Danny Ford for Governor

Its pretty obvious our current one is a dumbass, so lets get one who will inspire fear to all those entering the state, lets vote for Danny Ford.

Its about time we had another beer-chugging, chaw-spewing Governor. I dont care if he's a republican or a democrat, I know he's not stupid.

He even looks the part when he wants to...


News and links...
Strelow ranks the ACC QBs and its hard to really argue with most of it after the first 2, just based on performance last year. I'd move Ponder up to 4 or 5 though, and I suspect he's going to have a season on par with Danny Kannell's in Tallahassee after another year of Jimbo Fisher's tutelage. Its possible that T. Lewis will do much better for Puke, but they still dont have enough weapons to get past a low-tier bowl game.

Will Korn spoke with Heather Dinich about his hiring of QB coach Jerry Rhome to improve his throwing motion this offseason. Apparently Rhome thinks he has improved:

"With NCAA rules, I couldn't work with coach Napier or any of my coaches at Clemson, so I just wanted to get an extra set of eyes on me, someone who could coach me and help me out," Korn said.

"We really didn't have to spend a whole lot of time correcting stuff when I went down there because I worked so hard on it with my dad and my dad would tape me throw so I could go back to the house and watch it and see what I need to correct," Korn said. "It improved a ton before I even got down there to work with coach Rhome. He was excited to see my release had gotten quicker and shorter and it wasn't so long and I was getting the ball out of my hands pretty quickly. It just gave me a lot of confidence for a guy with his experience and his knowledge of the game to look at me and say, 'You're throwing fine, your mechanics look good,' two weeks after the spring game. It gave me a lot of confidence."

Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports gives his ACC Preseason predictions, picking Clemson 4th, behind NC State, FSU and Wake. He picks VT to win the Coastal.

Athlon has a piece on the GT triple option to complement our last post here. As does SmartFootball. The New York Times previews Wake Forest's upcoming season here.

Remember the SC coaches saying they could inflate a guy's Rivals star rating? Well it looks like Miami was recruiting solely based on that. UNC managed to yet again clear enough scholarships to fit their bloated signing class.

Another article on what the Fridge has gone through lately, and just being a larger-than-life character in Aiken and in the minds of Clemson fans.

Did they really just do this? Les Miles Syndrome.

Please tell me crazy Jawja fan did not just compare God to Les Miles?

(Ok, I know the post is tongue-in-cheek, so here is our tongue-in-cheek response to it)

The 11th Commandment says: Thou Shalt not besmirch the name of Danny Ford. And you crazy jawja fans just did.

I recognized how analogous the two men are when Coach Miles called for the onside kick against Georgia Tech. It was wild! It was wacky! It was insane! However, it also worked, and not because of random dumb luck, either. It was a calculated gamble. Yes, it was bold, but it was also shrewd. It was the decision of a coach intelligent enough to make an accurate assessment of the odds and gutsy enough to run the risk of having the percentages play out differently.

WTF. Youre basing it off of that and the Treadwell kick? DF wouldnt do the crazy shit Les Miles does. There's a key difference between these two men: Les is stupid crazy, Danny was smart crazy. DF might not know shit about anything else, but he did know how to call a game.

We both hate Les Miles, especially as a gameday coach. The reason is that what DF did on gameday made sense, what Les does makes absofuckinglutely no sense. I've been here every year since Les came on, so I've seen all the stupidity in person. I'm going to pick a few stupid things Les did, which define the Les Miles Syndrome.

#1. The fake punt against Arizona State, in Les' first game (post-Katrina).

Lets just call a fake punt FROM DEEP IN LSU TERRITORY early in the game. Les said afterwards the punter made the call himself, horseshit Les, you fucked up and didnt want anyone to know how stupid that call was. Yeah, tell me DF would've done that. What followed was superior talent bailing Les out at the end of the game, which became his staple.

#2. The loss to Tennessee, after Rita ran through.

