Tudor's Take: Who's next at Clemson?

Good with the spread option and a respectable staff organizer, he’s stayed true to the Bulls during the past two or three seasons. But with QB Matt Grothe likely to enter the April NFL draft, the timing (and money) could be right for Leavitt to make a move.

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what about ellis johnson..the D coordinator at South carolina. South Carolina is his home state..so it wouldn't be much of a relocation from columbia. It's not like he has allegiance to USC yet, he's only been there this year..which by the way he has one of the top Defenses in the nation and does have head coaching experience at the Citadel..and had a fairly decent tenure there..and face it, if you can win at the Citadel, you can win anywhere. I heard Kevin Higgins was an option..Citadel's head coach now who came from the Detroit Lions and before that some school in the patriot league.

HAHAHAHA... first of all, no offense, but this is the WORST short list I've EVER seen. My fiance who knows NOTHING about football has more or less put a better one together... sorry.

As for the 'money or prestige' argument... I don't know what planet you are living on but I can ASSURE you that Clemson has plenty of money to pay whoever they want and they certainly have the prestige.

There is no other small town in America that puts out support like Clemson does... SHOW ME ONE, I DARE YOU.

Try this on for size... with an enrollment of about 14,000 students Clemson brought the LARGEST crowd EVER to College Gameday. The town has a population of roughly 15,000 w/o students. Come on, if you can't say that's amazing you need to bolt yourself to some railroad tracks.

Have you heard of Howard's Rock or The Hill? How about the 126 decibel game in 2005? How about the Kirk Herbstreit comments on gameday that said its "the greatest tradition in college football"!!!!!!!!

Prestige??? huh.... I'm done ranting.

Larry Coker is out of a job. Why wasn't his name mentioned?

I think Bowden lost his team. With him gone now, I believe you'll see a stronger, crisper effort for the rest of the season. A "circle-the-wagons" mentality, if you will.

That being said, Clemson needs someone who can bring about a sense of toughness in the program. For all the talent they have, the Tigers are viewed as a soft bunch, and they have been labeled that for most of the Bowden era. As the player from Maryland said after the game a few weeks back, "We knew if we punched them in the mouth, we'd win the game."

Clemson will be attractive to many coaching candidates. There is a strong talent base in place for the incoming coach. Also, the facilities and fan base are more akin to SEC schools. I'm not saying that some big-name, all-world coach (Cowher, etc.) will head to the Upstate, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did happen.

Finally, in his preseason synopsis, Giglio said that Clemson would have to "beat themselves, I mean literally throw games" to not win the ACC. You think this is what he had in mind?

WOW, I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW CLEMSON HAS A FOOTBALL TEAM. ARE Y'ALL SURE ABOUT THIS? BECAUSE I DON'T THINK JUNIOR COLLEGES HAVE DIV-I FOOTBALL PROGRAMS.

