students, faculty and staff and help provide the necessary resources, facilities and technology to allow for their success. Meeting these ambitious goals takes teamwork, and we couldn’t ask for a stronger, more dedicated team than the Clemson Family. Your support not only helps us be champions today, but also prepares us for future success.

This was a year to remember on many fronts! We are forever grateful for your support. clemson.edu/giving

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BOARD of TRUSTEES E. SMYTH McKISSICK III

CLEMSON UNIVERSITY IS GOVERNED BY A 13-MEMBER BOARD OF TRUSTEES, INCLUDING SEVEN SUCCESSOR TRUSTEES AND SIX ELECTED BY THE STATE LEGISLATURE, AS PROVIDED BY THE WILL OF THOMAS GREEN CLEMSON.

Chair • Greenville, S.C.

JOHN N. McCARTER JR. Vice Chair • Columbia, S.C.

DAVID E. DUKES

RONALD D. LEE

LOUIS B. LYNN

PATRICIA H. McABEE

ROBERT L. PEELER

CHERI M. PHYFER

MARK S. RICHARDSON

WILLIAM C. SMITH JR.

Columbia, S.C.

Lexington, S.C.

Aiken, S.C.

Cleveland, Ohio

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Charlotte, N.C.

Greenville, S.C.

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Trustee Hometown Louis P. Batson Jr. Greenville, S.C. J.J. Britton Sumter, S.C. Fletcher C. Derrick Jr. Charleston, S.C. Leon J. Hendrix Jr. Kiawah Island, S.C. Harold D. Kingsmore Clemson, S.C. Thomas B. McTeer Jr. Columbia, S.C. Allen Wood Florence, S.C.

JOSEPH D. SWANN Greenville, S.C.

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KIM WILKERSON Cayce, S.C.

DAVID H. WILKINS Greenville, S.C.

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JIM CLEMENTS DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR, NATIONALLY-RECOGNIZED VOICE IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND PROVEN LEADER WHO UNDERSTANDS CLEMSON’S UNIQUE MISSION AS A LAND-GRANT UNIVERSITY.

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im Clements became Clemson University’s 15th president on Dec. 31, 2013 after serving as president of West Virginia University. Since his arrival, the value of the Tiger Paw has never been higher, driven by the university’s elevated academic reputation and the exposure from Clemson’s athletic success on the national stage.

Under Clements’ leadership last year, the university successfully completed its $1 billion “Will To Lead” capital campaign, making Clemson the first public university in the country with an alumni base of fewer than 150,000 to achieve that fundraising campaign milestone.

In the past four years, Clemson has also reached new heights in admissions, enrollment, graduation and retention rates, research, facilities development and athletics, and last year was named among the top-25 public universities in the nation by U.S. News & World Report magazine for the ninth consecutive year, earning its best composite score ever.

Clements is a nationally recognized leader in higher education who has served as president of a university in three different athletic conferences, the

Big East Conference, Big 12 Conference and ACC, where he is the most recent past chair of the ACC Council of Presidents. He currently serves on the board of directors of the American Council on Education and on the executive committee of the Association of Public & LandGrant Universities.

Before he came to Clemson, Clements served as president of West Virginia University for nearly five years. During

that time, it set significant records in private fundraising, enrollment and research funding.

Clements holds a B.S. degree in computer science as well as an M.S. degree and Ph.D. in operations analysis from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. He also holds an M.S. degree in computer science from Johns Hopkins University and was awarded an honorary degree as doctor of public education from his alma mater, UMBC.

His “Successful Project Management” book is now in its seventh edition, and has been published in multiple languages and used in numerous countries.

Clements was born in Arlington, Va., but spent the majority of his life in Maryland before relocating to West Virginia and then Clemson. He and his wife, Beth, have been married for 26 years and have four children, Tyler, Hannah, Maggie and Grace, and a son-in-law, Tanner Coombs.

UNDER CLEMENTS’ LEADERSHIP • Undergraduate applications have increased 42 percent.

• Freshman ACT and SAT scores are at an all-time high.

• A record 29 students earned national awards in 2017.

• ClemsonForward strategic plan was launched.

• Research awards have increased 41 percent.

• Clemson attained Carnegie R1 highest research activity status for first time.

• Clemson has raised nearly $500 million in private funds.

• Value of Clemson Foundation Endowment has increased by 30 percent.

• He has led commencement ceremonies for more than 20,000 graduates.

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THE CLEMENTS FAMILY - JIM AND WIFE, BETH, ALONG WITH (FROM LEFT TO RIGHT) SON-IN-LAW, TANNER, AND CHILDREN MAGGIE, HANNAH, GRACE AND TYLER.

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DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS

DAN RADAKOVICH

CLEMSON’S 13TH DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS, IN HIS SIXTH SEASON IN TIGERTOWN, HAS OVER 29 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AT PROGRAMS ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

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amed the 13th director of athletics in Clemson history on Dec. 1, 2012, Dan Radakovich has continuously led the Tiger athletic department to high achievements, both on the field and in the classroom, while developing significant upgrades in finance and facilities. Since his arrival, Radakovich has led Clemson athletics to a period of sustained success, considered among the greatest stretches in school history.

During the 2016-17 academic year, in addition to football winning the national championship, men’s soccer advancing to the Elite Eight, baseball hosting a regional for the second consecutive season and men’s and women’s golf advancing to the NCAA National Tournament, the Clemson athletic department tied the university’s highest score in the NCAA’s Graduation Success Rate at 91 percent. It tied for sixth nationally among public institutions, while a school-record six programs were recognized by the NCAA for outstanding APR. Student-athlete development continues to be a driving force for the athletic department under Radakovich, and the Nieri Family Student-Athlete Enrichment Center in the newly-renovated WestZone is a state-of-the-art facility for student-athlete development in the classroom and community. The development, rebranding and expansion of football’s P.A.W. Journey highlights a bestin-class approach to preparation for life after their Clemson football career.

The athletic district has received a near-complete facelift in the past few years, and last year, Littlejohn Coliseum opened to rave reviews following a $63 million renovation. The new Allen N. Reeves Football Complex opened in February and has set the standard for football facilities around the country.

Since 2013, the athletic department has received approvals for $162 million

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in facility improvements and increased athletics since 1940, he replaced Terry spending on direct student-athlete deDon Phillips, who retired after over 10 velopment programs, including nutriyears directing the program. tion, mental health and professional Prior to his tenure at Georgia Tech, development, by $2.4 million. His deRadakovich worked as a senior associate partment has increased overall revenue athletic director at Louisiana State from from $69 million in fiscal year 2014 to 2001-06. He had many responsibilities a budgeted $108 million in fiscal year that dealt with the football program and 2018. worked closely with then head coach As a result of the litany of accomplishments, he was named 2017 SportsBusiness DAN AND MARCIE Journal Athletic Director-ofRADAKOVICH AT the-Year after being a finalist THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP in 2015.

GAME IN TAMPA. Prior to his arrival in Clemson, Radakovich amassed a wealth of experience serving in significant athletic administrative roles at Miami (Fla.), Long Beach State, South Carolina and Louisiana State in addition to athletic directorships at American University and Georgia Tech. His administrative career spans 30 years.

College football entered a new era in 2014 with the College Football Playoff, and he was at the forefront. He was one of 13 people, including one of only five FBS directors of athletics, to be named to the committee.

In 2012, he was named by NCAA president Mark Emmert as one of 10 directors of athletics to a new advisory commission charged with making recommendations for the future of NCAA rules and policies.

Radakovich came to Clemson from Georgia Tech, where he served with distinction for six years (2006-12). Just Clemson’s fifth director of

Nick Saban, including the year (2003) the Tigers won the national title.

Between 1994 and 2000, he served as chief financial officer at South Carolina. During that time, he worked with current Clemson football administrators Woody McCorvey and Brad Scott.

He gained experience on the West Coast from 1989-94, when he was a senior associate athletic director at Long Beach State. He got his start in administration at Miami in 1983 as the athletic business manager.

The Aliquippa, Pa., native was first made aware of Tiger athletics through the basketball exploits of Butch Zatezalo, who was from the same town.

Zatezalo was a three-time All-ACC Tiger whose legendary 25-point scoring nights received a lot of attention in Pennsylvania in the 1960s when Radakovich was a youth.

Radakovich is a 1980 graduate of Indiana (Pa.), where he earned a bachelor’s degree in finance. He was also a football letterman and student coach with the Crimson Hawk program. He was enshrined into the Beaver County Sports Hall of Fame in 2008 and was recognized as a distinguished alumnus from Indiana in 2009. He earned his master’s degree in business administration from Miami in 1982.

Radakovich, born June 9, 1958, and his wife, Marcie, have two sons, Christian, a 2012 Georgia Tech graduate, and Grant, a 2015 Mercer graduate who played on the 2016 Clemson national championship football team.

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DABO SWINNEY

ALL IN THE FOUR-TIME NATIONAL COACH-OF-THE-YEAR AND HIS ALL-IN APPROACH HAVE LED THE PROGRAM TO RECORD-SETTING HEIGHTS, INCLUDING THE 2016 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP.

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here is a strong coaching heritage over the 121 years of Clemson football that dates to the early 1900s, when John Heisman led the program. Jess Neely, Frank Howard and Danny Ford continued the winning and joined Heisman in the College Football Hall of Fame.

Dabo Swinney has been at Clemson for just nine years as head coach, but he cemented himself as a coaching legend when he led the Tigers to the 2016 national championship, the second in school history (1981).

Clemson defeated the top-two teams in the national polls in consecutive games. The Tigers blanked Ohio State 31-0 in the Fiesta Bowl, the first shutout suffered by head coach Urban Meyer in his career and the first for Ohio State since 1993.

The Tigers then earned a rematch with No. 1 Alabama, and for the first time in school history took down the topranked team in a second epic battle with the Crimson Tide. Deshaun Watson’s touchdown pass to Hunter Renfrow with one second left gave Clemson a 35-31 win in Tampa, Fla. Swinney won the Bear Bryant Award as national coach-of-theyear for the second consecutive season.

With a preseason No. 2 national ranking, the 2016 Tigers lived up to the hype after compiling a 14-1 record and earning a spot in the College Football Playoff for a second straight year. Along the way, Clemson knocked off five top-25 foes, including No. 3 Louisville. The Tigers exorcised several road demons, winning at historically tough places such as Auburn, Georgia Tech and Florida State.

He coached Watson to two recordsetting seasons. The two-time Heisman Trophy finalist became the first player in FBS history to total 4,000 passing yards

THE SWINNEY FAMILY - DABO AND WIFE, KATHLEEN, ALONG WITH DREW, CLAY AND WILL.

and 1,000 rushing yards in a season in 2015, and he followed by setting an ACC record with 41 passing touchdowns in 2016.

Watson was named ACC Player-ofthe-Year in 2015 and MVP of the ACC Championship Game in both 2015 and 2016. He won the Davey O’Brien Award and Manning Award in back-to-back seasons and was named MVP of Clemson’s Fiesta Bowl and national championship game wins.

From 2011-16, Clemson compiled a 70-13 record, the most wins in a six-year period in school history. Forty-four of the

victories came against ACC teams. The 2016 seniors finished their careers with a school-record 49 wins.

Clemson was in the top 10 of APR scores and the final top 25 of the AP and USA Today polls from 2011-15, the only FBS program that could make that claim.

In nine years (eight full seasons) as the Tigers’ head coach, Swinney has directed Clemson to an 89-28 overall record (.761, best by a Tiger coach) and 54-15 ACC regular-season mark (.783).

He has also led the Tigers to the ACC Championship Game four times, won

THE SWINNEY FILE PLAYING EXPERIENCE Lettered three years at Alabama (1990-92); also a member of the 1989 team ... member of the 1992 national championship team ... Academic All-SEC and SEC Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll member in 1990,92.

EDUCATION B.S. degree in commerce & business administration from Alabama in 1993 ... master of business administration from Alabama in 1995.

PERSONAL DATA Born Nov. 20, 1969 in Birmingham, Ala. ... married to the former Kathleen Bassett ... the couple has three sons (Will 19, Drew 17, Clay 14).

three ACC titles, won or shared five ACC Atlantic Division titles and won seven bowl games (five against top-10 teams).

His teams have compiled 20 wins over ranked teams in his head-coaching career, including 12 over top-10 teams.

Swinney guided Clemson to the No. 1 national ranking in every College Football Playoff poll in 2015 and led the Tigers to their first national championship game appearance under the new format after his team defeated Oklahoma 3717 in the 2015 Orange Bowl. The Tigers led Alabama in the fourth quarter of the championship contest, but came up just short (45-40) in an epic game in Glendale, Ariz.

Following the team’s 14-1 record and No. 2 final ranking, he was the recipient of 10 national and two ACC coachof-the-year honors. The Tigers defeated four teams that finished the season in the top 15 of both polls.

In 2015, a Tiger-record 17 players were named to one of three All-ACC teams, including all five starting offensive linemen for the first time in school history. In 2016, 15 players were honored, including a school-record three First-Team All-ACC offensive line selections.

The 2012, 2013 and 2014 seasons were also noteworthy, with three top15 final rankings in the polls. Clemson joined Alabama, Florida State, Ohio State and Oregon as the only schools in the nation to make that claim. Each of Clemson’s teams from 2011-16 also registered double-digit victories, the first time the program has done it six straight seasons. Only Alabama has duplicated the feat.

With the 2014 Russell Athletic Bowl victory (40-6) over Oklahoma, Swinney became the first and only coach in history to win three bowl games in consecutive seasons over teams whose head coaches had previously won the national @CLEMSONFB

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title. He has now done it five years in a row.

Clemson capped off the 2013 season with a thrilling 40-35 victory over No. 6 Ohio State in the Orange Bowl. Clemson had an 11-2 record after finishing 7-1 in ACC regular-season games. It marked Clemson’s first back-to-back 11-win seasons in school history. For the fourth time in his first five full seasons as head coach, Swinney was a finalist for the Liberty Mutual National Coach-of-the-Year award in 2013.

The 2012 season (11-2) was a groundbreaking year for Swinney’s Tigers when looking at the overall consistency of the program. The seven conference wins in the regular season were then a school record, while Clemson was cochampion of the ACC Atlantic Division.

With Clemson’s thrilling 25-24 win over No. 7 Louisiana State in the 2012 Chick-fil-A Bowl, the Tigers finished the season ranked No. 9 in the USA Today poll. It was Clemson’s first top-10 finish in one of the two major polls since 1990. Clemson also reached the 11-win mark for the first time since its 1981 national championship season. The Tigers finished No. 14 in the final BCS standings as well.

Swinney’s 2011 squad, which ended the season ranked No. 22 in the nation, captured Clemson’s first ACC title since 1991 when it beat No. 3 Virginia Tech 38-10 in the ACC Championship Game in Charlotte, N.C. The Tigers’ second win over the Hokies in 2011 gave Clemson its first 10-win season since 1990.

For his efforts, Swinney was named Bobby Dodd National Coach-of-the-Year in 2011 to become the first Tiger head coach to win a national coach-of-theyear award since 1981, when Ford directed Clemson to the national title.

Swinney became just the second Tiger coach to lead Clemson’s program to

a bowl game in his first two full years as head coach, joining his predecessor, Tommy Bowden. The 2010 schedule was one of the most challenging in school history, as nine bowl teams were on the regular-season slate and two of the four non-conference opponents were ranked in the top 25.

In 2009, Swinney’s first full year as head coach, he led the Tigers to their first championship of the ACC Atlantic Division. The Tigers came just six points short of winning their first ACC

title in 18 years. Swinney was named ACC coach-of-the-year by Sporting News and was a finalist for the Liberty Mutual Coach-of-the-Year award.

In October 2008, Swinney was named Clemson’s interim head coach, replacing Bowden, who had been his position coach as a player at Alabama and was Clemson’s head coach since 1999.

He led the Tigers to a 4-2 record during the remainder of the 2008 regular season, including a win over South Carolina in the regular-season finale. That strong

SWINNEY’S COACHING RECORD Year School Position(s) W-L Bowl(s) GA 9-3-1 Gator 1993 Alabama GA 12-1 Citrus 1994 Alabama 1995 Alabama GA 8-3 WR,TE 10-3 Outback 1996 Alabama 1997 Alabama TE 4-7 WR 7-5 Music City 1998 Alabama WR 10-3 Orange 1999 * Alabama 2000 Alabama WR 3-8 WR 9-4 Peach 2003 Clemson 2004 Clemson WR 6-5 WR 8-4 Champs Sports 2005 Clemson WR 8-5 Music City 2006 Clemson 2007 Clemson AHC,WR 9-4 Chick-fil-A AHC,WR 3-3 2008 Clemson Clemson IHC 4-2 Clemson HC 0-1 Gator HC 9-5 Music City 2009 Clemson 2010 Clemson HC 6-7 Meineke Car Care HC 10-4 Orange 2011 * Clemson 2012 Clemson HC 11-2 Chick-fil-A HC 11-2 Orange 2013 Clemson HC 10-3 Russell Athletic 2014 Clemson 2015 * Clemson HC 14-1 Orange/CFPNCG HC 14-1 Fiesta/CFPNCG 2016 ^* Clemson * - conference champion; ^ - national champion

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Years as a full-time college coach:.................................22 Winning seasons:.........................................................19 Bowl seasons:.............................................................18 Record as an assistant coach:.................. 106-58-1 (.645) Record as a head coach:...............................89-28 (.761) Record at Clemson:.....................................132-53 (.714)

finish led to a Gator Bowl bid against Nebraska.

On Dec. 1, 2008, the interim tag was removed from the title and he was named the program’s head coach. At the time, there had been 28 interim head coaches at the FBS level since 1970, and those coaches had combined for a record of 26-86-2. Only one of those 28 interim coaches posted a winning record, and that was Swinney. When he was hired as head coach, he became just the second interim coach to be elevated to the head coach position at the same school during that time period.