Leading 21-0 at halftime, and completely dominating Tenn. on a 100F monday night (where I lost at least 10 lbs.), Les decides to completely stop throwing the ball, and just runs up the middle every play for the 2nd half. Clausen, #1 asshole, flips off the student section after scoring the leading touchdown late. In what would become a hallmark of Les Miles football, he decides to start playing football again in the late 4th quarter, but makes a bunch of stupid ass playcalls and comes up short at the end. It was the most pissed off I have ever been at an LSU game.

#3. Auburn 2007, (hell the whole 2007 season) just watch the Clock. You're in FG range already, the clock is running under 15 seconds after the last play. What does DF do? He runs the clock all the way down, calls his last timeout, kicks the FG. See Treadwell.



That was the 2nd most pissed off I've ever been at an LSU game. If that pass falls incomplete, Les gets castrated on the spot by crazy-ass LSU fans and no national championship.

#4. Florida 2007. Go for 4th down 5 times and get every one. What coach in his right mind does that shit? I admit I wanted him to go for it for the ones in UF territory that were out of FG range, including the ones where you had to on the final drive. Further proof that LSU's superior talent saved Les from castration. You say: "well he's showing confidence in his team"...well that doesnt mean you test fate over and over again.



#5. The Les Miles offensive philosophy: "Run twice up the middle, get nothing, then throw a bomb" See the entire career of J. Russell. See Florida 2006.

#6. The 2008 season, the Dual-DC system. A year after all his playmakers graduated, Les decides to keep the fabulous J.Lee in each game long enough to throw enough pick-6's to lose every game. Instead of progressing after the Auburn game, he gets WORSE, as does the D. UGA-enough points on turnovers to make up the difference in score, Alabama-2 TDs in the first half because of Lee, Troy-dont get me started, Arky-WTF? Then, after the season is over, he puts in Jefferson and a gameplan, and thumps GT. Jefferson wasnt hurt all year, he could've come in, yet Les left him on the bench.

#7. Tulane 2007. LSU fucks around the entire game, then superior talent wins it at the end. Kentucky 2007, one big clusterfuck of shittyness.

Enough 2007 references? This man wins on the edge of his teeth every week. Les Miles is the LSU version of Ken Hatfield, but with a better record in big games. Les' saving grace is that if you give him a month to prepare, he will beat you, just like Ford. Les won't make it two more years at LSU.

Could DF have won all these games? There's no telling, DF's gameplan was entirely different, but he was a winner, and I'd say he'd have won a majority of them. Danny would go for a tie if he had to, to win the conference. He'd piss enough people off after he lost to be banished to the press box, but he wouldnt do stupid shit during a game that might cost his team a victory.

Breakfast with Danny Ford

Obviously both of us are huge Ford fans, as we both grew up in the '80s and can recall the days when we used to dominate people on the field. However, I had never met Coach Ford in person until a few weeks ago when my mother arranged it all as a birthday present to me.

Since I'm at LSU for most of the year, and thankfully this semester will be my last, I always have meetings arranged by family members at home with other prominent (read, rich) Clemson grads to help me find a job somewhere close to home after I finish the Ph.D., when I'm able to come home to visit between semesters. So, when my mother told me she had arranged for me to meet someone who was a Clemson grad in Anderson, who held a position above hers in her company, I wasnt surprised. I tend to find it odd that these people request to meet me sometimes, but thats another issue. (She probably brags too much)

On the 22nd, she said she was getting me up early to go meet this guy in Anderson for breakfast or lunch, and that he knew Coach Ford and that she was taking things along to give him to have Coach Ford sign for me as a gift. So, I picked up my favorite block-C hat and my game-used Clemson helmet.

The next morning when we got to Clemson, we went into Knickerbockers, Variety and Frame, and Tigersports Shop and a couple of the other stores to find something I wanted signed if he got the chance to sign them. I of course went in and looked for another block-C hat, but didnt find one of the style he used to wear (like the pic on the right), and I dont like the blue one that much (link). I have since found a good (close) imitation here.

Anyway, the only thing I picked up for him to sign there was a few tiger rags and a lithograph from Variety and Frame and went back to the car, where I saw her pick up her cell and call someone. When she said the words "Coach Ford" my jaw hit the floor.