of why you're such an idiot. Hmm... there are so many holes in this Triangle-centric gasp of a column that it's hard to know where to begin... First, let me say that you provide an excellent example of why you appear to do nothing more than skim through the highlights of Triangle specific topics while formulating your columns & articles. That's a pitifully weak approach towards your career responsibilities, but one you seem to have enjoyed for decades now... Let's start with the low-hanging fruit... Jim Grobe moves to Clempsun... Jim Grobe is ALREADY an ACC coach, at a school with a much higher academic standard than Clempsun - which actually matters to people intelligent enough to move beyond the globe of sports- so WHY would he take a lateral transfer, at best, if not a slight downgrade in stature, to go to Clempsun? Bobby Johnson at Vanderbilt... Why would he be willing, especially at this time when he's made Vandy, for goodness' sake, a contender, to actually take a step DOWN from a mid-level SEC player to a mid-level ACC player? What? Because Clempsun cheats & sells their soul for football success? THAT is supposed to be what sells Bobby Johnson on adandoning his ideals & morals? Tommy Tuberville - Auburn... How stupid are you, Caulton? You are nothing if not an idiot with ZERO brain transmissions if you think that Tuberville will abandon a Top 4-5 SEC school for a perennially under-performing ACC school with funding problems. I can't even begin to discuss why this is so stupid of an idea that you should be censored as a 'journalist' - notice the quotes, for irony - when you portray this as anything but a moron's concept of reality... Yeah, Tuberville will take a paycut to go from the most competitive conference in college football history to be a mid-level coach at a school that is GUARANTEED to underperform to their fan base's expectations, all the while making about a HALF MILLION DOLLARS LESS than if he'd stayed at the superior school. Mack Brown - Texas... One of the coaches at a perennial Top Ten school for as long as the history of the college football polls have been given. A coach at a school that worships football so much that it is a part of the economic culture in the state - which happens to be about four times as big as SC, if not more - but is also so, SOOO much more ingrained to the culture than even in SC. A coach who has won a national championship at this superior school. A coach who realized how the ACC was biased, and chose to leave. A coach at a school that has a history of being in the Top Ten annually for as long as the history of college football has been played. Yeah, that guy is going to want to come to Clempsun, because he likes the leaves changing in mid-October in the Appalachian mountains. Hey, maybe Bill Gates will relocate Microsoft to Greenville, SC while he's at it, right? I won't even bother with the rest of the foundation for Tudor's stupidity. If he had even obsessed wrongly over how Jerry Moore might come to Clempsun, I'd have forgiven him. Instead, he skipped along a fairy trail that had no connection to reality in even its' most basic sense... I could go on shoving Caulton's idiotic ramblings back down his throat showing how stupidly moronic this post was, but then, his sycophants still wouldn't get it, and HE still wouldn't get it. Unless he realizes that he's just filling column space until he takes a forced retirement from the news conglomerate which owns the N&Blow. Yeah, CT, go on bloviating, you provide pathetic amusement to us.. What... An... Idiot... CT is... Some things change with the seasons or the years. One thing that never does... is Caulton Tudor's lack of perspective...

I know he's new @ GT, but HE IS the right guy, so it would be a good idea to try. Butch Davis too. Clemson is an SEC-type school (as far as tradition and fans go) playing in the ACC. GT and UNC are nowhere near as attractive as Clemson.

Worth a try.

This article is hilarious! Obviously no research was really done for it because Matt Grothe is not leaving for the draft and every year we hear that some school is trying to pry Leavitt away from USF. It seems like you took a bagful of great and upcoming coaches and pulled them out Scrabble-style.

Clemson Fans and admin. are spoiled and unrealistic. They fired Ken Hatfield after an 8-3 season. They fired Tommy West after a 7-4 season. Media types like Tudor only fuel those unrealistic attitudes. Why do you promote firing Bowden when the season is only half over? Reasonable observers would reserve judgement until the season is over. Jim Grobe, Mack Brown, and Bill Cowher would not take the Clemson job. The others on your list would not constitute an upgrade, so why not keep Bowden?

Moving from Vanderbilt or Wake Forest is a lateral move? Obviously you havent been to many stadiums in the past ummmm, decade! Players, coaches, fans and broadcasters know that when you come to death valley, you better be prepared to come to play and come prepared to have alot of crowd noise. Any coach, including the heralded Mack Brown, would love to come to Clemson and coach because they know what kind of talent they could draw to that university. Clemson may be down right now, but I definitely would not count them out to be able to draw a good coach. South Carolina may expect only 6-8 wins a year, but the fans and the university do no expect that from Clemson nor will they stand for it.

Try Will Muschamp.

My votes would be for Holtz,Leach or Cowher...but one never knows for sure until the offers are made...how about we finish the season first...

Don't see why anybody else on your list would want this underachievin' bunch.

Are you kidding about Mack Brown?
You think he is going to leave a history-laden top five program in the nation that routinely produces the best talent pool?