Swinney hit the ground running in his first week as interim head coach, as he prepared for a 5-1 Georgia Tech team.

He had to reorganize his staff and regroup his team and the fanbase in just five days. While the Tigers lost by four points, he accomplished many goals in that first week through his outstanding leadership. One of the most impressive demonstrations of unity came during the team’s “Tiger Walk.”

Swinney has demonstrated his community involvement through Dabo’s All In Team Foundation, which made the first contribution to the cancer fund established for former Boston College linebacker Mark Herzlich. Many schools followed his lead during the remainder of the season.

The 1993 Alabama graduate joined the Clemson staff prior to the 2003 season. In his 14 years as an assistant or head coach, the Tigers have finished in the top 25 of the polls 10 times and have totaled 29 wins over top-25 teams, including victories over Florida State (7), Virginia Tech (3), Auburn (2), Miami (Fla.) (2), Ohio State (2), Oklahoma (2), Alabama (1), Georgia (1), Louisiana NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

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State (1) and Tennessee (1) during his tenure in Tigertown.

Swinney coached his wide receiver position to a level of consistency that had not been seen previously at Clemson. He had a wideout finish first or second in the ACC in catches in five of his six years as an assistant coach. In his first year, he had three of the top-10 receivers in the ACC, a first in Tiger history.

He has coached a First or Second-Team All-ACC wideout (Derrick Hamilton, Airese Currie, Chansi Stuckey, Aaron Kelly, Jacoby Ford, Sammy Watkins, DeAndre Hopkins, Artavis Scott, Mike Williams) in 13 of his 14 seasons in Tigertown, also unprecedented at Clemson.

The Alabama native has a reputation as one of the top recruiters in the nation.

In 2006, he was listed as the No. 5 recruiter in the nation by Rivals. He signed 38 players in his five recruiting seasons as an assistant coach and was a major reason Clemson’s 2008 recruiting class was rated No. 2 in the nation by ESPN when he signed 11 players.

When Swinney accepted the interim head coaching position at Clemson on Oct. 13, 2008, he described his feelings as “bittersweet,” because he was taking over for Bowden, who had been his first position coach at Alabama in the 1989 season. He had also brought Swinney back to the coaching profession in 2003 and has had a profound effect on his life. Both had followed similar paths as players, as Bowden was a walk-on at

West Virginia and Swinney was a walk-on at Alabama.

Swinney received a commerce & business administration degree from Alabama in 1993 after lettering three times (1990-92). A walk-on who went on to earn a scholarship, Swinney was a wide receiver on Alabama’s 1992 national championship team. He was also named Academic All-SEC along with being an SEC Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll member in 1990 and 1992.

Along with his appearance in the 1993 Sugar Bowl, his Alabama teams played in the 1990 Sugar Bowl, 1991 Fiesta Bowl and 1991 Blockbuster Bowl. Both Sugar Bowl appearances came after winning the SEC title game.

After his playing career, Swinney served as a graduate assistant at Alabama from 1993-95. In December 1995, he received a master’s degree in business administration from Alabama.

He became a full-time assistant coach at Alabama in February 1996 under head coach Gene Stallings and coached a total of five seasons there on a full-time basis. Swinney was assigned to coach the Crimson Tide’s wide receivers and tight ends in 1996, a season that saw Alabama win the SEC Western Division title. The following year, he solely coached the tight ends.

In 1998, he coached Alabama’s wide receivers, a position he held for three seasons. At the end of the 1999 campaign, Swinney coached the Crimson

Tide in the 2000 Orange Bowl after winning the SEC Championship Game.

During his time at Alabama, Swinney was a part of six teams with double-digit wins, five top-10 finishes, one national title (1992), three SEC championships (1989,92,99) and five SEC Western Di-

vision titles (1992,93,94,96,99) as a player and coach.

Swinney married the former Kathleen Bassett in 1994. They have three sons, Will (19), Drew (17) and Clay (14). Will is a freshman on the 2017 Tiger football team.

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ASSISTANT COACHES DANNY PEARMAN

TONY ELLIOTT

JEFF SCOTT

ASSISTANT HEAD COACH SPECIAL TEAMS COORDINATOR TIGHT ENDS

CO-OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR RUNNING BACKS

CO-OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR WIDE RECEIVERS

• 10th Season at Clemson • 27th Season Overall • Clemson ‘87 • Born Feb. 17, 1965

• 7th Season at Clemson • 12th Season Overall • Clemson ‘02 • Born Nov. 26, 1979

• 10th Season at Clemson • 11th Season Overall • Clemson ‘03 • Born Dec. 28, 1980

• Has coached in a national championship game with three different schools, including Clemson in 2015 and 2016. He won his second national title in 2016 after winning one as an assistant at Alabama in 1992.

• Coached two-time All-America tight end and two-time Mackey Award finalist Jordan Leggett, who set school tight end records for career receptions, yards and touchdowns.

• Coached placekicker Greg Huegel to an All-America season in 2015.

• Coached Bradley Pinion, who averaged 42.6 yards per punt with 28 punts inside the 20 against only two touchbacks in 2014. Pinion was picked in the fifth round of the 2015 NFL draft by the 49ers.

• Has coached the Tiger special teams since 2011, including Chandler Catanzaro, who was a three-time All-ACC placekicker.

• Coached Dwayne Allen in 2011. He won the John Mackey Award and was a first-team All-American.

• Played tight end on Clemson’s 1986 and 1987 ACC title teams, then he served as a graduate assistant on the Tigers’ 1988 ACC championship team.

• In his second year at Alabama, he directed the offensive tackles and served as special teams coordinator on its 1992 national title team.

• Served on the same Alabama staff with current Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney from 1993-97.

• Clemson has a 70-13 record and five top-25 final rankings in his six years on staff. He has also coached a 1,000-yard rusher five times. Clemson is 29-2 since he became co-offensive coordinator.

• Co-offensive coordinator of Clemson’s 2016 national championship team.

• A big reason Clemson won the 2011, 2015 and 2016 ACC titles.

• Named one of the top-25 recruiters in the nation and a top-10 recruiter in the ACC by Rivals in 2015.

• Coached First-Team All-ACC running back Wayne Gallman, who broke the Clemson single-season mark with 1,527 rushing yards in 2015.

• Has played on and coached Clemson teams that have been in the final AP top 25. He played on the 2003 team that finished No. 23.

• Entered the business world after his playing days were over at Clemson and worked with Michelin North America for two years.

• Earned an undergraduate degree in industrial engineering in 2002, was a First-Team Academic All-ACC selection and a CoSIDA Academic District III member.

• Was a co-captain of Clemson’s 2003 team that had a 9-4 record and a No. 22 final ranking. He was also a recipient of an ACC’s Weaver-James-Corrigan Postgraduate Scholarship.

• Clemson has been to a bowl game each of his eight years as a full-time assistant coach.

• Clemson is 29-2 since he became co-offensive coordinator, including two national championship game appearances and the 2016 national title.

• Coached All-America wideout Mike Williams in 2016 to his second 1,000-yard season. He also coached Artavis Scott, who set the Tiger record with 245 career catches.

• Named one of the top-25 recruiters in the nation and ACC recruiter-of-the-year in 2015 by Rivals.

• Named one of the top-10 recruiters in the nation by ESPN in 2014, one of the top-14 recruiters in the country by NFL.com in 2014 and one of the top-25 recruiters by Rivals in 2012 and 2014.

• Coached First-Team All-ACC and first-team All-America wideout Sammy Watkins in 2013. He had a schoolrecord 101 receptions for a school-record 1,464 yards and 12 touchdowns. He set or tied school career receiving records for yards (3,391) and touchdowns (27).

• In 2012, he coached first-round draft pick DeAndre Hopkins to a second-team All-America season. Hopkins had 82 receptions for 1,405 yards and an ACC-record 18 touchdowns, second most in the nation. Hopkins was a Pro Bowl pick with the Houston Texans in 2015.

• A member of three bowl teams as a player at Clemson from 2000-02. He played in the 2001 Gator Bowl, 2001 Humanitarian Bowl and 2002 Tangerine Bowl.

PLAYING EXPERIENCE

PLAYING EXPERIENCE

PLAYING EXPERIENCE

Lettered three times (1985-87) as a tight end at Clemson ... strength & conditioning All-American (1987).

Lettered four times (2000-03) as a wide receiver at Clemson.

Lettered three years (2000-02) as a wide receiver and holder at Clemson.

EDUCATION

EDUCATION

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s degree in finance from Clemson in 1987 ... master of business administration from Clemson in 1989.

Degree in industrial engineering from Clemson in 2002 with a team-high 3.55 GPA.

Degree in secondary education from Clemson in 2003.

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Born Feb. 17, 1965 ... he and his wife, Kristy, have one daughter, Taylor, and two sons, Tanner and Trent.

Born Nov. 26, 1979 in Watsonville, Calif. ... he and his wife, Tamika, have two sons, A.J. and Ace.

Born Dec. 28, 1980 in Arcadia, Fla. ... he and his wife, Sara, have a daughter, Savannah ... son of former Clemson assistant coach Brad Scott (1999-10).

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TODD BATES

ROBBIE CALDWELL

DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR LINEBACKERS

DEFENSIVE LINEMEN

OFFENSIVE LINEMEN

• 6th Season at Clemson • 22nd Season Overall • Kansas State ‘92 • Born Dec. 28, 1970

• 1st Season at Clemson • 6th Season Overall • Alabama ‘05 • Born March 12, 1983

• 7th Season at Clemson • 40th Season Overall • Furman ‘77 • Born Jan. 26, 1954

• In his 21 years as a full-time assistant coach, his teams have 21 winning seasons, have been to 21 bowl games and have won double-digit games 16 times.

• Clemson has led the nation in tackles for loss each of the last four seasons.

• Has coached five national title games and won two, including 2016 with Clemson. Oklahoma won the 2000 national title.

• Won the 2016 Frank Broyles Award as the nation’s top assistant coach, becoming the first Tiger coach to win the award.

• His 2016 defense totaled 130 tackles for loss and a school-record 49 sacks.

• A big reason Clemson won ACC titles in 2015 and 2016.

• One of five finalists for the 2015 Frank Broyles Award.

• Named one of the top-10 recruiters in the ACC in 2015

by Rivals.

• National defensive coordinator-of-the-year by Football Scoop in 2014 and national recruiter-of-the-year by Rivals in 2015.

• Coached current NFL linebackers Stephone Anthony, Ben Boulware and B.J. Goodson.

• Served as co-defensive coordinator (1999-03) at Oklahoma and defensive coordinator (2004-11) at Oklahoma.

PLAYING EXPERIENCE Played two seasons (1989,90) at Garden City (Kan.) Community College ... lettered two times as a linebacker at Kansas State (1991,92).

EDUCATION Degree in political science from Kansas State in 1992.

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• Joined the Tiger staff as defensive line coach in January 2017. He took over defensive line duties after the retirement of Dan Brooks and Marion Hobby’s move to the Jacksonville Jaguars.

• He is the first Clemson coach to mentor all four defensive line positions since Ron West in 2004 and just the second to do it since 1998.

• Helped Jacksonville State to a 33-6 record in three seasons (2014-16). The Gamecocks reached the FCS National Championship Game during the 2015 season and compiled a 23-0 record in Ohio Valley Conference contests with three championships during his time there.

• Helped the 2016 Jacksonville State team to a 10-2 record and No. 6 final FCS ranking. That team was fourth in the nation in total defense, allowing just 275 yards per game.

• Began his coaching career at Oxford (Ala.) High School in 2007, then coached at Oxford (Miss.) High School in 2008.

• Served as an assistant coach at Idaho State (2011,12), then at East Central Community College in Mississippi in 2013.

• Earned four letters at Alabama as a defensive end from 2001-04 and served as a permanent co-captain in 2004.

• Played defensive end for the Tennessee Titans in 2005 and 2006.

• Has a staff-high 39 years of experience in college coaching and a staff-high 463 college games as a coach.

• Clemson has a 70-13 record and six top-25 final rankings in his six seasons. He also has three ACC titles, two national championship game appearances and a national title (2016).

• Coached three First-Team All-ACC selections on the offensive line in 2016, a first in program history.

• Coached five All-ACC selections in 2015, Clemson’s entire starting five on the offensive line. It was the first time in program history that occurred.

• Coached offensive tackle Brandon Thomas, a thirdround draft pick, to his second-straight All-ACC season in 2013.

• In 2012, he coached first-team All-American Dalton Freeman (C) and Thomas, a First-Team All-ACC pick.

Freeman was a Rimington Trophy finalist for the second year in a row.

• Served as Vanderbilt’s head coach in 2010 after eight years as offensive line coach at the school.

• Coached at NC State (1986-99) and North Carolina (2000,01).

• Started his coaching career as a student assistant at Furman under Art Baker in 1976 and became a full-time offensive line coach with the Paladins under Dick Sheridan in 1978.

PLAYING EXPERIENCE

Lettered three years at Furman, including his senior season (1975) when he was named team MVP and offensive captain.

Lettered four seasons as a defensive lineman at Alabama from 2001-04.

EDUCATION Earned a bachelor’s degree from Alabama in 2005.

PLAYING EXPERIENCE

EDUCATION Degree from Furman in 1977.

Born Dec. 18, 1970 ... he and his wife, Julie, have two sons, Jake and Tyler, and two daughters, Laney and Addie.

PERSONAL DATA

PERSONAL DATA

Born March 12, 1983 ... he and his wife, La’Tesa, have a daughter, Angel, and a son, Josiah.

Born Jan. 26, 1954 in Pageland, S.C. ... he and his wife, Nora Lynn, have a daughter, Emsley.

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TODD BATES

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BRANDON STREETER

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• 1st Season at Clemson • 1st Season Overall • Alabama ‘95 • Born Oct. 9, 1971

• 5th Season at Clemson • 13th Season Overall • Boston College ‘94 • Born Aug. 16, 1972

• 4th Season at Clemson • 12th Season Overall • Clemson ‘99 • Born Jan. 1, 1977

• Works with Mike Reed in the secondary, as Conn coaches the safeties.

• In his second season at Clemson, as he served as a senior defensive analyst in 2016, helping the Tigers to a national title. He became a full-time assistant coach in January 2017.

• Contributed to a defense that tied for first in the nation in fewest passing yards allowed per attempt (5.6) and fourth in pass efficiency defense (100.2) in 2016.

• Came to Clemson after 16 seasons as head coach at Grayson (Ga.) High School. The Rams were 137-48 with seven region titles, a state championship (2011) and a state semifinal playoff appearance in 2015.

• Grayson High School finished in the top 25 in the nation four times, including No. 3 in 2011. The program reached the No. 1 ranking twice during his tenure.

• Coached current college and NFL players at Grayson High School, including two-time All-ACC Tiger running back Wayne Gallman, current Clemson cornerback Ryan Carter and former Tiger quarterback Nick Schuessler.

• Uncle of Tiger quarterback Chase Brice.

• Graduate assistant coach at Alabama in 1996 and 1997. He was on staff when Dabo Swinney was a coach with the Crimson Tide.

• College teammate of Swinney at Alabama, as they were both on 1992 national championship team under head coach Gene Stallings. Conn lettered in 1992, 1993 and 1994, and he was on the team in 1990 and 1991.

PLAYING EXPERIENCE Lettered at Alabama in 1992, 1993 and 1994.

EDUCATION Earned a bachelor’s degree from Alabama in 1995 ... earned a master’s degree from Ball State in 2006.

• Has coached Clemson to a 49-7 record, two ACC titles, two national championship game appearances and a national title (2016).

• Coached First-Team All-ACC defensive backs Jadar Johnson and Cordrea Tankersley in 2016.

• His defensive backs were a big reason the 2015 Tigers were fourth in the nation in third-down conversion percentage defense.

• Coached First-Team All-ACC cornerback Mackensie Alexander, Second-Team All-ACC safety Jayron Kearse and Tankersley, a Third-Team All-ACC cornerback, in 2015.

• His defensive backs were a big reason the 2014 defense led the nation in total defense (260.8). He also coached First-Team All-ACC cornerback Garry Peters.

• Was the defensive backs coach at NC State for six seasons (2007-12) and played four bowl games.

• Has been an assistant coach at the college level for 12 years and at the NFL level for five seasons. He coached NC State All-American David Amerson, who is third in ACC history in career interceptions (18).

As an NFL coach with the Philadelphia Eagles, he worked with former Clemson All-American and ninetime Pro Bowl selection Brian Dawkins.

• Played two years in the NFL with Carolina.

• Coached first-team All-American and two-time Heisman Trophy finalist Deshaun Watson from 2014-16.

Watson became the first player in FBS history with 4,000 passing yards and 1,000 rushing yards in a season and was named MVP of Clemson’s 2016 national championship game victory over Alabama.

• Watson was Clemson’s first recipient of the Davey O’Brien Award and Manning Award in 2015, then won both awards again in 2016.

• As recruiting coordinator, he spearheaded Clemson’s consensus top-10 class in 2016 and 2017.

• Helped the 2015 Tigers to 11 straight games with 500 yards of total offense, a school record, and an appearance in the national championship game.

• Came to Clemson as recruiting coordinator and quarterbacks coach in December 2014 after serving three seasons (2012-14) as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Richmond.

• Six of the seven teams he worked with as an offensive coordinator from 2008-14 finished the season in the top 25 of the FCS poll.

• Served as a graduate assistant at Clemson in 2004 and 2005, when Dabo Swinney was an assistant coach. Streeter worked with quarterback Charlie Whitehurst during those two seasons.

PLAYING EXPERIENCE

PLAYING EXPERIENCE

Played at Boston College from 1991-94 ... All-ECAC selection and a Second-Team All-Big East Conference pick in 1993 ... one of four co-captains on the 1994 team.