He said to meet him over at Dyers Restaurant (a little ways from Mac's) and not a couple miles from his farm. Of course I'm flipping out at this point.

So now the back story:
My mother is a member at a driving range in Boiling Springs where the owner is friends with the director of the Spartanburg Touchdown Club, so he gave his number to her. She then called him and asked if there was any way she could set up a meeting between me and Coach Ford as a birthday gift. She had joked about this to me a couple times in the past, but I never paid her any attention.

He gave her Coach Ford's number, saying "Be sure to tell Danny that you gave me $20 for it."

Well she just called him up one day, and told him about me, and how I gave up playing football the day he was fired by Max Lennon.

When she said she gave $20 for his number, he said "you better not have, I'll kick his ass."

He said that he'd meet her one day and they'd talk about how to set the whole thing up. This was back in October, and although I did get to come home for the GT game, she couldnt arrange it for then.

But she called him again late in November, and asked if they could set it up for my birthday (end of Dec.). He said he was speaking in Union that night at the Armory and that he was on his way to Spartanburg to see his dentist. She called and tried to get a ticket, and couldnt, then called him back and he said to just follow him from the dentist's office down there and he'd get her in. She asked him which dentist, and he said, "Hell I dont know, some foreigner"...she asked him what time and he said, "I dont have an appointment, I just show up" but he did tell her where it was so she met him over there and followed him down to Union, where he pulled up at the front door onto the grass. Danny Ford don't need no damn parking spot.

When he walked in the door, that cocky arrogant attitude we all remember came back, and its a definite change from the approachable man he is otherwise.

So after the meeting she talked to him just a minute (since people hound him) and said she'd call him in a couple weeks to set it up. It turns out that he was going to get his grandkids in after Christmas, so we'd have to do it before my birthday.

Now, we're driving over to Dyers that morning, and I see this old Ford diesel with no bed sitting outside, covered in mud and thought to myself "That's gotta be his."

I walked inside and saw him surrounded, by waitresses and old folks just jabbering in his ear, and shook his hand. He didnt want breakfast at first, but after I ordered mine he piped up. He said he ate lunch there just about every day and it was usually packed. He asked me what my degree was in and figured I was a "pretty smart fella" to be getting the doctorate in this stuff.

We sat there with him for about an hour, where we talked about horses (we used to raise them), his farm, and what he thought about Dabo Swinney and the way things were going. I asked him what he thought of Dabo and he just said, "Well we'll see in a couple weeks. He's got some of my old boys on his staff now." I didnt get the sense that he felt sure about the Dabo hire, but that's just my impression, not words from his own mouth. After meeting him I can tell that he's pretty measured in what he says, since most stuff gets published (and I guess I'm doing that here, but I wouldnt post that he didnt like Dabo even if he'd said it).

She asked him about Arkansas, and he said, "...didn't have no players...but the last year (97) we played alot of freshmen who did well later" (Ford commented back in the day how shabby the program was when he came in 94). Nutt's first team in '98 won 9 games.

Of course all I wanted to ask him was about 1989 and the rumors about 1999, but I didnt muster up the courage. I figured that he didnt want to or wouldnt answer, or is just tired of hearing that stuff again and again. Most of the time with him I was just sitting there listening.

He was going to a funeral of a UGA booster that day, and I asked him "Why would a Georgia fan want you there? I figure he'd hate you," to which Ford chuckled and said, "Well he cain't now, he's dead."

After I had him sign some things, and took the pictures, he commented on my size and I told him that if that sumbitch Lennon hadn't run him off, I'd have played for him. He said, "Yeah, he was a piece of work wasnt he?"

She did ask him if he missed coaching, saying that she could still see it in him, and he just winked and looked at me, "Your mama's pretty smart."

Well I was lucky to get a good one.

Danny Ford put Clemson on the map against Nebraska

This article by Doug Nye caught our attention.

WHEN CLEMSON AND Nebraska square off in the Gator Bowl on Thursday, the game will mark the second meeting on the football field between the schools. But it will not be — as some have suggested — deja vu.

