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GAME 3 • SC STATE • FAMILY WEEKEND // FOOTBALL REUNION WEEKEND • SEPT. 17, 2016 • NOON • MEMORIAL STADIUM • CLEMSON, S.C.

WHAT’S INSIDE 2 TODAY’S GAME 4 STATISTICAL MATCHUP 6 TYSHON DYE - TIGER SPOTLIGHT 10 NICK SCHUESSLER - SENIOR SPOTLIGHT

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

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

Despite his challenges, including two injuries, he has kept grinding.

The graduate signal-caller has loved every minute of his college journey.

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12 DAVID ESTES - SENIOR SPOTLIGHT

When he received an email about a tryout, his dreams would soon come true.

15 Q&A WITH SETH RYAN 121 TIGER BAND 123 IMAN MAFI - MEN’S SOCCER SPOTLIGHT

Get to know the junior wide receiver and some of his favorites.

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

The senior midfielder has been a key cog in the program’s return to prominence.

125 CLAIRE WAGNER - WOMEN’S SOCCER SPOTLIGHT 127 DAN BROOKS The senior defender has helped the Tigers earn national acclaim.

Today, he reaches a big milestone with his 400th game as a college coach.

129 1966, 1991, 2006 TEAMS - 50, 25, 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY 133 JOEY BATSON - BEHIND THE SCENES Clemson celebrates the anniversary of the three teams’ seasons.

Tiger football’s director of strength & conditioning is in his 20th year.

12 CREDITS CO-EDITORS

Tim Bourret, Brian Hennessy

LAYOUT & DESIGN Brian Hennessy

COVER DESIGN Jeff Kallin

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Three unsung Tigers, Tyshon Dye (RB), David Estes (LS) and Nick Schuessler (QB).

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136 THE LAST WORD - EVA HESTER MARTIN

The remarkable life of today’s guest, who has ties to Clemson and SC State.

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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 SC State Alphabetical Roster & Profile Numerical Rosters & Starting Lineups

MISCELLANEOUS 22 28 33 36 49 55 57 61

TIGER TRADITIONS First-Team All-Americans 65 First-Round Draft Picks 67 Super Bowl Champions 69 Pro Bowl Players 71 Memorial Stadium (“Death Valley”) 74 Running Down The Hill & Howard’s Rock 80 Football Facilities 84 Alma Mater 121

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

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TODAY'S GAME SC STATE VS. CLEMSON

BY TIM BOURRET 2-0 START Clemson enters today’s game with a 2-0 record, the sixth time in head coach Dabo Swinney’s eight years the Tigers have started 2-0. It might not seem like a big accomplishment, but it is in terms of Clemson history over the last 60 years. Between 1961 and 2008, Clemson started 2-0 just 13 times in 48 seasons. Former head coach Danny Ford started 2-0 in just five of his 11 years, and did it only twice in his first eight seasons. The two victories this year have been by a touchdown of less, the first time Clemson has started a season with two wins by that close a margin since 2005, and just the second time since 1958. Clemson opened the season with a 19-13 win at Auburn, the first time it has opened a season with a road victory over a current SEC program since 1903, then defeated Troy 30-24. The Trojans scored a touchdown with 44 seconds remaining to account for the six-point margin. Clemson is 13-2 in games decided by a touchdown or less since 2011.

SC STATE UPDATE This will be SC State’s third straight game against an FBS opponent on the road. The Bulldogs opened with losses at Central Florida and Louisiana Tech. Head coach Buddy Pough’s team is quarterbacked by Caleb York. He has passed for 271 yards and two touchdowns in two games. He is also the team’s top rusher with 78 yards on 16 carries. His top target is Lynard Jamison, who has eight receptions for 83 yards. Quan Caldwell and Deangelo Frazier have been the recipients of his passing touchdowns. Defensively, Darius Leonard is the top tackler with 24 stops. Jason Baxter is second on the team with 17 tackles. Dayshawn Taylor leads the team in tackles for loss with three, including a sack. The Bulldogs have six sacks and have given up just two. Pough has been the head coach at SC State since 2002. He has posted an outstanding 112-53 record, including an 87-24 MEAC mark. An offensive lineman for SC State from 1971-74, Pough has taken the Bulldogs to the FCS playoffs four times.

CLEMSON & SC STATE CONNECTIONS SC State was established in 1896, the same year Clemson began its football program under Walter Riggs. Riggs was Clemson’s first head coach. He guided the Tigers in 1896 and 1899.

Riggs was well versed in electrical engineering, and one of the projects he took on after his days as Clemson’s coach was the design of the utilities for the SC State campus. Therefore, Clemson’s first football coach designed the first campus water and electrical system at the Orangeburg campus. Riggs went on to become Clemson’s president in 1909. Bud Pough, the son of SC State head coach Buddy Pough, is an employee in the Clemson athletic department compliance office. Clemson running backs coach Tony Elliott got his start in coaching under Pough at SC State. Elliott was the wide receivers coach at SC State in 2006 and 2007, and he helped the Bulldogs to 7-4 records each season.

BACKUP QUARTERBACKS VS. SC STATE Clemson has a 3-0 record against SC State over the years, and in each game, backup quarterbacks had big days for Clemson. In 2008, Willy Korn was 7-7 passing for 76 yards and a touchdown against the Bulldogs in a relief role behind Cullen Harper. Korn also had 19 yards and a touchdown on the ground. In 2013, Cole Stoudt was 19-20 passing for 143 yards and three touchdowns off the bench for Tajh Boyd. His 95.0 completion percentage is a Tiger singlegame record, and his passing efficiency was 204.6, among the top-15 marks in school history (given a minimum of 15 attempts). In 2014, Deshaun Watson was the backup to Stoudt. In his first career game in Memorial Stadium, Watson

TODAY’S HONOREES

HONORARY CAPTAINS

Representatives from three teams celebrating reunions will serve as honorary captains for the Tigers today against SC State. Starting center Wayne Mulligan (1966), starting quarterback DeChane Cameron (1991) and All-ACC running back James Davis (2006) will be on hand for the coin toss. Mulligan was Clemson’s starting center from 1966-68 and played seven years in the NFL, including two seasons as Joe Namath’s center with the New York Jets. Cameron was Clemson’s starting quarterback in 1990 and 1991, and was the MVP of Clemson’s 1991 Hall of Fame Bowl win over Illinois. Davis was an All-ACC running back for the Tigers in 2006 and 2007, and is second in Clemson history in career rushing yards.

PROFESSOR-OF-THE-GAME Dr. Sarah Winslow is associate professor of sociology and anthropology and director of Clemson’s National Scholars Program, the university’s premier undergraduate scholarship program. Winslow joined the Clemson faculty in 2006 and served as the National Scholars Program interim director from July 2015 until June 2016. She previously was the program’s faculty fellow and has taught the National Scholars Program freshman honors seminar for the past two years. A graduate of Pennsylvania, Winslow’s primary research focuses on gendered dynamics and pro-

cesses in a number of contexts, with special attention to the intersections of employment and family life. During the same period, she also has been the faculty-in-residence in the honors college’s living/ learning community.

STAR STAFFER-OF-THE-GAME When new Clemson students and their parents have a question, want to get more involved, need more information or just want to see a friendly face, the face they see may be that of Jeff Brown. As associate dean of students and director of new student and family programs in the division of student affairs, Brown (‘01) is responsible for many early impressions of Clemson. In addition to his work with students and their families, he serves as support, resource and advocate for students through the office of the dean of students. Brown does his best to ensure that every student’s Clemson experience is the best it can be. In fact, he has done such a great job in his role that he received the Clarice W. Johnson Outstanding Professional Award in 2014 for outstanding contributions to the field of student affairs by a seasoned professional.

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ATLANTIC DIVISION STANDINGS Team 1. Louisville* Wake Forest* 3. Clemson* Florida State* NC State* 6. Boston College* Syracuse

ACC Overall Home 1-0 2-0 1-0 1-0 2-0 1-0 0-0 2-0 1-0 0-0 2-0 1-0 0-0 1-1 1-0 0-1 1-1 0-0 0-1 1-1 1-1

Away Neutral 1-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-1 0-0 1-0 0-1 0-0 0-0

COASTAL DIVISION STANDINGS Team 1. Georgia Tech* 2. Miami (Fla.)* Pittsburgh* North Carolina* Virginia Tech* Virginia* 7. Duke*

ACC Overall Home 1-0 2-0 1-0 0-0 2-0 2-0 0-0 2-0 2-0 0-0 1-1 0-0 0-0 1-1 1-0 0-0 0-2 0-1 0-1 1-1 1-1

Away Neutral 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-1 0-0 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0

* - controls its own destiny to win the ACC title; Note: Standings and stats are through games of September 10.

LAST WEEK’S RESULTS

completed 8-9 passes for 154 yards and three touchdowns, good for a pass efficiency figure of 342.6. Clemson backup quarterbacks are 34-36 passing for 373 yards and seven touchdowns without an interception against the Bulldogs. That is a 94.4 completion percentage mark for the three backups and a pass efficiency rating of 245.5.

LINEBACKERS PRODUCTIVE The Clemson defense has had a lot of firsts under coordinator Brent Venables. The Tigers have led the nation in tackles for loss each of the last three years. Clemson is the first school to do that. Last week against Troy, three Clemson linebackers had an interception, the first time that had happened since two-platoon football began in 1965. According to Whitey Jordan, an assistant coach on the 1964 staff, Clemson two-way players Ted Bunton, Jay Cooper and Pat Crain played linebacker when they were on defense that year. All three of those players had an interception in Clemson’s 29-7 win over Virginia in 1964. Kendall Joseph, Jalen Williams and Dorian O’Daniel all had thefts in pass coverage in the first half against Troy. It was the first career interception for all three. To put into perspective how rare it is for linebackers to haul in interceptions, Tigers at that position had just four all of last year, two by Ben Boulware and two by B.J. Goodson. In the last nine years, the 2015 team is the only squad to have at least three linebacker interceptions in a season. This is the first time since 2002 that three different linebackers have had interceptions in a season. That year, Eric Sampson, Kelvin Morris and Altroy Bodrick all had one pick apiece.

FOUR STRAIGHT FOR RENFROW Wide receiver Hunter Renfrow has made the most of his four receptions for 62 yards in 2016. The sophomore from Myrtle Beach, S.C., has two touchdowns on those four catches and has a streak of four straight games with a receiving touchdown. Renfrow had three catches for 27 yards in the opener at Auburn, including a diving 16-yard receiving touchdown that gave Clemson a 19-6 lead in the fourth quarter. Last Saturday against Troy, he made another diving catch for a 35-yard touchdown to give Clemson the lead in the first half. Renfrow closed the 2015 season in grand style, as he had a touchdown catch to go with four receptions for 59 yards in the Orange Bowl against Oklahoma, then had seven catches for 88 yards and two touchdowns against Alabama in the national championship game. In the last four games, Renfrow has 15 receptions for 209 yards and five touchdowns.

The man who wears #13 for the Tigers has a ways to go to reach the Clemson record for consecutive games with a receiving touchdown. That mark belongs to current NFL Pro Bowl wideout DeAndre Hopkins, who had a streak of 10 consecutive games with a touchdown catch in 2012.

WATSON BREAKS BOYD’S MARK Deshaun Watson passed for 292 yards and three touchdowns in Clemson’s win over Troy last Saturday. He has thrown at least one touchdown pass in 18 consecutive games, a school record. Tajh Boyd had a streak of 17 in a row between 2011 and 2013. During the streak, he has thrown at least two touchdown passes 13 times. The Troy game was the seventh time during the streak and ninth time in his career he has thrown at least three touchdowns in a game. In his career, Watson has 53 career passing touchdowns, ninth among active FBS players. He also has 17 rushing touchdowns, giving him 70 total touchdowns in his three years. That is seventh most among active FBS players. His pass efficiency rating of 157.2 is fourth among active FBS players, and he is third in completion percentage (66.0). Watson went over the 6,000-yard passing mark against Troy. He is the fourth Tiger to do it (Woodrow Dantzler, Charlie Whitehurst, Boyd).

WILKINS’ TOUCHDOWN A FIRST Sophomore defensive lineman Christian Wilkins is rapidly getting a reputation as one of the most allaround football players in the nation. Wilkins burst on the national scene in the Orange Bowl against Oklahoma last year when he caught a 31-yard pass from Andy Teasdall on a fake punt. That was a momentum changer for the Tigers in their 37-17 victory. Then in the 2016 season opener at Auburn, he threw a block in Clemson’s goal-line offense that allowed Wayne Gallman to score a key touchdown in the Tigers’ six-point win. Gallman was quoted as saying, “That was the easiest thing I have done at Clemson.” Wilkins brought his offensive exploits to a new level against Troy when he had a one-yard receiving touchdown from Deshaun Watson on a third-and-goal play to give the Tigers a two-score lead. With the reception, Wilkins became the first defensive lineman in Clemson history to score an offensive touchdown. Wilkins has certainly been doing his job on the defensive line as well. He has 13 tackles in the first two games, including three tackles for loss, one sack and three pass Clemson is 6-3-1 (.650) alltime on September 17. The breakups.

ON THIS DATE

last game on this date was the Tigers’ 20-17 win at Louisville in 2015.

Boston College 26 at Massachusetts 7 Troy 24 at Clemson 30 Wake Forest 24 at Duke 14 Charleston Southern 8 at Florida State 52 Mercer 10 at Georgia Tech 35 Louisville 62 at Syracuse 28 Florida Atlantic 10 at Miami (Fla.) 38 North Carolina 48 at Illinois 23 NC State 30 at East Carolina 33 Penn State 39 at Pittsburgh 42 Virginia 26 at Oregon 44 Virginia Tech 24 vs. Tennessee 45 (Bristol, Tenn.)

TODAY’S GAME

ACC TIDBITS

DEON CAIN’S TOUCHDOWN CATCH AGAINST TROY WAS DESHAUN WATSON’S 70TH CAREER TOUCHDOWN ACCOUNTED FOR IN HIS CAREER.

THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE SC State at Clemson RSN Florida State at Louisville ABC Miami (Fla.) at Appalachian State ESPN Vanderbilt at Georgia Tech ACCN Virginia at Connecticut ESPN3 Boston College at Virginia Tech ESPNU James Madison at North Carolina RSN Pittsburgh at Oklahoma State ESPN South Florida at Syracuse ACCN Extra Old Dominion at NC State ACCN Extra Delaware at Wake Forest ACCN Extra Duke at Northwestern BTN

Noon Noon Noon 12:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. 6 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 8 p.m.

TEAM STATS Yards Off. Def. 332.0 180.0 406.5 324.0 452.0 250.5 509.0 337.0 341.0 320.0 754.0 311.0 496.5 205.5 388.5 391.5 509.0 306.5 346.5 289.0 484.0 494.0 345.0 578.0 429.0 245.0 282.0 324.5

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

Points Off. Def. 20.0 12.0 24.5 18.5 31.5 15.0 48.5 21.0 26.0 12.0 66.0 21.0 54.0 6.5 36.0 28.0 39.0 23.5 35.0 23.0 30.5 34.5 23.0 40.5 30.0 29.0 15.5 8.5

RUSHING LEADERS Rk 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Player Lamar Jackson Mark Walton Matthew Dayes Joe Yearby Brandon Radcliff Dalvin Cook

Rk 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Player Lamar Jackson Deondre Francois Eric Dungey Deshaun Watson Daniel Jones Kurt Benkert

Rk 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Player Amba Etta-Tawo Jamari Staples Mike Williams Travis Rudolph Jesus Wilson

Team LOU MIA NCS MIA LOU FSU

Car. 32 32 37 27 13 34

Yards 318 271 241 226 178 174

TD 6 5 2 3 1 2

Y/G 159.0 135.5 120.5 113.0 89.0 87.0

PASSING LEADERS Team Cm. LOU 37 FSU 58 SYR 59 CU 46 DUK 41 UVA 46

Att. Yards TD Y/G 62 697 7 348.5 84 681 5 340.5 91 610 5 305.0 87 540 4 270.0 63 521 2 260.5 73 457 5 228.5

RECEIVING LEADERS Team SYR LOU CU FSU FSU

Rec. 20 9 11 13 13

Yards 313 219 198 179 178

TD 3 0 0 3 0

Y/G 156.5 109.5 99.0 89.5 89.0

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

Opp. 648 149 4.3 324.0 114.0 210.0 97.2 19.0 18.5 4 3-4 44.0 1-4 5-56 20-155 6 15.6 31:25 3-56 1-8

SCORING BY QUARTERS Team Clemson Opponents

1st 3 3

2nd 20 10

3rd 3 0

4th 23 24

OT ---

Tot 49 37

RUSHING LEADERS # 9 4 22 26 27

Player Wayne Gallman Deshaun Watson Tyshon Dye Adam Choice C.J. Fuller Clemson Opponents

Car. 39 21 6 6 1 76 74

Yards 157 76 19 17 5 273 228

Avg. 4.0 3.6 3.2 2.8 5.0 3.6 3.1

TD 1 0 0 0 0 1 2

LG 20 14 6 9 5 20 66

PASSING LEADERS # Player 4 Deshaun Watson Clemson Opponents

Cm. 46 46 41

Att. 87 87 75

SC STATE

POLLS

Clemson 813 163 5.0 406.5 136.5 270.0 113.3 21.5 24.5 5 5-5 39.1 3-96 2-38 13-126 5 37.8 28:35 5-13 5-38

Yards Int. 540 3 540 3 420 5

TD 4 4 2

LG 35 35 43

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(Sept. 11, 2016) Team Alabama (56) Florida State (4) Ohio State Michigan (1) CLEMSON Houston Stanford Washington Wisconsin Louisville Texas Michigan State Iowa Oklahoma Tennessee Georgia Texas A&M Notre Dame Mississippi Louisiana State Baylor Oregon Florida Arkansas Miami (Fla.)

(Sept. 11, 2016) Team Alabama (62) Florida State (1) CLEMSON (1) Ohio State Michigan Stanford Houston Michigan State Washington Louisville Iowa Wisconsin Georgia Oklahoma Tennessee Texas Mississippi Notre Dame Baylor Texas A&M Oregon Louisiana State Florida Arkansas Miami (Fla.)