Played quarterback at Clemson from 1996-99 ... received the inaugural Brandon Streeter Award in 1999.

EDUCATION

Degree in health science from Clemson in 1999 and a master’s degree in human resource development from Clemson in 2001.

Degree in communications with a minor in secondary education from Boston College in 1994.

EDUCATION

PERSONAL DATA

PERSONAL DATA

Born Oct. 9, 1971. He and his wife, Halie, have two sons, Brodey and Spencer.

Born Aug. 16, 1972 in Wilmington, Del. ... he and his wife, Kimberly, have two daughters, Michaela Rae and Milan Skye.

Born Jan. 1, 1977 ... he and his wife, Ashleigh, have three children, Chamberlin Brooke, Foard Michael and Mason Morgan.

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FOOTBALL SUPPORT STAFF CAMERON AIKEN

ZACHARY ALLEY

Offensive Player Development

Defensive Graduate Assistant

TYLER CLEMENTS

SCOTT CROTHERS

Recruiting Operations Coordinator

JEFF FELLERS

Sports Medicine Assistant

JOEY BATSON

JENNIFER BENTON

JEFF DAVIS

ABBY DeDECKER Sports Medicine Assistant

Director of Operations & Player Personnel

Senior Administrative Assistant to the Head Coach

Director of Player Relations & External Affairs

Administrative Business Manager

MIKE BRIGLIN

Director of Strength & Conditioning

MIKE DOOLEY

Offensive Video Graduate Assistant

BETH DOUGLAS

MIGUEL CHAVIS Defensive Player Development

XAVIER DYE

Offensive Graduate Assistant

Graphic Design Coordinator

Defensive Graduate Assistant

Assistant Director of Operations, Creative Media

D.J. GORDON

TODD GREEN

LARRY GREENLEE

TYLER GRISHAM Offensive Analyst & Assistant Camp Director

Video Services Assistant

LEMANSKI HALL

PAUL HARRINGTON

PAUL HOGAN

DONNA McCAIN

BRANDON McCOMBS

WOODY McCORVEY

DeANDRE McDANIEL

Senior Defensive Assistant

REGGIE PLEASANT Life Coach

ASHLEY SPIERS Administrative Assistant to the Head Coach

1981 • 2016

ZACH FULMER

THOMAS AUSTIN

Offensive Graduate Assistant

Director of Nutrition

DANNY POOLE

Director of Sports Medicine

Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach

ABE REED

Director of Equipment

Director of Video & Technology

Performance Chef

KYLE RICHARDSON Senior Offensive Assistant

Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach

Special Teams Player Development & Assistant Camp Director

BRAD SCOTT

Director of Player Development & Recruiting Transition

Associate Athletic Director, Football Administration

JOSH SMICK

Video Services Assistant

MORGAN TADLOCK THAD TURNIPSEED ANDREW WARWICK ALLISON WAYMYERS JILL WILLIAMS-WILKS Administrative Assistant, Recruiting

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

Director of Recruiting Operations & External Affairs

Defensive Analyst & Assistant Camp Director

Director of Career & Professional Development

Administrative Assistant, Administration

HENRY GUESS

Defensive Video Graduate Assistant

ADAM SMOTHERMAN JORDAN SORRELLS Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach

REN WINDHAM

Administrative Assistant, Offense, Defense, Administration

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Assistant Director of Recruiting

NICK YARID

Equipment Assistant

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STUDENT ATHLETIC TRAINERS

LEFT TO RIGHT - ANA WRIGHT, SETH LOLLIS, GRAYSON HILL, JACOB NELSON, AMANDA PRICE, MARTINE GROKE, ELIZA LEWIS, WYATT CRAIG, TAMARA PRICE, AUSTIN QUERUBIN, CHARLIE SHANKO, BAILEY BLACK, TAYLOR BRANHAM, HUDSON KING, SAHIL DESAI.

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FRONT ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT) - KENLEY GREEN, LACY HYLTON, YVETTE RAMIREZ, ASHTON ROBERTS, ANNELISE BABCOCK, KELSI FRINGER, BROOKLYN HOLLON, MACEY CARR, MORGAN MONTERO, MADIE MONTERO, ALYSSA HALLORAN, CARLY BOUKNIGHT, KAYLA CAUSEY, MACALE FUSCO. BACK ROW - LUCAS WILLIAMS, TREV COMSTOCK, MATTHEW PREVETTE, JOSHUA SMITH, JESSE KLUTTZ, BRANDON BROWN, AARON McGUIRE, JACK GREGORY, ADAM SAMUTA, MYRICK HARWARD, HAYDEN LEWIS, GRAYSON CHARPIA, MIKE GRIMSLEY.

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CONCESSIONS LOCATIONS Blue Ridge Beanery

North Upper

Outside Locations

We Proudly Serve Starbucks Coffee

Dippin’ Dots

Flavored Ice Cream

Gate 9

Gate 5

Healthy Grab ‘n Go

Sandwiches, Veggies, and Snacks

Hawaiian Shaved Ice

NORTH

Flavored Shaved Ice

Kona Ice

Flavored Shaved Ice

10 2 0 3 0 4 0 5 0 4 0 3 0 2 0 10

The Hill

Lemonade

Fresh Pressed

Minute Maid

Frozen Lemonade and Strawberry Lemonade

10 2 0 3 0 4 0 5 0 4 0 3 0 2 0 10

Nuts About Clemson

Roasted Pecans, Almonds, and Pralines

Papa John’s

SOUTH

Pizza by the Slice

Super Pretzel

Gourmet Bavarian Pretzels

Tiger Bites

Death Valley Dog and Signature Grilled Items

Tiger Oasis

Tiger Ice Cream Floats

Traditional Concessions

Hot Dogs, Nachos, Popcorn, and Ice Cold Beverages

We proudly serve Coca-Cola products throughout the stadium.

Visa and MasterCard accepted at all full service stands.

Gate 13

Gate 1 South Upper

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BOWL SCHEDULE Date Day Time Bowl Location Sat 1 p.m.

R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl New Orleans, La. 12-16

2:30 p.m.

AutoNation Cure Bowl Orlando, Fla.

3:30 p.m.

Las Vegas Bowl Las Vegas, Nev.

4:30 p.m.

Gildan New Mexico Bowl Albuquerque, N.M.

8 p.m.

Raycom Media Camellia Bowl Montgomery, Ala. Tue 7 p.m.

Boca Raton Bowl Boca Raton, Fla. 12-19 Wed 8 p.m.

Frisco Bowl Frisco, Texas 12-20 12-21 Thu 8 p.m.

Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl St. Petersburg, Fla. Fri 12:30 p.m.

Bahamas Bowl Nassau, Bahamas 12-22

4 p.m.

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Boise, Idaho Sat Noon Birmingham Bowl Birmingham, Ala. 12-23

3:30 p.m.

Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl Fort Worth, Texas

7 p.m.

Dollar General Bowl Mobile, Ala. Sun 8:30 p.m.

Hawaii Bowl Honolulu, Hawaii 12-24 12-26 Tue TBA Cactus Bowl Phoenix, Ariz.

TBA Quick Lane Bowl Detroit, Mich.

TBA Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl Dallas, Texas 12-27 Wed 1:30 p.m.

Independence Bowl Shreveport, La.

5:15 p.m.

New Era Pinstripe Bowl Bronx, N.Y.

8 p.m.

Foster Farms Bowl Santa Clara, Calif.

9 p.m.

Texas Bowl Houston, Texas Thu 1:30 p.m.

Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman Annapolis, Md. 12-28

5:15 p.m.

Camping World Bowl Orlando, Fla.

9 p.m.

San Diego County Credit Union Holiday Bowl San Diego, Calif.

9 p.m.

Valero Alamo Bowl San Antonio, Texas Fri 1 p.m.

Belk Bowl Charlotte, N.C. 12-29

2 p.m.

Hyundai Sun Bowl El Paso, Texas

4:30 p.m.

Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl Nashville, Tenn.

5:30 p.m.

NOVA Home Loans Arizona Bowl Tucson, Ariz.

8:30 p.m.

Goodyear Cotton Bowl Arlington, Texas Sat Noon TaxSlayer Bowl Jacksonville, Fla. 12-30

12:30 p.m.

AutoZone Liberty Bowl Memphis, Tenn.

4 p.m.

PlayStation Fiesta Bowl Glendale, Ariz.

8 p.m.

Capital One Orange Bowl Miami Gardens, Fla. 1-1 Mon Noon Outback Bowl Tampa, Fla.

12:30 p.m.

Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Atlanta, Ga.

1 p.m.

Citrus Bowl Orlando, Fla.

5 p.m.

Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual Pasadena, Calif.

8:45 p.m.

Allstate Sugar Bowl New Orleans, La. Mon 8 p.m.

College Football Playoff National Championship Atlanta, Ga. 1-8 Note: All times are EST and subject to change; possible bowls for ACC teams in bold.

Stadium Mercedes-Benz Superdome Camping World Stadium Sam Boyd Stadium Dreamstyle Stadium Cramton Bowl FAU Stadium Toyota Stadium Tropicana Field Thomas Robinson Stadium Albertson’s Stadium Legion Field Amon G. Carter Stadium Ladd-Peebles Stadium Aloha Stadium Chase Field Ford Field Cotton Bowl Stadium Independence Stadium Yankee Stadium Levi’s Stadium NRG Stadium Navy-Marine Corps Stadium Camping World Stadium Qualcomm Stadium Alamodome Bank of America Stadium Sun Bowl Stadium Nissan Stadium Arizona Stadium AT&T Stadium EverBank Field Liberty Bowl University of Phoenix Stadium Hard Rock Stadium Raymond James Stadium Mercedes-Benz Stadium Camping World Stadium Rose Bowl Mercedes-Benz Superdome Mercedes-Benz Stadium

Network ESPN CBSSN ABC ESPN ESPN ESPN ESPN ESPN ESPN ESPN ESPN ESPN ESPN ESPN ESPN ESPN ESPN ESPN ESPN FOX ESPN ESPN ESPN FS1 ESPN ESPN CBS ESPN CBSSN ESPN ESPN ABC ESPN ESPN ESPN2 ESPN ABC ESPN ESPN ESPN

Participants C-USA vs. SBC AAC vs. SBC MWC vs. Pac-12 C-USA vs. MWC MAC vs. SBC AAC vs. C-USA AAC vs. SBC AAC vs. C-USA C-USA vs. MAC MAC vs. MWC AAC vs. SEC Army vs. Big Ten MAC vs. SBC AAC vs. MWC Big 12 vs. Pac-12 ACC or Notre Dame vs. Big Ten Big Ten vs. C-USA ACC or Notre Dame vs. SEC ACC or Notre Dame vs. Big Ten Big Ten vs. Pac-12 Big 12 vs. SEC AAC vs. ACC or Notre Dame ACC or Notre Dame vs. Big 12 Big Ten vs. Pac-12 Big 12 vs. Pac-12 ACC or Notre Dame vs. SEC ACC or Notre Dame vs. Pac-12 ACC, Big Ten or Notre Dame vs. SEC MWC vs. SBC At-Large vs. At-Large (NY6) ACC, Big Ten or Notre Dame vs. SEC Big 12 vs. SEC At-Large vs. At-Large (NY6) ACC vs. Big Ten, SEC or Notre Dame (NY6) Big Ten vs. SEC At-Large vs. At-Large (NY6) ACC, Big Ten or Notre Dame vs. SEC Playoff Semifinal Game Playoff Semifinal Game Semifinal Winner vs. Semifinal Winner

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STADIUM INFORMATION

ADA

PROHIBITED ITEMS

Entrances are at gates 1, 5 and 13 for those who need ADA assistance.

Alcoholic beverages, artificial noisemakers, backpacks, bags (large) of any kind, banners, chairbacks with arms and pockets, coolers, flags, flagpoles, food and beverages from outside, umbrellas, video cameras and weapons of any kind are prohibited.

CONCESSION STANDS

LOST & FOUND

Visit the nearest guest services stand (gates 1, 5, 9, 11, 13, 16, 20) to receive a Tiger Tracker wristband and notification procedures.

Concession stands open two hours prior to kickoff and remain open through the end of the fourth quarter. There are 22 concession stands (see diagram on page 43) and over 300 total points of sale.

Report any item to the Clemson University Police Department.

CLEAR BAGS

EMERGENCIES

Clemson University, working with law enforcement officials, has implemented a clear-bag policy at Memorial Stadium for the 2017 season. While we encourage fans to not bring any type of bags, clear plastic, vinyl and PVC bags that do not exceed 12” x 6” x “12” are permissible for ease of entry into the stadium.

First-aid stations are located on the south side (section J), north side (section T), north top deck (section K) and south top deck (section E). Trained nurses are on hand. If a doctor is needed, ask any usher.

For emergencies, call 911.

CHILD ID SYSTEM - TIGER TRACKER

1981 • 2016

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

NOTICE Solicitation for any purpose is prohibited at an athletic contest on campus.

PASSOUTS Passouts are allowed, but fans must go through the same level of security screening as upon entering. Fans must acquire a re-entry voucher upon exit and present the voucher and a valid game ticket for re-entry.

TOBACCO POLICY Clemson University is a tobacco-free campus. Tobacco products are prohibited on Clemson University property.

WILL CALL Will-call tickets can be picked up at the IPTAY Center/ticket office (northwest corner of the stadium) beginning four hours prior to kickoff. @CLEMSONFB

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TIGER VETERANS 73

TREMAYNE ANCHRUM

11

SHADELL BELL

61

KALEB BEVELLE

60

KELBY BEVELLE

8

DEON CAIN

31

RYAN CARTER

59

GAGE CERVENKA

25

J.C. CHALK

18

T.J. CHASE

6

ZERRICK COOPER

32

KYLE COTE

55

TYRONE CROWDER

33

J.D. DAVIS

36

JUDAH DAVIS

29

MARCUS EDMOND

50

JUSTIN FALCINELLI

28

TAVIEN FEASTER

99

CLELIN FERRELL

MARK FIELDS

27

C.J. FULLER

77

ZACH GIELLA

64

PAT GODFREY

2

OT • So. Powder Springs, Ga.

WR • Jr. Tampa, Fla.

QB • *Fr. Jonesboro, Ga.

CB • *Gr. Hopkins, S.C.

CB • Jr. Charlotte, N.C.

1981 • 2016

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

TE • *So. Decatur, Ga.

CB • *Gr. Grayson, Ga.

S • *So. Six Mile, S.C.

C • *^Gr. Middletown, Md.

RB • *Jr. Easley, S.C.

DE • *Sr. Apopka, Fla.

C • *So. Greenwood, S.C.

OG • *Gr. Marston, N.C.

RB • So. Spartanburg, S.C.

OL • *So. Lincolnton, Ga.

OT • *Sr. Apopka, Fla.

TE • *Fr. Argyle, Texas

LB • Jr. Clemson, S.C.

7

AUSTIN BRYANT DE • Jr. Pavo, Ga.

WR • *Fr. Plant City, Fla.

LB • Jr. Clemson, S.C.

2

KELLY BRYANT

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ADAM CHOICE

9

QB • Jr. Calhoun Falls, S.C.

RB • *Jr. Thomasville, Ga.

BRIAN DAWKINS JR. CB • *Fr. Parker, Colo.

DE • *So. Richmond, Va.

C • *ºGr. Greenlawn, N.Y.

ADAM CHOICE RUNNING BACK

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TIGER VETERANS

50

87

D.J. GREENLEE

39

CHRISTIAN GROOMES

51

TAYLOR HEARN

92

GREG HUEGEL

67

ALBERT HUGGINS

75

MITCH HYATT

10

TUCKER ISRAEL

14

DENZEL JOHNSON

93

STERLING JOHNSON

34

KENDALL JOSEPH

22

XAVIER KELLY

57

TRE LAMAR

90

DEXTER LAWRENCE

34

RAY-RAY McCLOUD

69

MAVERICK MORRIS

1

TRAYVON MULLEN

19

TANNER MUSE

6

DORIAN O’DANIEL

14

DIONDRE OVERTON

70

SETH PENNER

58

PATRICK PHIBBS

44

NYLES PINCKNEY

76

SEAN POLLARD

17

CORNELL POWELL

78

CHANDLER REEVES

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CHRIS REGISTER

TE • *Gr. Clemson, S.C.

QB • *So. Orlando, Fla.

DT • So. Wake Forest, N.C.

PK • Sr. Central, S.C.

S • *So. Columbia, S.C.

WR • Jr. Tampa, Fla.

MITCH HYATT OFFENSIVE TACKLE

OG • *Jr. Williston, S.C.

DT • *So. Clayton, N.C.

OL • *Gr. Broxton, Ga.

WR • So. Greensboro, N.C.

OL • So. Jackson Springs, N.C.

PK • *Jr. Blythewood, S.C.

LB • *Jr. Belton, S.C.

CB • So. Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

OG • *So. Naples, Fla.

WR • So. Greenville, N.C.

DT • Jr. Orangeburg, S.C.

DE • *Fr. Wichita, Kan.

S • *So. Belmont, N.C.

LS • *So. Pittsburgh, Pa.

OT • *Fr. McDonough, Ga.

OT • Jr. Suwanee, Ga.

LB • So. Roswell, Ga.

LB • *Gr. Olney, Md.

DT • *Fr. Beaufort, S.C.

DE • *Jr. Greensboro, N.C.

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

1981 • 2016

TIGER VETERANS 13

HUNTER RENFROW WR • *Jr. Myrtle Beach, S.C.

80

MILAN RICHARD TE • *Jr. Savannah, Ga.

50

JABRIL ROBINSON DT • *Jr. Leland, N.C.

41

CONNOR SEKAS LB • Sr. Vienna, Va.