The stakes were much higher the first time the Tigers and the Cornhuskers met, in the Jan. 1, 1982, Orange Bowl. Because second-ranked Georgia and third-ranked Alabama had lost earlier in the day, the winner of the Orange Bowl would claim the national championship.

Clemson defeated Nebraska 22-15, launching an era of excellence in which the Tigers finished ranked in the top 20 in nine of the next 10 years. The accomplishment was remarkable considering no one expected the team to win its conference.

However, the Tigers rolled through their ACC slate and finished the regular season 11-0. They entered the Orange Bowl ranked No. 1 in both polls, but plenty of skeptics didn’t believe the Tigers were for real. Clemson was a 4½-point underdog to Nebraska, which started the season 1-2 but rolled over their final eight opponents.

Danny Ford, the coach of the Tigers at the time, wasn’t surprised his team hadn’t earned the oddsmakers’ respect.

“A lot of people didn’t even know where Clemson was,” Ford said earlier this month after spending several hours riding a tractor on his 170-acre farm in Pendleton. “Some people thought we were in Georgia or North Carolina or somewhere else.”

That the Tigers had made 10 previous bowl appearances, including a 17-15 victory against Ohio State in the 1978 Gator Bowl, had done little to educate many of the nation’s geography-challenged football fans and sportswriters. During NBC’s telecast of the game, analyst John Brodie, with the help of play-by-play announcer Don Criqui, held up a map to show the audience where Clemson is located.

“Where is Clemson?” Brodie said, and then added with a grin, “I can tell you that a lot of NFL scouts know where Clemson is.”

Ford chuckled at that.

“I kind of like to think that what we did help put Clemson on the map for some people,” he said.

Ford would be the first to tell you the thought of a national championship never entered his mind when the team gathered in August for preseason drills.

“We just wanted to try and win the Atlantic Coast Conference,” he said. “Clemson had won maybe one conference championship in the past 12 years or so. I knew that’s what the Clemson people wanted.”

The Tigers didn’t impress anyone when they had to come from behind to beat Wofford in the opener and defeated Tulane 13-5. Pollsters took notice the following week when Clemson downed Georgia and Herschel Walker 13-3.

“That’s when I thought we might have a pretty good team,” Ford said.

The Tigers continued to roll and were undefeated when they faced rival South Carolina in Columbia. Ford, ever the worrier, was concerned about the Gamecocks.

“They had some pretty good players,” Ford said. “The more time has passed, the more I appreciate what (coaches) Jim Carlen and Joe Morrison were able to do down there (at USC).”

Ford’s fear seemed justified when the Gamecocks took a 7-0 lead. Minutes later, however, Clemson’s Rod McSwain blocked a USC punt and teammate Johnny Rembert recovered in the end zone. After that, it was all Tigers as they closed the regular season with a 29-13 victory.

Next stop: Orange Bowl.

TIGHT FIRST HALF

The Tigers’ march to Florida was something of a surreal experience for me. As a kid, I watched Clemson play Colorado in the Orange Bowl on television on Jan. 1, 1957. Twenty-five later, I was in Miami sitting in the press box covering the game for The Columbia Record, which was the city’s afternoon newspaper at the time.

I tried to drink in the sights and sounds. It was truly an Orange Bowl because thousands of orange-clad Tiger fans sat in the stadium.

“It was an awesome setting,” said Perry Tuttle, Clemson’s star wide receiver. “I remember it was hot and it was loud. And we were playing Nebraska with all that great tradition.

“I know a lot of people didn’t give us a chance. I really thought we could win because, with all due respect to (Nebraska) coach (Tom) Osborne, I thought we had a better coaching staff.”

Clemson, decked out in all orange, went up 3-0 on a 39-yard field goal by Donald Igwebuike. Minutes later, Nebraska’s Mike Rozier tossed a 25-yard halfback pass to Anthony Steels for a touchdown to put the Cornhuskers up 7-3. Igwebuike added a field goal at the end of the first quarter to make it 7-6.

“They kind of fooled us with that halfback pass, but I thought we held them pretty good the rest of the way,” Ford said.

Clemson took a 12-7 lead into halftime after Cliff Austin scored on a 2-yard run. That was hardly a comfortable lead.

