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Tigers talk about Saturday scrimmage

April 2, 2011 By

Swinney was happy with Saturday's scrimmage

Clemson staged a spring scrimmage Saturday at Death Valley.  Among those to meet with the media afterwards were head coach Dabo Swinney, defensive coordinator Kevin Steele, quarterback Tajh Boyd and safety Rashard Hall.

AUDIO: Dabo Swinney

AUDIO: Kevin Steele

AUDIO: Tajh Boyd

AUDIO: Rashard Hall

Clemson Sports Information report on scrimmage:

Tajh Boyd threw two touchdown passes to pace the offense and Corico Hawkins had eight tackles to lead the defense during a two-hour scrimmage for the Clemson football team in Memorial Stadium on Saturday. It was the final stadium scrimmage prior to next Saturday’s Orange & White Game. That contest will kickoff at 4:00 PM on April 9 at Memorial Stadium.

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Clemson players, coaches lament another road loss

October 30, 2010 By

Rashard Hall gave Clemson the early lead with his return (Photo: property SCRN)

 The Offensive Report:

Clemson managed only 265 total yards against Boston College, the Tigers’ second lowest output of the season. They had just 86 rushing yards with Andre Ellington held to 42 yards on 14 carries.   

AUDIO: OC Billy Napier

AUDIO: RB Andre Ellington 

AUDIO: OT Landon Walker 

Parker mistakes costly (Photo: property SCRN)

Tiger quarterback Kyle Parker was 21-39 for 176 yards.  He was intercepted twice and did not throw a touchdown pass.  The interceptions were Parker’s first in four games.  His longest completion was for 29 yards and he averaged just 4.5 yards per attempt.

AUDIO: QB Kyle Parker on INT at BC 9

The Defensive Report:

The Clemson defense made the game’s first big play as safety Rashard Hall intercepted Chase Rettig’s first pass of the game and returned it 52 yards for a score.  It was Hall’s 8th career interception and his first career touchdown.

AUDIO: FS Rashard Hall on his TD

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Swinney says Tigers ready for opener

August 31, 2010 By

Swinney ready for opener

Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney held his first regular season news conference Tuesday in the team meeting room of the West Zone at Memorial Stadium and proclaimed his team ready for the opener Saturday afternoon against North Texas State at Death Valley.  Swinney said the Tigers had a good practice Monday night and would have a physical practice Tuesday.  The Tigers are better than three touchdown favortes to defeat the Mean Green which has won just five games in four years under Todd Dodge.

Swinney did not make any major news during his 35 minute briefing.  He said he expected someone to emerge from his receiver group as someone has always done in recent years.  He expects Marcus Gilchrist will be a fine replacement in the return game for CJ Spiller and Jacoby Ford.  And he said the team is not looking past the first two games, North Texas and Presbyterian, to the truly first big game which is at Auburn in week three.

  • North Texas QB Riley Dodge is the coach’s son.  He completed 67% of his passes as a freshman two seasons ago.  But a shoulder injury last season forced him to give up quarterbacking duties and he moved to receiver.
  • North Texas running back Lance Dunbar rushed for 1378 yards last season, 15th best in the country.
  • North Texas returns six of its top eight tacklers from last season.  Eight junior college players have joined the defense this season.
  • Clemson has won 20 of its last 26 season openers.

AUDIO: Dabo Swinney news conference
AUDIO: Defensive coordinator Kevin Steele
AUDIO: Tight end Dwayne Allen
AUDIO:Defensive end Da’Quan Bowers
AUDIO: Free safety Rashard Hall
AUDIO: Running back Andre Ellington

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Clemson Monday practice report

August 9, 2010 By

DeAndre McDaniel at practice on Monday

Clemson has three two-a-day practice days set for the preseason schedule. The first day of the three took place Monday. The Tigers worked between 9:30 AM and 12:15 PM and are scheduled to work from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM in shorts for a walk-through Monday night.

The Tigers were without one of their top players on Monday. Junior defensive end Da’Quan Bowers missed all of Monday and likely will miss most of this week’s practices after his father died suddenly on Sunday morning. Bowers was very close to his father, Dennis Bowers, as the father and son performed together in Dennis Bowers Gospel Band, “the Legendary Singing Stars.” They had performed together as recently as August 1 at a church in Hopkins, SC.

“This is a difficult situation,” said Clemson Football Coach Dabo Swinney, who flew to Bamberg Sunday night to be with Da’Quan and his family. “He was very close to his dad. They had a wonderful relationship. It is always tough to lose a parent, but at age 20 to lose your father, that is very difficult.

“We have players on this team who have gone through this and they are reaching out to Da’Quan. He has an extended family here that will help him. He will have a lot of people here he can lean on.” Swinney said funeral arrangements had not been made and it is was not known how long Bowers would be away from campus.

The Tigers will practice Monday evening for about an hour, then hold the first scrimmage of the preseason on Tuesday morning. It is closed to the public and the media. There will be highlights of the scrimmage on clemsontigers.com on Tuesday afternoon.

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Three Clemson, USC freshmen named AA

December 8, 2009 By

Three freshmen from Clemson and three from USC were named to the freshmen All American team has chosen by Collegefootballnews.com.  Clemson’s center Dalton Freehman and safety Rashad Hall were named to the first team, and Tiger quarterback Kyle Parker was named to the second team.  USC receiver Alshon Jeffery was named to the first team as was cornerback Stephon Gilmore, and defensive end Devin Taylor was named to the third team.

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