Clemson vs. Syracuse Gameday Program 2014

TODAY'S FEATURES Today’s Game 2,3 Clemson & Syracuse Stats 4 Robert Smith (Senior Spotlight) 6,7 Garry Peters (Senior Spotlight) 8,9 Martin Jenkins (Senior Spotlight) 11 Taylor Watson (Senior Spotlight) 13 Q&A With C.J. Davidson 15 Tiger Band 105 Rod Hall (Men’s Basketball) 107 Nikki Dixon (Women’s Basketball) 109 Chandler Catanzaro (NFL Spotlight) 110,111 Jim Barker (Distinguished Athletes Award) 113 Shan Pate (Mother-of-the-Year) 115 Charlie Waters (Where Are They Now?) 117 The Last Word (Hendrix Family Cornerstone Gift) 120

COACHES & PLAYERS Dabo Swinney, Head Coach Clemson Assistant Coaches Clemson Football Support Staff Clemson Football Staff Families Meet the Tiger Veterans Meet the Tiger Rookies Meet the Tiger Reserves Clemson Alphabetical Roster Syracuse Alphabetical Roster Syracuse Profile Orange Leaders Clemson Numerical Roster Probable Starting Lineups Syracuse Numerical Roster

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TIGER TRADITIONS Memorial Stadium (“Death Valley”) Howard’s Rock & The Hill Football Facilities All-Americans First-Round Draft Picks Super Bowl Champions Pro Bowl Players Alma Mater

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ALSO INSIDE Board of Trustees 16 James P. Clements, President 17 Dan Radakovich, Director of Athletics 19 Stadium & Parking Information 33 Strength & Conditioning 46,47 Memorial Stadium Records 52 Opponent Results & Schedules 63 Bowl Schedule 65 Vickery Hall 67 NCAA Compliance 69 Athletic Department Staff 71-73 IPTAY 75-77 Vehicle Donors 79 Video Staff 81 Student Equipment Managers 84 Student Athletic Trainers 85 Cheerleaders 88 Rally Cats 89 College Football Playoff 99 Clemson Social Media 101 Radio Network & Affiliates 103 Photo-of-the-Week 119

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CLEMSON’S SENIOR DEFENSIVE BACKS LOOK TO SLOW THE SYRACUSE PASSING ATTACK TONIGHT IN FRONT OF A HOMECOMING CROWD IN MEMORIAL STADIUM.

TODAY'S GAME

By Tim Bourret

SYRACUSE MAKES ITS FIRST TRIP TO DEATH VALLEY AS CLEMSON CELEBRATES HOMECOMING.

STOUDT WINS LEATHER HELMET Cole Stoudt proudly donned the Leather Helmet in the lockerroom at Alumni Stadium in Chestnut Hill, Mass. after Clemson’s 17-13 victory over Boston College last Saturday. The award goes to the game’s MVP based on a vote of the media covering the Clemson vs.

Boston College game each year.

Stoudt had a career-high 29 completions in 45 attempts for 285 yards in the Tigers’ victory in a game

that was dominated by defense most of the day. Stoudt also had 23 rushing yards, giving him 308 yards of total offense against an Eagle team that was ninth in the nation in total defense.

While he did not throw a touchdown pass, the senior quarterback connected on many timely aerials, none more important than his 32-yard strike down the sideline to Mike Williams on a third-down play. It kept the drive alive and the Tigers went on to score on a 32-yard run by C.J. Davidson to take a 17-13 lead in the fourth quarter.

Stoudt became just the second quarterback to win the Leather Helmet Award, joining Tajh Boyd, who received the award in Clemson’s win at Boston College in 2012. Boyd was on the sideline cheering on the Tigers last Saturday. Boyd is one of four former Tigers on the Boston Brawlers of the FXFL.

Cameron Lynch is the top defender for Syracuse. He is tied for fourth in the ACC in sacks (5.5) and has a team-high 53 tackles. Syracuse scored two touchdowns on defensive returns at Wake Forest.

GOING FOR OCTOBER PERFECTION Clemson hopes to close a perfect month of October on the scoreboard with a win over Syracuse. The Tigers are 3-0 so far in October, wins over NC State, Louisville and Boston College.

Perfect months are tough to come by. In fact, Dabo Swinney has had just three in his 22 complete months as a college coach. He was 4-0 in September 2011,

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COLE STOUDT WON THE LEATHER HELMET AWARD AS THE GAME’S MVP IN CLEMSON’S 1713 WIN AT BOSTON COLLEGE LAST WEEKEND.

SYRACUSE UPDATE

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Syracuse enters tonight’s game with a 3-4 overall record and 1-2 ACC mark, but it is coming off its best performance of the year, a 30-7 win at Wake Forest.

The Demon Deacons scored the first touchdown of the game, but the Orange went on a 30-0 run.

Devante McFarlane, who had just 21 rushing yards in three games entering the contest, had 114 yards on 10 carries in an impressive performance. Prince-Tyson Gulley is the leading rusher for Syracuse, with 418 yards and a 5.6-yard average.

Both teams have a quarterback missing today due to injury. Terrel Hunt leads Syracuse in passing with 983 yards, but he is out with an injury.

A.J. Long led the Orange to victory over Wake Forest by completing ATHLETIC WEBSITE ClemsonTigers.com 22-32 passes for 171 yards. Jarrod West is the top receiver with TICKETS 1-800-CLEMSON 29 catches for 421 yards. Clemson is without Deshaun Watson, PROGRAM PRICE who has $5 on Gameday $6 by Mail a broken ClemsonFB hand.

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CLEMSON’S DEFENSE HAS ALLOWED JUST 30 POINTS IN THE LAST THREE GAMES.

TODAY'S GAME ATLANTIC DIVISION STANDINGS 1.

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Team Florida State* Clemson Louisville Syracuse Boston College Wake Forest NC State

ACC Overall Home 4-0 7-0 4-0 4-1 5-2 4-0 4-2 6-2 4-0 1-2 3-4 1-3 1-2 4-3 2-3 0-3 2-5 2-1 0-4 4-4 3-2

Away Neutral 2-0 1-0 1-2 0-0 2-2 0-0 2-0 0-1 2-0 0-0 0-4 0-0 1-2 0-0

COASTAL DIVISION STANDINGS Team 1. Duke* Virginia Pittsburgh 4. Georgia Tech 5. Miami (Fla.) Virginia Tech North Carolina

ACC Overall Home 2-1 6-1 4-0 2-1 4-3 4-1 2-1 4-3 2-2 2-2 5-2 3-1 1-2 4-3 4-0 1-2 4-3 2-2 1-2 3-4 3-1

Away Neutral 2-1 0-0 0-2 0-0 2-1 0-0 2-1 0-0 0-3 0-0 2-1 0-0 0-3 0-0

* - controls its own destiny to win the ACC title; Note: Standings and stats through games of October 18; all times are EDT.

LAST WEEK'S RESULTS Clemson 17 at Boston College 13 Virginia 13 at Duke 20 Notre Dame 27 at Florida State 31 Georgia Tech 43 at North Carolina 48 NC State 18 at Louisville 30 Virginia Tech 16 at Pittsburgh 21 Syracuse 30 at Wake Forest 7

3-0 in October 2012 and 4-0 in September 2013. A victory over Syracuse would make the Tigers 4-0 for October 2014.

Overall, Swinney is 18-6 in August/September, 18-7 in October, 16-8 in November and 4-4 in December/ January.

DEFENSE ON A STRONG RUN Clemson has won its last four contests, and the Tiger defense has played a big part. That has especially been the case over the last three games, as the Tigers have allowed just 30 points in those three games. It is the first time Clemson has done that since 2008. That year, Clemson had consecutive wins over Duke (31-7), Virginia (13-3) and South Carolina (31-14) to close the regular season.

Over the last three games, Clemson has allowed just 10 points per game, 97 rushing yards per game, 130 passing yards per contest and just 11 first downs per game. The Tigers have averaged 9.3 tackles for loss per game during that time, including a season-high 14 negative plays in the victory over Boston College. Those 14 tackles for loss were registered by 13 different players.

Clemson held Boston College to just 120 rushing yards, well below its 316 yards per game entering the contest, which was fourth-best in the nation.

For the season, Clemson is in the top 10 in the nation in seven different statistical categories. That includes a No. 1 standing in third-down conversion percentage defense (23.6), No. 2 in tackles for loss per game (9.4), No. 4 in sacks (3.7), No. 5 in total defense (282.7) and No. 5 in yards per play allowed (4.4).

AHEAD OF 2013 PACE Mike Williams is having a very productive season, especially in terms of yards per reception. The sophomore has 30 receptions for 671 yards and four touchdowns.

That computes to 22.4 yards per reception, best in the nation among players with 30+ catches.

Another chart also gives testimony to his production in comparison with Sammy Watkins, the former Tiger who was the No. 4 selection of the 2014 NFL draft.

While Watkins had 44 catches through seven games last year compared to Williams’ 30, Williams has a higher yards-per-catch figure (22.4 vs. 14.8) and more

receptions of 20+ yards. Watkins had seven through seven games in 2013, and Williams already has 16 in 2014.

NATIONAL LEADERS IN YARDS/RECEPTION Rk Player School Rec. 1. Mike Williams Clemson 30 2. K.C. Cannon Baylor 31 3. Tony Lippett Michigan State 39 4. Leonte Carroo Rutgers 34 5. Da’Ron Brown Northern Illinois 33 6. Sterling Shepard Oklahoma 49 Note: Minimum 30 receptions.

Yards 671 661 786 648 627 911

Avg. 22.4 21.3 20.2 19.1 19.0 18.6

SAMMY WATKINS VS. MIKE WILLIAMS Category Watkins Williams Year 2013 2014 Receptions 44 30 Yards 650 671 Yards/Reception 14.8 22.4 Receptions/Game 6.3 4.3 Yards/Game 93.0 96.0 Touchdowns 5 4 20+ Yard Receptions 7 16 100-Yard Games 4 3 Note: First seven games of 2013 and 2014, respectively.

SENIOR CLASS GOING FOR RECORD Clemson’s senior class can establish a school record today. The Tiger record for ACC wins by a four-year class is 24, and a victory over Syracuse would give this group of 21 scholarship seniors 25 regular-season wins over ACC teams. Clemson is 4-1 in the ACC this year, with tonight’s home game against Syracuse and ACC road games at Wake Forest and Georgia Tech remaining.

This senior class has won at least six games in each of its first three years in league play. The group is 24-5 entering this game, 14-1 at home and 10-4 on the road. The only league home loss was last year against Florida State.

This senior group has a 37-10 record, already tied for the fifth-most wins in Clemson history for a class. It ties the 1981 and 1984 Tiger senior groups. In terms of home wins, this class is 23-2 so far. The record for home wins in a fouryear period is 24.

The 2012 and 2013 Clemson is 10-7-2 (.579) allgroups were both 24-4 time on October 25. The last at home.

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game on this date was the Tigers’ 42-13 win at Wake Forest in 2012.

THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE Miami (Fla.) at Virginia Tech North Carolina at Virginia Boston College at Wake Forest Georgia Tech at Pittsburgh Syracuse at Clemson * - Thursday

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TEAM STATS Yards Off. Def. 417.7 305.3 440.1 282.7 419.7 398.0 442.6 374.4 463.3 415.6 370.4 245.8 426.0 328.9 453.1 522.3 406.3 394.6 394.7 280.4 406.3 357.4 407.3 331.3 393.6 326.0 206.7 357.0

Team Boston College Clemson Duke Florida State Georgia Tech Louisville Miami (Fla.) North Carolina NC State Pittsburgh Syracuse Virginia Virginia Tech Wake Forest

Points Off. Def. 27.3 19.0 34.6 20.0 33.6 15.1 37.9 21.6 34.4 28.3 30.9 14.6 31.4 24.4 38.7 43.3 29.3 28.9 29.1 18.6 22.6 23.9 22.1 29.0 28.4 20.0 14.4 24.9

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Player Rashad Greene Mike Williams Phillip Dorsett Tyler Boyd Jamison Crowder Artavis Scott Mack Hollins

Team PIT MIA BOC GAT GAT UVA DUK BOC

Car. 172 110 99 108 120 120 47 115

Yards 959 787 766 625 595 502 485 471

TD 11 6 8 3 5 3 4 7

Y/G 137.0 112.3 109.4 89.3 85.0 71.7 69.3 67.3

PASSING LEADERS Team FSU MIA UNC VAT NCS CU DUK

Cm. 149 126 156 162 151 75 143

Att. 211 200 242 265 247 112 247

Yards 1878 1806 1776 1674 1796 1176 1362

TD 13 16 15 11 16 12 9

Y/G 313.0 258.0 253.7 239.1 224.5 196.0 194.6

RECEIVING LEADERS Team FSU CU MIA PIT DUK CU UNC

Rec. 52 30 16 36 40 38 24

Yards 791 671 550 514 471 443 435

TD 4 4 6 5 2 3 5

Y/G 113.0 95.9 78.6 73.4 67.3 63.3 62.1

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STATISTICAL MATCHUP CLEMSON Category Total Offense Plays Yards/Play Yards/Game Rushing Yards/Game Passing Yards/Game Passing Efficiency First Downs/Game Points/Game Touchdowns Field Goals Punting Average Punt Returns Kickoff Returns Penalties Turnovers Third-Down Conversion % Time of Possession/Game Interceptions By Defense Sacks

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Clemson 3081 558 5.5 440.1 137.1 303.0 145.4 21.4 34.6 29 12-16 43.0 24-167 21-357 27-235 6 44.1 32:10 4-88 26-221

Opp. 1979 446 4.4 282.7 103.3 179.4 112.0 14.1 20.0 19 3-3 43.3 19-142 22-484 55-406 10 23.6 27:50 4-7 16-108

SCORING BY QUARTERS Team Clemson Opponents

1st 55 20

2nd 87 28

3rd 54 31

4th 46 55

OT 0 6

Tot 242 140

RUSHING # 26 32 9 4 22

Player Adam Choice C.J. Davidson Wayne Gallman Deshaun Watson D.J. Howard Clemson Opponents

Car. 50 47 48 51 36 296 238

Yards 218 198 198 147 137 960 723

Avg. 4.4 4.2 4.1 2.9 3.8 3.2 3.0

TD 1 3 1 3 3 12 9

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PASSING # Player 4 Deshaun Watson 18 Cole Stoudt Clemson Opponents

Cm. 75 91 168 109

Att. 112 147 262 208

Yards Int. 1176 2 934 2 2121 4 1256 4

TD 12 1 13 8

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(Oct. 19, 2014) Team Mississippi State (43) Florida State (14) Mississippi (3) Alabama Auburn Oregon Notre Dame Michigan State Georgia TCU Kansas State Baylor Ohio State Arizona State Arizona Nebraska Oklahoma East Carolina Utah Southern California