Rk 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25.

Rank 23/4/23/-

Site H H H

W-L W W W

in bold.

Player Mike Williams Artavis Scott Ray-Ray McCloud Hunter Renfrow Wayne Gallman Clemson Opponents

# 23 34 90 10 25 42 18 94 6 30 99

Player Van Smith Kendall Joseph Dexter Lawrence Ben Boulware Cordrea Tankersley Christian Wilkins Jadar Johnson Carlos Watkins Dorian Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Daniel Jalen Williams Clelin Ferrell

Rec. 11 10 9 4 4 46 41

Yards 198 101 94 62 33 540 420

Avg. 18.0 10.1 10.4 15.5 8.3 11.7 10.2

TD 0 0 0 2 0 4 2

CU 54 52 73 179

SCS 0 13 7 20

# 12 40 3 5 15

TFL 2-6 5-12 3-16 1-1 3-7 3-16

Sacks 1-6 1-11

Date 9-17 9-22 10-1 10-7 10-15 10-29 11-5 11-12 11-19 11-26

Opponent at Auburn Troy Opponent SC State * at Georgia Tech * Louisville * at Boston College * NC State * at Florida State * Syracuse * Pittsburgh * at Wake Forest South Carolina

1-0

1-11 1-8 1-1 1-12

0.5-1

TV RSN ESPN ESPN

4th 14 21

OT ---

Tot 24 91

Car. 16 12 19 12 5 71 85

Yards 78 58 44 43 22 241 406

Avg. 4.9 4.8 2.3 3.6 4.4 3.4 4.8

TD 0 0 1 0 0 1 3

LG 15 12 6 14 9 15 51

PASSING LEADERS Cm. 29 1 30 61

Att. 66 3 69 96

Yards Int. 271 1 4 0 275 1 783 2

TD 2 0 2 7

LG 24 4 24 37

# 24 6 16 3 21

Player Lynard Jamison Kanome McIntosh Adrian Kollock Jr. Bishop Ford Jermaine Baxley SC State Opponents

# 10 26 34 11 59 19 36 41 45 76 29

Player Darius Leonard Jason Baxter Dayshawn Taylor Tyler Smith Gregtavious Newell Devondre Powell Phillip Henry Tyrell Goodwin Lane Jones Paul McKeiver Shaquan Brock

Rec. 8 5 3 2 2 30 61

Yards 83 45 28 23 21 275 783

Avg. 10.4 9.0 9.3 11.5 10.5 9.2 12.8

TD 0 0 0 0 0 2 7

LG 21 24 19 18 15 24 37

Tac. 24 17 14 13 10 10 9 8 8 8 7

TFL 0.5-1 3-7 1-4 1.5-5

Sacks

Int. 1-0

1-2 1.5-5 1-19

1-9 0.5-0

1-9

RESULTS & SCHEDULE

Score 19-13 30-24

Date 9-3 9-10

Time Noon 7:30 p.m.

Date 9-17 9-24 10-8 10-15 10-22 10-29 11-5 11-12 11-19

7:30 p.m.

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

3rd 0 33

TACKLE LEADERS

1-0

W-L W W

Player Caleb York Dondre Brown Bishop Ford Labron Morris Trey Samuel SC State Opponents

Int.

RESULTS & SCHEDULE Date 9-3 9-10

2nd 10 19

RECEIVING LEADERS

LG 34 20 20 35 16 35 43

1-0

1-8 1.5-3

1st 0 18

# Player 12 Caleb York 9 Dewann Ford SC State Opponents

TACKLE LEADERS Tac. 23 21 17 13 13 13 9 9 8 8 6

Opp. 1189 181 6.6 594.5 203.0 391.5 152.0 30.5 45.5 10 7-7 43.5 5-58 6-197 11-102 6 43.8 32:27 1-0 2-6

RUSHING LEADERS

CLEMSON LEADS 3-0

Year CU SCS 2008 2-1 2-1 2013 1-0 0-1 2014 0-1 1-0 Totals Note: Clemson home games

SC State 516 140 3.7 258.0 120.5 137.5 83.6 16.0 12.0 3 1-2 38.9 0-0 11-212 16-163 3 16.7 27:33 2-19 6-29

SCORING BY QUARTERS Team SC State Opponents

SERIES HISTORY

RECEIVING LEADERS # 7 3 34 13 9

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

GREG HUEGEL HAS SCORED A TEAM-HIGH 19 POINTS IN 2016.

Opponent at Central Florida at Louisiana Tech Opponent at Clemson * at Florida A&M * Bethune-Cookman * at Howard * Delaware State * at Hampton * at North Carolina A&T * Norfolk State * Savannah State

W-L L L

Score 0-38 24-53

TV RSN ESPN3

6 1:30 1 1:30 1 1 2 1:30

Time Noon p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m.

* - MEAC game; Note: All times are Eastern; home games in bold.

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TIGER SPOTLIGHT

AGAINST ALL ODDS

BY ELAINE DAY

EARLY IN HIS CAREER, TYSHON DYE SUFFERED TWO INJURIES THAT SET HIM BACK. DESPITE THE CHALLENGES, THE CLEMSON RUNNING BACK HAS KEPT GRINDING.

hen Tyshon Dye sets his mind to something, he is going to get it done. In middle school, after skipping a year of football and realizing how much he missed it, he decided he was going to get himself in a position where he could play Division I football. Fast forward to 2016, and he is headed into his fourth year as a Tiger. “A defining moment in my life was when I realized I could actually do something and go somewhere and play football,” said Dye. “It gave me a lot of confidence in everything that I did. Where I’m from, not many people get opportunities to go to a Division I school to play football. I was pretty good in middle school, but there were some kids that were messing with me and telling me that no one had made it out of Elberton (Ga.) playing football. At that moment, I made up my mind that I was going to be one of the first people to get a scholarship and go Division I to play and prove them wrong. “It’s very cool to be able to look back and say ‘I did it’.” He even accomplished his goal in a way that not only attracted the attention of Clemson, as he also received offers from Auburn, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Notre Dame, South Carolina, Southern California and Tennessee. But Clemson provided Dye with what he wanted from his college experience, both on and off the field. “I felt like Clemson was a good fit,” stated Dye. “I had many offers, but I felt like the Clemson coaches kept it real from day one. “I’m from about an hour down the road, so I felt like I was home. The coaches always made me feel like they wanted me and made me feel important. I knew that they would help me...if football didn’t go the way I wanted, I knew Clemson would always have my back.” Football almost did not go the way he wanted, as a back injury forced him to redshirt during his freshman season

in 2013, and his comeback effort was halted by a torn Achilles in early 2014. “My injury recovery has taught me to appreciate the game a lot more, and also that the game is not permanent for anyone, because injuries can set anyone back. “It taught me to continue to work harder. I always thought I had a good work ethic, but when I got hurt, I really understood what it was going to take to get me back to what I thought I could be. I was going to have to work even harder.” Despite his work ethic, Dye acknowledged that there were some days during the recovery process that he questioned whether or not he wanted to continue with the game. “There were a lot of days when I wanted to give up,” he admitted. “But at the end of the day, when you have your mind set on what you really want in life or what you really want to do, those bad days are not enough to bring you down. I always

knew what I wanted, and I already knew that I wanted to be something better. I stayed focused on that goal to get healthy and try to come back and play.” The work Dye put in during his journey back to full health has not gone unnoticed by his teammates and coaches, and head coach Dabo Swinney said that Dye has earned his spot on the roster. “I am really proud of what Tyshon has done to get back into the lineup,” said Swinney. “He had the furthest to go because of his Achilles injury two years ago. We are seeing that burst again that we saw in practice when he first got here as a freshman. He has really worked hard in the training room and on the field. Wayne Gallman is the top guy, but Tyshon is going to get his opportunities.” Dye is happy to finally be in a position where he can contribute again as one of the team’s most physical running backs, and he looks forward to the opportunity this year to add to his career numbers.

“To know where I came from and to actually be back on the field...not many people can come back from the situation I was in. It’s a humbling experience that I had. But now, it feels great to be able to say that I don’t feel my back anymore, and I don’t feel my Achilles anymore. It feels like I’ve never been hurt before.” And he wants to keep it that way. “Stay healthy,” said #22 of his goals for this season. “Try to learn to get better each and every day. Try not to get complacent. And know that if things don’t go right at the beginning, keep working hard and it’ll pay off in the end. Keep grinding.” Regardless of the numbers Dye puts up this season, he wants to be remembered as that player who never gave up, even when it would have been easy to. “I want to be remembered as a hard worker. If I had a legacy at Clemson, I want it to be that ‘that kid worked hard, all the time, no matter what was thrown his way’.”

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TYSHON DYE Full Name Tyshon Lametris Dye Major PRTM Jersey #22 Position Running Back Height 5’11” Weight 220 Hometown Elberton, Ga. High School Elbert County Comprehensive HS Date of Birth Dec. 7, 1993

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NICK SCHUESSLER MADE AN IMPORTANT DECISION EARLY IN HIS COLLEGE CAREER. AND SINCE MAKING THAT MOVE, HE HAS LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF THE JOURNEY.

n the back of his mind, Nick Schuessler always wanted to come to Clemson. And though he arrived in Tigertown after transferring from Mississippi State, the graduate quarterback has no regrets about his college journey. “No regrets whatsoever with that decision,” said Schuessler. “It was something I prayed about a lot, and I trusted God’s will and plan for my life. One thing led to another, doors opened and it worked out.” The Clemson family has been very apparent to Schuessler from the beginning of his experience as a Tiger, something that meant a great deal to him as a transfer. “Clemson is a special place, like everyone says,” noted Schuessler. “You come here and you get to experience so many things, like the family atmosphere. I was welcomed in. Usually, it takes a little time for transfers to get their feet wet and meet new people, but they embraced me. “I’ve made some great, great friends. The football coaches are unbelievable. You can call them at any time of the day or night and they’ll bend over backwards for you.” Aside from the coaching, Schuessler has had the opportunity to see many dreams become reality since joining the football program, including befriending and learning from some of the top talent in the country. “Transferring here, growing up and in high school, I was a huge fan of Tajh Boyd,” remembered Schuessler. “Being able to be in the same QB room as him and learn from him felt like a dream come true, like a little kid. “Because of transfer rules, I had the opportunity to redshirt, and I ended up being Tajh’s roommate. I went from being a huge fan to him being one of my good friends.”

During his career, Schuessler is 2133 passing for 230 yards in 116 snaps over 13 games, completing 63 percent of his passes. He was named the backup quarterback following spring practice, and he is thankful that the player that he backs up is one like Deshaun Watson.

“If I had to back up any player in the country, I’m glad it’s the best player in the country, at any position,” explained Schuessler. “It’s such a humbling experience. Everyone comes to college, and they expect to play. Being able to back up him has taught me a lot about myself,

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NICK SCHUESSLER Full Name Nicholas Austin Schuessler Degree Accounting Jersey #12 Position Quarterback Height 6’4” Weight 200 Hometown Grayson, Ga. High School Grayson HS Date of Birth June 12, 1994

both on and off the field. He’s an unbelievable guy. “Deshaun is a great player and comes to work every day. Being able to form a friendship with him has been invaluable. I really admire what he does both on and off the field, and getting to back him up is a humbling experience. Obviously, I’d love to play, but the journey has been great.” Schuessler is accustomed to playing alongside nationally acclaimed recruits, as his high school teammates included not only the 29th pick of the 2016 NFL draft, Robert Nkemdiche, but also fellow Tigers Wayne Gallman and Ryan Carter. “I keep in touch with Robert Nkemdiche to this day,” said #12. “But getting to play with Wayne Gallman and to see him grow as a person has been so special. “I’m his biggest fan on the sideline, and the same with Ryan Carter. To see him come up here and mature and play...it’s been awesome. Those are my day-one friends. I grew up with them my whole life. To get them out here and see them do what they always dreamed of doing on a national stage has been awesome.” In the trio of Grayson High School graduates’ final year together on the field, the quarterback is excited to see what the Tigers can accomplish, and he is ready to assume whatever role the coaches assign to him. “In my final year, as a team, I think we should finish what we started last year. Personally, I want to do whatever the team needs me to do. “I love getting to be around the guys. Whether I play 200 snaps this year or zero, I love it. I’m willing to do whatever they have for me to be a servant leader for the team. “I’d be lying if I said that our goal wasn’t to win it all. We left a lot on the table last year at the end, and we’re all looking forward to this year.” Schuessler is thankful for all that Clemson has done for him both on and off the field, as he has already accepted a position with the accounting firm Deloitte & Touche after he dons a Tiger uniform for the last time. The quarterback would also like to join his brother, who lives in California, “to experience the world...the life.” But before that, he is experiencing one more season with the program that has meant so much to him. “Getting to spend my fifth year here, it’s funny to see how much I’ve grown as a person,” reflected Schuessler. “Coach (Dabo) Swinney has the three pillars of the program, and he really has pushed me to develop. “I’ve taken so many strides on the field, and my game has dramatically increased. Off the field, being able to grow spiritually, mentally and in my academics, it’s cool to be able to look back over my years here. “At the end of each year, I try to do a self-evaluation to see how much I’ve grown over the years, and hopefully, I’ve grown into a man who my family is proud of.”

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DREAMS FULFILLED

BY KELLY GRAMLICH

LONG SNAPPER DAVID ESTES ALWAYS DREAMED OF WEARING A TIGER UNIFORM. WHEN HE RECEIVED AN EMAIL ABOUT A TRYOUT IN 2013, HIS DREAMS WOULD SOON COME TRUE.

s a kid growing up in Greenville, S.C., David Estes had two dreams. One, to play college football, and two, to attend Clemson University. The Estes family is full of Clemson graduates, 10 to be exact, and therefore Estes felt a deep connection with Clemson from an early age. Estes applied to Clemson during his senior year of high school and was accepted. However, he decided to focus on his dream of playing college football and chose to attend Presbyterian College to be a long snapper for the football program. Although he enjoyed his time in Clinton, Estes knew his heart was in Clemson and he decided to transfer. “After a year of college, I realized I wanted to transfer to Clemson, so I did. At that time, I thought football was over for good. I enrolled at Clemson in the spring of 2013 and joined Air Force ROTC.” As a Clemson student, Estes had fulfilled one of his dreams, but his aspiration of playing college football was still in the back of his mind. Then in August 2013, Estes received an email about football tryouts. He decided to go for it and pursue his other dream once again. “I didn’t make the team in August, but then I got a call in the spring of 2014 asking me to come do a semesterlong tryout and they would let me know how I stood.” Estes embraced the challenge of a four-month-long evaluation and understood that in order to become a member of the football team, he would have to perform at a high level every single day. “That experience was nerve-racking, but also calming. I knew I was capable of doing it. I constantly reminded myself every day was a tryout, whether it was a workout, walkthrough or practice. I brought everything I had every day.” Estes’ determination paid off in a big way. He passed his semester-long tryout with flying colors and was awarded with

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DAVID ESTES Full Name David Alvin Estes III Major Management Jersey #62 Position Long Snapper Height 6’0” Weight 200 Hometown Mauldin, S.C. High School St. Joseph’s Catholic School Date of Birth Oct. 22, 1993

a spot on the squad at the end of the spring semester. Fast forward to Dec. 5, 2015. It’s halftime of the ACC Championship Game. Clemson leads North Carolina 21-16. A berth in the College Football Playoff is on the line. Starting long snapper Jim Brown is visibly in pain in the locker room, holding his head in his hands. Head athletic trainer Danny Poole diagnosis him with a concussion and rules him out for the remainder of the game. “Next man up” is the mentality, and that next man was Estes. “I was shaking with nervousness and excitement,” admitted Estes. “I went out to warm up and thought, ‘oh my gosh, this is actually happening.’ I looked up at my dad in the stands and gave him a big thumbs up to tell him I was playing.” The average career notes of a walkon generally do not read, “saw action in the ACC Championship Game.” Estes understood this was a rare and unique situation, and he embraced it with the workman’s mentality he had displayed since he first made the team in 2014. He knew he had one job and he knew he had to do that job for two more quarters. Estes successfully snapped the ball for an extra point following a Wayne Gallman touchdown in the third quarter to put Clemson up 2816. Then he did as he had always done during his Tiger career. He completed his assignment, put his head down and ran off the field. “I did my job and was trying to get off the field,” recalled Estes. “And coach (Dabo) Swinney was there to give me a big high-five and he screamed, ‘How does

it feel to play in the ACC Championship Game, Estes?’” Usually, when a team’s head coach is yelling at a walk-on during a title game, it is not a good sign. This was different. “I didn’t say a word,” remembered Estes. “I looked at him and nodded. During the rest of the game, I kept praying to myself. People might have thought I was talking to myself...I’m sure the other specialists did... but I tried to stay focused and key in on my job.” Estes did his job to perfection that night in Charlotte and helped Clemson win the 2015 ACC title. He did not catch a pass, make a tackle or even kick an extra point, but he did his job. He snapped the ball, ran off the field and prayed until it was time to go snap the ball again. “Playing in the ACC Championship Game is the kind of stuff I dreamed of as a little kid. Growing up a life-long Clemson fan, it was awesome. It was an amazing experi-

ence and something I’ll never forget for the rest of my life.” Now in 2016, Estes is the starting long snapper for the Tigers. He has embraced his starting role as well as the leadership component that comes along with it. “The experience in the ACC Championship Game has served as a confidence booster for me. I know that I did my job on one of the biggest stages, so I can do it in any game.” It is players like Estes who make a college football team what it is. Yes, Tiger fans flock to Death Valley seven Saturdays a year to see Deshaun Watson throw picture-perfect deep balls to Mike Williams and Artavis Scott. They also pack the stands to watch Ben Boulware scream with emotion after a tackle and to watch 300-pound men like Carlos Watkins and Christian Wilkins track down running backs half their size. Long snapping doesn’t exactly result in the glory, fame and recognition that playing quarterback or linebacker does. But for Estes, the kid from Greenville who always dreamed of playing football in orange and purple on Saturdays, that’s just fine with him. It is actually more than fine. It is a dream fulfilled. “As a walk-on specialist, you’re not going to be on ESPN. It’s not a role that you need a pat on the back for, and sometimes it’s not always the highlyrecruited players who make a difference. “This role is what I signed up for.”