Jim Phillips knew. Up in the press box, the late Tigers radio play-by-play announcer, paced nervously. What made it doubly tough for Phillips was that he could not call the game because the Orange Bowl had its own national radio network.

“This is insane,” Phillips said as he sat down and then got back up again. “I should be on the radio right now.”

Phillips was better off than Tim Bourret, Clemson’s assistant sports information director at the time.

“I wasn’t even at the Orange Bowl,” said Bourret who is now the Tigers’ SID. “Clemson had a basketball game that night, and that’s where I was. I was constantly trying to get updates from Miami.”

A TITLE ... AND A MAGAZINE COVER

Tuttle felt good about the game as the Tigers took the field for the second half.

“We had some really good players,” said Tuttle, reeling off the names of defensive back Terry Kinard, linebacker Jeff Davis, defensive end Bill Smith, quarterback Homer Jordan and others.

“Of course, we had the ‘Fridge’(freshman William Perry),” Tuttle said with a laugh. “He was pig-headed and didn’t know any better, didn’t know we weren’t suppose to win.”

The 295-pound Perry played middle guard and spent much of the night squaring off with Nebraska All-American 283-pound center Dave Rimington. Perry more than held his own.

In the third quarter, Jordan directed the Tigers on a 75-yard, 12-play drive that culminated with a 13-yard touchdown pass to Tuttle. The extra point and another field goal by Igwebuike gave Clemson a 22-7 advantage as the final quarter began.That’s when Nebraska put together its best drive of the game, which concluded with Roger Craig thundering around left end on a 26-yard scoring run. The two-point conversion made it 22-15 with nine minutes to play. When Clemson got the ball back, Ford had Jordan try to move the team by passing. It didn’t work, and the Tigers had to punt.

“Homer had been running the ball good all night, so I had him passing there,” Ford said. “That was pretty stupid of me.”

With Nebraska hoping to move in for the kill, the Clemson defense rose. Tackle Jeff Bryant, end Andy Headen and Perry each made individual plays, forcing the Cornhuskers to give up the ball.

The clock showed 5:24 when the Tigers took over. This time, Ford played it smart; Jordan stuck to the running game and the Tigers ran out clock. The noise already was deafening in the Orange Bowl, but once the final second ticked off, a mammoth roar rocked the stadium.

Clemson players jumped around, hugged one another and gave a salute to their fans.

In the locker room afterward, Ford managed a slight smile.

“It was sort of relief, but it was fun when you look back on it,” Ford said. Asked when he thought the Tigers had a chance to win the national championship, Ford quickly replied, “When the game was over.”

Ford paused a moment and added: “I’ll tell you something; (what) I really remember about that night is how classy coach Osborne and the Nebraska team were. It was a clean, well-played football game.

“Oh, Perry and Rimington might have had a few words with each other, but it was mostly two teams playing football in a good, hard way. Nebraska showed class before and after the game. I’ll never forget that.”

When the next issue of Sports Illustrated hit the stands, there was Tuttle on the cover, arms in the air, celebrating what turned out to be the winning touchdown. Next to him were the words, “No. 1: Orange Bowl Hero Perry Tuttle of Clemson.”

Everyone knew who Clemson was then.

Clemson's NCAA Infractions and the truth about Ford-1982.

I will first preface this post by saying that nobody worships Danny Ford more than myself, in my mind he remains on a pedestal no matter what he does. I just think some people should take a long realistic view of what happened in 1982.

I'm doing this post as a clarification of the record for Clemson fans who grew up in the 90s and who continue to spew nonsense about our violations in the 80s that they hear from cockfans and other stupid people. If you want to know, you'll read. If you were there and can give me proof otherwise or as clarification of some points, I welcome your post and will edit accordingly.

We fully deserved the punishment handed out by the NCAA. As to whether we actually shouldve gotten the extra year of penalties from the ACC, I dont know. I think that was bitch move.

However, if it was a "bought and paid for championship," as you would hear from detractors and especially Sakerlina fans, then Clemson certainly didn't get its money's worth.