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(Oct. 19, 2014) Team Mississippi State (36) Florida State (22) Mississippi (4) Alabama Michigan State Auburn Oregon Notre Dame Georgia TCU Kansas State Ohio State Baylor Arizona State Arizona Nebraska East Carolina Oklahoma Utah Southern California Marshall Louisiana State Minnesota West Virginia

CLEMSON VS. SYRACUSE SERIES TIED 1-1 Year CU 1995 8-3 2013 4-0 Totals Note: Rankings are Syracuse’s ranking;

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Category Total Offense Plays Yards/Play Yards/Game Rushing Yards/Game Passing Yards/Game Passing Efficiency First Downs/Game Points/Game Touchdowns Field Goals Punting Average Punt Returns Kickoff Returns Penalties Turnovers Third-Down Conversion % Time of Possession/Game Interceptions By Defense Sacks

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Player Artavis Scott Mike Williams Adam Humphries Wayne Gallman Germone Hopper Clemson Opponents

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Player Stephone Anthony Jayron Kearse Robert Smith Grady Jarrett Tony Steward Ben Boulware Garry Peters DeShawn Williams Josh Watson T.J. Green

Rec. 38 30 17 14 11 168 109

Opponent at Georgia SC State * at Florida State * North Carolina * NC State * Louisville * at Boston College

Date 10-25 11-6 11-15 11-22 11-29

Opponent * Syracuse * at Wake Forest * at Georgia Tech Georgia State South Carolina

# Player 10 Terrel Hunt 4 A.J. Long Syracuse Opponents

4th 33 32

OT 10 9

Tot 158 167

Yards 418 307 276 135 112 1344 888

Avg. 5.6 6.0 5.9 8.4 4.3 5.2 3.2

TD 1 6 1 0 0 9 6

LG 65 36 53 86 16 86 23

Cm. Att. 83 145 38 59 138 236 139 207

LG 69 56 25 11 74 74 75

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Player Rec. Jarrod West 29 Prince-Tyson Gulley 18 Steve Ishmael 15 Ben Lewis 14 Ashton Broyld 11 Syracuse 138 Opponents 139

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Player Cameron Lynch Durell Eskridge Darius Kelly Dyshawn Davis Ritchy Desir Marqez Hodge Brandon Reddish Micah Robinson Julian Whigham Eric Crume

Yards Int. 983 4 338 2 1500 7 1614 4

TD 1 2 4 12

LG 51 36 51 90

RECEIVING

Yards 443 671 131 48 248 2121 1256

Avg. 11.7 22.4 7.7 3.4 22.5 12.6 11.5

TD 3 4 0 0 2 13 8

Yards 421 101 248 203 125 1500 1614

Avg. 14.5 5.6 16.5 14.5 11.4 10.9 11.6

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LG 51 23 36 48 24 51 90

TACKLES

TFL 7.5-43 2-3 0.5-1 3-11 4-26 3-12 6-23 4-8 2-6

Sacks 1.5-21 1-1

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RESULTS & SCHEDULE Score 21-45 73-7 ^17-23 50-35 41-0 23-17 17-13

Date 8-29 9-13 9-20 9-27 10-3 10-11 10-18

Opponent Villanova at Central Michigan Maryland # Notre Dame * Louisville * Florida State * at Wake Forest

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Date 10-25 11-1 11-8 11-22 11-29

Opponent * at Clemson * NC State * Duke * at Pittsburgh * at Boston College

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Player Car. Prince-Tyson Gulley 74 Terrel Hunt 51 Adonis Ameen-Moore 47 Devante McFarlane 16 Ervin Philips 26 Syracuse 258 Opponents 276

TACKLES Tac. 52 43 38 35 35 27 27 27 25 20

Opp. 2502 483 5.2 357.4 126.9 230.6 147.9 20.6 23.9 20 8-10 43.0 12-181 20-375 50-443 13 42.9 32:27 7-154 5-41

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Syracuse 2844 494 5.8 406.3 192.0 214.3 111.5 20.0 22.6 17 13-17 41.7 12-93 21-378 54-444 8 38.3 27:33 4-71 20-128

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West Virginia Marshall Louisiana State UCLA

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SENIOR SPOTLIGHT

QB OF THE DEFENSE

BY J.D. ELLIOTT

THE TIGER SENIOR HAD DREAMS OF PLAYING UNDER CENTER, BUT A DIFFERENT CAREER PATH HAS PLACED HIM ON ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S BEST DEFENSES.

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iger safety Robert Smith has a knack for finding the football.

Smith roams around the Clemson secondary, anticipating the quarterback’s next move.

How does Smith know the opposing quarterback’s every move? He was the star quarterback at Woodland High School before he donned the Orange and Purple.

“Growing up, I was a quarterback,” said Smith. “I never even played defensive back until I came to Clemson.

I would play a few snaps on defense in high school, but my dream was to play

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ROBERT SMITH Full Name Robert Rashad Smith Major Health Science Jersey #27 Position Safety Height 5’11” Weight 215 Hometown St. George, S.C. High School Woodland HS Date of Birth Dec. 22, 1992

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quarterback. In reality, I knew if I wanted to make it to the next level, I would have to switch positions because of my height.”

Highly recruited, Smith had the option of playing safety or running back as a Tiger and decided to move to the defensive side of the ball because of the potential for early playing time. While he did not see much action on defense during his freshman season, Smith competed in all 14 contests, primarily on special teams, and has played in every game of his college career. That is a rarity in college football, especially for a player in the secondary who delivers hits all season.

Smith is related to another former Tiger who made the switch from offense to defense. Tye Hill began his career as a running back before making the transition to cornerback. The switch paid off for Hill, as he was selected in the first round (No. 15 overall) by the St. Louis Rams in the 2006 NFL draft.

Hill embraced the opportunity to help his cousin become the next Clemson secondary star.

“He helped me throughout the whole process by keeping my mind right,” said Smith. “When I went home, he helped

me with footwork drills, some ladder drills and defensive back drills, so he helped me with the transition in many ways.”

While playing every game, Smith was primarily used as a backup his first two seasons, working behind former Tiger and now Buffalo Bill, Jonathan Meeks. It was a tough transition for the athletic Smith, who had grown accustomed to being the star at Woodland High School. But after playing with some of the older players, Smith began to learn to be patient.

“It’s hard when you’re coming from being a big fish in a small pond to being a small fish in a big ocean,” admitted Smith. “I had a lot of former players like Jonathan Meeks, Rashard Hall, Coty Sensabaugh and Xavier Brewer who I really looked up to, and one thing I really learned was how to be patient and just wait for my time.

They showed me how to read plays, helped with my footwork and where to keep my eyes.”

While Smith was familiar with Clemson due to the success of his cousin, the loyalty shown him by the Tigers ultimately led to his commitment. After earning a host of offers prior to his junior season in high school, Smith tore his ACL. Several of the teams that recruited him so passionately withdrew their offers. However, the Clemson coaching staff continued to vigorously recruit the coveted athlete.

“Clemson was one of the teams that offered me early and they didn’t back off,” stated Smith. “They told me if I

tore my other ACL, they would still sign me.”

The dedication by the coaching staff has paid huge dividends for a defense viewed as one of the best in the nation.

While many in the media are infatuated with the stout front seven, the secondary

has played extremely well and is 14th in the nation in passing yards allowed per game (179.4).

Smith uses the “weak link” criticism to motivate not only himself, but his teammates in the secondary.

“That definitely motivates us because we don’t want to be treated as the weakest link,” said Smith.

“As the year has progressed, we’ve improved. We knew we’re going to start off a little shaky because there are so many young guys back there, but once they got the hang of playing in front of 85,000 fans, we knew we’d all see improvement.”

The improvement was obvious in Clemson’s win over NC State on October 4. The Wolfpack entered the game averaging 40 points and over 500 yards per game. But the Tigers pitched a shutout, thanks in part to a secondary that allowed just 35 passing yards, the lowest figure by a Clemson opponent in five years.

The youth and inexperience of the secondary has been a major concern for the Tigers, as many players are freshmen and sophomores. As the elder statesman along with Garry Peters, Smith is teaching the younger players the same way he was taught.

With his college career winding down, Smith is looking to his future. His dream since he was five was to play in the NFL, and after the past few seasons,

he has demonstrated that he is capable of an opportunity. It doesn’t matter where he has to go, as long as he is suiting up on Sundays.

Does Smith wonder what the future would have held for him as a quarterback?

“I don’t regret my decision at all. A lot of people have recently been asking me, ‘do you wish you went to Georgia Tech or Appalachian State to continue your dream of being a professional quarterback?’

“Once I got to college, I was glad I didn’t play quarterback. Being 5’11” and having guys like Isaiah Battle at 6’7”, it’s hard to see over those players, so I don’t regret it at all. I feel like God put me in position to be the most successful.

“God had faith for me to be at Clemson in another way. When I came here, I couldn’t get (jersey) #15 because Coty (Sensabaugh) was wearing it. I didn’t care what number I got. Coach (Dabo) Swinney gave me #27. Ironically, my dad wore #42 in high school and I wore #15, and 42 minus 15 equals 27. I’m very close to my father and he’s my hero.

So when I put it all together, the number meant a whole lot more to me.”

While the roster may never list “QB” next to his name, Smith is optimistic that one day he will get an opportunity to throw a ball in a Clemson uniform.

“That’s already in negotiations,” laughed Smith. “We might be up big and I might have a ‘pick-six,’ and Coach Swinney might say, ‘Robert, go throw a hitch route to Mike Williams.’

“If it comes true, that would be a blessing, but if it doesn’t, I’m still proud of my career I’ve had at Clemson.” @ClemsonFB

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THE LOCKDOWN CORNER

BY SCHUYLER EASTERLING

THE FIFTH-YEAR SENIOR ENTERED CLEMSON WITH MUCH TO PROVE. BUT IN 2014, HE HAS ANSWERED THE DOUBTERS AS A LOCKDOWN CORNERBACK.

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ormer British Prime Minister Winston Churchill once stated, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal - it is the courage to continue that counts.”

For the Clemson Tigers, fifth-year senior cornerback Garry Peters stands 6’0”, 190 pounds and is the epitome of Churchill’s wise words and fighting mentality. Few members of the Tiger squad have been challenged time and time again like Peters, and few have met each challenge with as many successes.

To define the essence of Peters is to define toughness - physical, mental, uncoachable toughness - and it is paying off in a big way in 2014.

The story of Peters’ love affair with the game of football began over a decade ago, strangely enough on the hardwood in Conyers, Ga. “I started playing when I was young, about six or seven,” said Peters. “My basketball coach at the time was also our football coach. He knew I was athletic and talked to me about suiting up to play football, too.

“Both my parents are from Jamaica and didn’t know much about the game, but after some convincing from my coach, they encouraged me to try out.

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“For my first-ever football practice, I remember walking onto the football field all ready to go. My coach looked over at me and said, ‘Gary, in football we don’t walk onto the field...we run.’

“I didn’t like it at first. I made up my mind that I’d given football a chance and it was time to leave. However, my coach wound up telling my dad that I had quit playing. My dad had a talk with me about quitting, and that once committed I had better not give up on anything facing me.”

The lesson Peters’ father taught him stuck...don’t back down, quit or turn away from the challenges of life. What was once stubborn-

ness in Peters soon gave way to a newlydiscovered passion, and God-given talent, for the game of football.

“It was my seventh-grade year, my last year playing park ball, that I remem-

ber envisioning myself playing football for the rest of my life,” said Peters.

“I was doing really well as a running back, loving the team aspect of the game and enjoying every moment. One day the

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GARRY PETERS Full Name Garry St. Claire Peters Major Sociology Jersey #26 Position Cornerback Height 6’0” Weight 190 Hometown Conyers, Ga. High School Heritage HS Date of Birth Nov. 26, 1991

dream clicked for me. I knew I wanted to go out and make my dreams a reality. I knew I’d set the bar high so I could one day play collegiately, and ultimately in the NFL.” In high school, Peters took a step closer to his dreams by catching the attention of most major Division I schools.

A dangerous all-around athlete with blistering speed, Peters’ reputation as a lockdown cornerback was well known in recruiting circles.

When recruiting rankings were released, Peters was named a top-150 player by ESPN, the No. 20 cornerback in the nation by Rivals.com and the No. 10 athlete in the nation by ESPN.com.

The mailbox at the Peters household was filled each day with new offers from coaches and programs across America.

“My recruitment process was so hectic in the beginning. I had offers from all over and wound up narrowing my list down to Clemson, Alabama, Florida State, South Carolina and Tennessee. It was a tough decision for me.

“My head coach, Chad Frazier, was a huge Clemson fan and my defensive backs coach was former Clemson AllAmerican Terry Kinard. Those coaches loved Clemson and always spoke highly of the university and program.

“When I finally came to visit, I fell in love with this school as well. It felt like home. It’s been a perfect fit for me.”

And like his coaching mentor (Kinard), Peters has grown to be a perfect fit and dominant force in the Tiger secondary. Now a senior leader on the 2014 team, Peters has been putting on a star performance for the Tiger defense week-in and week-out this season. However, the path to the top was not always smooth for Peters.

“I think it’s natural when you get on campus as a freshman, you want to play

and contribute instantly,” stated Peters.

“I thought I was going to get here and see playing time right away. However, I needed to mature as a player and learn the system.

“I redshirted my freshman year, and although frustrating for me, it humbled me and instilled in me a desire to work even harder. When I finally got my opportunity, I was doing well, only to break my leg and face adversity again.

“I never gave up and I kept battling. I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the ups and downs these past few years, and I’m thankful I’ve been tested.”

The Clemson coaching staff is thankful, too. Simply put, when the going gets tough, Peters gets going. Time and time again, the cornerback has had the uncanny ability to make game-changing plays for the Tigers in their biggest contests.

In back-to-back bowl victories over No. 7 Louisiana State in the 2012 Chick-fil-A Bowl and No. 6 Ohio State in the 2014 Orange Bowl, Peters was the unsung hero whose gritty defense helped get the ball back in the hands of the offense when it mattered most.

“I get the most butterflies in the big games,” admitted Peters, flashing his trademark grin. “When you can feel that edge and electricity in the air, it motivates me and reminds me that I have to be on point.

“I like being the underdog, the guy who has nothing to lose. Whether the crowd is for you or against you, it’s something I feed off of. I live to prove people wrong.

“A challenge always brings out the best in me. I feel at the top of my game right now, but the big games bring out a little something extra in me.”

Defensive Coordinator Brent Venables agrees.

“It’s (2014) the best he’s been,” said Venables. “He has better respect and appreciation for the opportunities and for the game and for his role and recognizing that he’s capable and recognizing that he needs to play at a high level.”