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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

LEON J. HENDRIX JR.

RONALD D. LEE

LOUIS B. LYNN

PATRICIA H. McABEE

ROBERT L. PEELER

MARK S. RICHARDSON

WILLIAM C. SMITH JR.

Columbia, S.C.

Greenville, S.C.

Kiawah Island, S.C.

Lexington, S.C.

Aiken, S.C.

Charlotte, N.C.

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Trustee Louis P. Batson Jr. J.J. Britton Fletcher C. Derrick Jr. Harold D. Kingsmore Thomas B. McTeer Jr. D. Leslie Tindal Allen Wood

JOSEPH D. SWANN Greenville, S.C.

KIM WILKERSON Cayce, S.C.

DAVID H. WILKINS Greenville, S.C.

Hometown Greenville, S.C. Sumter, S.C. Charleston, S.C. Clemson, S.C. Columbia, S.C. Pinewood, S.C. Florence, S.C.

ames P. Clements became Clemson University’s 15th president on Dec. 31, 2013. Since his arrival, the value of the Tiger Paw has never been higher, thanks to an increasing academic reputation and the national exposure from our recent success in athletics. Under Clements’ leadership, Clemson has broken records in admissions, enrollment, research, facilities development, athletics, graduation and retention rates and fundraising, including the successful completion of the $1 billion Will to Lead capital campaign. Clements is a nationally recognized leader in higher education who has served as president of a university in three different athletic conferences (Big East, Big 12, ACC), where he is also the current chair of the ACC Council of Presidents. Before he came to Clemson, Clements served as president of West Virginia University for nearly five years. During that time, WVU set significant records in private fundraising, enrollment and research funding. He was a leader in West Virginia, chairing the boards of the West Virginia United Health System, the WVU Hospitals and the WVU Research Corporation. And while he loved his time at WVU, he decided he would leave Morgantown for only one institution...Clemson University. Clements was born in Arlington, Va., but spent the majority of his life in Maryland before relocating to West Virginia and until his move to Clemson. The grandson of a coal miner and firefighter and son to parents who taught him and his three older siblings that education was the key to a better life, Clements is a first-generation college graduate. This was a key reason he pursued a life and career in higher education...to

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give others the same opportunity he was given by getting a formal education. Clements holds a B.S. degree in computer science and an M.S. degree and a Ph.D. in operations analysis from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, as well as an M.S. degree in computer science from Johns Hopkins

University. He was also awarded an honorary degree as doctor of public education from his alma mater, UMBC. He has published and presented more than 75 papers in the fields of computer science, higher education, information technology, project management and strategic planning. He also

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served as principal investigator or coinvestigator on more than $15 million in research grants. Prior to his service at WVU, he served as provost and vice president for academic affairs, vice president for economic & community outreach and the Robert W. Deutsch Distinguished Professor of Information Technology at Towson University, the second largest university in the University System of Maryland, where he was a four-time winner of the Faculty Member-of-the-Year award, given by Towson students. Clements’ Successful Project Management book is now in its seventh edition, is published in multiple languages and used in numerous countries. His other leadership positions include co-chair of the National Advisory Council on Innovation & Entrepreneurship, the only university president on the board; current member and past chair of the board of directors for the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities, North America’s oldest higher education association; and board positions with the American Council on Education, the Business-Higher Education Forum and the Council on Competitiveness. Clements also serves on the executive committee of APLU’s Commission of Innovation, Competitiveness & Economic Prosperity. He previously chaired the ACE Commission on Leadership. Clements and his wife, Beth, have been married for 25 years and have four children, Ty, Hannah, Maggie and Grace, and a son-in-law, Tanner Coombs.

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DAN RADAKOVICH CLEMSON’S 13TH DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS, IN HIS FIFTH SEASON IN TIGERTOWN, HAS OVER 28 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AT PROGRAMS ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

y nearly every measure, Dan Radakovich led Clemson to one of the best athletic years in school history in 2015-16. With a fall semester featuring berths in the national championship games in both football and men’s soccer and spring ACC titles in men’s golf and baseball, the Tigers recorded their highest finish in the Learfield Director’s Cup in a decade. In the classroom, 78 student-athletes earned degrees and, while competing for national titles, both football and men’s soccer registered record GPAs. Clemson’s Graduation Success Rate and Academic Progress Rate continue to be among the nation’s best, as football, men’s basketball and women’s golf were recognized among the top-10 percent nationally in APR, with football earning the distinction for the sixth consecutive year. Named the 13th director of athletics in Clemson history on Dec. 1, 2012, 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 in December 2013, the athletic department has received approvals for $176 million in facility improvements and increased spending on direct student-athlete development programs, including nutrition, mental health and professional development by $2.4 million. His department has increased overall revenue from $69 million in fiscal year 2014 to a budgeted $99.7 million in fiscal year 2017. Radakovich came to Clemson with a wealth of experience after serving in sig-

nificant 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 over 28 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. Following the 2014-15 academic year, Radakovich was named a finalist for the SportsBusiness Journal Athletics Director-of-the-Year award. 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 dis-

tinction for six years (2006-12). Just Clemson’s fifth director of athletics since 1940, he replaced Terry Don Phillips, who retired after over 10 years directing the program. During his career at Georgia Tech, it had 51 teams advance to either NCAA Tourney play or bowl games in his six years. That includes five sports (football, women’s basketball, softball, women’s tennis, men’s golf) that made the postseason every year. The baseball program missed just once. A total of 11 different sports programs finished in the top 25 of at least one major poll 27 times. That includes a national championship women’s tennis program in 2007, just its second team title in history. There were 14 ACC titles celebrated in addition to nine regularseason conference or division titles. The construction of new facilities or upgrades to existing ones was a focus of Radakovich’s tenure with the Yellow

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Jacket program. The John & Mary Brock Football Practice Facility, which opened in 2011, and McCamish Pavilion, which opened for basketball in 2012, are two of the top facilities of their kind in college athletics. Radakovich also initiated the Athletic Director’s Initiative Fund, started in 2006, which raised cash and pledges of more than $12 million. 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. Prior to his tenure at Georgia Tech, Radakovich worked as a senior associate athletic director at Louisiana State from 2001-06. He had many responsibilities that dealt with the football program and worked closely with then head coach Nick Saban, including the year (2003) the Tigers won the national title. He became a director of athletics for the first time at American University in Washington, D.C., in 2000. Between 1994 and 2000, Radakovich 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 (Fla.) in 1983 as the athletic business manager. 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 (Pa.) in 2009. He earned his master’s degree in business administration from Miami (Fla.) 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 joined the Clemson football program over the summer.

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DABO SWINNEY DABO SWINNEY, THE 2015 HOME DEPOT NATIONAL COACH-OF-THE-YEAR, AND HIS ALL-IN APPROACH HAS LED THE PROGRAM TO RECORD-SETTING HEIGHTS.

here is a strong coaching heritage over the 120 years of Clemson football that dates to the early 1900s, when John Heisman led the program. Jess Neely and Frank Howard continued the winning

and joined Heisman in the College Football Hall of Fame. Danny Ford, a finalist for the hall of fame in 2017, led Clemson to the 1981 national championship. Dabo Swinney has been at Clemson for just eight years as head coach, but he

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 18, Drew 16, Clay 13).

has cemented himself among the Tiger legends of the past. He is the first person to say that the program has not reached all of its goals just yet, but he took the 2015 Tigers to the brink of winning the program’s second national title.

Swinney guided Clemson to the No. 1 spot 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 37-17 in the Orange Bowl. The Tigers led Alabama in the fourth quarter of the championship game, but came up just short in an epic game in Glendale, Ariz. Following the team’s 14-1 record and No. 2 final ranking, Swinney was the recipient of 10 national and two ACC coach-of-the-year honors. The win over Oklahoma made him just the second coach in college football history (joining Alabama’s Bear Bryant) to beat the Sooners in two bowl games. Clemson’s 13th win, which came against North Carolina in the ACC Championship Game, established a school record. It was the Tigers’ 15th ACC title, matching Florida State for most in history. All told, the Tigers defeated four teams that finished the season in the top 15 of both polls, Oklahoma, Notre Dame, North Carolina and Florida State. Swinney coached Deshaun Watson to a record-setting sophomore season in

2015. Watson became Clemson’s first Heisman Trophy finalist after becoming the first player in FBS history to total 4,000 passing yards and 1,000 rushing yards in a season. Watson was the ACC Player-of-theYear and MVP of both the ACC Championship Game and Orange Bowl. He won the Davey O’Brien Award and Manning Award and was Clemson’s second ACC Athlete-of-the-Year in history. From 2011-15, Clemson compiled a 56-12 record, the most wins in a fiveyear period in school history. Thirty-six of the victories came against ACC teams. The 2015 seniors finished their careers with a 46-8 record, including a 29-4 ACC mark. Clemson was in the top-10 percent of APR scores and the final top 25 of the AP and USA Today polls in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015, the only FBS program that could make that claim. In eight years (seven full seasons) as the Tigers’ head coach, Swinney has directed Clemson to a 75-27 overall record (.735) and a 47-14 ACC regularseason mark (.770). He has also led the Tigers to the ACC Championship Game three times, won two ACC titles, won or shared four ACC Atlantic Division titles and won five bowl games. With the 2014 Russell Athletic Bowl win over Oklahoma and head coach Bob Stoops, 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 a national title. The 2015

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

Orange Bowl win over Oklahoma made it four in a row. Defense was the key to success for the 2014 Tigers, as they led the nation in total defense, pass efficiency defense, first downs allowed, third-down conver-

sion percentage defense and tackles for loss along with being in the top five in many other defensive categories. Defensive end Vic Beasley was named ACC Defensive Player-of-the-Year as well as being a finalist for multiple national

awards and a first-team All-American thanks to his 21.5 tackles for loss and 12 sacks. Beasley and Stephone Anthony were both first-round draft picks in 2015. 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 for the second year in a row. It marked Clemson’s first back-to-back 11-win seasons in school history. The Tigers were No. 12 in the final BCS standings. It was the third straight year Clemson finished in the top 15 of the BCS standings, one of only six schools that could make that claim. Clemson, who was ranked No. 7 in the final USA Today poll and No. 8 in the final AP poll, was also one of only five programs in the top 20 of every BCS standing from 2011 to 2013. Tajh Boyd broke many Clemson career records for quarterbacks thanks in part to 2013, when he completed 68.5 percent of his passes for 3,851 yards and 34 touchdowns. Boyd’s 107 career passing touchdowns and 133 total touchdowns were ACC records as well. Sammy Watkins was a finalist for the Biletnikoff Award and was a first-team All-American, as he had 101 receptions for 1,464 yards and 12 touchdowns. He established Tiger career records for receptions, receiving yards and tied the receiving touchdowns mark as well. 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 set a school record, while Clemson was co-champion of the ACC Atlantic Division. The school record for

consecutive wins at Memorial Stadium (13) was also established, as was the record for consecutive wins by 14+ points (7). 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. The 2012 campaign featured a record-setting offense. Clemson had six of the 11 offensive players on the All-ACC first team chosen by the media and set over 80 Tiger team and individual records. Leading the way was Boyd, the ACC Player-of-the-Year. The quarterback joined center Dalton Freeman as firstteam All-Americans by AFCA, just the third time since 1945 that the AFCA first-team All-America quarterback and center were from the same school. Boyd’s favorite wide receiver, DeAndre Hopkins, had 18 receiving touchdowns, second most in the nation, and was a second-team All-American. He was a big reason Clemson scored a then school-record 533 points. 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. It tied for the highest-ranked team the Tigers defeated in history. The win, the Tigers’ second over the Hokies in 2011, gave Clemson its first 10-win season since 1990. The Tigers’ four wins over top-25 ranked teams established a school record.

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-the-year award since 1981, when Ford directed Clemson to the national title. Dwayne Allen received the John Mackey Award as the nation’s top tight end and totaled 50 receptions for 598 yards and eight touchdowns. Boyd set the school record for total yards (4,046), passing yards (3,828) and passing touchdowns (33), all marks he eclipsed

in subsequent seasons. Andre Branch, a finalist for the Hendricks Award, had an ACC-high 17 tackles for loss and an ACC-high 10.5 sacks. Watkins was one of the most dynamic freshmen in the nation. The ACC Rookie-of-the-Year totaled 82 receptions for 1,219 yards and 12 touchdowns despite missing one game due to injury. Watkins was also an AP First-Team All-American. 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 season included wins over bowl teams Georgia Tech, Maryland and NC State. The team excelled defensively in 2010 and was 13th in the nation in scoring defense and in the top 25 in total defense and passing defense. C.J. Spiller was a unanimous first-team All-American in 2009 and Da’Quan Bowers duplicated the feat on the defense a year later. Bowers won the 2010 Nagurski Award as the nation’s

SWINNEY’S COACHING RECORD Year School Position(s) W-L Bowl 1993 Alabama GA 9-3-1 Gator 1994 Alabama GA 12-1 Citrus 1995 Alabama GA 8-3 1996 Alabama WR,TE 10-3 Outback 1997 Alabama TE 4-7 1998 Alabama WR 7-5 Music City 1999 Alabama WR 10-3 Orange 2000 Alabama WR 3-8 2003 Clemson WR 9-4 Peach 2004 Clemson WR 6-5 2005 Clemson WR 8-4 Champs Sports 2006 Clemson WR 8-5 Music City 2007 Clemson AHC,WR 9-4 Chick-fil-A 2008 Clemson AHC,WR 3-3 Clemson IHC 4-2 Clemson HC 0-1 Gator 2009 Clemson HC 9-5 Music City 2010 Clemson HC 6-7 Meineke Car Care 2011 Clemson HC 10-4 Orange 2012 Clemson HC 11-2 Chick-fil-A 2013 Clemson HC 11-2 Orange 2014 Clemson HC 10-3 Russell Athletic 2015 Clemson HC 14-1 Orange/CFPNCG Years as a full-time college coach:............................. 22nd Winning seasons:.........................................................18 Bowl seasons:.............................................................17 Record as an assistant coach:.................. 106-58-1 (.645) Record as a head coach:...............................75-27 (.735) Record at Clemson:.....................................118-52 (.694)

top defensive player and he received the Hendricks Award as the country’s top defensive end. He led the nation in sacks (15.5) and tied for the national lead in tackles for loss (26). In 2009, Swinney’s first full year as head coach, he led the Tigers to their first championship of the ACC’s Atlantic Division. Swinney was named ACC coach-of-the-year by Sporting News. He totaled nine wins, second most among FBS coaches in their first full year. They also tied for fourth most in ACC history for a first-year head coach. The main reason Clemson was so outstanding on special teams was the play of college football’s most dynamic player (Spiller) in 2009. The Tiger running back was named MVP of the ACC in 2009 and was a consensus All-American. He had five kick returns for touchdowns during the 2009 season, an all-time Clemson record, and established the NCAA record for kickoff returns for touchdowns in a career (7). In October 2008, Swinney was named Clemson 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 over the remainder of the 2008 regular season, including a win over South Carolina in the regular-season finale. 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.

The 1993 Alabama graduate joined the Clemson staff prior to the 2003 season. In his 13 years as an assistant or head coach, the Tigers have finished in the top 25 of the polls nine times and have 24 wins over top-25 teams, including victories over Florida State (6), Auburn (2), Miami (Fla.) (2), Oklahoma (2), Virginia Tech (2), Georgia (1), Louisiana State (1), Ohio 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 in 12 of his 13 seasons in Tigertown, also an unprecedented feat 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. It marked the second straight year that he was lauded by the website as a top-25 national recruiter. 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.

After his playing career, Swinney served as a graduate assistant from 1993-95 at Alabama, where he coached in the 1994 Gator Bowl and 1995 Citrus Bowl. 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 five seasons there on a full-time basis. Swinney was assigned to coach the Crimson Tide’s wide receivers and tight ends in 1996. The following year, he solely coached the tight ends. From April 2001 to February 2003, Swinney was in private business in Alabama. He married the former Kathleen Bassett in 1994. They have three sons, Will (18), Drew (16) and Clay (13).

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• 8th Season at Clemson • 33rd Season Overall • Western Carolina ‘76 • Born June 25, 1951

• 9th Season at Clemson • 26th Season Overall • Clemson ‘87 • Born Feb. 17, 1965

• 5th Season at Clemson • 21st Season Overall • Kansas State ‘92 • Born Dec. 18, 1970

• Coached First-Team All-ACC defensive tackle Carlos Watkins in 2015, his fourth All-ACC pick. The defensive tackles were major contributors on a team that played in the national title game and had a No. 2 final ranking. • Coached First-Team All-ACC defensive tackle Grady Jarrett in 2014, a fifth-round NFL draft pick. • His defensive tackles were a big reason Clemson led the nation in total defense (260.8) and tackles for loss in 2013 (122) and 2014 (131). • Played a big role in Clemson winning the 2011 and 2015 ACC titles. He has been on the staff of four ACC Atlantic Division titles in the last seven years. Clemson is 71-24 with him on staff. • Finalist for defensive line coach-of-the-year according to Football Scoop in 2010. • Has coached 397 games as a full-time assistant coach, second most on the Tiger coaching staff. He will coach his 400th game on September 17 against SC State. • Coached on the 1998 Tennessee staff that won the national title with a 13-0 record. • Coached former Clemson star and NFL All-Pro running back Kevin Mack in high school in the 1970s.

Began his football career at Appalachian State in 1969 ... after serving in the Army for three years, he transferred to Western Carolina and played in 1973.

• Has coached in a national championship game with three different schools, including Clemson in the 2015 season. • Coached second-team All-Americans in tight end Jordan Leggett, a John Mackey Award finalist, and freshman placekicker Greg Huegel, 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 drafted 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. Catanzaro is Clemson’s career scoring leader (404) and made 81.7 percent of his field goals. • Coached Dwayne Allen in 2011. He won the John Mackey Award and was a first-team All-American. Allen set school records for receptions (50), receiving yards (598) and receiving touchdowns (8) by a tight end. • 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.