74

JOHN SIMPSON

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JAMES SKALSKI

84

CANNON SMITH

43

CHAD SMITH

47

ALEX SPENCE

52

AUSTIN SPENCE

48

WILL SPIERS

62

CADE STEWART

1

TREVION THOMPSON

38

AMIR TRAPP

24

NOLAN TURNER

12

K’VON WALLACE

42

CHRISTIAN WILKINS

44

GARRETT WILLIAMS

30

JALEN WILLIAMS

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RICHARD YEARGIN

OG • So. North Charleston, S.C.

PK • *Jr. Florence, S.C.

WR • *Jr. Durham, N.C.

DL • Jr. Springfield, Mass.

1981 • 2016

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

LB • So. Sharpsburg, Ga.

LS • *So. Florence, S.C.

CB • *So. Clemson, S.C.

TE • Jr. Orlando, Fla.

TE • *Jr. Columbia, S.C.

P • *Fr. Cameron, S.C.

S • *Fr. Vestavia Hills, Ala.

LB • Jr. Columbia, S.C.

LB • *So. Sterling, Va.

OL • *Fr. Six Mile, S.C.

5

20

11

ISAIAH SIMMONS S • *Fr. Olathe, Kan.

SHAQ SMITH

23

VAN SMITH

JACK SWINNEY

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TY THOMASON

LB • *Fr. Baltimore, Md.

WR • *Sr. Lawrenceville, Ga.

S • Jr. Charlotte, N.C.

RB • *So. Greenville, S.C.

DB • So. Richmond, Va.

DE • *Jr. Lauderdale Lakes, Fla.

JABRIL ROBINSON DEFENSIVE TACKLE

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TIGER ROOKIES 65

5

16

MATT BOCKHORST OG • Fr. Cincinnati, Ohio

TEE HIGGINS WR • Fr. Oak Ridge, Tenn.

WILL SWINNEY

7

15

8

CHASE BRICE QB • Fr. Grayson, Ga.

HUNTER JOHNSON QB • Fr. Brownsburg, Ind.

A.J. TERRELL

68

3

72

9

TRAVIS ETIENNE

35

JUSTIN FOSTER

AMARI RODGERS

54

LOGAN RUDOLPH

10

BAYLON SPECTOR

BLAKE VINSON

59

JORDAN WILLIAMS

20

LeANTHONY WILLIAMS

NOAH DeHOND OT • Fr. Rochester, N.Y.

WR • Fr. Knoxville, Tenn.

RB • Fr. Jennings, La.

DE • Fr. Rock Hill, S.C.

DE • Fr. Shelby, N.C.

LB • Fr. Calhoun, Ga.

110%CAMPAIGN WR • Fr. Clemson, S.C.

CB • Fr. Atlanta, Ga.

OT • Fr. Ocala, Fla.

DT • Fr. Virginia Beach, Va.

CB • Fr. Atlanta, Ga.

A N I P TAY T W O - T H O U S A N D A N D E I G H T E E N I N I T I AT I V E

For more than 80 years, IPTAY members have been making a difference in the lives of Clemson student-athletes. With the ever-changing climate of higher education and intercollegiate athletics, IPTAY has been vital to the continued success of Tiger athletics. To continue to grow support and help meet the demands of the current college athletics landscape, IPTAY is excited to introduce the 110% Campaign for the IPTAY 2018 year. From now until the end of the fiscal year, we are challenging our members to give an additional 10 percent for their annual gift in 2018 versus 2017.

In recent years, IPTAY has taken on funding additional components of the athletic enterprise in addition to the growing costs of scholarships and academic support. We expect that IPTAY members, as they have in the organization’s storied history, will make the commitment to participate in this 110% Campaign in their support of the Tigers! To learn more about this exciting new initiative, visit ClemsonTigers.com/IPTAY. IF YOU’RE NOT GONNA GIVE 110%, KEEP YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF MY ROCK FRANK HOWARD HEAD COACH, 1940-69

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TIGER RESERVES 96

MICHAEL BATSON

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UNIVERSITY PROFILE Since its founding as a teacher-training school in 1910, Kent State has become an engine for economic, cultural and workforce development in the region and beyond as a premiere university in Ohio. This Ohio university has also earned acclaim for applying new knowledge to address the needs of the communities it serves and society as a whole through a vast array of continuing education courses and much more.

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DR. BEVERLY J. WARREN

Location Enrollment President Athletic Director Nickname Colors Conference Home Field First Year of Football Series Record Athletic Website

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COACHING STAFF HEAD COACH Head Coach Paul Haynes (Kent State ‘91) Record at Kent State (Seasons) 12-35 (5th) Career Record (Seasons) 12-35 (5th)

ASSISTANT COACHES

JOEL NIELSEN Athletic Director

PAUL HAYNES Head Coach

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Coach Don Treadwell Ben Needham Jeff Burrow Doc Gamble Mark Spencer Colin Ferrell Rob Zeitman Joe Tresey O.J. Santiago

Position(s) Alma Mater OC, QB Miami (Ohio) ‘82 DC, LB Ohio State ‘07 Co-DC, S Cincinnati ‘99 WR Tennessee-Martin ‘95 RC, RB Ohio ‘95 DL Kent State ‘08 OL George Washington ‘94 CB Ohio State ‘82 TE Kent State ‘16

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DEREK ADAMS

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JAMES ALEXANDER

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TREY HARRELL

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P • So. Manheim, Pa.

WR • So. Metaire, La.

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JERRELL FOSTER

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ADAM GREGOIRE

NICK HOLLEY

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SHANE HYNES

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RAEKWON JAMES

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RYAN MALONE

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MIKE MARINELLI

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DEMETRIUS MONDAY

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MARQUES MOORE

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CONNOR SHINSKY

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LB • Sr. Miami, Fla.

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THEO MAJETTE

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JUANTEZ McRAE

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STEFANO MILLIN

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JAMAL PARKER

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NATHAN PUTHOFF

S • Jr. Baltimore, Md.

CB • So. Pennsauken, N.J.

JON CUNNINGHAM DT • Sr. Bedford, Ohio

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THEO EBOIGBE DE • Jr. Lithonia, Ga.

QB/WR • Sr. Toledo, Ohio

JIM JONES

LB • Jr. Tallahassee, Fla.

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DL • So. West Bloomfield, Mich.

JERRELL FOSTER CORNERBACK

OL/LS • Jr. Massillon, Ohio

OL • Sr. Columbus, Ohio

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JUSTIN RANKIN RB • So. Oberlin, Ohio

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QUAN ROBINSON S • Jr. Cleveland, Ohio

CB • Sr. Cincinnati, Ohio

PK • Jr. Clarkston, Mich.

TE • Sr. New Orleans, La.

CB • Sr. Douglasville, Ga.

OL • Jr. Butler, Pa.

OL • So. Canton, Ohio

WR/RB • Jr. New Orleans, La.

OL • So. Allison Park, Pa.

DE • Sr. Springfield, Ohio

KRIS WHITE WR • Sr. Clermont, Fla.

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CLEMSON # 1 1 2 2 3 5 5 6 6 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 10 11 11 12 13 14 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 20 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 34 35 35 36 38 39 41 42 43 44 44 45 47 47 48 49 50 50 51 52 54 55 57 58 59 59 60 61 62 64 65 67 68 69 70 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 80 84 87 90 92 93 99

Player Trayvon Mullen Trevion Thompson Kelly Bryant Mark Fields Amari Rodgers Shaq Smith Tee Higgins Dorian O’Daniel Zerrick Cooper Austin Bryant Chase Brice Deon Cain A.J. Terrell Travis Etienne Brian Dawkins Jr. Tucker Israel Baylon Spector Isaiah Simmons Shadell Bell K’Von Wallace Hunter Renfrow Diondre Overton Denzel Johnson Hunter Johnson Will Swinney Cornell Powell T.J. Chase Tanner Muse Jack Swinney LeAnthony Williams Xavier Kelly Van Smith Nolan Turner J.C. Chalk Adam Choice C.J. Fuller Tavien Feaster Marcus Edmond Jalen Williams Ryan Carter Kyle Cote J.D. Davis Kendall Joseph Ray-Ray McCloud Justin Foster Ty Thomason Judah Davis Amir Trapp Christian Groomes Connor Sekas Christian Wilkins Chad Smith Nyles Pinckney Garrett Williams Chris Register James Skalski Alex Spence Will Spiers Richard Yeargin Jabril Robinson Justin Falcinelli Taylor Hearn Austin Spence Logan Rudolph Tyrone Crowder Tre Lamar Patrick Phibbs Gage Cervenka Jordan Williams Kelby Bevelle Kaleb Bevelle Cade Stewart Pat Godfrey Matt Bockhorst Albert Huggins Noah DeHond Maverick Morris Seth Penner Blake Vinson Tremayne Anchrum John Simpson Mitch Hyatt Sean Pollard Zach Giella Chandler Reeves Milan Richard Cannon Smith D.J. Greenlee Dexter Lawrence Greg Huegel Sterling Johnson Clelin Ferrell

Pos. CB WR QB CB WR LB WR LB QB DE QB WR CB RB CB QB LB S TE DB WR WR S QB WR WR WR S WR CB DE S S TE RB RB RB CB LB CB S LB LB WR DE RB LB CB PK LB DL LB DT TE DE LB PK P DE DT C OG LS DE OG LB LS C DT OT DE OL C OG DT OT OL OG OT OT OG OT OL OL OT TE TE TE DT PK DT DE

Hgt. 6-2 6-2 6-4 5-11 5-9 6-2 6-4 6-1 6-2 6-5 6-2 6-1 6-1 5-10 5-7 5-11 6-2 6-3 6-1 6-0 5-10 6-5 6-1 6-2 5-9 6-0 6-1 6-2 5-9 6-0 6-4 5-11 6-1 6-3 5-8 5-10 5-11 6-0 5-10 5-9 5-10 6-2 6-0 5-10 6-4 5-10 6-2 5-8 5-11 6-1 6-4 6-4 6-1 6-4 6-3 6-0 6-2 6-4 6-4 6-2 6-4 6-5 6-1 6-2 6-2 6-4 6-2 6-3 6-4 6-2 6-4 6-2 6-2 6-3 6-3 6-6 6-4 6-2 6-4 6-2 6-4 6-5 6-5 6-4 6-7 6-2 6-4 6-1 6-4 5-11 6-4 6-5

Wgt. Cl. 190 So. 200 *Jr. 220 Jr. 180 Jr. 210 Fr. 245 *Fr. 200 Fr. 220 *Gr. 220 *Fr. 265 Jr. 210 Fr. 190 Jr. 190 Fr. 200 Fr. 165 *Fr. 165 *So. 220 Fr. 225 *Fr. 225 *So. 195 So. 180 *Jr. 205 So. 200 *So. 210 Fr. 185 Fr. 205 So. 185 *Fr. 225 *So. 160 *Sr. 175 Fr. 265 *Fr. 185 Jr. 200 *Fr. 250 *Fr. 210 *Jr. 205 *Jr. 220 So. 180 *Gr. 210 Jr. 180 *Gr. 185 *So. 225 Jr. 225 *Jr. 180 Jr. 255 Fr. 225 *So. 235 Jr. 170 *So. 200 Sr. 225 Sr. 300 Jr. 235 *So. 300 *Fr. 245 Jr. 255 *Jr. 240 So. 200 *Jr. 225 *Fr. 260 *Jr. 270 *Jr. 305 *^Gr. 330 *Jr. 200 *So. 230 Fr. 340 *Gr. 250 So. 215 *So. 320 *So. 280 Fr. 270 *Sr. 265 *Sr. 300 *Fr. 275 *ºGr. 305 Fr. 305 Jr. 310 Fr. 300 *Gr. 300 *So. 290 Fr. 290 So. 320 So. 305 Jr. 315 So. 295 *So. 285 *Fr. 255 *Jr. 270 *Jr. 245 *Gr. 340 So. 195 *Jr. 300 *So. 260 *So.

KENT STATE TIGERS vs. GOLDEN FLASHES

STARTING LINEUPS WHEN CLEMSON HAS THE BALL CLEMSON OFFENSE Pos. LT LG C RG RT TE WR QB RB WR WR PK

# 75 51 50 55 73 80 8 2 27 13 34 92

Player Mitch Hyatt Tayor Hearn Justin Falcinelli Tyrone Crowder Tremayne Anchrum Milan Richard Deon Cain Kelly Bryant C.J. Fuller Hunter Renfrow Ray-Ray McCloud Greg Huegel

Pos. DE DT NT DE OLB MLB CB LS RS DB CB P

# 58 92 90 17 22 5 21 10 1 7 23 96

Player Theo Eboigbe Theo Majette Jon Cunningham Nick Faulkner Jim Jones James Alexander Demetrius Monday Quan Robinson Juantez McRae Jamal Parker Jerrell Foster Derek Adams

Hgt. 6-5 6-5 6-4 6-2 6-2 6-2 6-1 6-4 5-10 5-10 5-10 5-11

Wgt. 305 330 305 340 290 255 190 220 205 180 180 195

Cl. Jr. *Jr. *^Gr. *Gr. So. *Jr. Jr. Jr. *Jr. *Jr. Jr. *Jr.

Wgt. 261 251 295 243 232 231 205 174 195 183 186 192

Cl. Jr. So. Sr. So. Jr. Sr. Sr. Jr. Jr. So. Sr. So.

KENT STATE DEFENSE Hgt. 6-1 5-11 6-0 6-1 6-1 5-11 5-10 6-1 5-10 5-8 6-0 6-0

WHEN KENT STATE HAS THE BALL KENT STATE OFFENSE Pos. LT LG C RG RT TE WR QB TB WR WR PK

# 67 75 54 59 68 82 80 4 11 3 24 57

Player Stefano Millin Adam Gregoire Nathan Puthoff Connor Shinsky Mike Marinelli Ryan Malone Johnny Woods Nick Holley Justin Rankin Kris White Raekwon James Shane Hynes

Pos. DE DT DT DE SLB MLB WLB CB SS FS CB P

# 99 90 42 7 6 57 34 31 19 23 29 48

Player Clelin Ferrell Dexter Lawrence Christian Wilkins Austin Bryant Dorian O’Daniel Tre Lamar Kendall Joseph Ryan Carter Tanner Muse Van Smith Marcus Edmond Will Spiers

Hgt. 6-5 6-6 6-4 6-5 6-3 6-1 6-2 5-10 5-9 6-1 5-9 5-10

Wgt. 305 325 313 302 281 240 200 200 206 225 187 166

Cl. Jr. So. Sr. Jr. So. Sr. Jr. Sr. So. Sr. Jr. Jr.

Wgt. 260 340 300 265 220 250 225 180 225 180 180 225

Cl. *So. So. Jr. Jr. *Gr. So. *Jr. *Gr. *So. Jr. *Gr. *Fr.

CLEMSON DEFENSE Hgt. 6-5 6-4 6-4 6-5 6-1 6-4 6-0 5-9 6-2 6-0 6-0 6-4

OFFICIALS Referee David Epperley Center Judge Michael Webster Umpire Mike Morton Head Linesman Steve Clein Line Judge Deon Lawrence Side Judge Angelo Bartis

# 1 2 2 3 3 4 5 5 6 6 7 8 10 10 11 12 13 14 14 15 17 17 18 18 19 19 20 21 21 22 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 41 42 45 46 47 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 61 62 64 67 68 74 75 76 78 80 82 85 86 87 88 89 90 90 91 92 93 94 96 97 98

Player Juantez McRae George Bollas Erik Simpson Devante Lee Kris White Nick Holley James Alexander Trey Harrell Carlos Pickett Keon Singleton Jamal Parker Elvis Hines Kavious Price Quan Robinson Justin Rankin Raymond James Will Phillis John Henry Bronczek Dustin Crum KJ Sherald Nick Faulkner Mylik Mitchell Dan Hillenbrand Xavier Williams A.J. Musolino Donte Ross Marcus Elliott Will Matthews Demetrius Monday Miles Hibbler Jim Jones Jerrell Foster Raekwon James Jonathan Moore Myles Washington Isaac Vance Mandela Lawrence-Burke Matt Bahr Darryl Marshall Akeam Peters Dalton Hicks Matt Sommers Kesean Gamble Sam Thomas Amari Jenson Cepeda Phillips Jae’Vante Ray Rodley Jolicoeur Danny Johnson Marques Moore Chalfonte Butler Nathan Monnin Anthony McKay Alex Hoag Nathan Puthoff Jordan Robinson Jontey Byrd Shane Hynes Theo Eboigbe Connor Shinsky Joey Palumbo Davonte James Bryce Gibbs Stefano Millin Mike Marinelli Nate Warnock Adam Gregoire Chase Van Hoef Zach Corrigall Johnny Woods Ryan Malone Luke Grandjean Zaquon Tyson Mike Carrigan Conor Brumfield Charles Gamble III Jon Cunningham Colt McFadden Neiman Novitski Theo Majette Matt Bell Grant Urenovitch Derek Adams Zayin West Dominic Hill

Pos. Hgt. S 5-10 QB 6-3 S 5-11 DL 6-6 WR 6-1 QB/WR 5-10 LB 5-11 WR 6-0 S 5-10 RB 6-0 CB 5-8 DB 5-10 WR 5-6 S 6-1 RB 5-9 DB 5-11 QB 6-4 S 5-7 QB 6-3 CB 5-9 DE 6-1 QB 6-3 TE 6-6 RB 5-9 S 6-3 WR 6-1 DB 6-0 RB 5-7 CB 5-10 RB 5-11 LB 6-1 CB 6-0 WR/RB 5-9 WR 5-8 RB 5-9 RB 5-9 S 6-0 LB 6-1 CB 5-10 S 5-10 LB 5-11 DE 6-2 LB 6-1 LB 6-0 LB 6-0 LB 6-0 CB 5-10 S 5-8 LB 5-11 DE 6-1 TE 6-6 TE 6-5 DT 6-1 DE 6-3 OL 6-4 DE 6-2 DT 5-10 PK 5-10 DE 6-1 OL 6-5 LS 6-0 OL 6-2 OL 6-3 OL/LS 6-5 OL 6-3 OL 6-4 OL 6-6 OL 6-3 OL 6-3 WR 6-2 TE 6-1 WR 6-2 WR 5-9 WR 5-9 TE 6-3 WR 6-1 DT 6-0 PK 6-0 DL 6-2 DL 5-11 DL 5-11 P 6-1 P 6-0 DE 6-1 DL 6-0

Wgt. 195 219 193 294 225 200 231 185 187 221 183 172 169 174 206 176 230 189 205 177 243 206 250 183 205 170 201 205 205 206 232 186 187 176 222 171 194 223 171 199 229 265 249 234 244 222 169 181 200 249 253 267 289 250 313 257 289 166 261 302 210 260 304 305 281 294 325 290 280 200 240 180 165 175 240 175 295 196 215 251 250 157 192 258 295

Cl. Jr. Jr. Jr. Sr. Sr. Sr. Sr. So. So. Fr. So. Fr. So. Jr. So. Fr. Fr. So. Fr. Fr. So. So. Sr. Fr. Fr. Jr. Sr. So. Sr. Sr. Jr. Sr. Jr. Fr. Jr. Fr. So. Jr. Jr. So. So. Sr. Fr. Fr. Fr. Fr. Jr. Fr. So. Sr. So. Fr. Jr. So. Sr. Jr. Sr. Jr. Jr. Jr. So. Jr. So. Jr. So. So. So. So. Fr. Jr. Sr. Jr. Jr. So. So. Fr. Sr. Fr. Fr. So. Fr. Fr. So. Fr. So.