So far this season, Peters’s play gives credence to Venables’ compliments.

He has 27 tackles (tied for sixth-most on the team), six tackles for loss, two sacks, four pass breakups and a caused fumble. He had two sacks in the win over Louisville, including a caused fumble that led directly to a score on the play.

In his final campaign, Peters looks to be relishing every snap, playing with a confidence and ease of a fifth-year senior. Although Peters has accomplished many of the career goals he set out to do as a freshman in the fall of 2010, a big one still remains...to play on football’s grandest stage in the NFL. Peters will graduate with a degree in sociology in May, and the future has never seemed brighter.

“I’m going to leave Clemson with a degree,” said Peters. “That’s huge for me. I came here to get a college education, and to leave with one is special.

I feel like I can do anything with that degree in my hands.

“After I graduate, I’m going to work harder than ever before to make my dreams of playing in the NFL a reality.

Whatever happens from there happens.

Clemson has prepared me to be the best I can be on and off the field, and I have to trust that.

“Seeing the brothers I competed with and trained with every day leave this place and do well in the NFL motivates me to follow in their footsteps. I know I can do this at the next level. I’m ready to do whatever it takes.”

Winston Churchill would be proud.

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THE SONG HE CREATED, WHICH BECAME THE TEAM’S ANTHEM, HIGHLIGHTS ONE OF THE MANY TALENTS OF THE RECENT CLEMSON GRADUATE.

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s a cornerback, Martin Jenkins has certainly seen his share of ups and downs throughout his career. Playing one of the most difficult positions on the gridiron, injuries have played a part in the graduate’s playing time throughout his career, but Jenkins has enjoyed his time at Clemson despite the setbacks.

“It’s been exciting and it’s been an adventure, and I’ve enjoyed every second of it,” said Jenkins. “In terms of injury, that’s what I’m pointing towards when I say ‘adventure.’

“But I feel that I’ve grown tremendously, being behind great guys like Marcus Gilchrist, Coty Sensabaugh and Byron Maxwell (all NFL starters).

So learning from them and how they handled it has certainly helped me grow from a leadership standpoint.”

Jenkins saw the field as a first-year freshman in 2010 and is the only current Tiger who lettered that year. He brought versatility as both a nickelback and on the boundary, and also contributed on special teams.

He also made a strong contribution to the Tigers’ 2011 ACC Championship team, as he started three games, played in all 14, had 27 tackles, six pass breakups and averaged 22 snaps per game.

But in 2012, Jenkins suffered a sports hernia injury during fall camp that required surgery, forcing him to redshirt and miss the entire season.

He then started four games in 2013 and had 26 tackles. A highlight was his

first career touchdown on a 52-yard interception return against SC State.

After graduating in August with a sociology degree, Jenkins has been back on the injury list this year, most recently with an injury suffered at Florida State.

“Injuries were a big shock for me, but I feel I’ve grown from them as well,” said Jenkins. “Coming into college football, you think you’re going to come in, improve your technique, get better, faster and stronger. Sitting out for an extended period can be tough to deal with, so staying mentally strong is the key to it all.

“Sitting out my junior year (2012) was strictly a mental battle. It was supposed to be the year I’d worked towards, to show everyone what I’d been working on, and it did throw me off, but I think I handled it mentally well.”

Jenkins is not only known for his play on the field. He’s also famously known by his friends teammates as simply, “Yoda.”

“It’s an interesting and long story,” said Jenkins with a smile. “‘Yoda’ was something my friends and I would always say. Then once my friends came up for Homecoming and said it to me, my teammates caught on to it and started calling me that. More people started calling me that, and it eventually stuck and I just went with it.”

Jenkins is not only remembered for his famous and revered nickname, but for the video creation of the team’s concept, “We Too Deep,” something Tiger fans often chant in Death Valley when

the defense takes the field. Jenkins and former cornerback Darius Robinson, a senior in 2013, wanted to give Tiger fans something new, so they created the rap and a music video based on the concept. “‘We Too Deep’ was something that, as a team, we would always say,” said Jenkins. “Before games, or before and after practice, we would always chant, ‘we too deep.’ Nobody else really knew it besides the players.

“With the song, I wanted to build that bridge to where it can be our thing, but we can expand on it. So let’s have the

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BY COLBY LANHAM fans do it, too. We know the fans have their own chants and we have our own chants, so with the video, let’s make something we can both enjoy and build that bridge where we can have our connection. I think we found that in, ‘We Too Deep’.”

The phrase and concept, “We Too Deep,” has certainly become a hit among the Clemson fanbase, and it shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. It has also shown that there is more than one way to make a memorable impact for the Clemson football program.

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BY MATT CASTELLO

THE SAFETY IS THE THIRD WATSON TO DON A TIGER FOOTBALL UNIFORM AND HAS FOLLOWED THE SAME SUCCESSFUL PATH IN THE CLASSROOM AS HIS BROTHER.

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aylor Watson was an original walk-on to the team out of Woodmont High School near Simpsonville, S.C. Simpsonville makes for about a one-hour commute for his parents, even though his father might know his way to Clemson better than anybody else in that area.

Ronald Watson roamed the secondary as a four-time letterman at Clemson. His first year was a memorable one for Tiger fans in Clemson’s 1981 National Championship season. However, it was not until 1983 that the elder Watson was able

to stay healthy and make an impact on the gridiron.

After playing just three games in 1981 and eight in 1982, Ronald played all 11 in 1983, starting eight. He was an All-ACC pick by AP and the sportswriters the next year and was named an honorable mention All-American.

Ronald set the school record for tackles by a defensive back (17) against Georgia Tech and had 92 tackles that year, second-most by a Tiger defensive back in history. The media dubbed him “Captain Crunch” for his popping hits.

That would all make for some heavy expectations for Taylor, a safety himself, had he not received some simple advice.

“They told me to go out and have fun, to play and enjoy the moment,” said the younger Watson.

But wait..they? Right.

Watson is the third from his family to suit up in Clemson orange. Taylor’s older brother, Ronald, was a running back for three years with the Tigers as a walk-on and civil engineering major himself. He was mainly a scout-team player, mimicking opposing running backs on a weekly basis, but lettered in 2009.

The older brother left an impact that Taylor exemplifies to this day through the path he has taken and the future that is in front of him.

“As a civil engineer, hopefully I can work at an engineering firm somewhere,” said the recent ClemTAYLOR WATSON son graduate of his career plans Full Name Taylor Ryan Watson after his time on Degree Civil Engineering the field and in Jersey #30 the classroom Position Safety have expired. “I’ve Height 5’10” wanted to do that Weight 200 ever since my Hometown Simpsonville, S.C.

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brother did the same thing. It just seems like we’ve been following each other’s footsteps.”

Taylor’s own footsteps took him across the stage at Littlejohn Coliseum in August to accept a diploma that he had worked hard to acquire.

“It was a great accomplishment,” said Watson. “Coach (Dabo) Swinney stresses about getting that degree and being set for life, and I was very glad to accomplish that.”

But Watson does not stop there when recognizing the impact Swinney has had on him and his teammates.

“I’ve been fortunate just to be around him. As he says, ‘best is the standard’.”

“Best” certainly has been the standard in his four years at Clemson. The Tigers have 37 wins and have a chance to break the current record of 40.

Watson, in the same mold as his father but about 20 pounds bulkier, has primarily served on special teams over that span, accumulating 13 tackles in 77 snaps over 23 games in his career.

The final chapter in a trilogy of Watsons to suit up for Clemson has seen success, both in the classroom and on the field, and now has the ability to lead that next generation of Tigers. He already has done so by mentoring his teammates and knows what he would say to those coming in once his time is done.

“I’d tell them to buy in and stay committed, on and off the field. Having that attitude can set you up for life.”

It certainly can, and he is proof. @ClemsonFB

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BY JOEY JOHNS Q. When did you start playing football?

A. Around age six. At first, I was too young to play, so I was playing with seven and eight-year olds. But I was scoring touchdowns and playing well, so I stuck with it.

Q. Why did you choose Clemson?

A. I grew up always coming to Clemson games. My dad and I would come to the home games, but we never thought that I would actually play here one day.

Q. What are your pregame rituals?

A. I always write little notes and goals to myself and put them in my Bible. Then I find my parents during Tiger Walk and give them a hug.

Q. What is the best part about playing in Death Valley?

A. The crowd involvement. It’s a high that you can’t buy.

It is so electric and the camaraderie is so high. It’s a feeling that you can’t explain.

Q. What has been your top moment as a Tiger?

A. Probably the Orange Bowl (2014). I worked so hard to be in that position after getting hurt early in the year.

Q. Coming from track, what was the hardest transition?

A. The time management and realizing you have to accept your role. Since track is more of an individual sport, you did what you need to do and then left. But with football, there is so much more time put into it with film and practices.

Q. What does the Clemson Family mean to you?

A. As a student-athlete that has been through a lot, it is essential to have a family behind you. With Clemson, it is all about family and support, not only just from the football team, but with community involvement.

Q. What is something about you that people don’t know?

A. I listen to Trevor Hall. “Nuk” (Hopkins) suggested that music in high school.

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BOARD TRUSTEES of

CLEMSON UNIVERSITY IS GOVERNED BY A 13-MEMBER BOARD OF TRUSTEES, INCLUDING SEVEN SUCCESSOR TRUSTEES & SIX ELECTED

BY THE STATE LEGISLATURE, AS PROVIDED BY THE WILL OF THOMAS GREEN CLEMSON.

DAVID H. WILKINS

JOHN N. MCCARTER JR.

Chair • Greenville, S.C.

Vice Chair • Columbia, S.C.

DAVID E. DUKES

LEON J. HENDRIX JR.

RONALD D. LEE

LOUIS B. LYNN

Columbia, S.C.

Kiawah Island, S.C.

Aiken, S.C.

Columbia, S.C.

PATRICIA H. MCABEE

E. SMYTH MCKISSICK III

ROBERT L. PEELER

MARK S. RICHARDSON

Greenville, S.C.

Greenville, S.C.

Lexington, S.C.

Charlotte, N.C.

TRUSTEES Emeriti Trustee Louis P. Batson Jr. J.J. Britton Fletcher C. Derrick Jr. Harold D. Kingsmore Thomas B. McTeer Jr. D. Leslie Tindal Allen Wood

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WILLIAM C. SMITH JR.

JOSEPH D. SWANN

KIM WILKERSON

Columbia, S.C.

Greenville, S.C.

Cayce, S.C.

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JAMES P. CLEMENTS THE DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR, NATIONALLY-RECOGNIZED VOICE IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND PROVEN LEADER UNDERSTANDS THE UNIQUE MISSION OF THE LANDGRANT UNIVERSITY THAT CLEMSON UNIVERSITY IS.

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lemson University’s 15th president, James P. Clements, took office Dec. 31, 2013 after serving nearly five years as president of West Virginia University. He succeeded James F. Barker, who retired after serving as president for 14 years. Clements is also a professor in the School of Computing, College of Engineering & Science.

Since arriving at Clemson in time to watch the Tigers win the 2014 Orange Bowl as one of his first official acts, Clements has hit the ground running - working to increase state funding, gaining approvals for major new student housing projects, breaking ground or beginning construction on new academic facilities, including the Watt Innovation Center, exceeding annual fundraising goals with $115 million raised in the 2013-14 fiscal year and filling key leadership positions.

Clements is a nationally-recognized voice in higher education who currently serves as chair-elect of the board of directors of the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities and will become chair of the board in November. He also serves as co-chair of APLU’s Energy Forum, chair of the American Council on Education’s Commission on Leadership and member of the Business Higher Education Forum that includes Fortune 500 CEOs and higher education executives. He is a member of the Council on Competitiveness and was the only university president to serve on the U.S. Department of Commerce Innovation Advisory Board.

Clements holds a bachelor of science degree in computer science and master of science degree and Ph.D. in operations analysis from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, and a

of Clemson for many master of science degree in computer years and have actuscience from Johns Hopkins University. ally based a number He has published and/or presented of initiatives at Towmore than 75 papers in the fields of son and West Virginia on computer science, higher education, Clemson models,” he said. information technology, project man“Having the opportunity to lead this agement and strategic planning. He has great university, one of the most outbeen the principal investigator or co-PI standing land-grant public research inon more than $15 million in grant fundstitutions in the country, is both exciting ing. He is the co-author of Successful and humbling.”

Project Management, a best-selling textClements also has served as a conbook now in its sixth edition and used in sultant to numerous private-sector classrooms worldwide. companies, including Bell Atlantic YelClements began his career as a faclow Pages, Chesapeake Directory Sales ulty member and has risen steadily Corporation, Outreach Technologies, Pathrough the academic ranks to the presidova Technologies, Solipsys, UPS/Roaddent’s office. Prior to his appointment at net Technologies and Verizon, assisting WVU, Clements served as Provost and with strategic planning and development Vice President for Academic Affairs, Robert W. Deutsch Distinguished Professor of InformaTHE CLEMENTS tion Technology and FAMILY - JIM Vice President for AND WIFE, BETH, ALONG Economic and ComWITH CHILDREN munity Outreach at (FROM LEFT Towson University, TO RIGHT), the second-largest MAGGIE, university in the GRACE, TYLER University System AND HANNAH. of Maryland. He also served as the executive director of the Center for Applied Information Technology, which was a strategic, entrepreneurial initiative for the university, and chaired Towson’s Department of Computer & Information Sciences.

“I have been a follower and admirer

of information technology systems and corporate-wide training programs.

He and his wife, Beth, have a son, Ty (22), twin daughters, Hannah and Maggie (19), and daughter, Grace (14).

The extended family includes many Clemson connections. Two of Beth’s brothers and a sister-in-law are Clemson graduates. One, Greg Smith, serves on the advisory board of Clemson’s Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership.

The Championship Awards Room in the golf clubhouse is named for Beth’s parents - Clif and Priscilla Smith. Jim and Beth’s daughter, Hannah, is a sophomore at Clemson.

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ollege football is a new era in 2014 with the College Football Playoff, and Director of Athletics Dan Radakovich is at the forefront. In 2013, he was one of 13 people, including one of only five FBS directors of athletics, to be named to the committee.

His selection to the committee is another testament to the level of respect he carries on a national basis. In 2012, he was named by NCAA President Mark Emmert as one of 10 directors of athletics from around the nation to a new advisory commission charged with making recommendations for the future of NCAA rules and policies.

Radakovich became Clemson’s 13th director of athletics on Dec. 1, 2012. He came with a wealth of experience after serving in significant athletic administrative roles at Miami (Fla.), Long Beach State, South Carolina and Louisiana State in addition to athletic directorships at American University and Georgia Tech. His administrative career spans over 26 years.

