Welcome Coach Clawson!!!

[hammb]

What bothers me is that Clawson may be "contagious"...meaning he was on the sidelines this fall when Wyoming went into Tennessee and beat them on their home field...and what is worse even yet is that we have hired someone that was in charge of an offense that only scored 7 points at home with SEC talent against those Cowboys. Wyoming was one of the worst teams in division 1 this year. I think North Texas's defensive coordinator would have probably been a good hire also being that they were dead last in total defense. He would have been available like Clawson was.

... beating a dead horse, I'm sorry ...

A good coordinator does NOT make a good head coach. A bad coordinator does NOT make a bad head coach. Entirely different mentalities, personalities, and such.

Dave Clawson is a proven head coach at Richmond. Not a proven coordinator, and that doesn't bother me one bit.

Couldn't have said it any better myself. To further the point, Cowboyjoe, believe it or not some of us actually want to WIN. Not just football games, but championships. I don't care how many points we score if we are winning.

Oh, and FWIW Clawson's teams had a good reputations as offensive powerhouses when he was the head coach. The common thinking by fans of Fordham & Richmond is that his scheme is complex, but good. It might take more than one year for the kids to grasp it (which is all he got at UT), but once they do it can be dominant.

I'm sorry, but this guy was twice the national 1AA coach of the year. He took a non scholarship team to a 1AA playoff victory. He's got 2 fanbases that think of him as their Urban Meyer and still follow him closely and root for him constantly. He's thought of us a young up & comer, by most people who have followed him. I'm sorry if I won't let one lousy season as an OC in the SEC (with a young OL & first time starting QB) dominate my opinion of him. To be quite honest with you he's got a better resume than any of BG's coaches that I can remember when they got hired.

I hope he IS contagious and he can bring the same stuff he brought in his previous stops as a head coach. You need to realize that it's over. Brandon's gone and he's never coming back, end of story. Time to move on.

[Falconfreak90]

Though a Visit with Falcon Fanatic would get him fired up and ready for the Falcons!

I appreciate the vote of confidence, but FREAK is the one he really needs to meet with!!! Freak's probably sent him 50 emails welcoming him to BG!!

FF,
Thanks...LOL. I tried emailing Coach Clawson but it didn't go thru...guess it isn't set up yet and that's ok. He has a lot more important things to do right now but I do hope to meet him next weekend when we come up for hoops vs Buffalo and HOCKEY vs OSWho. I am selling 50/50 tix for both games and am jacked to get up there.

I am extremely excited about Coach Clawson being at BG...the more I read about him, the more impressed I am. I think GC did a masterful job with this hire. He IS a proven winner and will take BG to the next level.

GO FALCONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Falconfreak90]

My guess is he was cheap. Not sold on his resume but if can keep his players out of jail, he will have an up on Brandon.

Really?

Off the top of my head I'd say he is probably the most qualified head coach we have hired in my lifetime. At the very least he is arguably the most qualified in the previous four hires (Brandon, Meyer, Blackney, Ankney).

I agree. Most, if not all the previous hires DD mentioned, came to BG as a coordinator, IIRC, without HC experience. I don't care if Coach Clawson did his stuff at the 1-AA level. Twice he was 1-AA COTY...that says quite a bit.

CAN WE JUST GET TO THE SPRING GAME NOW????????????

[Ryan Autullo]

From what I've heard, Boston College was very close to hiring Clawson as its head coach a couple years back. He comes to BG highly recommended.

I care little about what happened at Tennessee. I've watched enough of the Vols over the last 3-4 years to know they haven't kept up with the jones's in the SEC as far as recruiting goes. Sure, they're still signing 4-star guys, but there's a difference between Florida's and LSU's 4-stars and Tennessee's 4-stars. Clawson had average talent (by SEC standards) to work with, and he had all of four months to develop it. From what I've heard, he never felt comfortable in his post. Many of the in-house assistants believed they should have been promoted to coordinator, so the room wasn't exactly kind to Clawson.

The guy has turned around two scrub programs, which is absolutely impressive. I don't buy into the notion that he'll be in over his head at BG. The difference between coaching a Division I-AA power and coaching in the MAC is not as large as some might think.