Field Judge Chris Junjulas Back Judge Pat Ryan TV Liaison Rick Walton Replay Official Bruce Palmer Communicator Thomas Considine

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2017 OPPONENT SCHEDULES KENT STATE (0-0) Date 9-2 9-9 9-16 9-23 9-30 10-7 10-14 10-21 10-31 11-8 11-14 11-21

Opponent Time at Clemson Noon Howard 3:30 p.m. at Marshall 6:30 p.m. at Louisville * Buffalo * at Northern Illinois 3:30 p.m. * Miami (Ohio) 3:30 p.m. * at Ohio * Bowling Green * at Western Michigan * Central Michigan * at Akron 7 p.m.

SYRACUSE (0-0) Date 9-1 9-9 9-16 9-23 9-30 10-7 10-13 10-21 11-4 11-11 11-18 11-25

Opponent Time Central Connecticut 7 p.m.

Middle Tennessee 3:30 p.m.

Central Michigan 3:30 p.m. at Louisiana State * at NC State * Pittsburgh * Clemson 7 p.m. * at Miami (Fla.) * at Florida State * Wake Forest * at Louisville * Boston College

AUBURN (0-0) Date 9-2 9-9 9-16 9-23 9-30 10-7 10-14 10-21 11-4 11-11 11-18 11-25

Opponent Time Georgia Southern 7:30 p.m. at Clemson 7 p.m.

Mercer 4 p.m. * at Missouri * Mississippi State * Mississippi * at Louisiana State * at Arkansas * at Texas A&M * Georgia Louisiana-Monroe * Alabama

LOUISVILLE (0-0) Date 9-2 9-9 9-16 9-23 9-30 10-5 10-14 10-21 10-28 11-11 11-18 11-25

GEORGIA TECH (0-0) Date 9-4 9-9 9-16 9-23 9-30 10-12 10-21 10-28 11-4 11-11 11-18 11-25

Opponent Time Tennessee 8 p.m.

Jacksonville State 12:30 p.m. at Central Florida 7:30 p.m. * Pittsburgh * North Carolina * at Miami (Fla.) 8 p.m. * Wake Forest * at Clemson * at Virginia * Virginia Tech * at Duke Georgia

Opponent Time Purdue 7:30 p.m. * at North Carolina Noon * Clemson 3:30 p.m.

Kent State Murray State * at NC State 8 p.m. * Boston College * at Florida State * at Wake Forest * Virginia * Syracuse at Kentucky

NC STATE (0-0) Date 9-2 9-9 9-16 9-23 9-30 10-5 10-14 10-28 11-4 11-11 11-18 11-25

Opponent Time South Carolina 3 p.m.

Marshall 6 p.m.

Furman 12:20 p.m. * at Florida State * Syracuse * Louisville 8 p.m. * at Pittsburgh at Notre Dame 3:30 p.m. * Clemson * at Boston College * at Wake Forest * North Carolina

BOSTON COLLEGE (0-0) Date 9-1 9-9 9-16 9-23 9-30 10-7 10-14 10-21 10-27 11-11 11-18 11-25

Opponent Time at Northern Illinois 9:30 p.m. * Wake Forest 1 p.m.

Notre Dame Noon * at Clemson Central Michigan * Virginia Tech * at Louisville * at Virginia * Florida State 8 p.m. * NC State Connecticut 7 p.m. * at Syracuse

FLORIDA STATE (0-0) Date 9-2 9-9 9-16 9-23 9-30 10-14 10-21 10-27 11-4 11-11 11-18 11-25

Opponent Alabama Louisiana-Monroe * Miami (Fla.) * NC State * at Wake Forest * at Duke * Louisville * at Boston College * Syracuse * at Clemson Delaware State at Florida

Time 8 p.m.

7 p.m.

8 p.m.

8 p.m.

* - conference regular-season game; Note: All times are Eastern; home games in bold.

VIRGINIA TECH (0-0) Date 9-3 9-9 9-16 9-23 9-30 10-7 10-21 10-28 11-4 11-11 11-18 11-24

Opponent Time West Virginia 7:30 p.m.

Delaware 3:30 p.m. at East Carolina 3:30 p.m.

Old Dominion * Clemson * at Boston College * North Carolina * Duke * at Miami (Fla.) * at Georgia Tech * Pittsburgh * at Virginia

THE CITADEL (0-0) Date 9-2 9-9 9-16 9-30 10-7 10-14 10-21 10-28 11-4 11-11 11-18

Opponent Newberry Presbyterian College * at East Tennessee * at Samford * Mercer * Wofford * at Chattanooga * Virginia Military * Western Carolina * at Furman at Clemson

Opponent Time Presbyterian College 6:30 p.m. * at Boston College 1 p.m.

Utah State 3 p.m. at Appalachian State * Florida State * at Clemson * at Georgia Tech * Louisville at Notre Dame 3:30 p.m. * at Syracuse * NC State * Duke

SOUTH CAROLINA (0-0)

Time 6 p.m.

6 p.m.

State 2 6 2 2 2 2

WAKE FOREST (0-0) Date 8-31 9-9 9-16 9-23 9-30 10-7 10-21 10-28 11-4 11-11 11-18 11-25

p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m.

Date 9-2 9-9 9-16 9-23 9-30 10-7 10-14 10-28 11-4 11-11 11-18 11-25

Opponent Time NC State 3 p.m. * at Missouri 7 p.m. * Kentucky 7:30 p.m.

Louisiana Tech * at Texas A&M * Arkansas * at Tennessee * Vanderbilt * at Georgia * Florida Wofford Clemson

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FIRST-TEAM ALL-AMERICANS

Year Player Pos. B 1939 Banks McFadden E 1940 Joe Blalock 1941 Joe Blalock E C 1945 Ralph Jenkins 1948 Bobby Gage B S 1950 Jackie Calvert OL 1959 Lou Cordileone 1966 Wayne Mass OL OG 1967 Harry Olszewski 1970 Dave Thompson OG TE 1974 Bennie Cunningham TE 1975 Bennie Cunningham 1977 Joe Bostic OG OG 1978 Joe Bostic Jerry Butler WR DT 1979 Jim Stuckey LB 1981 Jeff Davis Terry Kinard FS Perry Tuttle WR 1982 * Terry Kinard FS MG 1983 William Perry MG 1984 William Perry 1986 Terrence Flagler RB John Phillips OG 1987 Michael Dean Perry DT David Treadwell PK Donnell Woolford CB 1988 Donnell Woolford CB OT 1989 Stacy Long 1990 Stacy Long OT MG 1991 Rob Bodine Jeb Flesch OG Levon Kirkland LB Ed McDaniel LB 1993 Stacy Seegars OG LB 1996 Anthony Simmons LB 1997 Anthony Simmons 1998 Antwan Edwards CB LB 1999 Keith Adams 2000 Keith Adams LB Rod Gardner WR LB 2004 Leroy Hill 2005 Tye Hill CB DE 2006 * Gaines Adams 2007 Barry Richardson OT S 2009 DeAndre McDaniel

* C.J. Spiller RB 2010 * Da’Quan Bowers DE TE 2011 Dwayne Allen Sammy Watkins WR QB 2012 Tajh Boyd Dalton Freeman C Sammy Watkins WR DE 2013 Vic Beasley Sammy Watkins WR DE 2014 Vic Beasley S 2015 Jayron Kearse Shaq Lawson DE Deshaun Watson QB 2016 Cordrea Tankersley CB Carlos Watkins DT Christian Wilkins DL Mike Williams WR * - unanimous first-team All-American

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FIRST-ROUND DRAFT PICKS

Year Player 1939 Banks McFadden 1949 Bobby Gage 1960 Lou Cordileone 1976 Bennie Cunningham 1979 Jerry Butler

Steve Fuller 1980 Jim Stuckey 1982 Jeff Bryant

Perry Tuttle 1983 Terry Kinard 1985 William Perry 1987 Terrence Flagler 1989 Donnell Woolford 1992 Chester McGlockton 1993 Wayne Simmons 1997 Trevor Pryce Anthony Simmons 1998 1999 Antwan Edwards 2001 Rod Gardner 2006 Tye Hill 2007 Gaines Adams 2010 C.J. Spiller 2013 DeAndre Hopkins 2014 Sammy Watkins 2015 Vic Beasley

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Harold Olson OT Bills RB Jets 1963 Bill Mathis S Cowboys 1976 Charlie Waters 1977 Charlie Waters S Cowboys S Cowboys 1978 Charlie Waters 1980 Jerry Butler WR Bills WR 49ers 1981 Dwight Clark WR 49ers 1982 Dwight Clark 1983 Jeff Bostic C Redskins P Rams 1985 Dale Hatcher

Kevin Mack RB Browns RB Browns 1987 Kevin Mack S Giants 1988 Terry Kinard

Johnny Rembert LB Patriots DT Browns 1989 Michael Dean Perry

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David Treadwell PK Broncos DT Browns 1990 Michael Dean Perry 1991 Michael Dean Perry DT Browns DT Browns 1993 Michael Dean Perry

Donnell Woolford CB Bears DT Raiders 1994 Chester McGlockton

Michael Dean Perry DT Browns 1995 Chester McGlockton DT Raiders TB Redskins 1996 Terry Allen

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Levon Kirkland LB Steelers

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Michael Dean Perry DT Broncos LB Steelers 1997 Levon Kirkland

Chester McGlockton DT Raiders LB Vikings 1998 Ed McDaniel S Eagles 1999 Brian Dawkins

Trevor Pryce DT Broncos DT Broncos 2000 Trevor Pryce 2001 Brian Dawkins S Eagles

Trevor Pryce DT Broncos S Eagles 2002 Brian Dawkins

Trevor Pryce DT Broncos S Eagles 2004 Brian Dawkins 2005 Brian Dawkins S Eagles S Eagles 2006 Brian Dawkins

Justin Miller KR Jets 2008 Brian Dawkins S Eagles S Broncos 2009 Brian Dawkins 2011 Brian Dawkins S Broncos RB Bills 2012 C.J. Spiller WR Texans 2015 DeAndre Hopkins 2016 Vic Beasley DE/LB Falcons Note: Years reflect regular seasons.

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he talk of college football prior to the 2017 season from a facility standpoint was Clemson’s Allen N. Reeves Football Complex.

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most functional of its kind nationally.

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championship trophies. Three? When you win the national title, you receive trophies from each organization that proclaims a champion.

The first trophy is the gold trophy from the College Football Playoff, the one the players and Swinney held during the postgame celebration after defeating top-ranked Alabama on Jan. 9, 2017 in Tampa, Fla. The other two (1981, 2016) that sit behind the gold trophy are the Waterford Crystal football from the USA Today poll, which officially named Clemson national champion the day after the Tigers defeated Alabama. There is an AP national championship trophy that is on the second floor.

The lobby also includes a replica of Howard’s Rock and the Hill from Memorial Stadium. At the top of the Hill, there is a button you can push and listen to Brent Musburger and Kirk Herbstreit describe college football’s greatest entrance. It is audio taken from the opening of the Clemson vs. Georgia game in 2013.

Off the lobby to the right is the area for P.A.W. Journey. That is where Jeff Davis and Allison Waymyers are located.

It provides a study area, but also houses meeting rooms for community service activities and meeting places for prospective employers who are considering hiring Clemson football players after their careers end. Team advisor Reggie Pleasant’s office is on the second floor of this area.

A corridor outside the P.A.W. Journey area takes you to the dining area.

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Overall, the outdoor village is 1.5 acres and cost over $1.5 million to build.

Back inside the player facility and through glass doors is the indoor area that is complete with a two-lane bowling alley, Pop-A-Shot, video game area, multiple ping-pong and pool tables and a table shuffleboard. Adjacent to the pingpong tables is a golf simulator where you can play Augusta National, St. Andrews and Pebble Beach along with many other great golf courses from around the world.

Down the corridor from the golf simulator is a barber shop and shoeshine area. Next to the barber shop is the nap room, a concept that has gotten plenty of attention.

The weight room is 23,000 square feet. It looks to be the length of a football field, and the entire team can work out in it at one time.

After practice, especially during hot weather, players step into a cold tub (47 degrees) to help in post-practice recovery. Through last season, large

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each player’s food intake based on their current weight.

Adjacent to the dining area are the outside and inside players’ village.

The outside area includes a nine-hole miniature golf course, a covered fullcourt basketball facility with glass backboards and a state-of-the-art surface, an artificial-surface wiffle ball diamond, sand volleyball facility, a horseshoe pit, wading pool with a Tiger Paw monument, outdoor kitchen and lounge area with a 20-foot video screen.

tubs were brought to the outside wall of the indoor football facility and players traded off getting into the tubs. Now, there is one large horizontal cold tub that can handle 61 players at a time, making the process much more efficient.

The training room is also state-ofthe-art with a lap pool and four therapy pools. It is a spacious facility that makes director of sports medicine Danny Poole smile every day.

The second floor features the offices for each coach. Swinney’s office is in the corner and fittingly overlooks the practice fields at one side and the outdoor basketball court on the other.

The second floor is the home of Clemson football’s video department.

It is a facility that rivals a facility you would see on a tour at ESPN. A greenscreen room is the home of interviews and photos that you see on social media.

The room also has a direct fiber-optic line to ESPN in Bristol, Conn.

The second floor has a meeting room for each position and the team meeting room that has seats for 180 (up from 158 for the team meeting room at Memorial Stadium).

The second floor also features a movie theater with 20 lounge chairs. On any night, players can bring their favorite movie and view on the big screen.

And finally, there is the slide!

“This idea came straight from coach Swinney,” admitted Turnipseed. “He saw it at the Google headquarters in the 2013 comedy, ‘The Internship.’ He loved it.”

The slide is located near the back of the building and is the quickest means of transportation from the second floor to the door that leads immediately to the practice fields.

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hen fans envision an indoor practice facility like the one that was completed for the Tiger football team in 2013, certain stereotypes come to mind. Common perceptions are largely simplistic in nature, and the idea that a facility that is solely for game preparation, out of the gaze of onlookers and carries a large amount of importance seems crazy. But the facility was never about football alone. In fact, the $10 million structure serves to unify the

athletic department, while providing Tiger football with a cutting-edge structure that helps complete a nationally-relevant program.

On its face, the facility does exactly what it purports to do...provide a place for head coach Dabo Swinney to take his team in case of inclement weather without disrupting a schedule of events that is packed full on a daily basis. It equips the Tigers with a lavish place to prepare for opponents in a game-like atmosphere.

It houses an 80,000 square foot practice area that includes a full field, which is surrounded by ample sideline space to provide a comfortable environment. In order to simulate a gameday experience, there is a fully-functional scoreboard inside the facility along with four play clocks and a videoboard.

High above the field on the second story of the nearly 70-foot structure is a long coaches platform so practice can be viewed from above. In addition, by way of a short corridor, the platform ex-

tends to the back side of the building, so that any drills taking place outside on the other two fields can be seen from the building.

The indoor facility, which includes more than 5,000 square feet of support, adjoins the new Allen N. Reeves Football Complex, specifically the new weight room, and is air-conditioned.

The facility was dedicated in the fall of 2016 and officially named the Betty Sheppard Poe & William Maxwell Poe Indoor Football Facility.

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lemson’s Memorial Stadium has been held in high esteem for many years. Whether it be players from the 1940s and 1950s, opposing players from the 1970s and 1980s or even professional players in the 1990s, the ambiance of this special setting is what college football is all about.

The storied edifice added to its legend when the first meeting of father-and-son head coaches (Bowden Bowl I) took place before a record crowd of 86,092 fans in 1999. Clemson has finished in the top 20 in the country in average home attendance 35 straight seasons. A crowd has exceeded 80,000 fans 75 times since the 1983 season. In 2016, Clemson was 14th in the nation in average home attendance.

The legend was further enhanced in 2014 and 2015 when the Tigers had perfect 7-0 home records, while Clemson was 39-3 at Memorial Stadium from 2011-16. Defending national champions are 0-3 all-time at Memorial Stadium.