In his first full year as director of athletics, Clemson had a strong allaround performance on the field and in the classroom. Clemson was one of just three programs nationally to win at least 11 football games, 23 men’s basketball games and 36 baseball games over the course of the academic year. Each of the Tiger sport programs exceeded the NCAA baseline standards for Academic Progress Rate, and six programs posted perfect 1000 single-year scores, including men’s and women’s cross country, diving, women’s soccer, women’s tennis and volleyball.

Six of Clemson’s athletic teams and more than 53 percent of all studentathletes posted a 2014 spring semester grade point average of 3.0 or better, and student-athletes earned a cumulative grade point average of 2.90.

THE RADAKOVICH FAMILY - DAN AND WIFE, MARCIE, ALONG WITH SONS, CHRISTIAN (LEFT) AND GRANT (RIGHT).

On an individual basis, the program had 51 first-team AllAmericans in 10 sports, 30 academic All-Americans, two national coach-of-the-year selections and two national player-of-the-year selections. The program had 13 ACC Coach-ofthe-Year and 13 ACC Player-ofthe-Year choices as well.

The construction of new facilities or upgrades to existing ones was a focus of Radakovich’s tenure with the Yellow Jacket program, and it certainly is at Clemson as well. The John & Mary Brock Football Practice Facility, which opened in 2011, and McCamish Pavilion, which opened for basketball in 2012, are two of the top facilities of their kind in college athletics.

Radakovich also initiated the Athletic Director’s Initiative Fund, started in 2006, which raised cash and pledges of more than $12 million.

The Aliquippa, Pa. native was first made aware of Tiger athletics through the basketball exploits of Butch Zatezalo, who was from the same town.

Zatezalo was a three-time All-ACC Tiger whose legendary 25-point scoring nights received a lot of attention in Pennsylvania in the 1960s when Radakovich was a youth.

Prior to his tenure at Georgia Tech, Radakovich worked as a senior associate athletic director at Louisiana State from 2001-06. He had many responsibilities that dealt with the football program and worked closely with then Head Coach Nick Saban, including the year (2003) the Tigers won the National Championship.

Radakovich became a director of athletics for the first time at American University in Washington, D.C. in 2000.

Between the 1994-00 seasons, Radakovich served as chief financial officer at South Carolina. During that time, he worked with current Clemson football administrators Woody McCorvey and Brad Scott.

Radakovich gained experience on the West Coast from 1989-94, when he was a senior associate athletic director at Long Beach State. He got his start in administration at Miami (Fla.) in 1983 as the athletic business manager.

Radakovich is a 1980 graduate of Indiana (Pa.), where he earned a bachelor of science degree in finance. He was also a football letterman and student coach with the Crimson Hawk program. He was enshrined into the Beaver County Sports Hall of Fame in 2008 and was recognized as a distinguished alumnus from Indiana (Pa.) in 2009.

He earned his master’s degree in business administration from Miami (Fla.) in 1982.

Radakovich, born June 9, 1958, and his wife, Marcie, have two children, Christian, a 2012 Georgia Tech graduate, and Grant, a student-athlete who plays football at Mercer.

Director of Athletics

DAN RADAKOVICH CLEMSON’S 13TH DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS HAS OVER 26 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AT PROGRAMS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. In 2013, the football team finished with an 11-2 mark, a No. 7 national ranking in the USA Today poll and a top-10 ranking in APR score. The men’s basketball team reached the NIT semifinals in New York and the baseball team reached the NCAA Tournament for the 27th time in the last 28 years.

In women’s sports, the tennis team reached the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament for the eighth time in the last 10 years and the golf team finished with a No. 14 national ranking in its first year of competition.

Those programs, plus the men’s tennis and men’s soccer teams, earned team bids to NCAA Tournaments.

He has always been a director of action when it comes to facilities, and in his first year, projects were put in place at the West endzone of Memorial Stadium and a new player facility at Doug

Kingsmore Stadium. He also announced plans for a new Littlejohn Coliseum.

The Tiger program had a strong finish to the 2012-13 academic year under Radakovich’s guidance. It finished with eight different teams achieving top-25 status. There were two ACC Championships recorded by the women’s track program. Both indoor track teams had top-25 finishes and both tennis teams had top-25 finishes in the spring.

Radakovich came to Clemson from Georgia Tech, where he served with distinction for six years (2006-12). Just Clemson’s fifth director of athletics since 1940, he replaced Terry Don Phillips, who retired after over 10 years directing the program.

During his career at Georgia Tech, the Yellow Jackets had 51 teams advance to either NCAA Tournament play or bowl games in his six years. That includes five sports (football, women’s basketball, softball, women’s tennis, men’s golf) that made the postseason every year that he was in Atlanta. The baseball program missed just once.

Eleven different sports programs finished in the top 25 of at least one major poll 27 times. That includes a National Championship women’s tennis program in 2007, just the second NCAA team title in school history. There were 14 ACC titles celebrated in addition to nine regular-season conference or division titles.

The football program played in a bowl game each year he was at Georgia Tech, including the 2010 Orange Bowl, the program’s first BCS-level bowl appearance since the 1967 Orange Bowl.

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DABO SWINNEY AS CLEMSON’S 25TH HEAD COACH, DABO SWINNEY AND HIS ALL-IN APPROACH, BOTH ON AND OFF THE FIELD, HAS LED THE PROGRAM TO RECORD-SETTING HEIGHTS.

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here is a strong coaching heritage over the 118 years of Clemson football that dates to the early 1900s, when John Heisman led the program. Jess Neely and Frank Howard continued the winning and joined Heisman in the College Football Hall of Fame. Danny Ford, a finalist for the Hall of Fame last year, led Clemson to the 1981 National Championship.

Dabo Swinney has been at Clemson for just six years as head coach, but he is making progress towards joining the Tiger legends of the past. He will be the first person to tell you that the program has not reached all of its goals just yet, but there have been some significant accomplishments.

The last two years were especially noteworthy, with two top-10 final USA Today rankings, a first for the Tigers since the 1987,88 seasons. Each team won 11 games, the first time Clemson won 11 games in consecutive years.

From 2011-13, Clemson had a 32-8 record, the most wins in a three-year period in Tiger history. Clemson is one of just eight schools to total 10+ wins each of the last three years. Twenty-one of the victories came against ACC teams, including a 38-10 triumph over No. 3 Virginia Tech that gave the Tigers the 2011 ACC title.

Eight of the 32 wins the last three years came against top-25 teams, including five against top-10 opponents.

The program became the first non-SEC program to defeat top-10 SEC teams in consecutive games in history.

Clemson was in the top 10 of APR scores and the final top 25 of the AP and USA Today polls in 2011, 2012 and 2013, the only FBS program that can make that claim.

In six years (five full seasons) as head coach, Swinney has directed Clemson to a 51-23 overall record (.689) and a 33-12 ACC regular-season mark (.733).

He has also led the Tigers to the ACC Championship game twice, won one ACC Championship, won or shared three ACC Atlantic Division titles and has been named national coach-of-the-year.

Clemson recorded double-digit wins for the third year in a row in 2013, as the Tigers capped off the season with a thrilling 40-35 victory over No. 6 Ohio State in the Orange Bowl. Clemson had

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THE SWINNEY FAMILY - DABO WITH WIFE, KATHLEEN, AND SONS, DREW, CLAY AND WILL. an 11-2 record after finishing 7-1 in ACC regular-season games for the second year in a row. It marked Clemson’s first back-to-back 11-win seasons in school history.

The Tigers were No. 12 in the final BCS standings. It was the third straight year Clemson finished in the top 15 of the BCS standings, one of only six schools that could make that claim.

Clemson, who was ranked No. 7 in the final USA Today poll and No. 8 in the final AP poll, was also one of only five programs ranked in the top 20 of every BCS standing from 2011 to 2013.

Tajh Boyd broke almost every Tiger career record for quarterbacks thanks in part to 2013, when he completed 68.5 percent of his passes for 3,851 yards and 34 touchdowns. Boyd’s 107 career passing touchdowns and 133 total touchdowns were ACC records as well.

Sammy Watkins was a finalist for the Biletnikoff Award and was a firstteam All-America selection, as he had 101 receptions for 1,464 yards and 12 touchdowns. He established Tiger career records for receptions, receiving yards and tied the receiving touchdowns mark.

For the fourth time in his first five full seasons as head coach at Clemson, Swinney was a finalist for the Liberty Mutual National Coach-of-the-Year Award in 2013.

The 2012 season (11-2) was a groundbreaking year for Swinney’s Tigers when looking at the overall consistency of the program.

The seven conference wins in the regular season set a school record. Clemson was co-champion of the ACC Atlantic Division and has won or shared the division crown three of the last five years.

The school record for consecutive wins at Memorial Stadium (13) was also established.

With Clemson’s thrilling 25-24 win over No. 7 Louisiana State in the 2012 Chick-fil-A Bowl, the Tigers finished the season ranked No. 9 in the USA Today poll. It was Clemson’s first top-10 finish in one of the two major polls since 1990. Clemson also reached the 11-win mark for the first time since its 1981 National Championship season.

The 2012 campaign featured a record-setting offense. Clemson had six of the 11 offensive players on the AllACC first team chosen by the media and set over 80 Tiger team and individual records. Swinney was a finalist for the 2012 Liberty Mutual National Coach-ofthe-Year Award for the third time.

THE SWINNEY FILE Playing Experience Lettered three years at Alabama (1990-92); also a member of the 1989 team ... member of the 1992 National Championship team ... Academic All-SEC and SEC Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll member in 1990,92.

Education B.S. degree in commerce & business administration from Alabama in 1993 ... master of business administration from Alabama in 1995.

Personal Data Born Nov. 20, 1969 in Birmingham, Ala. ... married to the former Kathleen Bassett ... the couple has three sons (Will 16, Drew 14, Clay 11).

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Swinney’s 2011 squad, which ended the season ranked No. 22 in the nation, captured Clemson’s first ACC title since 1991 when it beat No. 3 Virginia Tech 38-10 in the ACC Championship game in Charlotte. The win, the Tigers’ second over the Hokies in 2011, gave Clemson its first 10-win season since 1990.

For his efforts, Swinney was named Bobby Dodd National Coach-of-the-Year in 2011 to become the first Tiger head coach to win a national coach-of-theyear award since 1981, when Danny Ford led Clemson to the national title.

The 2010 season included wins over bowl teams Georgia Tech, Maryland and NC State. NC State was ranked No. 23

in the nation and was leading the ACC in scoring. But the defense held NC State and Russell Wilson to one touchdown and 13 points. The team excelled defensively and was 13th in the nation in scoring defense and in the top 25 in both total defense and passing defense.

C.J. Spiller was a unanimous firstteam All-American in 2009 and Da’Quan Bowers duplicated the feat on the defense a year later. Bowers won the 2010 Bronko Nagurski Award as the nation’s top defensive player and he received the Ted Hendricks Award as the country’s top defensive end.

In 2009, Swinney’s first full year as head coach, he led the Tigers to their

SWINNEY’S COACHING RECORD Year 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

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CLEMSON BECAME THE FIRST-EVER NON-SEC PROGRAM TO DEFEAT TOP-10 SEC TEAMS IN CONSECUTIVE GAMES WHEN IT DOWNED NO. 5 GEORGIA IN THE 2013 OPENER.

first championship of the ACC’s Atlantic Division. Swinney was named ACC Coach-of-the-Year by Sporting News.

Swinney totaled nine wins, secondmost among FBS coaches in their first full year behind Oregon’s Chip Kelly. He also led the Tigers to their first bowl win since 2005 in the 21-13 victory over Kentucky in the Music City Bowl.

Swinney’s first season included a six-game winning streak at midseason, a streak that saw the Tigers score 34+ points in every contest, a first in school history. During that stretch, the Tigers defeated No. 8 Miami (Fla.) on the road.

The 40-37 overtime victory tied for the highest-ranked team Clemson has defeated on the road in history.

In October 2008, he was named Clemson interim head coach, replacing Tommy Bowden, who had been his position coach as a player at Alabama and was Clemson’s head coach since 1999.

He led the Tigers to a 4-2 record over the remainder of the regular season, including a win over South Carolina in the regular-season finale. That strong finish led to a Gator Bowl bid against Nebraska.

On Dec. 1, 2008, the interim tag was removed from the title and he was named the program’s head coach.

The 1993 Alabama graduate joined the Clemson staff prior to the 2003 season. In his first 11 years as an assistant or head coach, the Tigers have finished in the top 25 of the polls seven times

and have 19 wins over top-25 teams, including 10 top-25 wins as a head coach.

Swinney coached his wide receiver position to a level of consistency that had not been seen previously at Clemson. He had a wideout finish first or second in the ACC in catches in five of his six years as an assistant coach. In his first year, he had three of the top-10 receivers in the ACC, a first in Tiger history.

He has coached a First or Second-Team All-ACC wideout (Derrick Hamilton, Airese Currie, Chansi Stuckey, Aaron Kelly, Jacoby Ford, Watkins, DeAndre Hopkins) in 10 of his 11 seasons in Tigertown, also an unprecedented feat at Clemson.

The Alabama native has a reputation as one of the top recruiters in the na-

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tion. In 2006, he was listed as the No. 5 recruiter in the nation by Rivals.com. He signed 38 players in his five recruiting seasons as an assistant coach and was a big reason the 2008 recruiting class was rated No. 2 in the nation according to ESPN.com when he signed 11 players.

Swinney received a commerce & business administration degree from Alabama in 1993 after lettering three times (1990-92). A walk-on who went on to earn a scholarship, he was a wideout on Alabama’s 1992 National Championship team. He was named Academic All-SEC along with being an SEC Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll member in 1990 and 1992.

After his playing career, Swinney served as a graduate assistant from 1993-95 at Alabama, where he coached in the 1994 Gator Bowl and 1995 Citrus Bowl. In December 1995, he received a master’s degree in business administration from Alabama.

He became a full-time assistant coach at Alabama in February 1996 under Head Coach Gene Stallings (now in the Hall of Fame) and coached a total of five seasons there on a full-time basis. Swinney was assigned to coach the Crimson Tide’s wide receivers and tight ends in 1996, a season that saw Alabama win the SEC Western Division title and make an Outback Bowl appearance.

At Alabama, Swinney was a part of six teams with 10+ wins, five top-10 finishes, one national title (1992), three SEC titles (1989,92,99) and five SEC Western Division titles (1992,93,94,96,99) as a player and coach.