• In his 20 years as a full-time assistant coach, his teams have 20 winning seasons, have been to 20 bowl games and have won 10+ games 15 times. • Clemson has averaged 9.31 tackles for loss per game and a 28.7 third-down conversion percentage defense over the last three years, best in the nation in both categories. • His 2015 defense was fourth in the nation in thirddown conversion percentage defense (27.7), fourth in sacks per game (3.2) and fifth in tackles for loss per game (8.4). He coached Second-Team All-ACC linebackers Ben Boulware and B.J. Goodson. • One of five finalists for the 2015 Frank Broyles Award, which goes to the nation’s top assistant coach. • 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. • His 2014 defense led the nation in total defense (260.8), pass efficiency defense (98.3), first downs allowed (185), third-down conversion percentage defense (27.4) and tackles for loss (131). • Served as co-defensive coordinator at Oklahoma (1999-03) and defensive coordinator at Oklahoma (2004-11).

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Earned an undergraduate degree from Western Carolina in 1976 ... master’s degree from Florida in 1984.

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

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

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Born June 25, 1951 in Sparta, N.C. ... he and his wife, Kathy, have two children, Tara and Rhett; Tara is an assistant athletic director at Tennessee; Rhett was an offensive player development assistant on the 2013 and 2014 Clemson staffs, and is currently an assistant coach at Southern Methodist.

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

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

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

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• 7th Season at Clemson • 18th Season Overall • Tennessee ‘95 • Born Nov. 7, 1966

• 9th Season at Clemson • 10th Season Overall • Clemson ‘03 • Born Dec. 28, 1980

• 6th Season at Clemson • 11th Season Overall • Clemson ‘02 • Born Nov. 26, 1979

• Clemson has finished in the top 25 all six years as an assistant coach, including a No. 2 ranking in 2015 after helping the Tigers to the national title game. • Coached first-team All-American Shaq Lawson, a finalist for several national awards who had 25.5 tackles for loss and 12.5 sacks, in 2015. He also coached Honorable Mention All-ACC performer Kevin Dodd, who had 23.5 tackles for loss and 12 sacks. The duo finished first and second nationally in tackles for loss. • His defensive ends were a big reason the 2014 defense led the nation in total defense (260.8) and tackles for loss (131). He also coached Vic Beasley, who was a first-team All-American and the ACC Defensive Player-of-the-Year. Beasley set the school record with 33 career sacks. • His defensive ends were a big reason Clemson led the nation in tackles for loss (122) in 2013. • In 2011, he coached second-team All-American and First-Team All-ACC defensive end Andre Branch, who was a finalist for the Hendricks Award. • Returned to Clemson after spending three years (2008-10) at Duke. • This is his second tour of duty at Clemson. He served as defensive line coach in 2005. • Has NFL experience, as he was an assistant coach with the Saints in 2006 and 2007.

PLAYING EXPERIENCE Lettered four times (1986-89) as a defensive end at Tennessee ... three-year starter ... played three seasons (42 games) in the NFL with the New England Patriots.

EDUCATION B.S. degree from Tennessee in 1995.

• Clemson has been to a bowl game each of his eight years as a full-time assistant coach. The Tigers finished No. 2 after their 14-1 record in 2015. • Named one of the top-25 recruiters in the nation and ACC recruiter-of-the-year in 2015 by Rivals. • Named co-offensive coordinator prior to the 2014 Russell Athletic Bowl. • Coached First-Team All-ACC wide receiver Artavis Scott in 2015 after a Second-Team All-ACC season in 2014. • 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 wide receiver Sammy Watkins in 2013. He had a school-record 101 receptions for a school-record 1,464 yards and 12 touchdowns. He also set or tied school career records for receptions (240), receiving yards (3,391) and receiving 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.

• Clemson has a 56-12 record and four top-25 final rankings in his five years on staff. He has also coached a 1,000-yard rusher four times. • A big reason Clemson won the 2011 and 2015 ACC titles, and a major factor in leading the 2015 team to a No. 2 final ranking. • Named one of the top-25 recruiters in the nation and a top-10 recruiter in the ACC by Rivals in 2015. • Has coached First-Team All-ACC running back Wayne Gallman, who broke the Clemson single-season rushing mark with 1,527 yards in 2015. • Coached First-Team All-ACC running back Andre Ellington in 2012. • 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.

PLAYING EXPERIENCE

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

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

EDUCATION

Degree in secondary education from Clemson in 2003.

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

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Born Nov. 7, 1966 in Irondale, Ala. ... he and his wife, Constance, have three daughters, Maria, Mariah and Camille.

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).

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

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• 6th Season at Clemson • 39th Season Overall • Furman ‘77 • Born Jan. 26, 1954

• 4th Season at Clemson • 12th Season Overall • Boston College ‘94 • Born Aug. 16, 1972

• 3rd Season at Clemson • 11th Season Overall • Clemson ‘99 • Born Jan. 1, 1977

• Has a staff-high 38 years of experience in college coaching and a staff-high 446 college games as a coach. • Clemson has a 56-12 record and five top-25 final rankings in his five seasons. He also has two ACC titles and a national championship game appearance in 2015. • 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. Tackle Mitch Hyatt was a unanimous freshman All-American. • Coached offensive tackle Brandon Thomas, a thirdround draft pick, to his second-straight All-ACC season in 2013. Guard Tyler Shatley also earned All-ACC honors in 2013 and played in the NFL in 2014. • 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. • A big reason Clemson won the 2011 and 2015 ACC titles. • Served as Vanderbilt’s head coach in 2010 after eight years as offensive line coach at the school. • 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 under Art Baker, including his senior season (1975) when he was named team MVP and offensive captain.

EDUCATION Degree from Furman in 1977.

• Coached first-team All-American Deshaun Watson, Clemson’s first Heisman Trophy finalist, in 2015. Watson became the first player in FBS history with 4,000 passing yards and 1,000 rushing yards in a season. • Watson was Clemson’s first recipient of the Davey O’Brien Award and Manning Award. • 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. • As recruiting coordinator, he spearheaded Clemson’s consensus top-10 class in February 2016. • 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. That included the 2014 Richmond team that entered the FCS playoffs ranked No. 16. Five of the last eight teams were conference champions or co-champions. • 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

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.

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

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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• Helped the Tigers to the 2015 ACC title and an appearance in the national championship game. • 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 Third-Team All-ACC cornerback Cordrea Tankersley in 2015. Alexander and Kearse were also AllAmericans, while that duo and T.J. Green are all on NFL rosters in 2016. • His defensive backs were a big reason the 2014 defense led the nation in total defense (260.8). He also coached cornerback Garry Peters, who was a FirstTeam All-ACC selection. • 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 10 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 the Panthers.

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Powder Springs, Ga. (McEachern HS) • Geology

Hallandale, Fla. (Chaminade-Madonna College Preparatory) • English

Decatur, Ga. (Columbia HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Anderson, S.C. (T.L. Hanna HS) • Sociology

Lancaster, S.C. (Lancaster HS) • Construction Science & Management

Pavo, Ga. (Thomas County Central HS) • Pre-Business

Calhoun Falls, S.C. (Wren HS) • History

Tampa, Fla. (Tampa Bay Technical HS) • Sports Communication

Grayson, Ga. (Grayson HS) • Sociology

Greenwood, S.C. (Emerald HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Argyle, Texas (Argyle HS) • Agribusiness

Plant City, Fla. (Plant City HS) • Sports Communication

Thomasville, Ga. (Thomas County Central HS) • Psychology

Jonesboro, Ga. (Jonesboro HS) • Pre-Business

Marston, N.C. (Richmond Senior HS) • Sociology

Clemson, S.C. (Daniel HS) • Marketing

Bamberg, S.C. (Bamberg-Ehrhardt HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Parker, Colo. (Valor Christian HS) • Communication

Clemson, S.C. (Daniel HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Elberton, Ga. (Elbert County Comprehensive HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Hopkins, S.C. (Lower Richland HS) • Graphic Communications

Mauldin, S.C. (St. Joseph’s Catholic School) • Management

Middletown, Md. (Middletown HS) • Management

RB 5-11

210

Fr.

6-5

265

*Fr.

CB 5-10

180

So.

290

So.

Spartanburg, S.C. (Spartanburg HS) • Sports Communication

Richmond, Va. (Benedictine HS) • Sports Communication

Charlotte, N.C. (William Amos Hough HS) • Sports Communication

Tampa, Fla. (Plant HS) • History

6-5

RB 5-10

215 *So.

6-0

210

*Jr.

6-5

300

*Fr.

Easley, S.C. (Easley HS) • Sociology

Loganville, Ga. (Grayson HS) • Communication

Lincolnton, Ga. (Augusta Christian Schools) • Health Science

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6-5

290

*Fr.

6-1

245

*Jr.

6-3

310

*Sr.

6-5

325 *So.

PK 5-11

195 *So.

6-3

305

So.

6-5

295

So.

QB 5-10

180

*Fr.

6-0

195

*Fr.

6-0

210

Sr.

6-4

305

*Fr.

6-0

230 *So.

6-4

265

Fr.

6-3

240

Fr.

6-5

340

Fr.

6-5

260

Sr.

6-4

200

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WR 5-10

180

So.

6-4

305

*Jr.

6-2

185

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6-2

220

*Fr.

6-1

215

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6-5

200

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6-3

295

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6-1

295

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6-5

315

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6-0

200

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6-1

255

*Gr.

6-7

280

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6-3

255 *So.

WR/P 5-11

180 *So.

Boiling Springs, S.C. (Boiling Springs HS) • Pre-Business

Clemson, S.C. (Daniel HS) • Sociology

Maryville, Tenn. (Maryville HS) • Sociology

Williston, S.C. (Williston-Elko HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Blythewood, S.C. (Blythewood HS) • Construction Science & Management

Orangeburg, S.C. (Orangeburg-Wilkinson HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Suwanee, Ga. (North Gwinnett HS) • Pre-Business

Orlando, Fla. (Lake Nona HS) • Sociology

Columbia, S.C. (A.C. Flora HS) • Sports Communication

Orangeburg, S.C. (Orangeburg-Wilkinson HS) • Sociology

Clayton, N.C. (Cleveland HS) • Sports Communication

Belton, S.C. (Belton-Honea Path HS) • Health Science

Wichita, Kan. (East HS) • Pre-Business

Roswell, Ga. (Roswell HS) • Pre-Business

Wake Forest, N.C. (Wake Forest HS) • Justice Studies

Navarre, Fla. (Navarre HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Hope Mills, N.C. (Jack Britt HS) • History

Tampa, Fla. (Sickles HS) • Health Science

Broxton, Ga. (Coffee HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Coconut Creek HS) • Sports Communication

Belmont, N.C. (South Point HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Olney, Md. (Our Lady of Good Counsel HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Greensboro, N.C. (Walter Hines Page HS) • Sports Communication

Honolulu, Hawaii (Moanalua HS) • Sociology

Beaufort, S.C. (Whale Branch Early College HS) • Justice Studies

Jackson Springs, N.C. (Pinecrest HS) • History

Greenville, N.C. (J.H. Rose HS) • Pre-Business

Marietta, Ga. (Walton HS) • Athletic Leadership

McDonough, Ga. (Eagle’s Landing Christian Academy) • Pre-Business

Browns Summit, N.C. (Dudley HS) • Sociology

Myrtle Beach, S.C. (Socastee HS) • Economics

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6-3

260 *So.

6-2

265 *So.

6-0

180

*Jr.

6-4

200

*Gr.

WR 5-10

190

Jr.

6-3

220

Fr.

6-4

315

Fr.

6-0

235

Fr.

6-5

265 *So.

6-4

235

*Fr.

6-2

240

Fr.

5-11

195

So.

6-1

195 *So.

6-2

195

*Fr.

6-3

290

Fr.

6-1

200

Sr.

LS 5-11

225

Sr.

190

*Gr.

Savannah, Ga. (Calvary Day School) • Communication

Leland, N.C. (North Brunswick HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Summit, N.J. (Summit HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Grayson, Ga. (Grayson HS) • Accounting

Clearwater, Fla. (East Lake HS) • Communication

Olathe, Kan. (Olathe North HS) • Sports Communication

North Charleston, S.C. (Fort Dorchester HS) • Pre-Business

Sharpsburg, Ga. (Northgate HS) • Communication

Columbia, S.C. (Hammond School) • History

Sterling, Va. (Dominion HS) • Sports Communication

Baltimore, Md. (IMG (Fla.) Academy) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Charlotte, N.C. (William Amos Hough HS) • Sports Communication

Florence, S.C. (West Florence HS) • Financial Management

Florence, S.C. (West Florence HS) • Biological Sciences

Six Mile, S.C. (Daniel HS) • Construction Science & Management

Beech Island, S.C. (Silver Bluff HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Greenwood, S.C. (Greenwood HS) • Biological Sciences

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Winston-Salem, N.C. (R.J. Reynolds HS) • Marketing

6-2

200 *So.

5-8

160

*Fr.

6-1

195

Fr.

6-0

190

Fr.

6-3

305

*Sr.

6-3

215

Jr.

6-0

200

*Jr.

6-4

310

So.

6-3

245

So.

LB 5-10

215

So.

6-3

225

*Jr.

6-5

260 *So.

Durham, N.C. (Hillside HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Clemson, S.C. (Daniel HS) • Pre-Business

Vestavia Hills, Ala. (Vestavia Hills HS) • Pre-Business

Richmond, Va. (Highland Springs HS) • Communication

Mooresboro, N.C. (Chase HS) • Sociology

Gainesville, Ga. (Gainesville HS) • Communication

Durham, N.C. (Hillside HS) • Health Science

Springfield, Mass. (Suffield (Conn.) Academy) • Communication

Orlando, Fla. (The First Academy) • Agricultural Mechanization & Business

Columbia, S.C. (Blythewood HS) • Psychology

Vance, S.C. (Lake Marion HS) • Sociology

Lauderdale Lakes, Fla. (University School of Nova Southeastern University) • Sports Communication

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12 Adams, Chris 8 Anthony, Khaliq 77 Barnes, Kwamelle 21 Baxley, Jermaine 26 Baxter, Jason 45 Benjamin, Cliff 57 Blair, Jemetre 29 Brock, Shaquan 30 Brown, Alex 95 Brown, Cordell 40 Brown, Dondre 28 Brown, Johnell 4 Burroughs, De’Montrez 65 Butler, Darren 62 Byrd, Brian 82 Caldwell, Quan 38 Cobb, Kendall 32 Coleman, Cedric 99 Cousar, Jalen 92 Cravens, Tyberius 50 Crouch, Shaquille 74 Damon, Danny 73 Dickerson, Eric 20 Dubose, Tra’Quan 72 Edwards, Marlin 23 Edwards, Treyvon 51 Evans, Justin 3 Ford, Bishop 35 Ford, Damu 9 Ford, Dewann 89 Foxworth, Dahndray

Columbia, S.C. (Spring Valley HS)

6-0

190

*Fr.

6-1

182

*Fr.

6-5

335 *So.

6-3

185 *So.

6-2

185

*Jr.

6-1

170

Fr.

6-1

225

*Fr.

6-0

205

Gr.

Norway, S.C. (Hunter-Kinard-Tyler HS)

Saluda, S.C. (Saluda HS)

Waynesboro, Ga. (Burke County HS)

Manning, S.C. (Manning HS)

Santee, S.C. (Lake Marion HS & Technology Center)

Winston-Salem, N.C. (Mount Tabor HS)

St. Marys, Ga. (Camden County HS)

DB 5-10

170 *So.

6-2

230

Jr.

6-1

236

Sr.

6-3

190

*Fr.

6-2

200

Fr.

6-4

315

*Fr.

OL 5-11

300

*Jr.

WR 5-11

170 *So.

6-2

250

Jr.

6-1

214

Fr.

6-0

315

So.

6-1

231

*Jr.

6-6

330

*Fr.

6-3

300

*Jr.

6-4

265

*Sr.

ATH 5-10

170

*Fr.

6-1

276

Fr.

5-9

152

*Fr.

6-5

310

*Jr.

5-7

170

*Fr.

Holly Hill, S.C. (Lake Marion HS & Technology Center)

Myrtle Beach, S.C. (Myrtle Beach HS)

Varnville, S.C. (Wade Hampton HS)

St. Stephen, S.C. (Timberland HS)

Charlotte, N.C. (North Mecklenburg HS)

Greshman, S.C. (Creek Bridge HS)

Greenville, S.C. (Carolina HS & Academy)

Chester, S.C. (Chester HS)

Lawrenceville, Ga. (Peachtree Ridge HS)

Bradley, S.C. (Georgia Prep Sports Academy)

Matthews, N.C. (Butler HS)

Austell, Ga. (Pebblebrook HS)

Johnsonville, S.C. (Johnsonville HS)

Timmonsville, S.C. (Timmonsville HS)

Goose Creek, S.C. (Stratford HS)

Darlington, S.C. (Darlington HS)

Charlotte, N.C. (Vance HS)

Rock Hill, S.C. (Rock Hill HS)

Florence, S.C. (Wilson HS)

Huntersville, N.C. (William Amos Hough HS)

Dillon, S.C. (Dillon HS)

LB 5-11

240 *So.

6-2

180

*Fr.

6-4

225

*Fr.

Stone Mountain, Ga. (Stephenson HS)

Marion, S.C. (Marion HS)

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Hollywood, S.C. (Baptist Hill HS)

Charlotte, N.C. (Ardrey Kell HS)

Moncks Corner, S.C. (Cross HS)

Columbia, S.C. (Keenan HS)

Kingstree, S.C. (Kingstree HS)

Florence, S.C. (West Florence HS)

Columbia, S.C. (A.C. Flora HS)

6-4

245

So.

6-0

200

So.

6-3

290

Fr.

DB 5-10

190

So.

WR 5-10

170 *So.

6-1

200

*Fr.