Clemson had a 21-game winning streak at home from 2013 to 2016, setting a record for the facility.

The facility’s mystique is derived from its many traditions, which date to its opening in 1942, the legendary games and players and Clemson’s corresponding rate of success. The Tigers have won 288 games in 75 years and have won over 73 percent of the contests (288-102-7).

The stadium has definitely been good to the Tigers, but it was constructed against the advice of at least one coach. Before head coach Jess Neely left for Rice after the 1939 season, he gave Clemson a message.

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about 10,000 seats behind the YMCA. That’s all you’ll ever need.”

Instead of following Neely’s advice, Clemson officials decided to build the new stadium in a valley on the western part of campus. The place took some clearing, as there were many trees, but luckily there were no hedges.

The crews went to work, clearing, cutting, pouring and forming. On Sept. 19, 1942, Memorial Stadium opened with Clemson defeating Presbyterian College 32-13. Those 20,000 seats installed for the opener would soon grow.

When the original part of the stadium was built in the early 1940s, much of the work was done by scholarship athletes, including football players. The first staking out of the stadium was done by two members of the football team, A.N. Cameron and Hugh Webb. Webb returned to Clemson years later to be an architecture professor and Cameron went on to become a civil engineer in Louisiana.

The construction of Memorial Stadium did not proceed without problems. One afternoon during the clearing of the land, a young player proudly announced that he was not allergic to poison oak. He then proceeded to attack the poison oak with a swing blade, throwing the plants to and fro. The next day, the boy was swollen twice his size and was hospitalized.

There are many other stories about the stadium, including one that Frank Howard put a chew of tobacco in each corner as the concrete was poured.

Howard said that the seeding of the grass caused a few problems.

“About 40 people and I laid sod on the field,” he said. “After three weeks on July 15, we had only gotten halfway through.

“I told them that it had taken us three weeks to get that far and I would give them

three more weeks’ pay for however long it took to finish. I also told them we would have 50 gallons of ice cream when we got through.

“After that, it took them three days to do the rest of the field. Then we sat down

in the middle of the field and ate up that whole 50 gallons.”

Howard said that on the day of the first game in the stadium, “the gates were hung at 1 p.m., and we played at 2 p.m.” But that would be all of the construction for

awhile. Then in 1958, 18,000 sideline seats were added, and in 1960, 5,658 west endzone seats were added in response to increasing attendance. With the large east endzone (“Green Grass” section), this expansion increased capacity to 53,000.

Later, upper decks were added to each side of Memorial Stadium as crowds swelled, the first in 1978 and the second in 1983. It increased capacity to over 80,000, which makes it one of the largest on-campus stadiums in the country.

In 2006, the WestZone was added, an area that contains locker rooms, offices, a student-athlete enrichment center and luxury club level that holds over 1,000 seats.

The effect that inflation has had can be dramatically seen in the differences in stadium construction. The original part of Memorial Stadium was built at a cost of only $125,000, or $6.25 per seat.

Memorial Stadium’s newest upper deck was finished in 1983 at a cost of $13.5 million, or $866 per seat.

Through the years, Memorial Stadium has become known as “Death Valley” across the country. It was tagged by Presbyterian College head coach Lonnie McMillian during the late 1940s. After bringing his teams to Clemson for many years and getting whipped, he said the place was like “Death Valley.” A few years later, the name stuck.

In 1974, the playing surface was named Frank Howard Field for the legendary coach because of his long service and dedication to Clemson University.

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hat has been described as “the most exciting 25 seconds in college football” from a color and pageantry standpoint actually started out as a matter-of-fact entrance, mainly because of necessity.

The first 20,000 seats in Memorial Stadium were built and ready for use before the 1942 season, less than a year after Pearl Harbor was bombed and the U.S., was drawn into World War II. The shortest entry into Memorial Stadium was a short walk down Williamson Road from Fike Fieldhouse’s dressing rooms to a gate at the top of the Hill, located behind the east endzone. There were no dressing facilities inside the west endzone of Memorial Stadium...there was only a giant clock, where the hands turned, and a scoreboard that was operated by hand.

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come in the gate underneath where the scoreboard now stands and jog down the Hill for its warmup exercises. There was no fanfare, no cannon shot fired, no Tiger

Paw flag, no “Tiger Rag” played...just the team making its entrance and lining up to do the side-straddle hop. That is the way things went for the next 25 years.

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white flint rock. He presented the rock to head coach Frank Howard as being from Death Valley, California to Death Valley, South Carolina.

The rock laid on the floor in Howard’s office in Fike Fieldhouse for years. One day, he was cleaning up his office and told Gene Willimon, who was executive

secretary of IPTAY, to “take this rock and throw it over the fence or out in the ditch...do something with it, but get it out of my office!”

Willimon did not think that was the way a rock should be treated. After all, it had been brought over 1,900 miles by a very sincere Tiger fan.

By the mid 1960s, Memorial Stadium was living up to its moniker (“Death Valley”) because of the number of Tiger wins that had been recorded there. Actually, the name was first used by Lonnie McMillian, head coach at Presbyterian College during the 1940s.

McMillian and the other Blue Hose coaches before him opened each season by playing at Clemson. Seldom scoring (24 shutouts in 39 games) and with only three wins and four ties, his teams were getting “killed” by the Tigers regularly.

In 1948, McMillian made the remark to the press that he was taking his team to play Clemson in “Death Valley.” An occasional reference to Memorial Stadium by that name could be heard for the next four years, but when Howard started calling it “Death Valley” in the 1950s, the name took off like wildfire. Clemson celebrated its 75th year in the “Valley” in 2016.

But getting back to Howard’s Rock.

It was mounted on a pedestal at the top of the Hill on the east side of the stadium. It was unveiled Sept. 24, 1966, when Clemson played Virginia. The Tigers trailed by 18 points with 17 minutes left and came back to win 40-35 on a 75yard pass from Jimmy Addison to Jacky Jackson in the fourth quarter. That was quite a debut for Howard’s Rock.

The team members started rubbing Howard’s Rock prior to running down the Hill on Sept. 23, 1967, a day when Clemson defeated Wake Forest 23-6.

Prior to running down the Hill, Howard told his players, “If you’re going to give

110 percent, you can rub that Rock. If you’re not, keep your filthy hands off it!”

Howard told of the incident the following day on his television show, and the story became legend.

When Hootie Ingram succeeded Howard as head coach in 1970, he made the logical decision that the team would make its final entrance out of the new dressing room in the west endzone.

In all home games in 1970 and 1971 and the first four games of 1972 when the Tigers did not run down the Hill, their combined record was 6-9.

The seniors, led by Ben Anderson, decided they wanted to come down the Hill prior to the South Carolina contest, the finale of the 1972 season. The result, in a cold, freezing rain, was a 7-6 victory when Jimmy Williamson knocked down a two-point conversion attempt, which preserved the narrow win.

Clemson has made the entrance before every home game since 1942, except for the years mentioned and the first game of 1973 (388 times entering 2017).

After final warmups, the team gathers back in its dressing room under the west endzone stands for its final pregame instructions. Approximately 10 minutes prior to kickoff, the team boards three buses, rides around behind the north stands to the east endzone and disembarks to the top of the Hill behind Howard’s Rock.

At the appointed time, the cannon booms, and led by a giant Tiger Paw flag carried by cheerleaders and Rally Cats, the band forms two lines for the team to run between and strikes up “Tiger Rag.” The frenzy starts in all sincerity and usually lasts three hours.

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s part of the new Allen N. Reeves Football Complex that opened on Feb. 1, 2017, the Tiger program opened one of the top strength training facilities in the nation. The 23,000 square foot football facility has all the latest in modern strength training that helps the Tigers prepare year-round.

The new facility includes 20 inlay platforms, 30 pieces of cardio equipment, a full line of fatbells, kettlebells and dumbbells, eight different training zones and a nutrition bar.

The facility also has the latest high-tech sound system, many flatscreens and the best lighting available that puts wall graphics in full view, leading to the best possible work environment.

The facility is attached to the indoor football facility and faces the outdoor practice facility, making for the most convenient and efficient facility in the nation.

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STRENGTH & CONDITIONING STAFF LEFT TO RIGHT PAUL HARRINGTON, ADAM SMOTHERMAN, LARRY GREENLEE, JOEY BATSON, PAUL HOGAN, DREW McDUFFIE.

JOEY BATSON DIRECTOR OF FOOTBALL STRENGTH & CONDITIONING • 21st Season at Clemson • 32nd Season Overall • Newberry ‘85 • Born June 22, 1961

Joey Batson is in his 32nd year as a strength & conditioning coach at the college level and 21st year as the director of football strength & conditioning at Clemson.

He has served as a head strength & conditioning coach 28 of his 32 years of service.

Batson was named master strength & conditioning coach by the Collegiate Strength & Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCA) in 2009. He was also named to the CSCCA board of directors in May 2016.

He has had a strong impact on the program since he became director in 1997. He has had much to do with the success of the football program, helping the Tigers to 19 bowl games, 11 top-25 finishes, top-15 finishes each of the last five years and the 2016 national title.

Not only does Batson bring professional experience to the position at Clemson, he brings experience as a football player at the college level. The Travelers Rest, S.C., native was a tight end at The Citadel in 1979 before transferring to Newberry, where he was a two-year letterman and co-captain as a senior.

Batson earned his bachelor’s degree in physical education from Newberry in 1985 and his master’s degree in education from Clemson in 1988.

He is married to the former Susan Malone of Greenville, S.C. They have two sons, Michael and Benjamin.

Michael is a sophomore punter on the 2017 Clemson football team.

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CLEMSON’S NEW HOME FOR ACADEMIC SUPPORT, LOCATED AT MEMORIAL STADIUM

MICHAEL NIERI (FIFTH FROM RIGHT), HIS WIFE, ROBYN (FIFTH FROM LEFT), AND THEIR FAMILY PLEDGED $2.5 MILLION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF CLEMSON’S NEW STATE-OF-THE-ART CENTER AT MEMORIAL STADIUM.

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lemson’s award-winning department of athletic academic services moved from Vickery Hall, its home since 1991, to the WestZone of Memorial Stadium in August 2017. The facility, originally constructed in 2009 as the center of Clemson football, came open when the football program built the Allen N. Reeves Football Complex.

The new home of Clemson academic advising for all sports is one of the most spacious and efficient facilities of its kind in the nation. Clemson has a longstanding vision and commitment to the personal and academic growth and development of its student-athletes, and this new facility at Memorial Stadium continues that commitment in grand fashion. It will also continue to keep

NIERI FAMILY STUDENT-ATHLETE ENRICHMENT CENTER Clemson among the nation’s best in APR scores and other academic metrics.

The program is dedicated to providing a holistic, educational experience by in-

spiring an environment of respect, integrity and excellence. Under the direction of Steve Duzan, senior associate athletic director for academic development, the staff guides and encourages each individual to reach his or her full potential as a student, athlete and citizen.

An original member of the NCAA Champs/Life Skills Program, the staff works in conjunction with the department of student-athlete development and provides opportunities and services to address the changing needs and skills of student-athletes during college as well as after graduation.

The program has a strong tradition of success and was selected for the FBS Athletic Director’s Association Program of Excellence Award, recognizing CHAMPS/Life Skills excellence.

THANKS IN LARGE PART TO THE WORK OF CLEMSON’S STUDENT-ATHLETE ENRICHMENT STAFF, 23 OF THE 24 SENIORS FROM THE 2016 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM HAVE RECEIVED THEIR DEGREE.

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COMPLIANCE This brief NCAA rules education is aimed at outlining basic rules to help all fans and potential boosters and studentathletes better understand the regulations. Clemson University is committed to recuiting and conducting our athletic program with the highest level of integrity.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Email compliance-L@clemson.edu Phone 864-656‑1580 Fax 864-656‑1243 Mailing Address P.O. Box 31;

Clemson, SC 29633 Overnight Address Jervey Athletic Center;

100 Perimeter Road; Clemson, SC 29633 Website ClemsonTigers.com

COMPLIANCE SERVICES STAFF

A BOOSTER INCLUDES ANYONE WHO: • Participates or has been a member of an organization promoting Clemson athletics (e.g., IPTAY member).

• Provides a donation/contribution to Clemson athletics (e.g., season ticket purchase).

• Assists or has been requested by Clemson staff to assist in a prospect’s recruitment.

• Assists in providing benefits to enrolled student athletes or their families.

• Has been involved otherwise in promoting Clemson athletics.

INTERACTION WITH CURRENT STUDENT-ATHLETES CAN’T

CAN

Provide ANY type of gift or benefit to a Clemson student-athlete or his/ her family members. Examples:

Provide summer employment for the studentathlete (with prior compliance approval), so long as he/she is:

• Money in any form • Discounts • Lodging • Transportation • Meals • Gifts (of any value) • Complimentary tickets

• Paid for work actually performed.

• Paid for hours actually worked.

• Paid at the same rate as anyone doing the same job.

• Not used in promotions for employer.

Use a current Clemson student-athlete’s name, picture or likeness to promote products or services.

1981 • 2016

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

Collect autographs and photos with our team (no payment or gifts involved).

INTERACTION WITH RECRUITS CAN’T

CAN

ELLIOTT CHARLES Associate Athletic Director

Provide ANY type of gift or benefit to a recuit or his/ her family members. Examples: • Money in any form • Discounts • Lodging • Transportation • Meals • Gifts (of any value) • Complimentary tickets

Contacting a recruit (or his/her family) via text email and social media for a recruiting purpose.

Accept a call from a recuit or his/her family. However, you: • Can’t initiate call.

• Can’t talk about athletics or recruitiment.

• Can’t be at direction of Clemson staff.

Continue ESTABLISHED family relationships with a recruit and his/her family (not for recruiting purposes).

Face-to-face contact on or off campus (includes family members if no previously established relationship).

Attend a game in which recruits are participating (no contact with recruit or their family).

Employ relatives, guardians or friends of a prospect as an inducement for the prospect’s enrollment and athletics participation at Clemson.

Notify Clemson coaching staff members about noteworthy prospects in the area.

AMANDA GRAY

JAYSON SANTOS

Assistant Athletic Director

Assistant Athletic Director

BRAD WOODY

BUD POUGH

Assistant Athletic Director

Coordinator

CUAD MISSION STATEMENT The department of athletics offers nationally prominent athletic programs. Through a dedicated commitment to educational interests, a competitive athletic program and integrity in all areas, the studentathletes, coaches and staff strive to bring credit and recognition to Clemson University.

The mission of the athletic department is to sponsor a broad-based athletic program that provides educational and athletic opportunities for young men and women to grow, develop and serve the interests of Clemson University by complementing and enhancing its diversity and quality of life.

Furthermore, the athletic department seeks to be a source of pride for the citizens of the state of South Carolina and to be recognized as a nationally prominent program, through consistently high levels of performance and accomplishment in athletic competitions.

The athletic department strives to develop studentathletes academically and athletically with the total commitment of aiding their efforts to graduate from Clemson University and advance to careers that will enable them to be productive members of society.

The athletic department will act in an ethical and honest manner, dedicated to compliance with all federal, state, NCAA, conference and university rules and regulations.

