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Bowden gets 3-year contract extension
BY JEFFREY COLLINS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CLEMSON — Clemson coach
, Tommy Bowden says he isn’t plan
ning on going anywhere else and
that he’s willing to back that
promise up with his own money.
The coach agreed Tuesday to a
three-year contract extension that
will keep him with the Tigers until
2010.
And to make sure the school
and fans know how serious he is,
Bowden agreed to unprecedented
buyout clauses just as strict as the
school’s and won’t get a nickel
more in salary.
“This is where I want to be the
rest of my coaching career,” said
Bowden, who first imagined a
coaching career at Clemson as he
watched Danny Ford lead the
Tigers to several Atlantic Coast
Conference titles and a national
championship in the early 1980s.
The fifth-year coach had no
hard feelings after enduring one
of the craziest months any coach
has ever gone through. On Nov.
1, fans at the Wake Forest game
were chanting to have him fired
after a 45-17 loss. On Monday, he
was named ACC coach of the
year.
In between, his Tigers convinc
ingly beat then-No. 3 Florida State,
Duke and South Carolina by a
combined score of 129-34 to secure
a Peach Bowl
bid and make
Bowden the first
ACC coach to
lead his team to
a bowl in each of
his first five
years.
“What they
did throughout this year showed
a great deal of character, a great
deal of integrity and resilience,”
said athletic director Terry Don
Phillips, whose vague call for im
provement in the football program
made some fans and reporters
turn every game into a referen
dum on whether Bowden would be
fired.
Phillips said the constant ru
mors and knee-jerk reactions is
why he waited until the end of
the year to talk about the coach’s
future. “I’m glad he waited until
the end of the season,” Bowden
joked.
While Tuesday was a renewal
of vows of sorts — Bowden promis
mg to oe true
to Clemson for
ever, while
Phillips said
Bowden is our
“head coach
for the long
term” — the
two men never
shook hands in front ot reporters
or engaged each other despite sit
ting side-by-side on the podium.
Instead, it was all business.
For the most part, Bowden’s
contract remains the same. He
will still get paid $1.1 million per
year, with a chance to make an ad
ditional $300,000 based on incen
tives such as the number of wins
each season and performance in
bowl games.
But the biggest change came in
the buyout clause. Bowden agreed
to make the same commitment to
Clemson as the school made to
him.
If Bowden is fired before 2005,
Clemson will owe him $4 million.
And if Bowden leaves on his own
before then, he’ll owe the school
the same amount.
The buyout goes down to $3 mil
lion if there are four years left, $2.5
million if Bowden has three to
four years remaining and $500,000
if Bowden leaves or is fired with
one or two years left on his con
tract.
Phillips said Bowden came up
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in working within the Lions’ com
munity relations department.
Team president Matt Millen,
who contacted Sanders to gauge
his interest in playing again in
2000, told Sanders he was welcome
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with the buyout idea, telling the
athletic director, “I’ll do the very
same for Clemson University as
they do for me and my family.”
Bowden said he researched the
proposal and knows of no other
coach in the country with a simi
lar agreement.
Talks on the new contract be
gan shortly after Clemson beat
South Carolina 63-17 on Nov. 22.
Phillips said it took about three
business days to make the deal,
with much of that time spent mak
ing phone calls to about a dozen
other schools to compare the deal
with other contracts.
With his future settled,
Bowden said he will turn his at
tention to the Peach Bowl, where
the Tigers will play a
Southeastern Conference oppo
nent — most likely Florida — and
to recruiting, where having a
long-term deal could reap the
most benefits by assuring play
ers the coach was going to be
there.
“We’re just a player or two
away from a BCS bowl game,”
Bowden said.
The extension also gives
Bowden time to cushion the blow
from ACC expansion. The league
will be one of the toughest football
leagues around after it adds
Miami and Virginia Tech next sea
son and Boston College soon.
Phillips also said some long
awaited improvements to the ath
letic facilities should begin this
summer. For years, Bowden has
said Clemson’s ability to compete
in the ACC is tied directly to bet
ter buildings to wow recruits.
Bowden, who was hired by a
different athletic director and
president, said the extension left
him feeling like he had the support
of the new administration too.
to be a part of the organization,
and repeated the offer again after
their initial conversation.
Millen, a former linebacker
who won four Super Bowls with
three teams, introduced Sanders
at his news conference at Ford
Field.
“He was the best running back 1
I’ve ever seen, bar none,” Millen
said. “It’s not even close.”
This is where I want to
be the rest of my
coaching career”
TOMMY BOWDEN
CLEMSON HEAD FOOTBALL COACH
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