There were two prospects at the heart of the 1982 scandal, James Cofer and Terry Minor. These two guys never enrolled at Clemson. Neither even got into a Div 1 program. We wouldve never heard of them had they not taken gifts, signed with CU, and then try to back out to sign with Tennessee.

In 1980, they were two prep football stars in Knoxville who were allegedly offered cash, cars and other gifts by an overzealous Clemson booster (Buck Breazeale) who lived in the Knoxville area, as well as by Clemson recruiters. One of whom we know was Billy Ware, former letterman under Frank Howard who was a defensive coach on the Clemson staff before moving into the Athletic Department. The other was Willie Anderson, who got Oklahoma State put on probation 10 years later.

They also include the "gave a prospective student-athlete a T-shirt/hat/cheeseburger/ride down the street" crap.

Taken as a whole, it's damning, but does it add up to a "bought and paid for championship"? Not even close, especially considering that most of the really bad violations seem to have taken place prior to 1980. Pell departed in 1978 for Florida, another school he led to NCAA sanctions, so it's unclear if the contact with Cofer and Minor began then, when the players were likely sophomores in high school, or later.

In December 1981, with the Tigers ranked No. 1 in the country and prepping for the Orange Bowl game that would give the school its first national championship, Cofer and Minor, with the help of John Mark Hancock, a lawyer who happens to be a UT Booster seeking a $12 million sum from Clemson.

(another TIME article is here)

The suit was filed after the NCAA had been sniffing around Tigertown; this story, dated Nov. 10, 1982, says the ACC had just wrapped up an 18-month probe, which means it would have begun around May 1981, a few months after Cofer and Minor had committed to Clemson. Nonetheless, the timing of the $12 million lawsuit was interesting, nearly one year before NCAA penalties came down.

The lawsuit was dismissed. and Cofer and Minor, viewed as damaged goods by Tennessee and the SEC, ended up much further down the ladder, at some 1-AA school.

The infractions Clemson was found guilty of were awful; the athletic department fully deserved the punishment it received, which included steep reductions in scholarships (from 30 to 20) and a ban on TV appearances and postseason bowls for two years.

But if you read the summary (linked below and analyzed to an extent) of the infractions and penalties, you'll see that it does not include forfeiture of any games from 1981. Had these two players actually taken the field, it may not have been the case.

There is no proof that players who may have been given favors or cash were in any way responsible for the Tigers' success in 1981. If there's any out there, please post the link or a source of some kind. Cofer and Minor are the most obvious examples of that and they never even enrolled in Clemson.

Clemson boosters and 2 assistant coaches did do things to convince players to sign, then apparently got "turned in" to the NCAA because they may have out-sleazed another school's alumni and coaches. Many of our problems were recruiting-related. All rumor points to Monte Kiffin, then head coach of NC State (1980-1982), and current DC of the Tampa Bay Buccanneers. This is, of course, similar to the rumor of Phil Fulmer ratting out Alabama....in neither case will we ever truly know. We do know that at that time Clemson pretty much owned NC and SC in recruiting.

The full infraction report from 1982.

Was the probation of 1982 Danny Ford's fault? If so, how much?

The answer is yes, I think its reasonable to put some blame on Danny Ford. Contrary to my own prior beliefs, the major infractions did not all occur under Charley Pell. In fact, a majority of them occured under the early part of Ford's tenure. A large majority were actually perpetrated by Boosters around the program, particularly cash payouts, rides, meals and free gifts of some sort (T-shirts, hats, shoes, etc.). In some cases, the assistant coaches provided their cars for transportation to or from summer camps and recruiting visits.

I'm going to go through the report of 1982 and 1989 separately, beginning with 1982 in this post.

1982: Two assistant coaches that were on the DF staff were named in the 1982 report and put on probation themselves. One was Billy Ware that I can confirm, the other Willie Anderson. At least 4 Boosters were also indicted, one was TN booster Tom "Buck" Breazeale who owns a State Farm Agency, and is a large WEZ donor now who lives in Clemson on the Lake (he's now retired). I am unable to find proof of the names of these people beyond those three. Danny Ford was named twice in the report, but he himself was not put on a probation by the NCAA.