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ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT STAFF JACOB ADDISON Trades Specialist, Athletic Grounds

JARROD BARNES

Assistant Director of Student-Athlete Development

DONNA BULLOCK Assistant Athletic Trainer

CASEY CRISP Associate Director of Educational Services

MIKE ECHOLS

K.C. BELL

Director of Aviation Operations & Chief Pilot

IDA BENSON

Human Resource Partner

JEFF CAREY

ELLIOTT CHARLES

BRAD CROWE

KAITLYN CUNNINGHAM

Associate Director of Educational Services

Assistant Athletic Trainer

STEPHANIE ELLISON

Senior Associate Athletic Director, Administration, Senior Woman Administrator

ERIC GEORGE

MATT GLENN

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JAMES ALLISON

Assistant Supervisor of Athletic Grounds

Supervisor of Athletic Grounds

Assistant Athletic Director, Business Operations

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JON ALLEN

Assistant Athletic Director, Event Management

Technical Director of Video Services

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Associate Athletic Director, Compliance Services

GRACE AMMONS Assistant to the Women’s Basketball Head Coach

MIKE BEWLEY

Senior Associate Director of Athletic Communications

MATT COBB

STEVE COLEMAN

CAITLIN DAVIS

SUNNY RUSSELL DUELAND

Director of Data Analytics

Coordinator of Olympic Sports Nutrition

LUKE FIESER

RICK FRANZBLAU

OWEN GODFREY

Assistant Athletic Director, Director of Ticket Operations & Sales

SAM BLACKMAN

Director of Basketball Strength & Conditioning

Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach

Associate Director of Football Academic Services

DAN ARBLASTER

Pilot & Maintenance Manager

Director of Olympic Sports Strength & Conditioning

AMANDA GRAY

Assistant Athletic Director, Compliance Services

Coordinator of Information Technology

RICK BAGBY

ROBERTA BALLIET

TIM BOURRET

DR. LARRY BOWMAN

Assistant Athletic Director, Video & Technology

Assistant Athletic Director, Director of Football Communications

NIK CONKLIN

STEVE DUZAN

DANNY EARNHARDT

JOE GALBRAITH

JONATHAN GANTT

JEFF HALEY

WESLEY CRIBB

Associate Director of Ticket Operations & Systems

Associate Athletic Director, Student-Athlete Services

Senior Assistant Supervisor of Athletic Facilities

Team Orthopedic Surgeon

Assistant Director of New & Creative Media

Director of Student-Athlete Development

Associate Athletic Director, Athletic Communications

Administrative Coordinator, Olympic Sports

Equipment Personnel

SHELLY GEER

Director of New & Creative Media

Administrative Coordinator, Athletic Academic Services

KESHANA HAM

BRAD HENDERSON

Administrative Coordinator, Olympic Sports

Associate Director of Educational Services

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

1981 • 2016

ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT STAFF BRIAN HENNESSY Senior Associate Director of Athletic Communications

JAY KAUFMAN

MARIA HERBST Director of Educational Services

Associate Athletic Director, StudentAthlete Services & Performance

TRAVIS JOHNSTON Assistant Athletic Trainer

Associate Director of Athletic Communications

Assistant Director of Athletic Academic Services

Graphics Director of Video Services

BRETT KEY

MELISSA KING

SARAH-JO LAWRENCE

JASON LAZAR

SHARON LITTLEJOHN

MATT LOMBARDI

DR. MILT LOWDER

HANNON MAYLEE

SPENCER McANALLY

JANET MERRIFIELD

TINA MIDDLETON

Assistant Tutor Coordinator & Learning Specialist

DON MUNSON

Director of Littlejohn Coliseum

Director of Marketing & Fan Experience

KEVIN KENNEDY

BEN HOUSTON

Assistant Director of Event Management & Championships

Trades Specialist

Associate Director of Athletic Academic Advising

LIBBY KEHN

NATALIE G. HONNEN

Business Manager

Accounts Payable Specialist

Director of Football Academic Services

ROZ PITTS

TORI POLSINELLO

GRAHAM NEFF

ROBBIE PHILLIPS Supervisor of Athletic Facilities

Associate Director of Educational Services

JESSICA PRENCIPE

JEROME RAZAYESKI

DR. LEN REEVES

LINDSEY RICKETTS

1981 • 2016

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

Team Physician

STEPHANIE MOCK

Assistant Director of Olympic Sports Strength & Conditioning

Deputy Director of Athletics

Assistant Athletic Trainer

Sports Psychologist

Assistant Ticket Operations Manager

Director of Broadcasting

Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach

Business Operations Coordinator

Associate Director of Athletic Academic Advising

Spirit Squad Coordinator, Head Cheerleading Coach

CHRIS ROBERTS

Associate Director of Football Academic Services

JEFF KALLIN

YIANNA KAPPAS

Associate Director of Athletic Communications

Associate Director of Athletic Academic Services

RYAN KING

APRIL KLEINFELDT

Assistant Ticket Operations Manager

YASHICA MARTIN

Administrative Assistant, Men’s & Women’s Tennis

TIM MATCH

Associate Director of Athletic Academic Advising

Associate Athletic Director, External Affairs

MIKE MONEY

LESLIE MORELAND-BISHOP

Assistant Athletic Director, Marketing & Game Management

GINTY PORTER

Associate Director of Athletic Academic Advising

KATIE ROVTAR

Assistant Athletic Trainer

Director of Athletic Academic Advising

BUD POUGH

Compliance Coordinator

SUSAN RUARK

Assistant to the Men’s Basketball Head Coach

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ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT STAFF Assistant Athletic Director, Compliance Services

JAYSON SANTOS

Associate Athletic Director, Facilities Management

JOE SIMON

LYNN SPARKS

MEGAN STEPHENS

ALORA SULLIVAN

GARY WADE

MALLORY WARRICK

SHARON WEAVER

JORDAN WHITEHEAD

JASON WILLIAMS

Assistant Athletic Director, Facilities

Business Operations Assistant

Assistant to the Director of Athletics

Athletic Insurance Coordinator

Assistant Ticket Operations Manager

Trades Specialist

KURT SUTTON

Assistant Athletic Trainer

Pilot & Hangar Manager

Director of Broadcast Engineering

MIKE WILSON

Director of Equipment, Olympic Sports

MATTHEW THOMSON Business Operations Coordinator

BRAD WOODY

Assistant Athletic Director, Compliance Services

KYLE YOUNG

Associate Athletic Director, Administration

HEAD COACHES JOHN BOETSCH

BRAD BROWNELL Men’s Basketball

Track & Field • Cross Country

MARK ELLIOTT

MICHAELA FRANKLIN

STEPHEN FRAZIER WONG

NANCY HARRIS

KELLEY HESTER

MONTE LEE

MIKE NOONAN

LARRY PENLEY

EDDIE RADWANSKI

AUDRA SMITH

Men’s Tennis

Women’s Golf

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Baseball

Men’s Soccer

Women’s Volleyball

Men’s Golf

Rowing

Women’s Soccer

Women’s Tennis

Women’s Basketball

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

1981 • 2016

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IPTAY STAFF

S

DAVIS BABB Chief Executive Officer

ince 1934, IPTAY has been a leader in intercollegiate athletics fundraising, and our brand has been built by grassroots efforts and representatives spread throughout the Southeast who work in their communities to build support.

We have had many people contribute their time and resources and who have been tremendously supportive of the university.

That has manifested itself in large seasonticket bases, incredible passion and a large number of people involved. Over the past year, we have grown the brand even further by expanding the scope of what IPTAY does.

In the last 20 years, college athletics has seen significant growth in facilities. The process of recruiting student-athletes is critical to the success of Clemson athletics. As we recruit against top high school prospects with schools from around the country, we need to be prepared to offer them the best possible student-athlete experience.

Because of generous IPTAY donors, the “One IPTAY” enterprise was able to raise a record total of $60.14 million in 2016-17.

These dollars contributed by our 17,181 members directly impact the lives of our nearly 500 student-athletes in our 18-sport athletic program through scholarships, facilities and academic support. From the Tiger Cub Club to the annual fund, major gifts and everything in between, your gifts matter.

As I have mentioned above, we are truly “One IPTAY.” That includes all components annual fundraising, major gifts and planned giving. In recent years, we have taken on the management and oversight of Clemson athletics’ premium seating, IPTAY Dealer Program and Block C Club.

The future is bright for both IPTAY and Clemson athletics because of our very important members! If you are not currently a member, I urge you to join and support the “One IPTAY” enterprise. The IPTAY board and our staff are dedicated to doing everything possible to ensure funding for Clemson athletics will be on solid footing for years to come.

Thank you for all you have done and continue to do for IPTAY, our student-athletes and athletic program. You are important members of the team, and I appreciate your support.

SUPPORTING THE SUCCESS OF CLEMSON’S STUDENT-ATHLETES IN THE CLASSROOM & ON THE FIELD SINCE 1934.

T H E

I P T A Y

F A M I L Y

JEAN ARMITAGE

TRAVIS BLANKS

JANICE CANTINIERI

GAY COPELAND

BOBBY COUCH

BRANDON COX

LINDA DAVIS

AARON DUNHAM

TRAVIS FURBEE

LAUREN GAULIN

CONNIE GILREATH

REED KRAMER

ROBIN LAY

LINDSEY LEONARD

BOB MAHONY

ROBYN MASSEY

JILL RICHARD

Administrative Coordinator

Administrative Specialist

Accountant/Fiscal Analyst

Assistant Director of Block C Club

Associate Director of Major Gifts

Assistant Director

Director of Donor Relations

Director of Annual Fund

Executive Director of Block C Club

Administrative Coordinator

Assistant Director

Administrative Specialist

Director of Major Gifts

Major Gifts Development Coordinator

Accountant/Fiscal Analyst

Assistant Director of Parking

Assistant Director

KYLE SHIELDS

Director of Premium Seating & Major Gifts Officer

JASON WILSON Assistant Director

1981 • 2016

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IPTAY BOARD OF DIRECTORS COUNTY/REGIONAL Chairpersons DISTRICT I

County (S.C.) Abbeville Anderson McCormick Oconee Pickens

County Chairperson Mason Speer Brandon Cox Charles Watts Sammy Dickson Terry Long

DISTRICT II

DR. EDDIE ROBINSON

RICK GRIFFIN

PRESIDENT District III Director

BOB RIGGINS

PRESIDENT-ELECT District V Director

SECRETARY District VII Director

JAN CHILDRESS TREASURER District I Director

County (S.C.) County Chairperson Boone Peeler Cherokee Newberry Charles Bedenbaugh Chad Berry Saluda Wesley Stoddard Spartanburg Union Jerry Brannon

DISTRICT III County (S.C.) Aiken Barnwell Edgefield Lexington Orangeburg Richland

County Chairperson Bryan Young Samuel O’Neal Lewis Holmes Jim & Marilyn Bull Kenneth Buck David Mitchum

DISTRICT IV

JEAN DESDUNES District IX Director

SANDY EDGE

Alumni Association President

BEN GRIFFITH District VI Director

DR. JANIE HODGE NCAA Faculty Athletic Representative

JOHN N. McCARTER JR. University Trustee Representative

County (S.C.) Chester Chesterfield Darlington Fairfield Kershaw Lancaster Lee Marlboro York

County Chairperson Samuel Stone Bill Tillman Tommy Usher Philip Wilkins John Shell Larry Wolfe Green Deschamps Mark Avent Jack Cox

DISTRICT V County (S.C.) Allendale Bamberg Charleston Colleton Hampton Jasper

County Chairperson Frank Young Joseph Ott Al Byrd Samuel Hazel Henry Foy Roy Pryor

DISTRICT VI

BILLY MILAM District VIII Director

ROBERT L. PEELER University Trustee Representative

RETT RUTLAND District IV Director

ANDREW SMART District X Director

BRIANNA WOODSBY District II Director

IPTAY REPRESENTATIVE PROGRAM

T

he IPTAY Representative Program continues to be one of the most important marketing tools available for the growth of the IPTAY Scholarship Fund. This dedicated group comprising nearly 517 men and women throughout the country volunteers time to encourage those in the communities and in the circle of influence to join IPTAY on an annual basis and to support Clemson in all endeavors.

The recruitment of new IPTAY donors, those who have a potential

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for leadership gifts and creating a link between Clemson University and its constituents are the goals of each IPTAY representative. With continued

leadership provided by the IPTAY board of directors and our past presidents, the representative program will continue to be successful.

County (S.C.) Clarendon Dillon Florence Georgetown Horry Marion Sumter Williamsburg

County Chairperson John Ducworth Douglas Lynn Charles Grace Reed Barker Laurence Bolchoz T.C. Atkinson Tracy Pender Sam Drucker

DISTRICT VII Region Region Region Region Region Region Region

(N.C.) Regional Chairperson Timothy Long I II Robert Dunnigan Jeffrey Goldsmith III --- Open --IV V William Worth Donald Barrett VI

Region Region Region Region

(Ga.) I II III

DISTRICT VIII Regional Chairperson --- Open --Earle Maxwell Bill Heatley

DISTRICT IX Region (U.S.) Regional Chairperson Michael Straley Northeast Southeast Charles Cooper --- Open --West Coast

DISTRICT X County (S.C.) Greenville Greenwood Laurens

County Chairperson Richard Ammons Wayne Bell --- Open ---

IPTAY PAST PRESIDENTS

MARY ANNE BIGGER

DR. JIM BOSTIC

LYNN CAMPBELL

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ing blood cancers.

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Koury was notified in April that he might be a DNA match for someone needing a stem-cell transplant. After going for more extensive blood testing to confirm, he was excited to have the opportunity. He was given a drug to have his body produce excess stem cells, and on June 29, he went to Greenville for the main procedure. His stem cells were then extracted from his blood and transplanted into a 66-yearold male recipient. At last word, that person is doing well and on the road to recovery.

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• Being the best person you can be.

• Being the best teammate you can be.

• Being the best student you can be.

• Being/becoming the best volleyball player you can be.

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CHAMPIONSHIP BEHAVIOR

THE TIGERS’ NEW HEAD COACH BRINGS A WINNING ATTITUDE TO THE CLEMSON VOLLEYBALL PROGRAM WITH HER “CHAMPIONSHIP BEHAVIOR” APPROACH.

BY COLE LITTLE

W

hen Michaela Franklin first visited Clemson’s campus to interview for volleyball’s head coaching position, she instantly felt a connection.

As someone who has worn several different hats in several different locations, Franklin has had the pleasure of working with a variety of outstanding athletic programs during her career. But prior to visiting Tigertown, she had never felt anything quite like the unique combination of the familial feel and commitment to winning that forms the bedrock of Clemson.

“With the facilities and the success that its programs have had, it has an elite-level atmosphere,” said Franklin.

“Yet it still has that family dynamic, which is something that is really unique about Clemson, because not every university has that.”

As it turns out, her good vibes rang true, as her visit to Clemson went swimmingly, and she was hired in March to take the helm of the program. A former standout right-side attacker for Kansas State, Franklin boasts a resumé laden with successes from both her playing and coaching days.

Franklin was a three-sport star at Lincoln (Neb.) High School, competing in basketball, track & field and volleyball.

Her prep volleyball career was highly decorated, as she earned all-state hon-

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ors as a senior and led her squad to two district titles.

She competed at the college level from 2001 to 2004, playing at Northern Michigan as a freshman before suiting up at Kansas State for the remainder of her career. While at Kansas State, she was well-rounded on the court.

“I’m fully convinced that I was sent to Kansas State to become a great coach, not a great player,” admitted Franklin.

“I went through that roller-coaster ride of starting sometimes and not seeing the court other times. It helped me evolve as a person and competitor.

“I was able to see the game from different perspectives, and now I’m able to relate to my players because I’ve been in their shoes. I know what it’s like to be on their side of things.”

Franklin began her ultimate dream of coaching college volleyball by serving as an assistant under renowned Northern Illinois head coach Ray Gooden from 2006-08. She next teamed up with Bond Shymansky at Marquette, where she served as defensive coordinator.

Franklin helped lead the Golden Eagles to their first NCAA Tournament appearance and win in 2011, which was a defining achievement in the buildup to her head-coaching appointment at Wisconsin-Green Bay in 2013.

Thereafter, Franklin opted to rejoin Shymansky by becoming an assistant

coach with his new program, Iowa. Serving as defensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator for the Hawkeyes from 2014-16, she utilized the learning opportunities presented by coaching alongside the great to prepare her for the premier opportunity of becoming the head coach of the Tigers.

Despite being a proverbial greenhorn of the head coaching profession, Franklin is certainly wise beyond her years and ready to take the program to new heights. Although she comes from an athletic family, as she is the daughter of former Nebraska and Miami Dolphin running back Andra Franklin, she does not limit her coaching approach strictly to sports.

Hailing “championship behavior” as “her philosophy for coaching and life,” she has never strayed from her steadfast commitment to displaying championship behavior throughout her volleyball career. Centered upon a never-ending effort to be the best person, teammate, student and volleyball player one can be, Franklin’s formula for “championship behavior” is the perfect

recipe for success in the world of college athletics, and it will rightfully serve as the groundwork for the program as long as Franklin is in charge.

“I believe that in order to win championships in volleyball or be a winner in life, you have to behave like a champion.

It doesn’t all of a sudden turn on at one moment. You have to be consistent.”

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ne of the most popular questions directed at the Clemson athletic department staff over the past few years is, “Are we going to add softball?” The answer is now, “yes!” In March, Clemson athletics announced plans to sponsor intercollegiate softball.

“Softball is a tremendously popular sport among young women in the state of South Carolina and around the nation,” remarked director of athletics Dan Radakovich.

“We’ve evaluated our sport offerings over the past few years and believe this is our best path forward. Among other considerations, softball will allow us to provide an opportunity to compete quickly with the other 12 softball-playing schools of the ACC for increased exposure with our television partners, and it allows for our continued compliance with Title IX participation ratios.”

As Radakovich alluded to, the popularity of softball, particularly in the state of South Carolina, was one of the primary driving forces behind the addition.

Clemson expects to effectively recruit top homegrown talent and be a competitive force that attracts a strong fanbase.

“If you look at the state and the recruiting ability in the state of South Carolina, that was a big sell,” said associate athletic director Natalie G. Honnen. “We want to make sure that we’re sponsoring sports that match up with the interests of high school students in the state.

“One thing that we did notice as we were doing some research was that there was a lot of great talent in the state of South Carolina that was going elsewhere. We also learned that surrounding states (Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Forida) are recruiting ‘hotbeds,’ a very important factor for our future head coach.

“The success of baseball was also a motivating factor. You look at a sport like baseball and the crowds and support we have in the area...we believe there is a huge market for softball. The game is different...it’s faster and the games are shorter, so we think it’ll be a good sport for families to come out and enjoy.

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the feasibility study for the stadium completed and undergoing various approvals, construction of the facility is anticipated to begin in the fall of 2018.

As the designs progress through the approval process, the focus will then turn to hiring a coach.

Honnen is excited to see the program build from the ground up, and she is mo-

tivated by the idea of Tiger softball coming to fruition, meeting the first class and the excitement these women will create when they take the field for the first time.

The last program that Clemson started from scratch was women’s golf, which is beginning its fifth year of competition in 2017-18. Tiger golfers found success

early, as they have played in three NCAA Tournaments in four years, including last year’s 20th-place finish at the NCAA National Tournament.

“A lot of South Carolina women wanted to build the Clemson women’s golf program,” added Honnen. “We’ve seen it and found success early, so why can’t we do that with softball?”

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FROM ACCOMPLISHMENTS ON THE FIELDS OF COMPETITION TO RECORDS IN THE CLASSROOM, 2016-17 GOES DOWN AS ONE OF THE BEST SEASONS IN CLEMSON ATHLETIC HISTORY.

BY JOE GALBRAITH

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he great single-sport seasons in Clemson history are easy to identify and, for many Tiger fans, even easier to remember. 1981 football. 1984 and 1987 men’s soccer. 2003 men’s golf. And most recently, 2016 football.

But the greatest all-sport season in school history? That is both tougher to define and tougher to identify. By any objective measure, one must consider the 2016-17 academic year among the greatest in Clemson’s storied past, if not the single-greatest athletic year.

Everything starts with the College Football Playoff National Championship Game. Football’s amazing season featured wins over the programs who had claimed the previous seven national championships. The team won the ACC championship for the second year in a row, the first time in 28 years Clemson claimed back-to-back conference titles.