6-0

265

So.

FB 5-11

215

Fr.

WR 5-10

180

Gr.

TE/FB 6-2

225

So.

6-1

270

Fr.

6-0

170

*Sr.

6-1

260

*Jr.

RB 5-10

201

Fr.

WR 5-10

175 *So.

6-2

225

So.

LS 5-11

190

Jr.

6-6

200

Fr.

6-3

185

Fr.

LB 5-11

240

Fr.

6-2

185

Fr.

6-1

175

*Sr.

6-4

210

Fr.

6-2

202

*Sr.

6-1

180

Fr.

6-7

310

*Sr.

6-3

200

*Jr.

6-3

180

*Fr.

6-4

290

*Fr.

6-1

297

Fr.

6-0

180

Fr.

Moncks Corner, S.C. (James Island Charter HS)

Atlanta, Ga. (Peachtree Ridge HS)

Hardeeville, S.C. (Hardeeville HS)

Ashburn, Va. (Fork Union Military Academy)

Manning, S.C. (Manning HS)

Miami, Fla. (Miami Sunset Senior HS)

North Charleston, S.C. (Fort Dorchester HS)

Blythewood, S.C. (Blythewood HS)

Greenwood, S.C. (Greenwood HS)

Dillon, S.C. (Dillon HS)

Bennettsville, S.C. (Marlboro County HS)

Orangeburg, S.C. (Orangeburg-Wilkinson HS)

Atlanta, Ga. (Westlake HS)

Westminster, S.C. (West Oak HS)

Columbia, S.C. (Eau Claire HS)

Lithonia, Ga. (Lithonia HS)

Spartanburg, S.C. (Spartanburg HS)

Virginia Beach, Fla. (Bayside HS)

Woodruff, S.C. (Woodruff HS)

Lake View, S.C. (Lake View HS)

Conyers, Ga. (Salem HS)

Batesburg, S.C. (Batesburg-Leesville HS)

West Columbia, S.C. (Brookland Cayce HS)

Snellville, Ga. (Arabia Mountain HS)

53 Mickle, Malik 96 Middleton, James 2 Moody, Mykal 5 Morris, Labron 59 Newell, Gregtavious 54 Oglesby, Brandon 64 Page, Jalen 39 Parrott, Chris 22 Pauling, Maurice 91 Perry, Roderick 17 Pettiway, Jerome 19 Powell, Devondre 83 Quattlebaum, Channing 88 Reid, Donquavious 44 Richard, Tyrell 48 Ruger, Austin 15 Samuel, Trey 14 Scandrett, Tyler 81 Schadewald, Tyler 11 Smith, Tyler 56 Stephenson, Robbie 33 Suber, Quin 34 Taylor, Dayshawn 97 Terry, Michael 23 Thomas, Travon 49 Uptigrow, Theren 70 Vaughn, Terrell 46 Walker, Cornelius 12 York, Caleb

6-4

285

*Fr.

6-4

285

Gr.

WR 5-10

185

*Jr.

RB 5-10

185

Fr.

6-1

210

*Jr.

6-3

225

Fr.

6-2

285

So.

DB 5-10

180

*Fr.

6-0

200

Fr.

6-1

290

Fr.

P/PK 6-4

220

Jr.

5-8

180

*Jr.

WR 5-11

170

*Fr.

6-2

220

Jr.

6-2

160

*Fr.

6-3

220 *So.

5-9

175

*Jr.

PK/P 5-9

170

Jr.

6-3

185

Fr.

6-1

200

Gr.

6-4

260

Jr.

6-3

205

*Fr.

LB 5-10

240

*Jr.

6-0

255

Fr.

RB 5-10

210

Jr.

6-2

215

Fr.

OL 5-11

260

*Fr.

6-1

212

Fr.

6-1

210

So.

Winnsboro, S.C. (Fairfield Central HS)

Pineville, S.C. (Timberland HS)

Conway, S.C. (Conway HS)

Decatur, Ga. (Cedar Grove HS)

McDonough, Ga. (The Atlanta Sports Academy)

Loganville, Ga. (Loganville HS)

Florence, S.C. (Wilson HS)

Irmo, S.C. (Dutch Fork HS)

Winnsboro, S.C. (Fairfield Central HS)

Knightdale, S.C. (Cary HS)

York, S.C. (York HS)

Miami, Fla. (Miami Jackson Senior HS)

Irmo, S.C. (Columbia HS)

Lancaster, S.C. (Lancaster HS)

Hemingway, S.C. (Carvers Bay HS)

Irmo, S.C. (Dutch Fork HS)

Hartsville, S.C. (Hartsville HS)

Barnesville, Ga. (Lamar County HS)

Lexington, S.C. (Lexington HS)

Columbia, S.C. (Keenan HS)

Fairburn, Ga. (Creekside HS)

Laurens, S.C. (Laurens HS)

Lincolnton, Ga. (Lincoln County HS)

Duluth, Ga. (Peachtree Ridge HS)

Harwood, Md. (Southern HS)

Orangeburg, S.C. (Orangeburg-Wilkinson HS)

Ridgeway, S.C. (Westwood HS)

Orangeburg, S.C. (Orangeburg-Wilkinson HS)

Charlotte, N.C. (Providence HS)

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Location Orangeburg, S.C. Enrollment 2,937 President James E. Clark Athletic Director Paul Bryant Nickname Bulldogs Colors Garnet & Blue Conference Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Home Field Oliver C. Dawson Stadium (22,000) First Year of Football 1907 Series Record Clemson leads 3-0 Athletic Website SCSUAthletics.com

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COACHING STAFF HEAD COACH Head Coach Buddy Pough (SC State ‘75) Record at SC State (Seasons) 112-53 (15th) Career Record (Seasons) 112-53 (15th)

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Coach David Blanchard Kirk Botkin Danny Lewis Gerald Harrison Jonathan Saxon Nygel Pearson Lee Chambers G.A. Mangus Steve Bird Cory Peoples

Position(s) Alma Mater AHC, DL SC State ‘94 DC, DB Arkansas ‘94 RC, QB South Carolina ‘95 DL SC State ‘74 LB SC State ‘11 OC, OL SC State ‘08 RB Gardner-Webb ‘05 TE Florida ‘92 STC, WR Eastern Kentucky ‘83 DB South Carolina ‘05

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CALEB YORK

TE • Jr. Lawrenceville, Ga.

DB • So. Columbia, S.C.

DB • *Sr. Columbia, S.C.

DE • *Jr. McDonough, Ga.

DB • *Jr. Manning, S.C.

SHAQUAN BROCK DB • Gr. St. Marys, Ga.

CORDELL BROWN DE • Jr. Myrtle Beach, S.C.

DL • So. Matthews, N.C.

DL • So. Columbia, S.C.

ADRIAN KOLLOCK JR. QUARTERBACK

QB • *Sr. Spartanburg, S.C.

DB • *Jr. Miami, Fla.

TREY SAMUEL WR • *Jr. Hartsville, S.C.

TYLER SMITH DB • Gr. Columbia, S.C.

FB • Sr. Varnville, S.C.

OL • *Jr. Florence, S.C.

DB • *Sr. Manning, S.C.

LB • *Jr. Lake View, S.C.

LB • *Jr. Lincolnton, Ga.

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BISHOP FORD RB • *Fr. Huntersville, N.C.

OL • *Jr. Miami, Fla.

DL • *Fr. Batesburg, S.C.

QB • So. Charlotte, N.C.

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Player Trayvon Mullen Trevion Thompson Mark Fields Kelly Bryant Artavis Scott Deshaun Watson Shaq Smith Dorian O’Daniel Zerrick Cooper Mike Williams Lasamuel Davis Deon Cain Wayne Gallman Brian Dawkins Jr. Ben Boulware Tucker Israel Shadell Bell Isaiah Simmons K’Von Wallace Nick Schuessler Hunter Renfrow Denzel Johnson Diondre Overton Korrin Wiggins Jordan Leggett Cornell Powell Jadar Johnson T.J. Chase Tanner Muse Adrian Baker Tyshon Dye Xavier Kelly Van Smith Nolan Turner Cordrea Tankersley J.C. Chalk Adam Choice C.J. Fuller Tavien Feaster Marcus Edmond Jalen Williams Ryan Carter Andy Teasdall J.D. Davis Kendall Joseph Ray-Ray McCloud Judah Davis Amir Trapp Jaquarius Brice Grant Radakovich Christian Wilkins Chad Smith Garrett Williams Chris Register James Skalski Alex Spence Richard Yeargin Jabril Robinson Justin Falcinelli Taylor Hearn Austin Spence Tyrone Crowder Scott Pagano Tre Lamar Jay Guillermo Gage Cervenka Bradley Tatko David Estes Cade Stewart Jake Fruhmorgen Albert Huggins Maverick Morris Noah Green Tremayne Anchrum John Simpson Mitch Hyatt Sean Pollard Zach Giella Chandler Reeves Milan Richard Adrien Dunn Cannon Smith Seth Ryan D.J. Greenlee Sean Mac Lain Dexter Lawrence Austin Bryant Greg Huegel Nyles Pinckney Sterling Johnson Carlos Watkins Clelin Ferrell

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

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

Wgt. 185 200 180 215 190 215 240 215 205 225 210 210 210 175 235 180 220 220 190 200 180 195 200 200 260 200 210 175 220 180 220 265 195 195 200 235 210 215 210 175 215 180 190 225 230 180 235 160 215 255 310 235 245 255 235 195 260 265 315 325 195 340 295 240 310 305 225 200 290 290 305 305 290 290 315 295 315 300 280 260 180 265 180 245 200 340 265 195 295 305 305 265

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TIGERS vs. BULLDOGS

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

# 75 51 57 55 63 16 7 4 9 34 3 92

Player Mitch Hyatt Taylor Hearn Jay Guillermo Tyrone Crowder Jake Fruhmorgen Jordan Leggett Mike Williams Deshaun Watson Wayne Gallman Ray-Ray McCloud Artavis Scott Greg Huegel

Pos. DE DT NT DE MLB WLB FCB SS FS DOG BCB P

# 59 41 76 92 34 10 27 36 26 11 19 17

Player Gregtavious Newell Tyrell Goodwin Paul McKeiver Tyberius Cravens Dayshawn Taylor Darius Leonard Marquise Jones Phillip Henry Jason Baxter Tyler Smith Devondre Powell Jerome Pettiway

Hgt. 6-5 6-5 6-3 6-2 6-5 6-5 6-3 6-3 6-0 5-10 5-10 5-11

Wgt. 295 325 310 340 290 260 225 215 210 180 190 195

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

Wgt. 210 265 290 231 240 200 175 170 185 200 180 220

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

SC STATE DEFENSE Hgt. 6-1 6-0 6-4 6-1 5-10 6-3 6-1 6-0 6-2 6-1 5-8 6-4

WHEN SC STATE HAS THE BALL SC STATE OFFENSE Pos. LT LG C RG RT TE WR-X QB RB WR-H WR-Z PK

# 52 72 55 56 51 38 21 12 3 24 6 14

Player Javarius Leamon Marlin Edwards Victor Ishmael Jr. Robbie Stephenson Justin Evans Kendall Cobb Jermaine Baxley Caleb York Bishop Ford Lynard Jamison Kanome McIntosh Tyler Scandrett

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

# 42 94 90 99 6 34 30 29 18 23 25 32

Player Christian Wilkins Carlos Watkins Dexter Lawrence Clelin Ferrell Dorian O’Daniel Kendall Joseph Jalen Williams Marcus Edmond Jadar Johnson Van Smith Cordrea Tankersley Andy Teasdall

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

Wgt. 310 276 260 260 310 250 185 210 170 175 180 170

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

Wgt. 310 305 340 265 215 230 215 175 210 195 200 190

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

CLEMSON DEFENSE Hgt. 6-4 6-3 6-5 6-5 6-1 6-0 5-10 6-0 6-0 5-11 6-1 5-11

OFFICIALS Referee Stuart Mullins Center Judge Jeff Tomlin Umpire Johnnie Forte Head Linesman John Hoffman Line Judge Robert Zivkovic Side Judge Jim Corpora

Field Judge Bill Dolbow Back Judge Robert Luklan TV Liaison Rick Walton Replay Official Roger Parramore Communicator Keith Roden

# 2 1 2 3 3 5 4 6 4 7 5 8 6 9 7 10 7 11 8 12 9 13 9 13 10 14 11 15 12 15 15 12 17 13 18 14 18 15 20 16 21 17 22 18 22 19 23 19 24 20 25 21 26 22 27 23 27 23 28 24 28 29 25 30 26 32 27 34 28 36 29 37 30 38 32 39 33 40 34 41 35 42 36 44 37 46 38 48 39 50 40 51 41 53 55 41 56 43 57 44 62 45 63 45 64 46 65 47 66 48 67 49 68 50 70 51 74 52 75 53 76 54 78 55 79 80 56 82 57 83 59 84 62 85 64 87 65 89 70 90 72 91 73 92 74 93 76 94 77 95 78 96 79 97 80 81 82 83 86 87 88 89 91 92 93 95 96 97 98 99

Player CameronHarris Glenn Ahmaad KendallMoody Hinton Mykal Devin Gaulden Bishop Ford Zack Wary Burroughs De’Montrez Tabari Hines Donte Lampley MaddoxMorris Stamey Labron Marquel Lee Kanome McIntosh Zach Dancel Marquane Goodman John Wolford Jabari Dionte Meyers Austin Khaliq Anthony Tyree Harris Dewann Ford Kyle Kearns Kendric Gathers Jalen Latter Darius WendellLeonard Dunn Tyler Smith Kyle Driscoll Chris CortezAdams Lewis GarrettYork Wilson Caleb Steve Donatell Jarrod Jones John Scandrett Armstrong Tyler MikeSamuel Weaver Trey Dezmond Wortham Adrian Kollock Jr. Isaiah Robinson Jerome Pettiway Matt Colburn Datron James Ryan Janvion Calvin Giles-McClary James Ward Devondre Powell Josh Okonye Tra’Quan Dubose Brad Watson Jermaine Baxley Thomas Brown Maurice Tyler BellPauling Treyvon Edwards Bryant Gross-Armiento Travon Thomas Teddy Matthews Lynard Jamison Christopher Pearcey Deonte DevontreDavis Hamilton Hunter Williams Jason Baxter Charles MarquiseArgenzio Jones Demetrius Kemp Johnell Brown Tylor Harris Shaquan Brock Thomas Dillon Alex Brown Alex Kinal Cedric Coleman Jaboree Williams Quin Suber Josh Banks Dayshawn Taylor Devin Pike Damu Ford Julian Jackson PhillipMcNeil Henry Kalin BonteLuedeke Freeman Nick Kendall Cobb Brandon Chubb Chris Parrott Grant Dawson Dondre Brown Chris Calhoun Tyrell Ejiofor Goodwin Duke A’Lique Terry James Johnson Harry Photre’Warner Jones Ali Lamot Tyrell Richard Reid Althoff Cliff Benjamin Dylan Intemann Lane Jones TJ Haney Walker Cornelius Josh Harris Phillip Harris Rocco Esposito Austin Ruger Taylor Chambers Theren Uptigrow Patrick Osterhage Shaquille Crouch Ryan Anderson Justin Evans Phil Haynes Javarius Leamon Justin Herron MalikSuggs Mickle Joel Brandon Oglesby Tyler Hayworth Victor Ishmael Jr. Cameron Gardner KJ BrentStephenson Robbie P.J. Howard Jemetre BlairIV Jonathan Williams Gregtavious Newell Brendan O’Neil Brian Byrd Cam Serigne Jalen Page Alex Bachman Darren Butler Chuck Wade Terrell Vaughn Rashawn Shaw Marlin Edwards Chase Wilson Eric Dickerson Willie Yarbary DannyRodney Damon Zeek Paul McKeiver William Flood KwamelleLewinson Barnes Shelldon Ptarick McNeill Chris Stewart Malcom Garrett Ben Brown Kordel Johnson Tyler Schadewald Quan Caldwell Channing Quattlebaum Deangelo Frazier Kijana Johnson Donquavious Reid Dahndray Foxworth Roderick Perry Tyberius Cravens Jasper Hawkins Cordell Brown James Middleton Michael Terry Bruce Johnson Jalen Cousar

Pos. DB WR QB WR DB RB LB DB WR QB WR RB LB WR DB QB QB DB DB DB WR QB QB DB DB LB DL DB QB DB WR LS QB TE/LS LB DB PK/P PK/P WR TB QB TB P/PK TB RB DB WR DB DB DB ATH DB WR DB LB TB DB DB RB LB WR TB DB FB LB DB TE DB LB LB DL DB DB DB P LB LB RB DL LB TE LB DL DB LB LB TE TE LB DB LB FB DL DL OL LS OL DE DL DB DL P OL LB OL LB OL TE/FB OL FB OL LB OL OL OL OL OL OL OL OL OL DE OL OL WR OL WR DL WR DE TE OL TE DL WR OL WR OL DL OL LS OL DL DL DL DL FB OL DL OL DL OL PK WR WR WR WR TE TE DL DE DL DE DL DE DL DL DE DL

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

Wgt. 200 180 185 190 170 225 200 165 180 180 185 235 180 200 200 205 180 165 182 185 180 190 190 190 200 250 200 215 190 200 195 210 230 240 165 170 180 175 205 202 215 220 195 201 190 170 210 180 200 170 190 185 220 200 205 152 190 210 240 175 195 185 215 220 185 230 175 205 190 295 205 180 170 205 214 240 205 275 240 245 240 220 170 225 200 265 250 245 180 225 236 240 265 275 310 190 260 210 265 160 255 170 305 185 330 212 310 225 315 220 290 215 300 330 290 310 280 310 290 285 300 225 325 260 285 190 260 190 225 185 210 230 300 245 285 175 315 200 260 250 276 210 265 280 300 295 290 265 335 260 297 260 290 195 185 185 170 170 245 200 220 225 290 231 270 230 285 255 225 315

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2016 OPPONENT RESULTS & SCHEDULES AUBURN (1-1) Opponent Clemson Arkansas State Date 9-17 9-24 10-1 10-8 10-22 10-29 11-5 11-12 11-19 11-26

TROY (1-1)

W-L Score L 13-19 W 51-14

Opponent Time * Texas A&M 7 p.m. * Louisiana State Louisiana-Monroe * at Mississippi State * Arkansas * at Mississippi * Vanderbilt * at Georgia * Alabama A&M * at Alabama

NC STATE (1-1) Opponent William & Mary at East Carolina Date 9-17 10-1 10-8 10-15 10-22 10-29 11-5 11-12 11-19 11-25

Date 9-17 9-24 10-1 10-15 10-20 11-5 11-12 11-17 11-26 12-3

W-L Score W 57-17 L 24-30

Opponent Time at Southern Mississippi 7 p.m. * New Mexico State * at Idaho 5 p.m. * Georgia State * at South Alabama 7:30 p.m. Massachusetts * Appalachian State * Arkansas State 9:30 p.m. * at Texas State 4 p.m. * at Georgia Southern 1 p.m.