From April 2001 through February 2003, Swinney was in private business in Alabama. He married the former Kathleen Bassett in 1994. The couple has three sons, Will (16), Drew (14) and Clay (11). @ClemsonFB

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ASSISTANT COACHES DAN BROOKS

DANNY PEARMAN

CHAD MORRIS

ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH DEFENSIVE TACKLES

ASSISTANT HEAD COACH SPECIAL TEAMS COORDINATOR TIGHT ENDS

OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR QUARTERBACKS

• 6th Season at Clemson • 31st Season Overall • Western Carolina ‘76 • Born June 25, 1951

• 7th Season at Clemson • 24th Season Overall • Clemson ‘87 • Born Feb. 17, 1965

• 4th Season at Clemson • 5th Season Overall • Texas A&M ‘92 • Born Dec. 4, 1968

• His defensive tackles were a big reason Clemson led the nation in tackles for loss (122) in 2013.

• Played a big role in Clemson winning the 2011 ACC title for the first time in 20 years. He has been on the staff of three ACC Atlantic Division titles in the last five years. Clemson is 47-20 with him on staff.

• In 2010, he coached Jarvis Jenkins to a First-Team All-ACC season. His defensive tackles were a big reason Clemson was 13th in the nation in scoring defense.

• Finalist for defensive line coach-of-the-year according to FootballScoop.com in 2010.

• Helped Clemson to an ACC Atlantic Division title and a top-25 final ranking in his first year (2009) at Clemson.

• Has coached 369 games as a full-time assistant coach, second-most on the Tiger coaching staff.

• Coached the previous 15 years at Tennessee under Head Coach Phillip Fulmer. The Volunteers finished in the top 25 of the polls in 12 of those seasons.

• Coached on the 1998 Tennessee staff that won the national title with a 13-0 record.

• Coached six years at North Carolina from 1988-93.

• Coached fi ve years at Florida from 1983-87.

• Coached former Clemson star and NFL All-Pro running back Kevin Mack in high school in the 1970s.

PLAYING EXPERIENCE Began his football career at Appalachian State in 1969 ... transferred to Western Carolina and played in 1973.

EDUCATION After serving in the Army, he earned an undergraduate degree from Western Carolina in 1976 ... master’s degree from Florida in 1984.

PERSONAL DATA

• Has coached the Tiger special teams since 2011, including Chandler Catanzaro, who was a three-time All-ACC placekicker, is Clemson’s career scoring leader (404) and made 81.7 percent of his field goals.

• Coached Brandon Ford to a First-Team All-ACC season at tight end in 2012. Ford tied the school record for receiving touchdowns by a tight end (8) in 2012.

• Had a big impact in Clemson winning the 2011 ACC title for the first time in 20 years.

• Coached Dwayne Allen in 2011. He won the John Mackey Award and was a first-team All-American. Allen set school records for receptions (50), receiving yards (598) and receiving touchdowns by a tight end (8).

• In 2010, he coached offensive tackle Chris Hairston to a First-Team All-ACC season and Allen to Second-Team All-ACC honors.

• In 2009, his tight ends had 54 catches, most for the position in Tiger history at the time. He coached FirstTeam All-ACC tight end Michael Palmer and Hairston, a Second-Team All-ACC selection.

• One of three Clemson graduates on the coaching staff (Tony Elliott, Jeff Scott). He played tight end on Clemson’s 1986 and 1987 ACC title teams, then he served as a graduate assistant on the Tigers’ 1988 ACC Championship team.

• Served on the same Alabama staff with current Clemson Head Coach Dabo Swinney from 1993-97.

PLAYING EXPERIENCE Lettered three times (1985-87) as a tight end at Clemson ... strength & conditioning All-American (1987).

EDUCATION Bachelor’s degree in finance from Clemson in 1987 ... master of business administration from Clemson in 1989.

• Clemson has a 32-8 overall record and 21-4 record against ACC teams in his three seasons in Tigertown.

• 2013 AFCA National Assistant Coach-of-the-Year.

• Clemson’s 2013 offense averaged 507.7 yards per game and 40.2 points per game.

• Coached Tajh Boyd to nearly every school record for a quarterback and the ACC record for both career touchdown responsibility (133) and career passing touchdowns (107). Boyd was also a three-time All-ACC selection.

• Coached first-team All-America wide receiver and Biletnikoff Award finalist Sammy Watkins to a schoolrecord 101 receptions for a school-record 1,464 yards and 12 touchdowns in 2013.

• Boyd, who was a first-team All-American in 2012, was fifth in the nation in passing efficiency (165.6) and accounted for 46 touchdowns (10 rushing, 36 passing).

Boyd was also named ACC Player-of-the-Year in 2012.

• A big reason Clemson won the 2011 ACC title for the first time in 20 years.

• National offensive coordinator-of-the-year according to Rivals.com in 2011.

• Clemson and Baylor were the only FBS schools with a 3,000-yard passer, 1,000-yard rusher and 1,000yard receiver every year from 2011-13.

• Served as offensive coordinator and associate head coach at Tulsa in 2010 and guided the offense to among the nation’s best.

• Won 82 percent of his games as a high school coach in Texas.

EDUCATION Undergraduate degree in mathematics with a minor in statistics from Texas A&M in 1992.

PERSONAL DATA

Born June 25, 1951 in Sparta, N.C. ... he and his wife, Kathy, have two children, Tara and Rhett; Rhett is an offensive player development assistant on the 2014 Clemson staff.

Born Feb. 17, 1965 ... he and his wife, Kristy, have one daughter, Taylor, and two sons, Tanner and Trent.

Born Dec. 4, 1968 in Edgewood, Texas ... he and his wife, Paula, have two children, a daughter, MacKenzie, and son, Chandler.

DAN BROOKS

DANNY PEARMAN

CHAD MORRIS

PERSONAL DATA

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2014 CLEMSON FOOTBALL

ASSISTANT COACHES BRENT VENABLES

MARION HOBBY

JEFF SCOTT

DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR LINEBACKERS

CO-DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR DEFENSIVE ENDS

RECRUITING COORDINATOR WIDE RECEIVERS

• 3rd Season at Clemson • 19th Season Overall • Kansas State ‘92 • Born Dec. 18, 1970

• 5th Season at Clemson • 16th Season Overall • Tennessee ‘95 • Born Nov. 7, 1966

• 7th Season at Clemson • 8th Season Overall • Clemson ‘ 03 • Born Dec. 28, 1980

• In his 18 years as a full-time assistant coach, his teams have 18 winning seasons, have been to 18 bowl games and have won at least 10 games 14 times.

• His 2013 defense, which was 24th in the nation in scoring defense and 25th in total defense, led the nation in tackles for loss (122).

• Named one of the top-25 recruiters in the nation in 2013 by Rivals.com.

• A big reason Clemson was co-champion of the ACC Atlantic Division and won 11 games in 2012.

• Coached 13 years (1999-11) at Oklahoma and three years (1996-98) at Kansas State. He was also a graduate assistant coach at Kansas State for three seasons (1993-95).

• Served as co-defensive coordinator at Oklahoma (1999-03) and defensive coordinator at Oklahoma (2004-11).

• Linebackers under his direction were named Big 12 Defensive Player-of-the-Year five times and Big 12 Defensive Newcomer-of-the-Year five times. He also coached two Butkus Award winners and two other Butkus Award finalists.

• Broyles Award finalist in 2006 when Oklahoma led the Big 12 in total defense and scoring defense.

• Owns a National Championship ring as co-defensive coordinator at Oklahoma in 2000.

• Clemson has finished in the top 25 all four years he has been an assistant coach.

• Named one of the top-10 recruiters in the ACC in 2013

by Rivals.com.

• His defensive ends were a big reason Clemson led the nation in tackles for loss (122) in 2013.

• Coached first-team All-America defensive end and Ted Hendricks Award finalist Vic Beasley, who had 23 tackles for loss and an ACC-high 13 sacks, in 2013.

• A big reason Clemson won the 2011 ACC Championship for the first time in 20 years.

• In 2011, he coached second-team All-American and First-Team All-ACC defensive end Andre Branch, who led the ACC with 17 tackles for loss and 10.5 sacks.

• Returned to Clemson after spending three years (2008-10) at Duke.

• Served as defensive line coach at Clemson in 2005.

• Has NFL experience, as he was an assistant coach with the Saints in 2006 and 2007.

• Prior to coming to Clemson, he worked for David Cutcliffe at Mississippi for six seasons (1999-04).

• Started in coaching in 1995 with the defensive tackles at Tennessee-Martin.

• First-Team All-SEC pick in 1989 and was named to Tennessee’s 100-year anniversary team. A third-round draft pick (No. 74 overall) of the Vikings.

PLAYING EXPERIENCE

PLAYING EXPERIENCE

Played two seasons (1989,90) at Garden City (Kan.) Community College ... lettered two times as a linebacker at Kansas State (1991,92).

Lettered four times (1986-89) as a defensive end at Tennessee ... three-year starter ... played three seasons (42 games) in the NFL with the New England Patriots.

EDUCATION Graduated from Kansas State in 1992.

EDUCATION B.S. degree from Tennessee in 1995.

• Clemson has been to a bowl game each of his six years as a full-time assistant coach.

• Named one of the top-10 recruiters in the nation by ESPN.com in 2014.

• Coached First-Team All-ACC and first-team All-America wide receiver Sammy Watkins in 2013. He had a school-record 101 receptions for a school-record 1,464 yards and 12 touchdowns. He also set or tied school career records for receptions (240), receiving yards (3,391) and receiving touchdowns (27).

• In 2012, he coached DeAndre Hopkins to a secondteam All-America season. Hopkins had 82 receptions for 1,405 yards and an ACC-record 18 touchdowns, second-most in the nation.

• Has coached an All-American each of the last three seasons and a first-round draft pick the last two years.

• Has coached four wideouts (Jacoby Ford, Hopkins, Martavis Bryant, Watkins) who were NFL draft picks in his first five full years as wide receivers coach.

• Took over as Clemson’s recruiting coordinator in December 2008 and put together a top-10 signing class in his first season (2009) at the position. Then in both 2011 and 2012, Clemson had top-10 recruiting classes.

• Son of former Tiger Associate Head Coach Brad Scott (1999-10), therefore Jeff was a part of the first fulltime, father-son coaching combination in Tiger history.

• A member of three bowl teams as a player at Clemson from 2000-02.

PLAYING EXPERIENCE Lettered three years (2000-02) as a wide receiver and holder at Clemson.

EDUCATION Degree in secondary education from Clemson in 2003.

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PERSONAL DATA

PERSONAL DATA

Born Dec. 18, 1970 ... he and his wife, Julie, have two sons, Jake and Tyler, and two daughters, Laney and Addie.

Born Nov. 7, 1966 in Irondale, Ala. ... he and his wife, Constance, have three daughters, Maria, Mariah and Camille.

Born Dec. 28, 1980 in Arcadia, Fla. ... married the former Sara McDaniel.

BRENT VENABLES

MARION HOBBY

JEFF SCOTT

PERSONAL DATA

2014 CLEMSON FOOTBALL

ASSISTANT COACHES ROBBIE CALDWELL

TONY ELLIOTT

MIKE REED

OFFENSIVE LINEMEN

RUNNING BACKS

DEFENSIVE BACKS

• 4th Season at Clemson • 37th Season Overall • Furman ‘77 • Born Jan. 26, 1954

• 4th Season at Clemson • 9th Season Overall • Clemson ‘02 • Born Nov. 26, 1979

• 2nd Season at Clemson • 10th Season Overall • Boston College ‘94 • Born Aug. 16, 1972

• Has a staff-high 36 years of experience in college coaching and a staff-high 418 college games as a coach.

• Clemson has a 32-8 record and has three top-25 final rankings in his three years on staff.

• Coached offensive tackle Brandon Thomas, a thirdround draft pick, to his second-straight All-ACC season in 2013. Offensive guard Tyler Shatley also earned All-ACC honors in 2013.

• In 2012, he coached first-team All-American Dalton Freeman (C) and Thomas, a First-Team All-ACC pick.

Freeman was a Rimington Trophy finalist for the second year in a row.

• A big reason Clemson won the 2011 ACC Championship for the first time in 20 years.

• Served as Vanderbilt’s head coach in 2010 after eight years as offensive line coach at Vanderbilt.

• Was a part of the 2008 Vanderbilt staff that guided it to its first winning season and bowl game in 26 years.

• Joined Clemson graduate Bobby Johnson’s staff at Vanderbilt in 2002.

• Coached at North Carolina in 2000 and 2001.

• Moved with Dick Sheridan to NC State in 1986.

• Coached the Wolfpack offensive line for 11 years, then added assistant head coaching responsibilities in his last three years. Fourteen of his players were All-ACC picks.

• Clemson has a 32-8 record and has three top-25 final rankings in his three years on staff. He has also coached a 1,000-yard rusher all three seasons.

• Named one of the top-50 recruiters in the nation in 2013 by 247Sports.com.

• Coached All-ACC running back Roderick McDowell in 2013. He had 1,025 rushing yards and 29 receptions.

• Coached First-Team All-ACC running back Andre Ellington in 2012. He became just the third running back in school history with two 1,000-yard rushing seasons.

• A big reason Clemson won the 2011 ACC Championship for the first time in 20 years.

• Has played on and coached Clemson teams that have been in the final AP top 25.

• Spent three years (2008-10) as wide receivers coach at Furman and two seasons (2006,07) at SC State.

• Entered the business world after his playing days were over at Clemson and worked with Michelin North America for two years.

• Earned his undergraduate degree in industrial engineering in 2002.

• Was a co-captain of Clemson’s 2003 team that was 9-4 with a No. 22 ranking. He also received an ACC’s Weaver-James-Corrigan Postgraduate Scholarship.

• Dabo Swinney was his position coach during his senior season (2003).

• Had 34 career catches for 455 yards and two scores.

PLAYING EXPERIENCE

PLAYING EXPERIENCE

Lettered three years at Furman under Art Baker, including his senior season (1975) when he was named team MVP and offensive captain.

Lettered four times (2000-03) as a wide receiver at Clemson.

EDUCATION Degree from Furman in 1977.

EDUCATION Degree in industrial engineering from Clemson in 2002 with a team-high 3.55 GPA.

• His defensive backs combined for 15 interceptions in 2013. Bashaud Breeland was a Second-Team All-ACC selection and a fourth-round draft pick.

• His defensive backs were a big reason Clemson was 10th in the nation in turnovers forced (30) in 2013.

• Was the defensive backs coach at NC State for six seasons (2007-12).

• Has been a college assistant coach for nine years and in the NFL for five. He coached NC State All-American David Amerson, who is third in ACC history in career interceptions (18). As a coach with the Philadelphia Eagles, he worked with former Tiger All-American and nine-time Pro Bowl selection Brian Dawkins.

• Helped the Wolfpack to four bowl games in his six years with the program.

• The 2011 NC State squad had 27 interceptions, the most by an FBS school since 2003.

• In 2011, Amerson had 13 interceptions to lead the nation, five more than any other player.

• Played on three bowl teams at Boston College that finished with top-25 rankings in the AP poll.