[cowboyjoe]

I hope you are right Ryan. I hope we go undefeated next year and I wish him the best of luck. I am just saying that I don't think you reward anyone with a head coaching job after being the offensive coordinator of such an inept offense as Tennessee. If you can't score more than a touchdown against Wyoming at home in front of 100,000 people with 4 star recruits then I wouldn't even be looking at a guy like that---even if there was sabotage going on or whatever between the coaches. There are 119 D1 schools out there. Was there an offensive coordinator out there that was in charge of an offense that ranked in the top 75 at least and was qualified like Clawson? I hope he knows that the "average" talent he had at Tennessee is a lot better than the "average" talent he will get to come here. Maybe he will surround himself with a great coaching staff and it won't matter. Let them get it done for him. I hope his staff can get it done for us. I know Brandon had the best Xmas of any of us on this board with his $260,000 we are paying him this year along with his "promotion" at Virginia and that salary that he gets in addition to the $260K.

[Warthog]

I know Brandon had the best Xmas of any of us on this board with his $260,000 we are paying him this year along with his "promotion" at Virginia and that salary that he gets in addition to the $260K.

And he sold his house already.

But seriously joe, get over it. You are bitchin' about Clawson before he's even coached a game here even though he had great success at two other places he was head coach. Being a successful coordinator and a successful head coach are almost completely independent. Ones success at either of them can not be used to predict ones success in the other. I give you our former head coach as a perfect example of this.

[mmisbg]

I really wouldn't panic about his record this past season. He was playing the cards he was delt. The more time goes on, the more I come to believe that the head coach is everything. Look at how many OC's Urban Meyer has had, and his offenses have remained the most potent out there...one of whom was GB.

Simply put, we have had a coach who could not manage the whole team. Some days the defense would play pretty well, some days the offense would look good, frequently the whole thing would look bad, but rarely did the whole thing look good. It seemed as though he could handle nearly any aspect to the team pretty well, but not all of it at once. It doesn't make him incompetent or a "bad guy". It simply means that some people can use all four burners on the stove at once, and some work better using one at a time.

I'm glad that we have a coach who has demonstrated success as a head coach. I'm not at all worried that it was in I-AA. As much as I try to ignore the team down south, Tressel went straight from YSU to OSU.

And I wouldn't say that we have mediocre talent on this team. I have very little respect for recruitment ratings. Out of the teams in the MAC who have new head coaches, Clawson is perhaps inheriting the most loaded team. This years recruiting will be rough, but I think we already have the talent in place.

I am optimistic for the first time in a while. I'm trying not to go overboard with it, since the season is a long way away. However, I think they have made some good moves.

Go Falcons!

[mmisbg]

I know Brandon had the best Xmas of any of us on this board with his $260,000 we are paying him this year along with his "promotion" at Virginia and that salary that he gets in addition to the $260K.

And he sold his house already.

But seriously joe, get over it. You are bitchin' about Clawson before he's even coached a game here even though he had great success at two other places he was head coach. Being a successful coordinator and a successful head coach are almost completely independent. Ones success at either of them can not be used to predict ones success in the other. I give you our former head coach as a perfect example of this.

Actually, I was talking with the PE teacher at my school about this. He knows quite a few of the coaches that have been at UT over the years. He told me that when a coach that has been bought out takes a new job, he forfiets his buyout money.

[BGfootballfan]

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Actually, I was talking with the PE teacher at my school about this. He knows quite a few of the coaches that have been at UT over the years. He told me that when a coach that has been bought out takes a new job, he forfiets his buyout money.[/quote]

This is completely false. Coach B. gets paid his buyout to end his BG contract, unless there is a no-compete cause., which there never is when a school fires someone. So, fact is Brandon gets his cash from BG and his money from UVA.

[cowboyjoe]

I'm not bitchin' about Clawson. I hope he takes us to the next level. I wouldn't say we have a world of talent coming back. What players would be on the first or second team pre season all Mac team next year?

[Falconfreak90]

I wouldn't say we have a world of talent coming back. What players would be on the first or second team pre season all Mac team next year?

The cupboard is far from bare for Coach Clawson.