I'm now going to list the infractions that occured directly under Ford, starting from 1979. The biggest violations are the first few, and while some did occur in the 77-78 seasons, the same violations did occur in 1979-1982. Most of which involve the two players, Cofer and Minor, from 1980. I'm separating the infractions by coaches from those by Boosters. Some occured by former assistant coaches, I take this to be either people who were not on the staff in 1982 during the investigation, or coaches who were at Clemson with Pell and left with him or left period (or fired), but had Clemson's interests in their minds.

-During 1980-81, representatives of the university's athletic interests directly assisted a prospective student-athlete and his family in paying four telephone bills.

- a former assistant football coach and a representative of the university's athletic interests offered to provide the mother of a prospective student-athlete transportation to attend the university's football games during her son's enrollment.

Representatives of the athletics interests seems to be the terminology for Boosters in legal parlance, although it could also imply members of the athletic department not on the actual coaching staff. From now on i'll substitute 'booster' for this term. Prospective student-athlete=recruit.

-In December 1979, an assistant football coach provided a recruit local automobile transportation, a meal and made remarks that were reasonably interpreted by the young man to be an offer of an automobile, clothing and cash.

Giving a ride to a recruit anywhere, even from his HS to home, is a violation. This is one that has occurred at Clemson and SC in recent memory.

-During the 1980-81 academic year, a former assistant football coach and a booster gave two recruits cash on numerous occasions.

- In February 1981, the head football coach offered to help find a job for a recruit's mother.

This is the first instance of direct accusation of Danny Ford.

-In the spring and summer of 1979, a former assistant football coach arranged for a recruit to receive medical examinations and treatment for an ankle injury at no cost to the young man.

Horrid. He could've been from a poor family and unable to pay for adequate care.


-During January or February 1981, a former assistant football coach mailed a pair of basketball shoes to two recruits.

- During the 1978-79 academic year, a former assistant football coach gave a recruit cash to pay the necessary fee to take a college entrance examination

- In November 1980, an assistant football coach provided a recruit several articles of clothing at no cost to the young man.

- In the fall of 1979, a former assistant football coach gave a white sport shirt to a prospective student-athlete, and numerous recruits have been provided T-shirts, football jerseys or souvenir photographs during visits to the university's campus.

-April 1980, the head football coach, director of athletics and dean of student affairs arranged for the university to pay the cost of a dental bill on behalf of a student-athlete.

Again, horrid. This is the only other mention of Danny Ford directly.

-In the fall of 1981 and again in late February 1982, an assistant football coach telephoned the father of a recruit, which were reasonably interpreted a being request to provide the NCAA false information concerning his son's recruitment by the university.

Somebody lied and tried to cover it up by getting the father to lie to the NCAA.

-In the fall of the 1980-81 academic year, an assistant football coach provided a recruit's father round-trip automobile transportation between his home and the university at the time he accompanied his son on an official paid visit to the university; further, the coach filed a false mileage reimbursement receipt with the university concerning this transportation.

I believe this is stupid, the University can only pay for the recruit on the stay, not the parents who accompany him.

-November 1980, an assistant football coach gave cash to a recruit during his official paid visit to the university for entertainment purposes and later filed a false expense report with the university regarding a meal provided to the young man during this visit.

It couldve been something as simple as the recruit didnt want to eat the supplied food for the official visit, and wanted to go out to a bar instead.

In spring of '79, an assistant football coach contacted a recruit for recruiting purposes at the young man's high school outside the permissible period for in-person recruiting contacts. Again it happened in 1980 several times and in Sept. 1981.

Happens quite often still today.

- During his employment in the university's summer football camp in 1980, an assistant football coach provided local automobile transportation and a meal to approximately 10 recruits; further, following the camp, the coach arranged for two student-athletes to utilize his automobile to travel home for a visit while also providing five recruits transportation home.

Nevermind that they may have lived within 5 miles of his home, or whether the ride provided to the 10 recruits was to or from the meal halls. And it gets sillier...

-In the fall of 1979, an assistant football coach provided round-trip automobile transportation for a friend of a recruit to accompany the prospect on his official paid visit to the university.