• Was the last selection of the 1995 NFL draft by the Carolina Panthers and played two seasons (1995,96) for that team, including the 1995 team that played its home games at Memorial Stadium.

PLAYING EXPERIENCE Played at Boston College from 1991-94 ... All-ECAC selection and a Second-Team All-Big East Conference pick in 1993 ... one of four co-captains on the 1994 team.

EDUCATION Degree in communications with a minor in secondary education from Boston College in 1994.

PERSONAL DATA

PERSONAL DATA

PERSONAL DATA

Born Jan. 26, 1954 in Pageland, S.C. ... he and his wife, Nora Lynn, have a daughter, Emsley.

Born Nov. 26, 1979 in Watsonville, Calif. ... he and his wife, Tamika, have a son, A.J.

Born Aug. 16, 1972 in Wilmington, Del. ... he and his wife, Kimberly, have two daughters, Michaela Rae and Milan Skye.

ROBBIE CALDWELL

TONY ELLIOTT

MIKE REED

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Administrative Assistant, Defense

Assistant Athletic Director, Director of Football Communications

Offensive Player Development

Recruiting Operations Coordinator

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JOE CRADDOCK

JEFF DAVIS

MIKE DOOLEY

BETH DOUGLAS

DUSTIN FRY

WESLEY GOODWIN

D.J. GORDON

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Assistant Athletic Director, Football Player Relations

Director of High School Relations & Player Personnel

Assistant to the Head Coach

Graduate Assistant

Defensive Analyst & Research Development

Assistant Football Equipment Manager

TODD GREEN

LARRY GREENLEE

TYLER GRISHAM

HENRY GUESS

MICHAEL HAMLIN

PAUL HOGAN

ANDY JOHNSTON

Director of Football Coaching Technology

Assistant Director of Strength & Conditioning

Video Graduate Assistant

Assistant Director of Athletic Video Services

Graduate Assistant

Senior Assistant Football Strength & Conditioning Coach

Associate Athletic Director, Football Operations

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WOODY MCCORVEY

DANNY POOLE

ABE REED

BRAD SCOTT

ADAM SMOTHERMAN

RENDRICK TAYLOR

Special Teams Analyst & Research Development

Associate Athletic Director, Football Administration

Director of Sports Medicine

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STADIUM INFORMATION CHILD (TIGER TRACKER) IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM Visit the nearest guest services stand (at gates 1, 5, 9, 11, 13, 16 or 20) for information on obtaining a child ID wristband and notification procedures.

EMERGENCIES First Aid stations are located on the South side (Section J), North side (Section T), North Top Deck (Section K) and South Top Deck (Section E). Trained nurses are on hand. If a doctor is needed, ask any usher. For emergencies, call 911.

HANDICAPPED Entrances are at Gates 1, 5 and 13 for the handicapped.

LOST & FOUND Report any item to the Gate 11 information booth.

NOTICE Solicitation for any purpose is prohibited at an athletic contest in Memorial Stadium. It is also a smoke-free facility. Smoking is prohibited inside the gates.

PASSOUTS Passouts are allowed, but fans must go through the same level of security screening as they did upon entering.

PROHIBITED ITEMS Alcoholic beverages, artificial noisemakers, backpacks, banners, chairbacks with arms, flags, food/drink containers, home video cameras, large bags, laser devices, umbrellas and weapons of any kind are prohibited.

PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEM It is intended for spectators’ information. It cannot be used to make social contacts.

SEASON TICKETHOLDERS & OTHER VISITORS Lower Deck visitors are requested to enter at Gates 1, 5, 9, 11 or 13. Top Deck visitors must enter via the ramps, located behind the North and South stands. Fans with North Top Deck tickets should enter at Gate 20 and fans with South Top Deck tickets should enter at Gate 16. All tickets are barcoded and scanned upon entry.

WILL CALL Will-call tickets can be picked up at the IPTAY Center/Ticket Office (Northwest corner of Memorial Stadium) beginning four hours prior to kickoff.

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MEMORIAL STADIUM FROM “THE MOST EXCITING 25 SECONDS IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL,” TO 85,000 SCREAMING TIGER FANS, DEATH VALLEY HAS GIVEN CLEMSON ONE OF THE BEST HOME-FIELD ADVANTAGES IN THE COUNTRY.

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emorial Stadium has been held in high esteem for many years. Whether it be players from the 1940s and 1950s, opposing players from the 1970s and 1980s, or even professional players in the 1990s, the ambiance of this special setting is what college football is all about. And in 2013, BleacherReport.com rated Memorial Stadium as the third-best stadium in the nation.

The storied edifice added to its legend when the first meeting of father and son head coaches (Bowden Bowl I) took place before a record crowd of more than 86,000 fans in 1999. Clemson has been in the top 20 in the nation in average attendance 33 straight seasons.

A crowd has exceeded 80,000 fans 64 times since the 1983 season. In 2013, Clemson was 15th in the nation in average home attendance.

The legend was further enhanced in 2011 when the Tigers had a perfect 7-0 record at home and recorded victories over defending National Champion Auburn and No. 11 Florida State on consecutive weekends. Defending National Champions are 0-3 all-time at Memorial

Stadium. Clemson had a 13-game winning streak at home from 2011 to 2012, setting a record for the facility. The Tigers were 19-2 in their 21 home games from 2011-13 as well.

The facility’s mystique is derived from its many traditions, which date to its opening in 1942, the legendary games and players, and Clemson’s corresponding rate of success. The Tigers have won 275 games in 72 years and have won over 73 percent of the contests (275-101-7).

The stadium has definitely been good to the Tigers, but it was constructed against the advice of at least one coach. Before Head Coach Jess Neely left for Rice after the 1939 season, he gave Clemson a message.

“Don’t ever let them talk you into building a big stadium,” he said. “Put about 10,000 seats behind the YMCA. That’s all you’ll ever need.”

Instead of following Neely’s advice, Clemson officials decided to build the new stadium in a valley on the western part of campus. The place took some

clearing, as there were many trees, but luckily there were no hedges.

The crews went to work, clearing, cutting, pouring and forming. On Sept. 19, 1942, Memorial Stadium opened with Clemson defeating Presbyterian College 32-13. Those 20,000 seats installed for the opener would soon grow.

Howard said that on the day of the first game in the stadium, “the gates were hung at 1 p.m. and we played at 2 p.m.” But that would be all of the construction for awhile.

Then in 1958, 18,000 sideline seats were added, and in 1960, 5,658 West endzone seats were added in response to increasing attendance. With the large East endzone (“Green Grass” section), this expansion increased capacity to 53,000.

Later, upper decks were added to each side of Memorial Stadium as crowds swelled - the first in 1978 and the second in 1983. It increased capacity to over 80,000, which makes it one of

the nation’s largest on-campus stadiums.

In 2006, the WestZone was added, an area that contains coaches offices, locker rooms, a strength training facility, dining room and luxury club level that holds over 1,000 seats.

Through the years, Memorial Stadium has become known as “Death Valley.” It was tagged by the late Presbyterian College Head Coach Lonnie McMillian in the late 1940s. After bringing his teams to Clemson for years and getting whipped, he said the place was like “Death Valley.”

A few years later, the name stuck.

In 1974, the playing surface was named Frank Howard Field for the legendary coach because of his long service and dedication to Clemson University.

Luckily, it wasn’t built behind the YMCA.

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RUNNING DOWN THE HILL A CLEMSON TRADITION SINCE 1942, THE TIGERS HAVE RUN DOWN THE HILL HUNDREDS OF TIMES IN FRONT OF RAUCOUS DEATH VALLEY CROWDS.

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hat has been described as “the most exciting 25 seconds in college football” from a color and pageantry standpoint actually started out as a matter-of-fact entrance, mainly because of necessity.

The first 20,000 seats in Memorial Stadium were built and ready for use before the 1942 season, less than a year after Pearl Harbor was bombed and the United States was drawn into World War II. The shortest entry into Memorial Stadium was a short walk down Williamson Road from Fike Fieldhouse’s dressing rooms to a gate at the top of the Hill, located behind the East endzone. There were no dressing facilities inside the West endzone of Memorial Stadium...there was only a giant clock, where the hands turned, and a scoreboard that was operated by hand.

The team would dress in Fike Fieldhouse, walk down Williamson Road, come in the gate underneath where the scoreboard now stands and jog down the Hill for its warmup exercises. There was no fanfare, no cannon shot fired, no Tiger Paw flag, no “Tiger Rag” played...just the team making its entrance and lining up to do the side-straddle hop. That is the way things went for the next 25 years.

Either in 1964 or 1965, Sam Jones, a member of the class of 1919, made a trip to California. He stopped at a spot in Death Valley, Calif. and picked up a white flint rock. He presented it to Head Coach Frank Howard as being from Death Valley, California to Death Valley, South Carolina.

The rock laid on the floor in Howard’s office in Fike Fieldhouse for years. One day, he was cleaning up his office and told Gene Willimon, who was executive secretary of IPTAY, to “take this rock and throw it over the fence or out in the ditch...do something with it, but get it out of my office!”

Willimon did not think that was the way a rock should be treated. After all, it had been brought over 1,900 miles by a very sincere Tiger fan.

By the mid-1960s, Memorial Stadium was living up to its moniker (“Death Valley”) because of the number of Tiger wins that had been recorded there. Actually, the name was first used by Lonnie McMillian, head coach at Presbyterian College during the 1940s.

McMillian and the other Blue Hose coaches before him opened each season by playing at Clemson. Seldom scoring (24 shutouts in 39 games) and with only three wins and four ties to show for it, his teams were getting “killed” by the Tigers regularly.

In 1948, McMillian made the comment to the press that he was taking his team to play Clemson in “Death Valley.”

An occasional reference to Memorial Stadium by that name could be heard for the next four years, but when Howard started calling it “Death Valley” in the 1950s, the name took off like wildfire. Clemson celebrated its 72nd year in the “Valley” in 2013 with a 6-1 home record.

But getting back to Howard’s Rock.

It was mounted on a pedestal at the top of the Hill on the East side of the stadium. It was unveiled Sept. 24, 1966, when Clemson played Virginia. The Tigers trailed by 18 points with 17 minutes left and came back to win 40-35 on a 75yard pass from Jimmy Addison to Jacky Jackson in the fourth quarter. That was quite a debut for the Rock.

The team members started rubbing Howard’s Rock prior to running down the Hill on Sept. 23, 1967, a day when Clemson defeated Wake Forest by a score of 23-6.

Prior to running down the Hill, Howard told his players, “If you’re going to give me 110 percent, you can rub that Rock.

If you’re not, keep your filthy hands off it!”

Howard told of the incident the following day on his television show, and the story became legend.

When Hootie Ingram succeeded Howard as head coach in 1970, he decided that the team would make its final entrance out of the new dressing room in the West endzone. In all home games during the 1970 and 1971 seasons and the first four games of 1972 when the

Tigers did not run down the Hill, their combined record was 6-9.

The seniors decided they wanted to come down the Hill prior to the South Carolina contest, the finale of the 1972 season. The result, in a cold, freezing rain, was a 7-6 victory when Jimmy Williamson knocked down a two-point conversion attempt, which preserved the narrow win.

Clemson has made the entrance every home game since 1942, except for the years mentioned above and the first game of 1973 (367 times entering 2014).

After final warmups, the team gathers back in its dressing room under the West endzone stands for its final game instructions. Approximately 10 minutes prior to kickoff, the team boards three buses, rides around behind the North stands to the East endzone and disembarks to the top of the Hill behind Howard’s Rock.

At the appointed time, the cannon booms, and led by a giant Tiger Paw flag carried by cheerleaders and Rally Cats, the band forms two lines for the team to run between and strikes up “Tiger Rag”... the frenzy starts in all sincerity and usually lasts for three hours.

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hen fans envision an indoor practice facility like the one that was completed for the Tiger football team in 2013, certain stereotypes come to mind. Common perceptions are largely simplistic in nature, and the idea that a facility that is solely for game preparation, out of the gaze of onlookers and carries a large amount of importance seems crazy.

But the facility was never about football alone. In fact, the $10 million structure serves to unify the athletic department, while providing Tiger football with a cutting-edge structure that helps complete a nationally-relevant program.

On its face, the facility does exactly what it purports to do...provide a place for Head Coach Dabo Swinney to take his team in case of inclement weather without disrupting a schedule of events that is packed full on a daily basis. It equips the Tigers with a lavish place to prepare for opponents in a game-like atmosphere.

It houses an 80,000-square-foot practice area that includes a full field, which is surrounded by ample sideline space to provide a comfortable environment. In order to simulate a gameday experience, there is a fully-functional scoreboard inside the facility along with four play-clocks and a videoboard.

High above the fields, on the second story of the nearly 70-foot structure, is a long coaches platform so that practice can be viewed from above. In addition, by way of a short corridor, the platform extends to the back side of the building, so that any drills taking place outside on the other two fields can be seen from the building.

The indoor facility, which includes more than 5,000 square feet of support,

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FACILITIES also contains a small strength & conditioning area and a training room.

Clemson has also taken advantage of the WestZone at Memorial Stadium, completed in 2009. It is 150,000 square feet, including a two-floor strength training facility (14,000 square feet), among the nation’s largest dedicated solely for football.

The equipment room was expanded to include, among other items, new offices and a new laundry room that encompasses approximately 6,000 square feet of space. The football staff offices and meeting rooms are composed of approximately 4,000 square feet of existing space and more than 18,000 square feet of new space.

The facility includes offices for the head coach, assistant coaches and support staff along with position meeting rooms and a 150-seat auditorium with a sloped floor and theater seating.

The training room, located on the north side of the home team’s locker room, was expanded to include a hydrotherapy room, offices and examination rooms. The training room is 6,200 square feet as well.

Prior to the 2012 season, over 8,000 square feet of enclosed space was added on the second level, which houses “The Paw,” Clemson’s training table.

In the summer of 2014, WestZone underwent further renovations, including refurbishing of the recruiting areas and added graphics.

Moving all football operations to the WestZone has opened up space in the Jervey and McFadden Buildings for the other 18 sports to improve their facilities for recruiting and have more office, training, conditioning and sports medicine space. This has enhanced the performance, both on and off the field, for all 19 sports.

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significant aspect of Phase II of the WestZone project at Memorial Stadium was the construction of a new strength training facility on the first floor that is adjacent to the Clemson locker room and the Frank Howard Field playing surface.

For the first time, there is a strength training facility exclusively for the development of the Tiger football team.

Director of Football Strength & Conditioning Joey Batson, who is in his 18th season at Clemson, makes sure that all Tiger gridders are ready to compete against the top teams in the nation. In his first 17 years in Tigertown, Clemson has played in 15 bowl games and he has coached 25 strength All-Americans on the gridiron.