SC STATE (0-2) Opponent at Central Florida at Louisiana Tech Date 9-17 9-24 10-8 10-15 10-22 10-29 11-5 11-12 11-19

FLORIDA STATE (2-0)

W-L Score W 48-14 L 30-33

Opponent Old Dominion * Wake Forest Notre Dame * at Clemson * at Louisville * Boston College * Florida State * at Syracuse * Miami (Fla.) * at North Carolina

Opponent Austin Peay at Clemson

Time 6 p.m.

Opponent Mississippi Charleston Southern Date 9-17 9-24 10-1 10-8 10-15 10-29 11-5 11-11 11-19 11-26

W-L Score W 45-34 W 52-8

Opponent Time * at Louisville Noon at South Florida * North Carolina * at Miami (Fla.) * Wake Forest * Clemson * at NC State * Boston College 7:30 p.m. * at Syracuse Florida

W-L Score L 0-38 L 24-53

Opponent Time at Clemson Noon * at Florida A&M 6 p.m. * Bethune-Cookman 1:30 p.m. * at Howard 1 p.m. * Delaware State 1:30 p.m. * at Hampton 1 p.m. * at North Carolina A&T 1 p.m. * Norfolk State 2 p.m. * Savannah State 1:30 p.m.

SYRACUSE (1-1) Opponent Colgate * Louisville Date 9-17 9-24 10-1 10-8 10-15 10-22 11-5 11-12 11-19 11-26

W-L Score W 33-7 L 28-62

Opponent Time South Florida 3:30 p.m. at Connecticut Notre Dame * at Wake Forest * Virginia Tech * at Boston College * at Clemson * NC State * Florida State * at Pittsburgh

GEORGIA TECH (2-0) Opponent * Boston College Mercer Date 9-17 9-22 10-1 10-8 10-15 10-29 11-5 11-12 11-19 11-26

W-L Score W 17-14 W 35-10

Opponent Time Vanderbilt 12:30 p.m. * Clemson 7:30 p.m. * Miami (Fla.) * at Pittsburgh Georgia Southern * Duke * at North Carolina * at Virginia Tech * Virginia at Georgia

PITTSBURGH (2-0) Opponent Villanova Penn State Date 9-17 9-24 10-1 10-8 10-15 10-27 11-5 11-12 11-19 11-26

W-L Score W 28-7 W 42-39

Opponent Time at Oklahoma State 3:30 p.m. * at North Carolina Marshall * Georgia Tech * at Virginia * Virginia Tech 7 p.m. * at Miami (Fla.) * at Clemson * Duke * Syracuse

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

LOUISVILLE (2-0) Opponent Charlotte * at Syracuse Date 9-17 9-24 10-1 10-14 10-22 10-29 11-5 11-12 11-17 11-26

BOSTON COLLEGE (1-1)

W-L Score W 70-14 W 62-28

Opponent * Florida State at Marshall * at Clemson * Duke * NC State * at Virginia * at Boston College * Wake Forest at Houston Kentucky

Time Noon 8 p.m.

8 p.m.

WAKE FOREST (2-0) Opponent Tulane * at Duke Date 9-17 9-24 10-1 10-8 10-15 10-29 11-5 11-12 11-19 11-26

W-L Score W 7-3 W 24-14

Opponent Time Delaware 6:30 p.m. at Indiana * at NC State * Syracuse * at Florida State Army * Virginia * at Louisville * Clemson * Boston College

Opponent * Georgia Tech at Massachusetts Date 9-17 9-24 10-1 10-7 10-22 10-29 11-5 11-11 11-19 11-26

W-L Score L 14-17 W 26-7

Opponent Time * at Virginia Tech 3:30 p.m. Wagner Buffalo * Clemson 7:30 p.m. * Syracuse * at NC State * Louisville * at Florida State 7:30 p.m. Connecticut * at Wake Forest

SOUTH CAROLINA (1-1) Opponent * at Vanderbilt * at Mississippi State Date 9-17 9-24 10-1 10-8 10-22 10-29 11-5 11-12 11-19 11-26

W-L Score W 13-10 L 14-27

Opponent East Carolina * at Kentucky * Texas A&M * Georgia Massachusetts * Tennessee * Missouri * at Florida Western Carolina at Clemson

Time 4 p.m.

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FROM “THE MOST EXCITING 25 SECONDS IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL,” TO 85,000 SCREAMING TIGER FANS, DEATH VALLEY HAS GIVEN CLEMSON ONE OF THE BEST HOME-FIELD ADVANTAGES IN THE COUNTRY.

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. And in 2013, Bleacher Report rated Memorial Stadium as the third-best stadium in the nation. 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 been in the top 20 in the nation in average attendance 34 straight seasons. A crowd has exceeded 80,000 fans 70 times since the 1983 season. In 2015, 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. Defending national champions are 0-3 all-time at Memorial Stadium. Clemson had a 13game winning streak at home from 2011 to 2012, setting a record for the facility. The Tigers entered the 2016 season with 33 wins in their last 35 home games and a school-record 16-game winning streak. 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 282 games in 74 years and have won over 73 percent of the contests (282-101-7). 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.

“Don’t ever let them talk you into building a big stadium,” he said. “Put 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 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. 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 weight room 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. Luckily, it wasn’t built behind the YMCA.

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THE HILL A CLEMSON TRADITION SINCE 1942, THE TIGERS HAVE RUN DOWN THE HILL HUNDREDS OF TIMES IN FRONT OF RAUCOUS DEATH VALLEY CROWDS.

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. The team would dress in Fike Fieldhouse, walk down Williamson Road, 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. Either in 1964 or 1965, Sam Jones, a member of the class of 1919, made a

trip to California. He stopped at a spot in Death Valley, Calif., and picked up a white flint rock. He presented it 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

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by that name could be heard the next four years, but when Howard started calling it “Death Valley” in the 1950s, the name took off like wildfire. Clemson celebrated its 74th year in the “Valley” in 2015 with a 7-0 home record, one of 12 FBS schools with a perfect home record. 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 me 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 during the 1970 and 1971

seasons 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 (381 times entering 2016). After final warmups, the team gathers back in its dressing room under the West

endzone stands for its final game 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. It is a tradition that has inspired Clemson players for many years. Yahoo! Sports agrees, as it rated it the best entrance in the nation in 2014.

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new era of Clemson football is officially underway. Head coach Dabo Swinney and director of athletics Dan Radakovich held a ceremonial groundbreaking for the new football operations complex adjacent to the indoor practice facility in December 2015. In only a few short months, the 140,000 square foot facility has taken root on the west side of the indoor practice area, springing to life one of the nation’s premier complexes for football operations. The targeted completion for the $55 million project is early 2017. The complex will include all the elements needed to run the day-to-day operations - locker room, training room, equipment room, weight room, meeting rooms, dining hall, recruiting center and coaches offices. The plans for the new facility include a dedicated space for player development, which is currently housed in a small area where associate athletic director Jeff Davis works in the WestZone. The uniqueness of the facility does not end there. Inside, the main lobby of the operations complex will house a replica of the Hill, complete with a “Rock” at the top, that will provide a significant boost in terms of recruiting visits. The complex will also utilize plenty of outdoor space, by incorporating the geography from the Seneca River and the surrounding area. One of the biggest advantages the new facility offers is the chance to bring all of the program facets together in close proximity. “We’ve put our guys on trams yearround across the street, and there’s always a little bit of a disconnect when they’re over there and we’re in the WestZone in the summer,” said Swinney. “This allows us to have a football operations center where it all happens - the practice, the indoor facility, everything. You’re with players and interacting with them all the time. “Then on gameday, when you walk in that locker room, it’s special...seven days a year.”

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a long coaches platform so that practice can be viewed from above. In addition, by way of a short corridor, the platform extends 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, will adjoin the new football operations complex, specifically the new weight room, when the project is completed.

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VICKERY Hall CLEMSON’S INNOVATIVE AND IMITATED VICKERY HALL WAS THE NATION’S FIRST STAND-ALONE FACILITY BUILT SOLELY TO PROVIDE ACADEMIC SUPPORT TO STUDENT-ATHLETES. IT HAS HELPED THE TIGER FOOTBALL PROGRAM SET NEW STANDARDS FOR SUCCESS IN THE CLASSROOM AND GRADUATION RATES.

ince its inception in 1991, the department of athletic academic services, located in Vickery Hall, has provided Clemson student-athletes a continued commitment to excellence in its pursuit of an elite college education. Vickery Hall has a staff of 18 fulltime members, one graduate assistant and over 100 tutors, mentors and strategic tutors. Our mission is to address the total student-athlete by coaching our student-athletes to success in the academic, athletic and career arenas. Clemson University has a long-standing vision and commitment to the personal and academic growth and development of its student-athletes. That vision established Vickery Hall, which was the first stand-alone facility in the country constructed solely to provide academic support to student-athletes. The 27,000 square-foot, two-story, $3 million structure is an aesthetically impressive structure that provides premier academic support and services.

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Ask Before You Act!

his brief NCAA rules education is aimed at outlining basic rules to help potential students-athletes, parents and boosters better understand the regulations. Clemson University is committed to recruiting and conducting our athletic program with the highest level of integrity. If you have any questions, contact our compliance services office at 864-6561580, compliance-L@clemson.edu or visit our website (ClemsonTigers.com) for more information.

ARE YOU A BOOSTER? The NCAA definition of a “representative of athletics interest” generally encompasses most individuals who regularly attend Clemson sporting events (reminder - once a representative, always a representative). Specifically, a booster, or “representative of athletics interests,” is any individual, independent agency, corporate entity or other organization that is presently or has ever: • Participated in promoting the institution’s athletic program (such as buying season tickets to sporting events). • Assisted in providing benefits (such as summer employment) to enrolled student-athletes. • Assisted or been requested by the department of athletics staff to assist in the recruitment of prospective studentathletes.

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 student-athletes, 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 student-athletes 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.

• Attended Clemson University. • Contributed to the department of athletics or IPTAY. • Participated in or been a member of IPTAY. • Been otherwise involved in the Clemson University athletics program.

ASK BEFORE YOU ACT Prospective student-athletes may... • Identify outstanding potential studentathletes in your area and forward information, such as newspaper articles, to the coach of that sport at Clemson. • Continue to establish friendships with friends and neighbors, even those with prospect-aged children. However, contact with those for recruiting purposes is prohibited. • Attend, on your own initiative, events such as games and banquets where prospective student-athletes are present as long as you do not contact the prospect(s) or their family for recruiting purposes. • Answer a call from a prospective student-athlete (you may not initiate the call) regarding only Clemson University in general, but not about Tiger athletics. Please promptly inform compliance services or the coach should this situation arise. • Make donations to a high school if it is located in your community, the donation is not made at the request of Clemson or Clemson coaches and the funds are distributed through established channels and not directed towards a specific student-athlete. Current student-athletes may... • Continue to come out and support student-athletes at Clemson athletic events. • Provide summer employment to student-athletes, but only if you contact Clemson’s office of compliance servic-

es (compliance-L@clemson.edu) first and the student-athlete is compensated for work actually performed at a rate commensurate with the going rate in the locality for similar services.

ACTIVITIES THAT HARM PROSPECTIVE STUDENT-ATHLETES You may not... • Contact (including phone calls, texts, email) or interact with a prospective student-athlete or family members for the purpose of persuading them to attend Clemson University. • Contact coaches, teachers, guidance counselors or other school administrators in order to gain information on prospective student-athletes. • Make contact with a prospective student-athlete or the prospect’s family during official or unofficial visits. • Provide any other extra benefits to a prospective student-athlete, family, friends or their coaches. • Provide prospective student-athletes or their family and friends transportation or financial assistance.

ACTIVITIES THAT HARM CURRENT STUDENT-ATHLETES You may not... • Generally provide benefits that are not available to other members of the Clemson student body. • Provide extra benefits to student-athletes or their family and friends. Examples of prohibited benefits include (but not limited to): • Gifts of money, awards, food/drinks, occasional meals or other tangible items. • Free or reduced housing agreements. • Loans of money or automobiles. • Providing transportation for the student-athlete or their family and friends.

CONTACT INFORMATION Email compliance-L@clemson.edu Phone 864-656‑1580 Fax 864-656‑1243 Mailing Address P.O. Box 31; Clemson, S.C. 29633 Overnight Address Jervey Athletic Center; 100 Perimeter Road; Clemson, S.C. 29633 Website ClemsonTigers.com

• Professional services without charge or at a discount. • Promises of employment or loans following college graduation. • Sending student-athletes items to be autographed and returned or using autographed items to raise funds for high schools. • Use of ATM, credit or other types of gift cards. • Use the name/image of a current student-athlete to advertise, recommend or promote products and services.

CONSEQUENCES Violations of these NCAA, ACC and University policies can result in severe penalties, including: • Disassociation - Clemson University may permanently disassociate itself with an athletic booster. You could lose the privilege of purchasing season tickets, the privilege of being an IPTAY member or any other Clemson athleticrelated benefit deemed appropriate. • Harm to Enrolled Student-Athlete - Violations can also result in the enrolled student-athlete or entire team being unable to compete for Clemson University.

SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING Please notify compliance services immediately of any potential violations involving Clemson University.

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JACOB ADDISON Trades Specialist, Athletic Grounds

ROBERTA BALLIET

JON ALLEN

JAMES ALLISON

Assistant Athletic Director, Event Management

Director of Aviation Operations & Chief Pilot

K.C. BELL

IDA BENSON

Administrative Coordinator, Olympic Sports

Assistant Supervisor of Athletic Grounds

Human Resource Partner

DR. LARRY BOWMAN

DONNA BULLOCK

NICK CANTRELL

Team Orthopedic Surgeon

NIK CONKLIN

Assistant Athletic Trainer

Associate Director of Ticket Operations & Systems

WESLEY CRIBB

CASEY CRISP

DANNY EARNHARDT

MIKE ECHOLS

STEPHANIE ELLISON

SHELLY GEER

CHANDLER GELLER

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Supervisor of Athletic Grounds

Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach

GRACE AMMONS Assistant to the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Basketball Head Coach

Associate Director of Educational Services

Associate Athletic Director, Compliance Services

ERIC GEORGE

Assistant Athletic Director, Business Operations

DAN ARBLASTER

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MIKE BEWLEY

Director of Basketball Strength & Conditioning

Assistant Supervisor of Athletic Facilities

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JEFF CAREY

Associate Director of Educational Services

SAM BLACKMAN

Assistant Athletic Director, Director of Football Communications

LISA CHAN

STEVE COLEMAN

Director of Sports Nutrition

KAITLYN CUNNINGHAM

LUKE FIESER

RICK FRANZBLAU

Associate Director of Football Academic Services

MATT GLENN

Assistant Director of Athletic Video Services

Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach

Director of Olympic Sports Strength & Conditioning

OWEN GODFREY

TIM BOURRET

Senior Associate Director of Athletic Communications

BRAD CROWE

Assistant Athletic Trainer

RICK BAGBY

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ABBY DeDECKER

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STEVE DUZAN

Assistant Athletic Trainer

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JOE GALBRAITH

JONATHAN GANTT

Associate Athletic Director, Athletic Communications

AMANDA GRAY

Assistant Athletic Director, Compliance Services

Director of New & Creative Media

JEFF HALEY

Senior Assistant Supervisor of Athletic Facilities

ATHLETIC DEPA R

KESHANA HAM

BRAD HENDERSON

DR. LORETO JACKSON

TRAVIS JOHNSTON

BRETT KEY

MELISSA KING

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Associate Director of Educational Services

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Business Operations Coordinator

KYRA LOBBINS

MATT LOMBARDI

TINA MIDDLETON

STEPHANIE MOCK

TORI POLSINELLO

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Director of Football Academic Services

Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach

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Director of Educational Services

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LIBBY KEHN

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RYAN KING

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JORDAN PLUMBLEE

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DON MUNSON

Assistant Athletic Director, Athletic Academic Services

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JANET MERRIFIELD Accounts Payable Specialist

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Coordinator of Student-Athlete Development

GARY WADE

Assistant Athletic Director, Facilities

DR. LEN REEVES Team Physician

LINDSEY RICKETTS Associate Director of Athletic Academic Advising

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Assistant Athletic Director, Compliance Services

SHARON WEAVER Athletic Insurance Coordinator

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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 great deal of people being 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 total of $56.6 million in 2016. These dollars contributed by our 16,320 members directly impact the lives of our nearly 500 studentathletes in our 19 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.” This is to say that IPTAY includes all components - annual fundraising, major gifts and planned giving. Since 2015, we have taken on the management and oversight of Clemson athletics’ premium seating, the IPTAY Dealer Program and the 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 all of 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

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GAY COPELAND

BOBBY COUCH Director of Major Gifts

Administrative Specialist

TRAVIS FURBEE

LAUREN GAULIN

CONNIE GILREATH

BERT HENDERSON

REED KRAMER

LINDSEY LEONARD

BOB MAHONY

ROBYN MASSEY

JILL RICHARD

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Director of Annual Fund

Assistant Director

Director of Stewardship

Assistant Director

Executive Director of Block C Club

Administrative Coordinator

Major Gifts Development Coordinator

Administrative Specialist

Director of Planned Giving

Accountant/Fiscal Analyst

LINDA DAVIS

AARON DUNHAM Associate Director of Major Gifts

ROBIN LAY

Assistant Director

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KYLE SHIELDS

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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