What culminated on that January night in Tampa capped a truly amazing 14-1 season with endless accomplishments.

But football was not the only program doing big things during the fall. The men’s soccer program followed up its remarkable national championship game appearance in 2015 with a run to the ACC Championship Match and advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament. Mike Noonan’s squad finished the

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THE WOMEN’S SOCCER’S TEAM WON THE ACC REGULAR-SEASON TITLE. year ranked No. 5 nationally, marking a second-consecutive top-five finish.

The women’s soccer team posted its best ranking since 2001, as it advanced to the Sweet 16 and finished No. 12 in the national polls. The Tigers also earned the program’s first ACC regular-season championship since 2000 and only the second in school history, finishing with a 7-1-2 record in league play.

As the calendar turned to 2017, the successes continued with women’s indoor track & field finishing second in the ACC and the men’s team placing fourth.

The women have finished second or better in seven of the last eight indoor seasons, including five ACC championships.

The baseball team spent most of the season ranked among the best in college baseball and hosted a regional for the second consecutive year.

The men’s golf team won a recordtying six tournaments in the fall and spring, tying the record that had been set by the 2003 national title team. The Tigers finished first or second in each of the first seven tournaments of the spring, also a first in school history. That led to a 96-3-2 record in the spring against outside opposition in tourney play entering the NCAA National Tournament.

The women’s golf team posted a program-best fifth-place finish at the ACC Championship and went on to earn its first berth in the NCAA National Tournament en route to a 20th-place finish.

During the spring semester, only four schools (Clemson, Florida State, North Carolina, Stanford) had both men’s and women’s golf teams advance to the NCAA National Tournament and host a baseball regional.

In all, Clemson programs claimed ACC titles in football and women’s soccer (regular season), while men’s soccer, women’s indoor track & field and men’s golf posted second-place finishes. Eight teams (football, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, men’s golf, women’s golf, women’s tennis, men’s basketball, baseball) earned postseason berths as well.

While accomplishing those remarkable feats, Clemson student-athletes continued to achieve at a remarkable level in the classroom.

The NCAA reported Clemson’s mostrecent student-athlete graduation success rate at 91 percent, tied for sixth among public schools. GPAs for both the fall (3.02) and spring (3.00) semester set school records, and 53 student-athletes posted 4.0 GPAs in the fall, with 46 achieving the mark in the spring.

A school-record six programs were honored when the NCAA released its Academic Performance Public Recognition Awards. Baseball, men's basketball, men's cross country, women's cross country, women's golf and volleyball each earned recognition among programs ranked in the top-10 percent of their sport nationally in the eligibility, graduation and retention metric.

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ACADEMIC HONOR ROLL

2016-17 TIGER MEMBERS

228 CLEMSON STUDENT-ATHLETES HAD A 3.0 GPA OR HIGHER IN 2016-17.

Student-Athlete Selections Sport Dylan Ahrens 1 Track & Field Iana Amsterdam 2 Track & Field Tori Andreski 4 Soccer Patrick Andrews 5 Baseball Dani Antieau 1 Soccer Charlie Barnes 3 Baseball Grace Barnett 4 Track & Field Michael Batson 2 Football Shadell Bell 1 Football Danielle Borriello 1 Track & Field Ben Boulware 2 Football Sarah Braun 4 Diving Allison Brophy 3 Diving Patrick Bunk-Andersen 2 Soccer Andrew Burnikel 2 Soccer Austen Burnikel 3 Soccer Emily Byorth 4 Soccer Gabby Byorth 4 Soccer Abigail Campbell 1 Rowing Robert Campbell 1 Soccer Jared Capuano 1 Track & Field Victoria Cardaci 2 Basketball Taryn Carroll 1 Rowing Maura Chozick 1 Rowing Ellen Colborn 2 Soccer Sabreena Cole 4 Rowing Darron Coley 1 Track & Field Kyle Cote 2 Football Dejhana Cotton 2 Volleyball Andrew Cox 5 Baseball Emily Curtis 1 Volleyball Ashley Czarnecki 1 Golf Chandler Danielson 1 Rowing Jenny D’Anthony 3 Rowing Logan Davidson 1 Baseball Anna Davis 4 Soccer Gemma Davis 3 Rowing J.D. Davis 2 Football Judah Davis 2 Football Elizabeth Dawson 3 Track & Field Alyssa Debski 2 Track & Field Sarah Decker 3 Rowing Sirah Diarra 1 Basketball Tanner Dieterich 1 Soccer Patrice DiPasquale 2 Soccer Sidy Djitte 1 Basketball Robert Dudley 4 Tennis Adrien Dunn 3 Football Tyshon Dye 3 Football Danielle Edwards 2 Basketball Jeni Erickson 3 Soccer David Estes 3 Football Alex Eubanks 2 Baseball Justin Falcinelli 3 Football Makenna Farr 1 Rowing Chad Fennell 2 Track & Field Josh Fickes 3 Golf Kevin Fielden 1 Soccer Isaac Fields 1 Basketball Siana Fields 1 Basketball Jesse Fisher 2 Football Morgan Fiske 2 Diving Katie Fortner 3 Track & Field Ally Gamble 1 Volleyball Rebecca Gardener 2 Track & Field Jenna Gearing 1 Track & Field Alexis Georgia 3 Rowing Emily Goff 3 Rowing Yu Qian Goh 1 Diving

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WIDEOUT TREVION THOMPSON, PICTURED WITH STEVE DUZAN, ASSOCIATE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR FOR STUDENT-ATHLETE SERVICES, WAS AN ACC ACADEMIC HONOR ROLL MEMBER IN 2016-17.

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BY ELAINE DAY

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APRIL GOSS IS A GRADUATE ASSISTANT IN THE NIERI FAMILY STUDENT-ATHLETE ENRICHMENT CENTER AFTER ACCOMPLISHING A HISTORIC FEAT AT KENT STATE.

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n typical Ohio fashion, it was pouring down rain on gameday. It was a mid-September Saturday in 2015 and Kent State was playing Delaware State.

With 4:30 remaining in the second quarter, the Golden Flashes had just scored on a five-yard touchdown run to take a 28-6 lead, and #91 jogged onto the field to kick the extra point. The kick was good, as one might expect from a normal college placekicker.

Except it was far from normal.

Because #91 was senior placekicker April Goss, and she had just become the second female player to ever score in an FBS game.

Growing up in Pittsburgh, Pa., she participated in most

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everything her sister did, so that meant playing soccer. But by middle school, she began to develop her own dream.

“Once I got to junior high, that’s when I really began to gain interest in football,” she said. “I’m a huge Steelers

fan, as are my parents, and I remember in high school joking around about going out for the football team, but it was never anything serious.

“But eventually it became serious, and I really did want to do it. My dad said ‘no’ at first, but I kept bugging him, and eventually he caved and took me out in the backyard to help me learn.

“He actually was a punter when he was in school. So at the end of my sophomore year, I decided I wanted to let the head football coach know I was serious about it, and my junior year was my first season on the team.”

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were somewhat standoffish at first, they came around and ultimately embraced her as part of the team...so much so that when her high school career ended, she decided she was not done with the game quite yet.

“I played for two years in high school, and I was not ready to be done. I didn’t tell anyone, but I knew wherever I went to school, I wanted to pursue playing there.”

“I knew, deep down inside, that I wanted to play for a Division I school, but I didn’t necessarily choose Kent State because of football. But it definitely appealed to that dream of joining the team.”

Once she chose to attend Kent State, Goss knew that having the opportunity to try out, let alone make the team, was probably far-fetched. However, much to her surprise, her head coach and teammates were inviting and respectful from the start. But only one season into her college career, that accepting atmosphere was in jeopardy.

“After my first year on the team, our head coach took a job at Purdue, and I was sure I was done because I thought there was no way there would be another coach who would come on and be accepting of me and care about me. I thought I would either be immediately cut or they would keep me because they felt like they had to.

“But it wasn’t like that at all, and I feel so lucky to have two head coaches who truly believed in me, and they both wanted to get me in a game. I felt so blessed by that.”

Though that initial obstacle was avoided with both of her head coaches, her journey to getting in the game during her senior season did not come without its hardships. She participated in every workout that the rest of the team did, from position practice to weights, pushing herself to her limits physically, mentally and emotionally each day. But looking back, it was precisely those moments of exertion that allowed her to grow both as a player and person.

On that Saturday afternoon in mid September, Goss knew that if she was

going to get in a game, it was going to be that game. Though she usually kept her nerves in check during games in order to

stay supportive for her teammates, the anxiety began to creep in until her kick went through the uprights.

“I honestly don’t even remember the kick itself. My teammates picked me up and put me on their shoulders. It was cool that I did something, but it was the way that I was treated by my teammates and how they were so happy for me... knowing that it wasn’t just about me, but also about what we had accomplished as a team.”

Though she was aware that what she was doing was not common and she had set a goal to get in the game, it was never about the historical significance of the kick for her. It was about pursuing a dream through being the best team player she could be.

“Through playing college sports, I thought my experience would be a lot different than it actually was,” continued Goss. “I thought my challenges would be these surface-level issues, and it ended up being so much deeper. Once you’re retired, you realize how much of your identity is really found in sports,

and you have to figure out who you really are.

“So I realized what was truly important to me, and that was my faith and pursuing something where I could truly help another individual. I care so deeply about my teammates, and while I was there, I wanted them to know that their worth and their identity was not just in football.”

Now a Golden Flash-turned-Tiger, Goss is a graduate student studying counselor education at Clemson and is a graduate assistant in the Nieri Family Student-Athlete Enrichment Center.

Through her work, she has finally found a way to hone in on that passion for helping and connecting with people.

She is getting used to Clemson being her new home, but she is also eagerly anticipating her alma mater playing in Death Valley this afternoon...a game that falls on her birthday. A number of her coaches are still with Kent State’s program, and she is looking forward to reuniting with some of the people who believed in her the most. @CLEMSONFB

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Editor’s note: Today is the first in a series of the most memorable games in the history of Memorial Stadium, which is celebrating 75 years this season.

GREATEST GAMES IN MEMORIAL STADIUM HISTORY

1967 NC STATE GAME

THE ORANGE SHOES GAME THE STORY BEHIND THE SPECIAL CLEATS THE TIGERS WORE TO UPSET NO. 10 NC STATE ON NOV. 18, 1967.

BY SAM BLACKMAN

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n Nov. 18, 1967, it probably was the shoes that enabled Clemson to upset No. 10 NC State 14-6 in the Tigers’ first win over a top-10 team in Death Valley. It was the highest-ranked team head coach Frank Howard defeated at home.

Coming into this ACC classic, the Wolfpack was in the middle of an outstanding year, defeating their first eight opponents. After a victory at Virginia in the eighth game, only two opponents remained, Penn State and Clemson, both on the road.

Before the Nittany Lions game, there was talk that NC State had a Sugar Bowl bid wrapped up provided there was at least a split in the last two games. The Wolfpack lost to Penn State 13-8, making the Clemson vs. NC State game even more crucial for the Wolfpack’s New Year’s Day bowl hopes.

The Wolfpack had become nationally famous in 1967 because of their tenacity and the distinctive white shoes worn by the defensive unit. At this time, every team in the nation, along with NC State’s offensive unit, was wearing black shoes.

NC State started wearing the white shoes on defense when former defensive back Bill Morrow noticed a member of

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the Kansas City Chiefs wearing white shoes.

Morrow, who scored the first touchdown for NC State on an interception return in the new Carter-Finley Stadium, went to co-captain Art McMahon with the idea. Linebacker Chuck Amato said he would paint his shoes white, and the idea spread throughout the defense.

NC State was tops in the ACC in defense coming into the Clemson game and was a heavy favorite to beat Howard’s 4-4 Tigers.

In the week before the game, a few Tigers wanted to paint their shoes orange to counteract the perceived intangible advantage of NC State’s white shoes.

“I remember a lot of players got together and we decided to paint our shoes orange,” recalled former Tiger running back Buddy Gore.

“Our trainer, Herman McGee, rounded up the orange paint needed for our idea, and we went to the dorm that week and painted our game shoes orange. I have no idea where he got all that orange paint. Coach Howard did not know what we were doing until that Saturday morning. But he liked our plan.”

Gore was one of Clemson’s greatest backs ever, and in 1967, he was named ACC Player-of-the-Year.

NC State jumped ahead 6-0 as Gerald Warren hit two second-quarter field goals from 37 and 47 yards with his back to a 22-mph wind.

Gore scored the lead touchdown for the Tigers early in the third quarter.

With a third-and-11 situation facing the Tigers on NC State’s 27, Clemson was obviously facing a throwing situation.

“NC State was in a defense that would provide double coverage on the receivers and forced the linebackers to cover the man coming out of the backfield,” remembered Gore. “I was not the primary receiver by any means. After all, I only caught seven passes my entire career.

“I was in the flat around the 12-yard line and I was open after beating Chuck Amato. The cornerback and the safety were with our wide receivers. I will never forget when I was open. I looked at our quarterback, Jimmy Addison, and he stared right back at me and threw me the ball, and I went in for the touchdown.”

Prior to the game, Dennis Byrd, NC State’s All-America defensive tackle, had written Gore a letter that gave him extra incentive.

“Before the game, Byrd wrote me a letter that said I wouldn’t score,” said Gore. “Every time he tackled me dur-

ing the game, he would say, ‘Gore, you stink.’

“After I caught that touchdown pass, I was coming out of the endzone and he was standing right there. I remember it like it was yesterday. I asked him, ‘How do I smell now?’”

Clemson scored on its next possession on a seven-yard run by Jacky Jackson and had a 14-6 lead with 7:45 left in the third quarter.

NC State drove to the Clemson 29 with three minutes left with a chance to tie the score on a touchdown and twopoint conversion. But quarterback Jim Donnan’s pass was intercepted by Richie Luzzi in the endzone.

Clemson went on to win the game 146, ensuring the Tigers at least a share of the ACC title. They defeated South Carolina the next Saturday 23-12 to clinch the championship outright and finish with a 6-0 ACC mark.

“How many tackles did those orange shoes make, coach?” a sportswriter asked Howard after the game.

“None,” replied Howard. “But I tell you, there is something about football that makes boys believe in something that will help them.

“When they believe they can do something, they usually do it.” @CLEMSONFB

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IN HIS FIRST APPEARANCE SINCE THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, DESHAUN WATSON EXCELLED FOR THE HOUSTON TEXANS IN A PRESEASON GAME AT CAROLINA ON AUGUST 9.

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UNUSUAL FACTS OF THE 2016 SEASON

BY TIM BOURRET

• Prior to Dabo Swinney’s arrival at Clemson, the program had one win over a top-three ranked team. In eight full seasons, Swinney has five wins over top-three teams, including three in 2016.

• Clemson had a school-record seven wins by seven points or less in 2016.

Frank Howard’s 1948 team had the old Tiger record with six.

• Clemson was 5-0 on opponents’ home fields for the second straight year. It marked the first time in history the Tigers were undefeated on the road in consecutive seasons.

• Clemson led the nation in tackles for loss for the fourth straight year. In Brent Venables’ five years as defensive coordinator, the Tigers have 597 tackles for loss for 2,481 yards, or 1.41 miles.

• Clemson outscored the opposition 70-3 in the first quarter of the five games on opponents’ home fields in 2016.

• Through the South Carolina game on Nov. 26, 2016, Clemson had a streak of 42 straight games with at least one sack. The Tigers registered 142 sacks

DABO SWINNEY RECORDED HIS FIFTH WIN OVER A TOP-THREE TEAM WHEN CLEMSON DEFEATED ALABAMA FOR THE 2016 NATIONAL TITLE.

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for 1,042 yards during the 42-game streak.

• The Tigers started 2016 with a 6-0 record, the fourth time in the last six years Clemson did that. The Tigers started 6-0 just four times in the 78 years prior to Dabo Swinney becoming head coach.

• Through four games in 2015, Clemson was 4-0 and scored 134 points.

Through four games in 2016, Clemson was 4-0 and scored 134 points.

• Clemson is 6-0 the last two years against schools with a Notre Dame graduate as athletic director.

• Clemson averaged at least 8.0 yards per play in wins over Louisville and Boston College, the first time in school history it did that twice in one year.

• Clemson had five turnovers in its win over Louisville, the first time in 31 years (1985 Virginia Tech game) the Tigers won a game with five turnovers.

• Pittsburgh had 412 yards of total offense at the end of the third quarter in the game at Clemson on Nov. 12. The area code for Pittsburgh is 412.

• When Clemson defeated Ohio State in football and Wake Forest in men’s basketball on Dec. 31, 2016, it

marked just the second time Clemson won a football game and men’s basketball game on the same day. The only other day was Dec. 29, 1978. The football victory that day was also over the Buckeyes.

• On the morning of Jan. 9, 2017, Danny Ford was named a member of the 2017 College Football Hall of Fame class and Clemson beat his alma mater to win its first national title since 1981, when Ford was the Tigers’ head coach.

• When Clemson defeated No. 1 Alabama to win the national title

on Jan. 9, 2017, it was the Tigers’ first football win against a top-ranked team. On Jan. 9, 1980, Clemson beat No. 1 Duke in men’s basketball for its first hoops win over a top-ranked team. So the initial wins over No. 1 in the two major sports were exactly 37 years apart.

• In the last four years, only two players in the nation have had at least 300 passing yards, 90 rushing yards and five touchdowns in a victory over a top10 team, Tajh Boyd against Ohio State on Jan. 3, 2014 and Deshaun Watson against Louisville on Oct. 1, 2016.

• Entering the Alabama game, Dabo Swinney had 88 wins at Clemson.

He wore #88 during his career as an Alabama wide receiver.

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