It is the fourth major facilities construction since he joined the football program, an example of his desire to keep Clemson at the forefront of strength training.

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The state-of-the-art facility has the best in all strength training equipment, not to mention the existence of a new sound system, nine flat-screen televisions and a nutrition station, supervised

by Sports Nutritionist Lisa Chan, that give Tiger football players a pleasant atmosphere to accomplish the most strenuous work.

The strength training facility at Memorial Stadium actually has two floors.

The first floor has all the free-weight equipment, including a dumbbell area, and the second floor has cardio equipment.

Batson has an extensive staff of strength & conditioning assistants - veteran Strength Coaches Larry Greenlee, Paul Hogan and Adam Smotherman along with Graduate Assistant Rendrick Taylor and six student administrative assistants, Hunter Hughes, Daniel Kirwin, Brandon Mahon, Drew McDuffie, Will Paruta and Scott Wilson.

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Joey Batson is in his 29th year as a strength & conditioning coach at the collegiate level and 18th year as the director of strength training at Clemson. He has served as a head strength & conditioning coach 25 of his 29 years of service.

Batson was named Master Strength & Conditioning Coach by the Collegiate Strength & Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCA) in 2009. The honor is the highest given in the profession.

He has had a strong impact on the program since he became director in 1997. He has had much to do with the success of the football program, helping the Tigers to 15 bowl games and eight top-25 finishes. While at Clemson, Batson has worked for three head football coaches and has had a tremendous impact throughout the state at many notable high school programs.

Not only does Batson bring professional experience to the position at Clemson, he brings experience as a football player at the collegiate level. The Travelers Rest, S.C. native was a tight end at The Citadel in 1979 before transferring to Newberry, where he was a twoyear letterman and co-captain during his senior season.

Batson earned his bachelor of arts degree in physical education from Newberry in 1985 and his master’s degree in education from Clemson in 1988.

He is married to the former Susan Malone of Greenville, S.C. They have two sons, Michael and Benjamin.

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BRADLEY PINION

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83

DANIEL RODRIGUEZ

7

TONY STEWARD

DT • *Fr. Honolulu, Hawaii

WR • Sr. Stafford, Va.

LB • Sr. Hastings, Fla.

91

JOSH WATSON

99

DESHAWN WILLIAMS

DT • *Gr. Wilmington, Del.

DT • Sr. Central, S.C.

19

CHARONE PEAKE

85

DANE ROGERS

18

COLE STOUDT

30

TAYLOR WATSON

7

MIKE WILLIAMS

WR • *Jr. Moore, S.C.

DE • *Fr. Shelby, N.C.

QB • Sr. Dublin, Ohio

S • *Gr. Simpsonville, S.C.

WR • So. Vance, S.C.

26

GARRY PETERS

12

NICK SCHUESSLER

25

CORDREA TANKERSLEY

77

REID WEBSTER

38

KEVIN WILLIAMSON

@ClemsonFB

CB • *Sr. Conyers, Ga.

QB • *So. Grayson, Ga.

CB • So. Beech Island, S.C.

OL • *Gr. Woodstock, Ga.

CB • *Sr. Chicago, Ill.

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2014 CLEMSON FOOTBALL

TIGER ROOKIES

26

50

ADAM CHOICE RB • Fr. Thomasville, Ga.

JUSTIN FALCINELLI OG • Fr. Middletown, Md.

27

17

C.J. FULLER RB • Fr. Easley, S.C.

JEFFERIE GIBSON S • Fr. Hope Mills, N.C.

51

TAYLOR HEARN OT • Fr. Williston, S.C.

MEMORIAL STADIUM RECORDS Clemson Team

34

KENDALL JOSEPH LB • Fr. Belton, S.C.

8

DEMARRE KITT WR • Fr. Fayetteville, Ga.

45

CHRIS REGISTER LB • Fr. Browns Summit, N.C.

Total Offense Plays Yards Per Play Rushing Yards Carries Yards Per Carry Rushing Touchdowns Passing Yards Completions Passing Attempts Passing Efficiency (min. 15 att.)

Passing Touchdowns

First Downs Points Punting Average Punts Penalties

80

MILAN RICHARD TE • Fr. Savannah, Ga.

96

JABRIL ROBINSON DT • Fr. Leland, N.C.

43

KORIE ROGERS

Penalty Yards Punt Return Yards Kickoff Return Yards Interception Return Yards Interceptions By Defense

LB • Fr. Flowery Branch, Ga.

Fumbles Fumbles Lost Tackles For Loss Sacks Pass Breakups

756 102 9.2 536 73 10.3 11 467 38 67 262.9 6 6 6 35 35 82 56.6 13 13 15 15 155 227 165 131 5 5 5 5 5 14 5 19 12 18

vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs.

Wake Forest, 10-31-1981 NC State, 11-17-2012 North Texas, 9-4-2010 Wake Forest, 10-31-1981 Virginia, 10-21-1972 Presbyterian College, 9-22-1945 Presbyterian College, 9-22-1945 SC State, 9-6-2014 Virginia Tech, 10-6-2007 Virginia Tech, 10-6-2007 Furman, 9-15-2007 Central Michigan, 10-20-2007 The Citadel, 11-23-2013 North Carolina, 9-27-2014 Wake Forest, 10-31-1981 Central Michigan, 10-20-2007 Wake Forest, 10-31-1981 Wake Forest, 10-29-1977 Furman, 11-21-1942 Pensacola N.A.S., 10-13-1945 Wake Forest, 11-2-1985 Duke, 10-17-1987 Wake Forest, 10-29-1977 Georgia Tech, 9-26-1987 Maryland, 11-16-2002 Western Carolina, 9-25-1982 Virginia, 10-31-1964 Virginia, 10-21-1972 Georgia, 9-19-1981 North Carolina, 11-4-1995 NC State, 10-30-2004 Presbyterian College, 9-1-1953 many NC State, 10-24-1987 Furman, 9-7-1996 The Citadel, 10-4-1986

Clemson Individual

3

ARTAVIS SCOTT WR • Fr. Oldsmar, Fla.

84

CANNON SMITH TE • Fr. Columbia, S.C.

47

ALEX SPENCE PK • Fr. Florence, S.C.

Total Offense Rushing Yards Carries Passing Yards Completions Passing Attempts Completion % (min. 15 att.)

Passing Efficiency (min. 15 att.)

Passing Touchdowns Receptions Receiving Yards Receiving Touchdowns

All-Purpose Yards Punt Return Yards Kickoff Return Yards Interceptions

1 52

TREVION THOMPSON WR • Fr. Durham, N.C.

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DESHAUN WATSON QB • Fr. Gainesville, Ga.

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49

RICHARD YEARGIN DE • Fr. Lauderdale Lakes, Fla.

Tackles Tackles For Loss Sacks

529 263 36 435 38 66 95.0 261.1 6 12 176 3 3 3 312 126 160 3 3 3 3 24 6 4

by Tajh Boyd vs. NC State, 11-17-2012

by Raymond Priester vs. Duke, 11-11-1995

by Ray Yauger vs. Wake Forest, 10-18-1969

by Deshaun Watson vs. North Carolina, 9-27-2014

by Cullen Harper vs. Virginia Tech, 10-6-2007

by Cullen Harper vs. Virginia Tech, 10-6-2007

by Cole Stoudt vs. SC State, 9-7-2013

by Cullen Harper vs. Central Michigan, 10-20-2007

by Deshaun Watson vs. North Carolina, 9-27-2014

by Airese Currie vs. Middle Tennessee, 9-13-2003

by Martavis Bryant vs. Georgia Tech, 11-14-2013

by Dreher Gaskin vs. Auburn, 11-21-1953

by Tony Horne vs. Texas-El Paso, 10-4-1997

by DeAndre Hopkins vs. Ball State, 9-8-2012

by C.J. Spiller vs. Florida State, 11-7-2009

by Donnell Woolford vs. Georgia Tech, 9-26-1987

by John Shields vs. Alabama, 10-25-1969

by Kit Jackson vs. Wake Forest, 10-30-1965

by Brian Dawkins vs. Duke, 11-11-1995

by Alex Ardley vs. Maryland, 10-14-2000

by Michael Hamlin vs. The Citadel, 9-6-2008

by Jeff Davis vs. North Carolina, 11-8-1980

by Keith Adams vs. Duke, 11-6-1999

by Keith Adams vs. Duke, 11-6-1999

Note Clemson played its first game at Memorial Stadium in 1942.

2014 CLEMSON FOOTBALL

TIGER Reserves

39

JORDAN BIANCHI

82

ADRIEN DUNN

56

COLLINS MAULDIN

85

SETH RYAN

WR • *Jr. Greer, S.C.

CIVIL ENGINEERING

WR • *Fr. Clemson, S.C. PRTM

DE • *Jr. Rock Hill, S.C.

WILDLIFE & FISHERIES BIOLOGY

WR • *Fr. Summit, N.J. PRTM

40

JAQUARIUS BRICE

61

DAVID ESTES

17

AUSTIN MCCASKILL

37

CAMERON SCOTT

LB • *Fr. Lancaster, S.C. UNDECLARED

LS • *So. Mauldin, S.C. MANAGEMENT

QB • *Jr. Easley, S.C. HISTORY

CB • Fr. Florence, S.C.

GENERAL ENGINEERING

49

BEAU BROWN

39

CHRISTIAN GROOMES

35

JUSTIN MILLER

54

ZACH SMITH

S • *Jr. Beaufort, S.C.

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

PK/P • Fr. Central, S.C. PRE-BUSINESS

TE • *Fr. Six Mile, S.C. ARCHITECTURE

LB • *Jr. Powdersville, S.C. CHEMISTRY

51

JIM BROWN

35

QUINTIN HALL

35

HUNTER RENFROW

75

DANIEL STONE

LS • *Jr. Walterboro, S.C. MANAGEMENT

LB • *So. Piedmont, S.C. UNDECLARED

WR • Fr. Myrtle Beach, S.C.

GENERAL ENGINEERING

DE • *So. Simpsonville, S.C.

MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

47

MARCUS BULLARD

64

LAKE KIRVEN

46

CHAD RICHARDSON

59

LB • *Jr. Columbia, S.C. PRTM

OL • Fr. Sumter, S.C. HISTORY

61

WILLIAM COCKERILL

88

SEAN MAC LAIN

54

ZACH RIGGS

95

ANDY TEASDALL

OT • *So. Sumter, S.C. HISTORY

WR • *Fr. Hope Mills, N.C.

SECONDARY EDUCATION

LB • *So. Sumter, S.C. HEALTH SCIENCE

BRADLEY TATKO LS • *Fr. Greenwood, S.C.

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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C • *Fr. Greer, S.C. PRTM

P • *So. Winston-Salem, N.C. MARKETING

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2014 CLEMSON FOOTBALL

CLEMSON ROSTER 53 Aiken, Martin

DE

6-2

225

*So.

15 Green, T.J.

S

6-3

205

So.

48 Reader, D.J.

DT

6-2

325

Jr.

CB

5-10

190

*Fr.

87 Greenlee, D.J.

TE

6-1

235

*Fr.

74 Region, Spencer

OG

6-5

330

Sr.

42 Anthony, Stephone

LB

6-3

245

Sr.

57 Guillermo, Jay

C

6-3

310

*So.

45 Register, Chris

LB

6-2

245

Fr.

21 Baker, Adrian

CB

5-11

180

*Fr.

51 Hearn, Taylor

OT

6-4

325

Fr.

80 Richard, Milan

TE

6-2

245

Fr.

DE

6-3

275

*Sr.

WR 5-11

175

*So.

96 Robinson, Jabril

DT

6-3

255

Fr.

79 Battle, Isaiah

OT

6-7

290

Jr.

22 Howard, D.J.

RB

5-11

205

*Sr.

83 Rodriguez, Daniel

WR

5-8

180

Sr.

68 Beasley, David

OG

6-4

330

*Sr.

13 Humphries, Adam

WR 5-11

195

Sr.

85 Rogers, Dane

DE

6-3

260

*Fr.

3 Beasley, Vic

DE

6-3

235

*Gr.

50 Jarrett, Grady

DT

6-0

290

Sr.

43 Rogers, Korie

LB

6-2

235

Fr.

11 Blanks, Travis

S

6-1

205

Jr.

32 Jenkins, Corbin

PK/P 5-10

175

*Gr.

12 Schuessler, Nick

QB

6-3

195

*So.

10 Boulware, Ben

LB

6-0

235

So.

14 Jenkins, Martin

CB

5-9

180

*Gr.

WR 5-10

190

Fr.

24 Brooks, Zac

RB

6-0

200

Jr.

18 Johnson, Jadar

S

6-0

200

So.

81 Seckinger, Stanton

TE

6-5

240

*Jr.

62 Bullister, Brant

OT

6-6

315

*Sr.

52 Jones, Kellen

LB

6-0

230

*Jr.

84 Smith, Cannon

TE

6-4

240

Fr.

41 Burrell, T.J.

LB

5-11

215

*So.

65 Jones, Oliver

OL

6-5

320

*So.

27 Smith, Robert

S

5-11

215

Sr.

70 Byers, Roderick

DT

6-3

290

*Jr.

34 Joseph, Kendall

LB

5-11

225

Fr.

75 Sobeski, Michael

LS

6-2

230

*Sr.

31 Carter, Ryan

CB

5-9

180

*Fr.

20 Kearse, Jayron

S

6-4

210

So.

47 Spence, Alex

PK

6-2

190

Fr.

26 Choice, Adam

RB

5-9

215

Fr.

8 Kitt, Demarre

WR

6-1

185

Fr.

LB

6-0

235

Sr.

86 Cooper, Sam

TE

6-6

245

*Gr.

36 Lakip, Ammon

PK/P 5-11

200

*Jr.

18 Stoudt, Cole

QB

6-4

225

Sr.

93 Crawford, Corey

DE

6-5

275

Sr.

90 Lawson, Shaq

DE

6-3

275

So.

25 Tankersley, Cordrea

CB

6-1

195

So.

55 Crowder, Tyrone

OG

6-2

330

*Fr.

16 Leggett, Jordan

TE

6-5

250

So.

1 Thompson, Trevion

WR

6-2

195

Fr.

32 Davidson, C.J.

RB

5-10

200

*Jr.

84 Maass, Andrew

WR

6-4

200

*Sr.

DT

6-3

295

*So.

67 Davis, Kalon

OL

6-5

340

*Sr.

78 Mac Lain, Eric

OL

6-4

305

*Jr.

QB

6-2

205

Fr.

98 Dodd, Kevin

DE

6-5

275

*So.

89 McCullough, Jay Jay

TE

6-3

245

*So.

91 Watson, Josh

DT

6-4

290

*Gr.

23 Dye, Tyshon

RB

5-11

215

*Fr.

69 Morris, Maverick

OT

6-4

295

*Fr.