JOE TODD

PRESIDENT District X Director

DR. EDDIE ROBINSON PRESIDENT-ELECT District III Director

RICK GRIFFIN SECRETARY District V Director

BOB RIGGINS TREASURER District VII Director

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DISTRICT IV

JAN CHILDRESS District I Director

JEAN DESDUNES District IX Director

SANDY EDGE

Alumni Association President

STEVE HAWLEY District VI Director

DR. JANIE HODGE NCAA Faculty Athletic 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

JOHN N. McCARTER JR. University Trustee Representative

BILLY MILAM District VIII Director

MARK MUSSMAN District II Director

ROBERT L. PEELER University Trustee Representative

RETT RUTLAND District IV Director

IPTAY REPRESENTATIVE PROGRAM

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 480 men and women throughout the country volunteer 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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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

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he Clemson Tiger completions (333) Sports Network while also setting (CTSN) supplies the Clemson career Tiger fans with a record for starts full day of broad(44). A member of cast every football Saturthe Clemson Hall day. Each broadcast day of Fame, he led the has five programs, Tiger Tigers to four conTailgate Show, pregame secutive bowls. show, game broadcast, Michael Palmer, DON MUNSON RODNEY WILLIAMS MICHAEL PALMER postgame show and Fifth who was a tight Play-By-Play Announcer Color Commentator Sideline Commentator Quarter Show. end at Clemson 3rd Season 11th Season 2nd Season A Clemson tradition from 2006-09 and since the 1970s, the played five years in Tiger Tailgate Show is a two-hour enterthe NFL, is in his second season as sideTiger Tailgate Show and Fifth Quarter tainment and interactive program. It is line commentator. Show. When the longtime “Voice of the produced on the lawn of Littlejohn Coli After the game is the 45-minute Tigers,” Jim Phillips, passed away in seum at the corner closest to Memorial postgame show from the stadium. Tiger 2003, he assumed the duties as host of Stadium. fans can then tune in to the Fifth Quarter Tiger Calls and play-by-play announcer The Tiger Tailgate Show, hosted by Show, hosted by Jimmy Watt. Interviews for women’s basketball and baseball. William Qualkinbush and David Stein, from the locker room with Swinney and Joining Munson in the broadcast booth begins three hours prior to kickoff and Clemson’s top players are included. A is former Clemson quarterback Rodney is a popular gathering place. Interviews complete rundown of stats and audio Williams, who is in his fourth season as with former players, games, display items highlights are provided. color commentator. In 2002, he was the and other exciting action are all part of CTSN also produces the Dabo Swincolor commentator alongside Phillips the show. ney TV Show. Munson is the host of this after serving as sideline commentator for After the Tiger Tailgate show is a oneweekly program that gives insight into seven years (1995-01). hour pregame show leading up to kickoff. coaches’ decisions from the previous Williams completed his Tiger career Highlighting the show is head coach Dabo game and looks at your favorite players (1985-88) as the winningest starting Swinney meeting with director of football and coaches. quarterback in ACC history with a 32-10communications Tim Bourret to provide For more information on CTSN, con2 record. He established then-Tiger career fans with the latest lineup and strategy tact general manager Gerry Dickey at records for passing yards (4,647) and information. The game broadcast is anchored by Don Munson, who is in his seventh year with the Clemson athletic department in a full-time capacity and his third year as director of broadcasting. Munson is a familiar name to Tiger fans because of his involvement with the Clemson radio network the last 22 seasons. Munson has covered Clemson athletics since 1994, when he first joined as the network’s football pregame, halftime and Fifth Quarter Show host. In 2003, he rejoined the network as host of the

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TIGER BAND MEET THE SUPPORT STAFF

hile Tiger Band is led by two full-time directors, there are many people who play a vital role in instruction, recruiting and our quest for excellence. Tiger Band is very thankful to have the opportunity to work with these experts, and we are pleased to introduce them to you today. (The following staff members are pictured above in order from left to right.) Larry Sloan serves as our overhead videographer and has for more than 35 years. Sloan served as Tiger Band commander during his time as a Clemson student and was a founding member of

the Clemson University Tiger Band Association (CUTBA) in 1977. He is a proud member of Tiger Brotherhood and recipient of the Clemson University Distinguished Service Award. Hazel Cartee has been coaching the Tiger Twirlers since 1989 and has begun coaching the Tiger Dancers this year. When she is not on the field with Tiger Band, she is teaching her 600

CLEMSON FANS RECOGNIZE THE VOICE OF DR. TIM WILLIS, WHO HAS ANNOUNCED “THE SONG THAT SHAKES THE SOUTHLAND... TIGER RAG!” FOR MANY YEARS.

dance and twirling students at Upstate Dance in Pendleton, S.C., where she is the co-owner. Both of her daughters have twirled in Tiger Band, including Ansley, who is currently our feature twirler. Dr. Tim Willis has served as “Voice of Tiger Band” for over 20 years. He spent 31 years as a college minister, 22 of which were at Clemson. He also served one year as the football PA announcer before making calls for the “song that shakes the Southland...Tiger Rag!” Christopher Sloan is Tiger Band’s photographer and has been since 2006. He has spent most of his life around Tiger Band and served as its commander. He also owns a full-service photography business, Imagine Studios, in Greenville, S.C. Check out his Tiger Band photos at TigerBandMedia.com. Randy Christ has been our on-field videographer and cinematographer since 2010. Christ, his wife and two children are all Tiger Band alumni. When not shooting footage of Tiger Band, he works on projects for his videography company, Moving Images, LLC. Terry Kent serves as colorguard instructor and has since 2010. He has

BY TIMOTHY HURLBURT

CLEMSON ALMA MATER Where the Blue Ridge yawns its greatness Where the Tigers play Here the sons of dear old Clemson Reign supreme alway.

CHORUS Dear old Clemson, we will triumph And with all our might That the Tiger’s roar may echo O’er the mountain height.

had a successful career teaching and performing at all levels, earning awards in DCA and WGI. He was recently inducted into the CIPA Hall of Fame. In addition to teaching the Clemson Guard and Winterguard, he is the band director at Hillcrest Middle School. Lance Curry has been teaching the drumline since 2010. After graduating from Clemson, he taught for eight years in Easley and currently works as an instructional technology facilitator for Greenville County. Curry met his wife, Emily, while they were both in Tiger Band. Jeff Norman serves as our visual coordinator. He has been helping Tiger Band look its best for 10 years. As a veteran teacher and drum corps participant, Norman brings a wealth of experience and expertise to our organization. He also serves as the director of bands at Greer High School.

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MEN’S SOCCER S

MEN’S SOCCER

Full Name Iman Mafi Major Management Sport Soccer Jersey #7 Position Midfielder Height 5’9” Weight 160 Class Senior Hometown Grimstad, Norway High School Dahlske Videregaende Skole Date of Birth July 9, 1994

IMAN

MAFI

THE SENIOR MIDFIELDER FROM NORWAY HAS BEEN A KEY COG IN THE PROGRAM’S RETURN TO NATIONAL PROMINENCE. BY RACHEL EAGLETON

rowing up, it did not take a young Iman Mafi long to discover what sport was important in his family. “My dad is a huge soccer fan...it was soccer 24/7 in my house. When I was little, he would find a way to mix soccer into every conversation. I was born into it and brought up with it. Everything I did was with a ball.”

Mafi’s parents were also from a country where soccer was the No. 1 sport. “My parents are both from Iran, but they met in Norway. I was born and raised in the southern part of Norway.” Being raised in a different country from where his parents were raised allowed Mafi to gain confidence and learn different aspects of the cultures around him.

“All of the things I do with my family have to do with Iranian culture. We even speak Farsi. I was raised in an Iranian home, but all of my friends were Norwegian, so I mixed the two cultures. I got the best of the two.” From a young age, he watched soccer waiting for his chance to take the pitch. “When I was four, I remember going down to the fields to watch the older guys play. I had to wait until I was five before I could start playing, but I would play on the side by myself since I was too young.” After he got his chance to play growing up, Mafi fell more and more in love with the sport. He decided to enroll in college in the United States to continue his journey. “I didn’t know a lot about the college process coming to the U.S., so I started out at Gardner-Webb.” While Mafi enjoyed his time at Gardner-Webb, he didn’t realize that playing there would lead him to Clemson. “In my time at Gardner-Webb when we played Clemson, everyone was so hyped up, but I had no idea why. When we got to the stadium, people were taking pictures and I was asking, ‘We are about to play a game here...what are all the pictures about?’ “Soon after we started, I realized how good Clemson was and the level the program was at. I decided I wanted to chal-

lenge myself more and that I had bigger ambitions than a small school.” He worked to get his transfer release. “Once I visited the school, there was no question on whether I wanted to go to Clemson or not. I went straight home and called my mom and said, ‘I think I found my new school’.” Mafi arrived on campus and continued to find reasons to be impressed with Clemson. “The facilities, coaching staff, strength & conditioning and academics...it is challenging in all aspects and I love it. I think this is a great place to develop and get a degree.” After this season, Mafi hopes to continue pursuing his dream by taking his game to the next level. “It is a big dream of mine to go professional. Clemson is giving me the opportunity to achieve that goal. My passion is definitely something I bring to the table for the next level of play.” However, when the senior midfielder plays his final game and sings his final alma mater, there is one thing he will miss the most. “I am definitely going to miss being with the boys every day and trading that brotherhood and family. Our team does everything together. I am going to miss the feeling of them always being around, but I know our bond will only get stronger with time.”

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Claire Marie Wagner Psychology Soccer #5 Defender 5’8” Senior Cary, N.C. Panther Creek HS July 15, 1995

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THE SENIOR DEFENDER BOUGHT INTO HEAD COACH EDDIE RADWANSKI’S VISION OF A TOP-FLIGHT PROGRAM AND HAS HELPED THE TIGERS EARN NATIONAL ACCLAIM.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Full Name Major Sport Jersey Position Height Class Hometown High School Date of Birth

BY KELLY GRAMLICH

n 2012, Clemson women’s soccer won only one ACC match. Following that season, Claire Wagner, a very highly-rated recruit from Cary, N.C., who had played with the United States U17 National Team, committed to play soccer at Clemson. “I actually was not even looking at Clemson,” she admitted. “I was deciding between Duke and Virginia. But I had Eddie Radwanski as a coach at the Olympic Development Program, and he convinced me to come for a visit.” Some of Wagner’s coaches and soccer peers were confused by her decision to play for a program that had not enjoyed a winning season since 2007. “On my visit, I spent six or seven hours with the coaching staff and they told me their plan for rebuilding the program, and I absolutely loved it. There was not one thing I didn’t like about Clemson, the soccer program or the people. The campus felt like home.” The main thing that Radwanski and the staff sold to Wagner was that she could be a part of something special at Clemson and help bring the program back to national prominence. That was something she could not do at a place like Duke or Virginia. “I wanted to be able to rebuild a program and be a part of something like that. I wanted to see how much success we could have. My club coach was one

of my biggest supporters throughout the process. I thought I could leave the program better than I found it.” Wagner and the rest of her highlytouted recruiting class stepped on campus in the fall of 2013, and since then, the women’s soccer program has achieved the success that Radwanski envisioned they could have when he was recruiting Wagner. In 2013, the team won seven matches. In 2014, the Tigers improved their victory total to 13, and in 2015, the team won 14 matches and rose all the

CLAIRE WAGNER, PICTURED WITH HEAD COACH EDDIE RADWANSKI, WAS NAMED TEAM MVP IN 2015.

way to No. 1 in the RPI. Clemson was No. 170 in the RPI in December 2010 when Radwanski took over the program. In 2015, Clemson made the NCAA Tourney for the second straight year, but it was eliminated in the second round on penalty kicks. Every season that Wagner has been a Tiger, Clemson has taken another step towards a title. This season is her last chance to advance the program even further before she hangs up her Clemson jersey for good. “Last year, we made the ACC Tournament and we wanted to win it all, but

we didn’t. Both years that we’ve been knocked out of the NCAA Tournament, it’s been on penalty kicks. So we’ve really tried to focus on winning the game within the game. We want to finish.” Wagner’s attitude toward this season is representative of the new culture that has come to define the Tiger women’s soccer program. This is a team that nearly six years ago was at the bottom of NCAA women’s soccer, and now that it is at the top, it never wants to go back to where it was. “Coming in, our class wanted to rebuild this program and leave it better than it was. We’ve tried to create a family environment and atmosphere. We know the culture of a team leads to its success. Our biggest goal is that the culture continues after we leave.” Four years ago, Wagner and the 10 other players in her class bought into Radwanski’s vision and committed to Clemson. Now as seniors, they have accomplished more than anyone expected. In their final season together, their goals are as high as ever. “This year, we want to win the ACC Tournament and reach the College Cup. We have our sights on an ACC championship and a national championship. We’ve put in the work this summer and this preseason, and we are willing to do whatever it takes to get to that next step and win a championship.”

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LED A PLATOON OF SOLDIERS IN AFGHANISTAN. GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE WHILE SERVING HIS COUNTRY. INSPIRES SOLDIERS TO BECOME BETTER INDIVIDUALS.

Leadership is one word that U.S. Army Officers take very seriously, like Captain Francisco Martínez. Growing up with his grandfather’s example as an officer inspired him, and now at 28, he is living his dream in the Army as a Signal Officer in charge of tactical communications. There’s strong. Then there’s Army Strong. See more at goarmy.com/officer To contact Army ROTC, call (864)656-2578 or email MSAMUE2@clemson.edu Visit our facebook page at www.facebook.com/Clemson-University-Army-ROTCFightin-Tigers-58469551997/ or online at www.clemson.edu/cbbs/departments/army-rotc/

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400 DAN BROOKS HAS HAD A LONG AND SUCCESSFUL COACHING CAREER SINCE 1974, INCLUDING EIGHT YEARS AT CLEMSON. TODAY, HE REACHES A BIG MILESTONE WITH HIS 400TH GAME AS A COLLEGE COACH. BY SANFORD ROGERS

ention the number 400 and most sports fans will harken back to long ago when Ted Williams batted .406 for the Red Sox in 1941. The “Splendid Splinter” is the last MLB player to eclipse the .400 mark. The number 400 will have a different meaning this afternoon when associate head coach Dan Brooks registers his 400th game as a full-time assistant coach at the FBS level. Football and baseball are completely different sports, but hard work, skill and dedication are all traits that lead to success both on the gridiron and diamond. His illustrious 32-plus-year history as an assistant at Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee and Clemson demonstrate excellence that have led to success at every place Brooks has paced the sidelines. A native of Sparta, N.C., Brooks is in his eighth season at Clemson, but his familiarity with Clemson goes back many years prior to 2009. When his playing days at Western Carolina were cut short

due to an injury, he spent two years getting his feet wet in coaching as a student coach for the late Bob Waters and former Western Carolina assistant coaches Don Powers and Bob Setzer in Cullowhee. After graduation from Western Carolina, he moved to the prep ranks at Kings Mountain (N.C.) High School. It was during his time there that he coached an allstar running back named Kevin Mack, who went on play at Clemson and in two Pro Bowls as a Cleveland Brown. “I have known about Clemson for a long time. We had some good players at Kings Mountain. Coach (Charley) Pell and then coach (Danny) Ford and their staffs did a great job recruiting in North Carolina. I knew a long time ago that Clemson was a special place.” Brooks made the jump to the college ranks in 1983 when he was a graduate assistant at Florida under Pell. In 1984, he was promoted to a full-time assistant position at Florida and stayed there until 1987. He then coached at North Carolina (1988-93) and Tennessee (199408) before coming to Clemson in 2009. While numbers of years in a profession are an indication of success, the numbers produced in terms of wins and player development tell in greater detail how Brooks has made a difference. At Tennessee, Brooks was a part of its success that led to SEC titles in 1997 and 1998. The Volunteers won the national title in 1998. Clemson is 73-24 with two ACC titles, two Orange Bowl wins and an appearance in the national championship game since he joined the staff. Tiger defensive tackles have excelled under the tutelage provided by Brooks. Carlos Watkins (2015), Grady Jarrett (2014) DAN BROOKS AND HIS WIFE, KATHY, ON SIGNING DAY IN FEBRUARY 2016.

DAN BROOKS and Jarvis Jenkins (2010) all earned First-Team All-ACC honors. When head coach Dabo Swinney was putting together his first staff, there was no question Brooks was a target to provide a veteran presence. “When you think of ‘salt of the earth’ coaches in college football, you have to think about Dan Brooks,” said Swinney. “He has been a great example for young men in this business for nearly 35 years. When you look at the way our interior defensive line has performed year in and year out, he has been the biggest reason. He has had such a positive impact on our players, but that is no surprise. He has been one of the most respected coaches in the business for many years.” Brooks felt fortunate that Swinney held him in such high regard. After Phillip Fulmer was dismissed at Tennessee following the 2008 season, Brooks and his family were ready for the darker shade of orange. “If I had not come to Clemson, my wife (Kathy) may have left me,” laughed Brooks. “She has always loved Clemson and wanted to be here.” Another important factor was his familiarity with the Clemson staff. “I had known so many of these

guys on the staff at Clemson,” said Brooks. “Woody McCorvey and I have known each other for so long. Marion Hobby was a strength assistant when I was at Tennessee. To tell you how far back I go with some guys here, Danny Poole was a trainer at Western Carolina when I played there. “It is tough to say this is the best staff I ever worked on because there have been so many good ones. But this staff has it all. We have nine full-time assistant coaches who don’t care who gets the credit. We have a head coach who cares about his players and his staff like a family. And we have an administration that affords us with everything we need to be successful. “This is a great place with great players. I am proud to be a part of it.”