WTF.

-In the summer of 1981, an assistant football coach and a high school coach arranged for a recruit to be provided automobile transportation to attend the university's summer football camp.

- In the fall of 1979, a recruit was timed running the 40-yard dash by a former assistant football coach.

Good Lord.

-In December 1978, a former assistant football coach arranged for a recruit to be employed by a booster prior to the completion of the young man's senior year in high school.

Likely someone who left with Pell.

During the 1980-81 and 1981-82 academic years, the university's football coaching staff entertained prospective and enrolled student-athletes off campus at a restaurant located outside of Clemson, South Carolina.

Oh dear! the coaches took the team out to eat with their recruits on official visits! Nevermind that if they have it on campus, paid by the University, its not a violation of the NCAA rule.

-In July 1980, an assistant football coach gave cash to a high school assistant football coach to reimburse the coach for expenses incurred while transporting two recruits to the university's summer football camp.

I dont really see the problem with some of these things.

- In January 1981, an assistant football coach permitted a student-athlete to use his automobile to transport a recruit during his official paid visit to the university.

This continues to happen everywhere. A recruit is assigned a host, and if he has no car of his own, he must borrow one.

- In December 1980, a former assistant football coach permitted two recruits to use his personal automobile during their official paid visits to the university

They likely were flown in and had no car of their own.
-In November 1979, an assistant football coach provided his automobile to a student hostess in order to transport a recruit during his official paid visit.
-During the 1980-81 academic year, individuals who were not enrolled in the university served as hosts for recruits on their official paid visits to the university.

-During the 1980-81 academic year, a recruit was provided four official paid visits to the university's campus.

-In July 1980, two recruits attended the university's summer football camp for one day at no cost to either young man.

Oh no, they got one free day. This continues to happen at many schools' summer camps.

-During the 1980-81 academic year, one recruit was provided two official paid visits to the university's campus, another was provided three visits and a third was provided two visits.

Booster violations.
-In January 1981, a booster offered to provide a recruit the use of an automobile, and transportation home during his attendance at the university; further, the booster provided local transportation and a meal to the prospect on this occasion.

I'll give you a hypothetical. You're a recruit, you have a friend of the family who is in IPTAY. You live a couple hundred miles from Clemson, and he offers you a ride home every once in a while, while you are at Clemson since he would be coming or going himself. And, at least once, he offered to pay for your McDonald's meal.

-In December 1980, a booster gave a recruit a substantial amount of cash in return for his signature on a letter of intent, as well as several other gifts.

-In December 1980, a booster arranged for a substantial amount of cash to be given to a recruit and provided the young man and his mother other gifts.

-A booster paid the cost of numerous long-distant telephone calls made by two recruits during December 1980.

-During December l980, a booster gave the friend of two recruits a briefcase.
The FRIEND of two recruits? a fucking briefcase?

- In January or February 1981, a booster employed a recruit's mother and his sister for one day.

Make no mention as to whether said booster figured out he fucked up and let them go.

-In January 1982, a booster cosigned a promissory note to arrange a loan for a student-athlete to finance the purchase of an automobile.

I should mention that if a family member is a booster, then they are permitted to cosign for you as a student-athlete.

-In September 1980, following one of the university's football games, a booster gave a student-athlete cash.
-On three separate occasions during the fall of the 1979-80 academic year, boosters gave a student-athlete cash as a reward for being selected "special team player of the week."

-In December 1980, a booster paid the costs for a recruit to be lodged for three nights at a motel and provided the young man cash, two meals and the use of a rental automobile.

- On three occasions during the 1980-81 academic year, a booster entertained a recruit for a meal.

- During the 1980-81 academic year, four recruits were provided improper automobile transportation by boosters.

-In October 1980, a booster gave a student hostess cash for her gasoline expenses to transport a recruit from his home to the university's campus.

Now this one really is stupid. A booster repaid a broke college girl for gas.

- In the summer of 1980, two recruits were employed by a booster in order to assist the young men in paying the costs to attend the Clemson football camp.

So he gave them a job so they could pay Clemson to attend?

Now, onto 1989...