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1966 Season

BY BRENT BREEDIN

THE 1966 TIGERS WON THE ACC TITLE WITH A 6-1 LEAGUE RECORD UNDER FRANK HOWARD.

funny thing happened at Clemson during three of Frank Howard’s least successful periods over a 30-year head coaching career on the Tiger gridiron...a string bean, splinter, thermometer, needle or similar replica of skin and bones in human form showed up to end that rarity of rarities...Clemson non-winning seasons. It was Banks McFadden in 1938,39 after only two winning seasons in seven years (1931-37). It was Charlie Bussey in 1955,56 after three non-winning years (1952-54). And in 1966, it was Jimmy Addison after six disappointing seasons for Howard’s Tigers following six national ranked teams and four conference titles in the 1950s. What doth the 1960s wrought? The first seven years of the decade saw Clemson record mediocre seasons. Two reasons for that stand out. One was the league’s SAT requirement of 750 and then 800. The other leagues did not have the rule. Second, Howard played a difficult non-conference slate. The 1966 team being honored today played three top-10 teams outside the league in Alabama, Southern California and Georgia Tech. Howard was upbeat as he prepared for the season opener against Virginia.

He realized that several of the returning players on those two teams were world class, like junior offensive linemen Wayne Mass and Harry Olszewski, both of whom would go on to win the ACC Jacobs Blocking Trophy and become firstteam All-Americans. Maybe, he thought, they might just be good enough to protect an amazing quarterback prospect, Addison, from Fairfax, Ala. Addison impressed on the freshman team in 1964, but he received limited opportunity to play behind team MVP Thomas Ray in 1965. He could thread a needle with his passes, which might be why Howard nicknamed him “The Needle.” A more obvious reason for the moniker was his size...six feet and anywhere from 145 to 155 pounds. Also returning were Ray’s three leading receivers, Phil Rogers, Wayne Bell and Edgar McGee, and pass defenders Kit Jackson and Wayne Bell, each with four interceptions in 1965. And up from the 1965 freshman team were the likes of halfback Buddy Gore, linebackers Jimmy Catoe and Billy Ware and defensive end Connie Wade. And so the Tigers were not overly worried by Virginia, not knowing it had come to play behind its star quarterback, Andy Davis. In his “Clemson University Football Vault: History of the Tigers,” author

QUARTERBACK JIMMY ADDISON LED THE TIGERS TO A 27-3 WIN OVER NORTH CAROLINA ON NOV. 5, 1966.

Tim Bourret’s “10 Big Games Remembered (1951-69)” included the first and last of the 1966 team’s games. Sept. 24, 1966: Clemson 40, Virginia 35 in Clemson. The Tigers came back from an 18-point deficit with 17 minutes left to keep their perfect record against the Cavaliers. Addison had a

HARRY OLSZEWSKI’S 12-YARD MIDAIR FUMBLE AND RUN FOR A TOUCHDOWN AGAINST SOUTH CAROLINA IS ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE PLAYS BY AN OFFENSIVE LINEMAN IN TIGER HISTORY.

record-setting performance, completing 12-19 passes for 283 yards and three touchdowns, including a 74-yarder to Jacky Jackson with 3:49 left that became the game-winner. Davis’ efforts for Virginia won him Sports Illustrated’s National Back-ofthe-Week, but Addison topped that by becoming the third Tiger named AP Player-of-the-Week. Nov. 26, 1966: Clemson 35, South Carolina 10 in Clemson. The Tigers downed South Carolina in the season finale to win the ACC title. Gore, who became Clemson’s first 1,000-yard rusher the next season, finished his sophomore campaign in fine fashion with 130 yards on 25 carries. Jackson added 96 yards on 10 carries and scored twice. But the most noteworthy touchdown occurred when Olszewski caught a midair fumble and ran 12 yards to score. In the eight games in between Bourret’s two “classics,” Clemson won three out of four versus “Tobacco Road” teams...Duke (9-6) at home, Wake Forest (23-21) on the road and North Carolina (27-3) at home. A 14-10 victory at Maryland on November 12 brought high hopes for the ACC championship, but NC State’s 2314 win over the Tigers the following week in Raleigh delayed the 1966 coronation until the season finale against the rival Gamecocks.

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1991 Season

BY SANFORD ROGERS

THE 1991 TEAM SPORTED ONE OF THE BEST DEFENSES IN THE NATION.

ince the turn of the century, football has been focused more and more on the offensive side of the ball. No-huddle and hurry-up varieties have led possessions to rise, yards to increase and scoreboards to light up. Today, a 9-6 score between two teams could easily be a first-quarter total with both teams missing extra points. Teammates from the 1991 ACC champion Tigers, celebrating their 25-year reunion BRENTSON this afternoon, will enjoy remiBUCKNER, WHO WENT niscing about the 13th ACC ON TO A LONG title in Clemson history. There NFL CAREER, is no question the style of play ANCHORED may have been different in A STOUT 1991 than it is today, but the DEFENSIVE results and expectations are LINE IN 1991. still the same at Clemson. The 1991 team, which posted a 9-2-1 overall record and an ACC mark of 6-0-1, continued the Tiger tradition of outstanding defense. In 1990, Clemson had the best defense in the nation. There was very little decline in 1991. When looking back on that 1991 The 1991 squad only allowed 273.6 campaign, one the most memorable yards per game and 15.4 points per concontests was just what Buckner alluded test. The names of some of the defendto, a 9-7 outcome. Georgia Tech, which ers, Ed McDaniel, Rob Bodine, Levon shared a split national title with ColoKirkland, Ashley Sheppard, Wayne Simrado in 1990, came to Clemson on Sepmons and Brentson Buckner, are still tember 28. In 1990, the Yellow Jackets remembered today. won 21-19 in a contest that ended on Buckner, a sophomore defensive a missed 57-yard field-goal attempt by tackle on the 1991 squad and now Chris Gardocki. in his fourth season as defensive line Clemson was determined to return coach for the Arizona Cardinals after a the favor in 1991, and it did. A late 12-year NFL career, has seen the game Ronald Williams touchdown gave Clemtilt towards the offense in recent years. son a 9-7 lead with just minutes remainBut Buckner still stays true to his belief ing. Georgia Tech managed to drive into that defense is the key to competing for field-goal range, but a Scott Sisson boot championships. sailed wide right to give Clemson its “If you limit big plays and keep the 11th consecutive home ACC victory. scoring total down, you are going to win “We felt like we owed Georgia Tech most of the time,” said Buckner. “Fans one,” admitted Buckner. today want to talk about points and scorThe Columbus, Ga., native recalled ing, but a good defense is key to winning the sour taste the 1990 contest had left. on a consistent basis. “In Atlanta, we moved the ball up and “When I was playing, first at Clemson down the field but could not get in the and then in the NFL, defense was what endzone,” remembered Buckner. teams hung their hats on. I would love to It is still one of just two games in hissee some low-scoring games, but most tory the Tigers rushed for 300+ yards, fans would be bored with that result.” yet lost.

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“I think if Chris Gardocki had not gotten his foot a little under the ball, people would still be talking about that kick.”

LEVON KIRKLAND LED THE TIGERS TO A 41-24 WIN AT SOUTH CAROLINA IN 1991.

Buckner’s current role as a defensive line coach for the Cardinals allows him to return to Clemson when Tiger players are preparing for the draft. This past June, he also brought his son, Brandon, and worked a session of the Dabo Swinney Football Camp. A trip back to Clemson is always enjoyable one for the personable Buckner. The success the Tigers are now enjoying makes it that much sweeter when he is in Clemson or Arizona. “Dabo and his entire staff deserve so much credit,” said Buckner. “I see it each year when preparing for the draft. Clemson is preparing players for the next level. Any time you turn on the TV or radio, people are talking about Clemson. With the way they are winning games and recruiting, it is going to continue. “When I was in Clemson this summer, I was joking with coach Swinney and coach Woody McCorvey. I told them after the new football operations building is complete, the only thing left will be to add seats above the Hill. “I can’t wait to see what is next!”

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2006 Season

BY SANFORD ROGERS

THE 2006 TIGERS RECORDED ONE OF THE PROGRAM’S BIGGEST ROAD VICTORIES IN HISTORY.

n Sept. 16, 2006, some 3,654 days ago, Clemson’s Thomas Hunter heard the most wonderful sound...silence. No “War Chant.” No Seminole fight song. No hoof beats from Renegade. No spear throwing from Chief Osceola. That was the result of a 27-20 last-second win at No. 9 Florida State. With members of the 2006 team back in Clemson for their 10-year reunion this afternoon, the game at Florida State will certainly be one that is retold more than once. A win that earned a tombstone just outside the indoor practice facility will always be a reminder of a landmark win on a late night in steamy Tallahassee. Hunter started his career as a walk-on and later earned both a scholarship and starting spot at tight end for two of the biggest plays that would determine the first Tiger win in Tallahassee since 1989. In what had been a back-and-forth contest, Clemson and Florida State were tied 20-20 with just 1:00 left. On a firstdown play from near midfield, Clemson went on a quick count that had the Seminoles shifting all over the field. The end result was a 47-yard run by James Davis that put Clemson close to the goal line. Then on third down from the one, Davis followed both Alex Pearson and Hunter into the endzone for a win that is still remembered by Hunter, his teammates and all Tiger fans.

Hunter, now an administrator at McLeod Health in Florence, S.C., can remember both key plays on that drive like they happened yesterday. “Rob Spence (then Clemson offensive coordinator) had the perfect playcall on the first-down run that James Davis had for 47 yards,” said Hunter. “On film, our coaches had noticed they were slow getting their calls in and having their defense set. When Will Proctor got the snap, they were still looking to their sideline. James was in the secondary going down the sidelines before they knew what was going on.” The third-down scoring call was also one that is still fresh in Hunter’s mind. “It was third down and we were coming out of a timeout,” said Hunter. “As we were in the huddle, I told James to follow me and Alex Pearson. I told him he was going to score and we’re going back to Clemson happy.” Brad Scott, who was the offensive line coach in 2006, knows how difficult it is for an opponent to win in Tallahassee. Scott was the offensive coordinator for Bobby Bowden from 1990-93. In 1993, the Seminoles won a national title. “Winning in Tallahassee for an opponent is not an easy thing to do, just as it is here at Clemson,” said Scott. “The win that night meant a lot to so many Clemson people. I remember how happy that locker room was.”

THOMAS HUNTER PAVED THE WAY FOR JAMES DAVIS’ GAME-WINNING TOUCHDOWN IN CLEMSON’S 27-20 WIN AT FLORIDA STATE IN 2006.

Later in the year, Hunter and his teammates were a part of another first for Clemson. The win in Tallahassee propelled the Tigers to four consecutive wins leading up a top-15 showdown with Georgia Tech. Clemson was ranked No. 12 going into the contest, while the Yellow Jackets were No. 13. A game of this magnitude was big. But on the Sun-

THE 2006 TEAM IS THE ONLY ONE TO BEAT FLORIDA STATE IN TALLAHASSEE SINCE IT JOINED THE ACC IN 1992.

day morning prior to the game, it grew in stature, as ESPN announced College GameDay would make its first-ever trip to Clemson. Hunter and the other members of the team did not take part in all the activity on campus that Saturday morning, when 7,000 Tiger fans flooded sun-splashed Bowman Field for the largest on-campus ESPN College GameDay crowd at that point. When Lee Corso donned the Tiger headgear for his pick, Hunter and his teammates were going into meetings. “I remember how much excitement there was on campus for the 8 p.m., kickoff,” recalled Hunter. “We wore all purple and it was a night game. That and having GameDay really had the crowd as loud as I had ever heard it. “That night was a coming-out party for ‘Thunder’ (James Davis, who had 216 rushing yards) and ‘Lightning’ (C.J. Spiller, who had 116 rushing yards). Clemson was the center of the college football world that night.” On October 29, there is a good chance Hunter and several other members of the 2006 team will be in the stands at Doak Campbell Stadium when Clemson and Florida State battle in a game with both conference and national implications. Some 10 years later, all will be hoping for the same sound of silence.

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ne of head coach Dabo Swinney’s famous mantras is to “bloom where you’re planted.” Director of football strength & conditioning Joey Batson is arguably the best embodiment of this particular saying on Swinney’s staff. Now in his 20th season as Clemson’s director, Batson has worked under Tommy West, Tommy Bowden and now Swinney. After serving for years as Gary Wade’s top assistant, he assumed the head position in 1997 and continues to have a positive effect on what has grown into one of college football’s top programs. “I was trained very well when I was a graduate assistant, and I had an opportunity early as the head strength coach,” he said. “When I first got into it, workouts were slow and methodical. Now we train at a much faster pace.” Every player in Batson’s program runs through a battery of tests and functional assessments, and then begins from the ground up. His vision as director is to build the most explosive, powerful, strongest, fastest and best-conditioned football team in the country, one day at a time. To do that, he leans on a staff that includes three full-time assistants, Larry Greenlee, Paul Hogan and Adam Smotherman. The football strength training department also has one graduate assistant, Drew McDuffie, as well as five student administrative assistants. “Larry is in charge of our speed development, and he’s invaluable to me as a friend and administrator. Paul works with offensive linemen and tight ends, and he coordinates our Catapult (player movement) system. Adam works with our defensive linemen and specialists. “Drew recently received his certification and knows what we want. Then, the administrative assistants are our ‘roadies’ because they are in charge of setup, tearing it down and cleaning. Everyone brings great knowledge, and as a staff, we try to stay out front in our industry.” Batson has seen two head coaching changes in his 19 years leading Clemson’s efforts in the weight room. When Bowden stepped down and Swinney was named interim head coach in 2008, he said the buy-in process was an easy one. “I sat beside Dabo in staff meetings for years. One day he’s to my left, and the next he’s at the head of the table. He gave me the opportunity to continue working in our program, and that was an easy decision for me. I knew what kind of man he was and the vision he had for this program.” Swinney’s family-first approach has pervaded the staff, Batson included. His oldest son, Michael, is a punter for the Tigers. After Michael walked on to the team in 2015, Batson’s wife, Susan, decided last Christmas to frame every family picture that had been taken at Howard’s Rock over the years. “She framed every picture together, from the time we were holding both of our boys (Michael, Ben) until now,” smiled Batson. “Our kids have grown up here, so they don’t know anything else. Clemson has been very special to me. We’ll definitely be Tigers for life.” Both of Batson’s sons play football (Ben is a junior quarterback at Daniel High School), and he makes sure to offer words of wisdom he has learned from a long career that planted him in Clemson over 20 years ago. “I tell them to compete every day,” he added. “There’s a bunch of folks knocking on the door that would love to be at Clemson. Every day I go to work, I’m fighting for my job. The day I’m not willing to compete is the day they find someone else. It’s a lesson you can take from high school and college football into life, because it’s about being the best you can be and finding that ultimate balance.”

BEHIND THE SCENES WITH

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TIGER FOOTBALL’S DIRECTOR OF STRENGTH & CONDITIONING IS IN HIS 20TH YEAR WITH THE PROGRAM.

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EVA HESTER MARTIN THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF TODAY’S SPECIAL GUEST, WHO HAS TIES TO CLEMSON AND SC STATE. BY RHONDDA THOMAS

va Hester Martin, 90 years young, is a direct descendant of Sharper and Caroline and their daughter Matilda, who labored as slaves on the Fort Hill Plantation owned by John C. and Floride Calhoun, and later Anna Calhoun and Thomas Green Clemson, upon which Clemson University is built. It is not known how long Sharper and his family labored at Fort Hill. However, he was sent to serve as an enslaved laborer for the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Near the end of the war, his wife and children were loaded onto wagons and taken to Abbeville County, where Sharper later joined them and they continued to live after emancipation. Sharper eventually chose the surname “Brown” for his family, unlike many other former slaves from the Fort Hill Plantation who adopted the Calhoun name. His daughter, Matilda, was about

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eight years old when she was liberated, and later recalled the time, “when freedom come.” Matilda, who was affectionately called “Mama Tildy,” grew up in the Calhoun Falls, S.C., area. She and Billy Williams had a daughter named Anna, who was raised by her grandparents, Sharper and Caroline. During her teenage years, Anna worked on a local farm owned by the Hester family. It was there that Anna met Thomas Joshua Hester, who operated a ferry large enough to carry two wagons and mules plus passengers between South Carolina and Georgia, and she later became his common-law wife at the age of 16, as interracial marriage was illegal in the state at the time. In 1926, Anna and Thomas’ 10th and youngest child, Eva Hester, was born. While growing up, Eva would sometimes catch a ride with the mailman from her home in Calhoun Falls to

visit family members in Anderson, S.C., for 50 cents roundtrip. The postman tied a canvas bag full of mail on the front fender of his car and offered rides inside to passengers. Eva attended elementary school in Calhoun Falls, skipping third and seventh grades, and then boarded with a family in Anderson while completing high school, graduating in 1945. In the fall of that year, she enrolled at SC State, where she majored in chemistry and became a member of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority.

After finishing two years of coursework, Eva relocated to Chicago to complete training as a medical technologist at Michael Reese Hospital. She also reunited with her high school sweetheart, John Martin, a veteran of the Army Air Corps, a support service for the Air Force. In 1948, Eva and John were married in Chicago, where two of their children, John Farrell and Valerie Ann, were born. The Martins eventually moved to California to be near one of Eva’s sisters and to seek more lucrative employment opportunities. Their younger two children, James Darryl and Carol Yvette, were born there. Eva also completed her bachelor’s degree in public service management at Redlands University and coursework for a master’s degree in medical technology at Cal State Dominguez Hills. In 1986, the Martins retired and relocated to Greenville, where they lived for 30 years. Eva and John Martin, who have been married for 68 years, recently moved to Decatur, Ga., to be near their oldest daughter and other family members. They have five grandchildren and three great grandchildren. In April, Eva and her family were Clemson’s special guests at the groundbreaking ceremony for the installation of the historical marker located near the site of the Fort Hill Plantation slave quarters that were situated near Lee Hall and the stockade near the Strom Thurmond Institute that was erected for the predominately African-American convict labor crew that helped build Clemson’s earliest buildings. Today, Eva Hester Martin has the honor of “dotting the i” during the pregame ceremonies. It will be proud moment for Eva.

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