30 Watson, Taylor

S

5-10

200

*Gr.

29 Edmond, Marcus

CB

5-11

170

*Fr.

58 Norton, Ryan

OL

6-3

285

*Jr.

77 Webster, Reid

OL

6-4

300

*Gr.

50 Falcinelli, Justin

OG

6-3

305

Fr.

6 O’Daniel, Dorian

LB

6-2

215

*Fr.

12 Wiggins, Korrin

S

5-11

195

So.

27 Fuller, C.J.

RB

5-9

215

Fr.

1 Ogundeko, Ebenezer

DE

6-3

250

*Fr.

99 Williams, DeShawn

DT

6-1

295

Sr.

RB

6-1

205

*Fr.

10 Olson, David

QB

6-2

220

*Gr.

WR

6-4

210

So.

17 Gibson, Jefferie

S

6-4

200

Fr.

56 Pagano, Scott

DT

6-3

295

*Fr.

38 Williamson, Kevin

CB

5-11

185

*Sr.

38 Goode, Alex

RB

5-9

200

*Sr.

19 Peake, Charone

WR

6-2

205

*Jr.

49 Yeargin, Richard

DE

6-4

225

Fr.

44 Goodson, B.J.

LB

6-0

240

*Jr.

26 Peters, Garry

CB

6-0

190

*Sr.

73 Gore, Joe

OT

6-5

290

*Jr.

92 Pinion, Bradley

P/PK 6-6

240

Jr.

Smoaks, S.C. (Bamberg-Ehrhardt HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

2 Alexander, Mackensie

Immokalee, Fla. (Immokalee HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Polkton, N.C. (Anson HS) • Sociology

Hallandale, Fla. (Chaminade-Madonna College Preparatory) • English

9 Barnes, Tavaris

Jacksonville, Fla. (First Coast HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Brooklyn, N.Y. (Blue Ridge (Va.) School) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Columbus, Ga. (G.W. Carver HS) • Sociology

Adairsville, Ga. (Adairsville HS) • Sociology

Tallahassee, Fla. (North Florida Christian School) • Sociology

Anderson, S.C. (T.L. Hanna HS) • Pre-Business

Jonesboro, Ark. (Jonesboro Senior HS) • Sociology

Greenville, S.C. (Eastside HS) • Mechanical Engineering

Goose Creek, S.C. (Goose Creek HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Rock Hill, S.C. (Northwestern HS) • Sociology

Grayson, Ga. (Grayson HS) • Pre-Business

Thomasville, Ga. (Thomas County Central HS) • Health Science

Brentwood, Tenn. (The Ensworth School) • Management

Columbus, Ga. (G.W. Carver HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Marston, N.C. (Richmond Senior HS) • Sociology

Clemson, S.C. (Daniel HS) • Sociology

Chester, S.C. (Chester Senior HS) • Modern Languages

Taylors, S.C. (Riverside HS) • Sociology

Elberton, Ga. (Elbert County Comprehensive HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Hopkins, S.C. (Lower Richland HS) • Graphic Communications

Middletown, Md. (Middletown HS) • Pre-Business

Easley, S.C. (Easley HS) • Sociology

9 Gallman, Wayne

Loganville, Ga. (Grayson HS) • Communication Studies

Hope Mills, N.C. (Gray’s Creek HS) • Sports Communication

Ninety Six, S.C. (Ninety Six HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Lamar, S.C. (Lamar HS) • Sociology

Lake Waccamaw, N.C. (East Columbus HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Sylacauga, Ala. (Sylacauga HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Clemson, S.C. (Daniel HS) • Sociology

Maryville, Tenn. (Maryville HS) • Sociology

Williston, S.C. (Williston-Elko HS) • Undeclared

5 Hopper, Germone

Charlotte, N.C. (Phillip O. Berry Academy of Technology) • Sociology

Lincoln, Ala. (Lincoln HS) • Sociology

Spartanburg, S.C. (Dorman HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Conyers, Ga. (Rockdale County HS) • Management

Conway, S.C. (Conway HS) • Civil Engineering

Roswell, Ga. (Centennial HS) • Sociology

Orangeburg, S.C. (Orangeburg-Wilkinson HS) • Pre-Business

Houston, Texas (St. Pius X HS) • Economics

Ninety Six, S.C. (Ninety Six HS) • Health Science

Belton, S.C. (Belton-Honea Path HS) • Health Science

Fort Myers, Fla. (South Fort Myers HS) • Communication Studies

Fayetteville, Ga. (Sandy Creek HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Johns Creek, Ga. (Chattahoochee HS) • Sociology

Central, S.C. (Daniel HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Navarre, Fla. (Navarre HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Ridgeway, S.C. (Richard Winn Academy) • Mechanical Engineering

Hope Mills, N.C. (Jack Britt HS) • Health Science

Fort Mill, S.C. (Nation Ford HS) • Communication Studies

Broxton, Ga. (Coffee HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Simpsonville, S.C. (Mauldin HS) • History

Olney, Md. (Our Lady of Good Counsel HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Brooklyn, N.Y. (Thomas Jefferson HS) • Communication Studies

Lexington, S.C. (Irmo HS) • Youth Development Leadership

Honolulu, Hawaii (Moanalua HS) • Sociology

Moore, S.C. (Dorman HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Conyers, Ga. (Heritage HS) • Sociology

Concord, N.C. (Northwest Cabarrus HS) • Management

Greensboro, N.C. (Grimsley HS) • Communication Studies

Cullman, Ala. (Cullman HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Browns Summit, N.C. (Dudley HS) • General Engineering

Savannah, Ga. (Calvary Day School) • Communication Studies

Leland, N.C. (North Brunswick HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Stafford, Va. (Brooke Point HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Shelby, N.C. (Crest HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Flowery Branch, Ga. (Buford HS) • Pre-Business

Grayson, Ga. (Grayson HS) • Accounting

3 Scott, Artavis

Oldsmar, Fla. (East Lake HS) • Communication Studies

Isle of Palms, S.C. (Porter-Gaud School) • Management

Columbia, S.C. (Hammond School) • Pre-Business

St. George, S.C. (Woodland HS) • Health Science

Roebuck, S.C. (Dorman HS) • Mechanical Engineering

Florence, S.C. (West Florence HS) • Pre-Business

7 Steward, Tony

Hastings, Fla. (Pedro Menendez HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Dublin, Ohio (Dublin Coffman HS) • Sociology

Beech Island, S.C. (Silver Bluff HS) • Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Durham, N.C. (Hillside HS) • Pre-Business

94 Watkins, Carlos

Mooresboro, N.C. (Chase HS) • Sociology

4 Watson, Deshaun

Gainesville, Ga. (Gainesville HS) • Communication Studies

Wilmington, Del. (John Dickinson HS) • Sociology

Simpsonville, S.C. (Woodmont HS) • Civil Engineering

Woodstock, Ga. (Etowah HS) • Management & Marketing

Durham, N.C. (Hillside HS) • Health Science

Central, S.C. (Daniel HS) • Sociology

7 Williams, Mike

Vance, S.C. (Lake Marion HS) • Sociology

Chicago, Ill. (Mount San Antonio (Calif.) College) • Health Science

Lauderdale Lakes, Fla. (University School of Nova Southeastern University) • Pre-Business

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2014 SYRACUSE FOOTBALL

SYRACUSE ROSTER 34 Ameen-Moore, Adonis

RB

5-11

246

Sr.

96 Harvey, Jalen

DT

41 Anthony, Eric

SS

6-0

200

So.

71 Hayes, Alex

OG

LB

6-4

240

Sr.

60 Hickey, Sean

OT

83 Avant, Sean

WR 5-10

191

So.

33 Hodge, Marqez

LB

46 Batten, P.J.

TE

6-3

230

So.

36 Hodgkinson, Alex

PK

30 Bennett, Parris

LB

6-0

223

Fr.

20 Hudson, Cordell

CB

1 Broyld, Ashton

WR

6-3

216

Jr.

8 Ishmael, Steve

WR

32 Burke, Travon

FB

6-0

249

Sr.

91 Johnson, Isaiah

DE

73 Burton, Jon

OT

6-8

321

So.

8 Kelly, Darius

SS

31 Cleveland, Clay

FB

6-1

217

Sr.

3 Kimble, Mitch

QB

55 Coleman, Marcus

DT

6-1

281

Jr.

10 Kirkland, Josh

LB

28 Cordy, Antwan

CB

5-8

169

Fr.

25 Kobena, Jeremiah

WR 5-11

82 Cornelius III, Alvin

WR

6-1

193

Jr.

67 Lasker, Michael

OT

52 Crume, Eric

NT

6-2

297

Sr.

84 Lewis, Ben

WR

81 Custis, Jamal

WR

6-5

232

Fr.

4 Long, A.J.

QB

35 Davis, Dyshawn

LB

6-1

225

Sr.

38 Lynch, Cameron

LB

6 Desir, Ritchy

SS

6-0

188

Sr.

90 MacPherson, Cameron

TE

92 Dixon, Riley

P/PK 6-5

221

Sr.

29 McFarlane, Devante

RB

15 Dowels, Juwan

CB

5-10

166

Fr.

65 McGloster, Jamar

OT

78 Emerich, Jason

C

6-3

285

Jr.

56 Miller, John

C

86 Enoicy, Adly

WR

6-5

230

Fr.

69 Mitsuuchi, Keith

LS

3 Eskridge, Durell

FS

6-4

205

Jr.

87 Moore, Kendall

TE

9 Estime, Brisly

WR

5-9

180

So.

2 Morgan, Wayne

CB

22 Flemming, Adrian

WR

6-4

206

Sr.

27 Morris II, George

RB

58 Foster, Donnie

C

6-3

316

Fr.

11 Moskal, Colton

LB

72 Foy, Ivan

OT

6-5

292

Sr.

48 Murphy, Cole

PK/P 6-3

45 Franklin, Zaire

LB

6-0

238

Fr.

19 Nassib, Joe

CB

WR

6-4

201

Sr.

12 Norton, Ryan

PK

5-11

183

Jr.

Denver, Colo. (Mullen HS)

Baldwinsville, N.Y. (C.W. Baker HS)

5 Arciniega, Luke

Sparks, Nev. (Sierra (Calif.) College)

Miramar, Fla. (Miramar HS)

Miami, Fla. (Dade Christian School)

Detroit, Mich. (University of Detroit Jesuit HS & Academy)

Henrietta, N.Y. (Rush Henrietta Senior HS)

Syracuse, N.Y. (Corcoran HS)

Spotsylvania, Va. (Courtland HS)

Boxford, Mass. (Phillips Academy)

Voorhees, N.J. (Camden Catholic HS)

Homestead, Fla. (South Dade HS)

Staten Island, N.Y. (Tottenville HS)

Detroit, Mich. (Detroit Central HS)

Philadelphia, Pa. (SS. Neumann & Goretti HS)

Woodbury, N.J. (Woodbury Junior-Senior HS)

North Miami Beach, Fla. (North Miami Beach HS)

Blossvale, N.Y. (Christian Brothers Academy)

Sunrise, Fla. (American Heritage School)

New Ringgold, Pa. (Blue Mountain HS)

Delray Beach, Fla. (Atlantic Community HS)

Miami, Fla. (Miami Central Senior HS)

Delray Beach, Fla. (Atlantic Community HS)

Ashburn, Va. (Broad Run HS)

Savannah, Ga. (Savannah Christian Preparatory School)

Brooklyn, N.Y. (Fort Hamilton HS)

Philadelphia, Pa. (La Salle College HS)

2 Funderburk, Quinta

Norfolk, Va. (Oscar Smith HS)

6-2

Birmingham, Ala. (Clay-Chalkville HS)

Ellenwood, Ga. (Tucker HS)

6-2 6-6 5-11 6-2 5-11 6-2 6-5

5-10

So.

306

Sr.

218

So.

185

Sr.

166

Fr.

184

Fr.

287

So.

6-4

195

Sr.

211

So.

6-2

200

Sr.

188

Sr.

So.

50 Raymon, John

NT

6-5

325

Jr.

CB

5-10

184

Sr.

59 Roberts, Aaron

OG

6-4

285

Fr.

93 Robinson, Micah

DE

6-4

266

Sr.

68 Robinson, Nick

OG

6-6

279

Sr.

47 Rodgers, Sam

LS

6-2

231

Sr.

97 Samuels, Kayton

NT

6-0

319

Fr.

21 Scissum, Chauncey

FS

6-2

206

So.

74 Shanley, Seamus

OG

6-1

279

Jr.

51 Simmons Jr., Donnie

DE

6-2

248

Sr.

95 Slayton, Chris

DE

6-4

267

Fr.

99 Sloan, Ryan

DT

6-3

306

Sr.

17 Thomas, Jonathan

LB

6-1

202

Fr.

13 Thompson, Ron

DT

6-3

257

Jr.

98 Trejo, Trevon

DE

6-5

260

Sr.

55 Trudo, Rob

OG

6-4

300

Sr.

7 Vigille, Oliver

LB

6-2

225

Sr.

75 Ward, Denzel

OT

6-8

353

Fr.

94 Welsh, Robert

DE

6-3

257

Sr.

88 West, Jarrod

WR

6-3

209

Sr.

1 Whigham, Julian

CB

6-1

185

Jr.

16 Williams, Rodney

FS

5-10

187

Fr.

75 Williams, Wayne

NT

6-4

326

Jr.

5 Wilson, Austin

QB

6-3

214

So.

11 Winfield, Corey

CB

6-1

181

So.

4 Reddish, Brandon

Hartsdale, N.Y. (Archbishop Stepinac HS)

6-5

303

Jr.

University Park, Ill. (Crete-Monee HS)

6-2

212

Jr.

Bellport, N.Y. (Bellport HS)

6-0 6-0

Lawrenceville, Ga. (Brookwood HS)

177

Fr.

Lawrenceville, Ga. (Collins Hill HS)

231

Sr.

Southfield, Mich. (Southfield HS)

6-3

Syracuse, N.Y. (Christian Brothers Academy)

6-0

Wheatley Heights, N.Y. (Half Hollow Hills HS West)

6-7

235

Jr.

Long Beach, Calif. (Golden West College)

198

Jr.

Farrell, Pa. (Farrell HS)

303

So.

Miami, Fla. (Miami Central Senior HS)

Carson, Calif. (Los Angeles Harbor College)

Torrance, Calif. (South Torrance HS)

Chicago, Ill. (Simeon Career Academy)

6-3

288

Sr.

Chicago, Ill. (Simeon Career Academy)

5-10

227

Jr.

Bay Shore, N.Y. (St. Anthony’s HS)

6-5

231

So.

Bethlehem, Pa. (Liberty HS)

5-11

198

Jr.

West Palm Beach, Fla. (William T. Dwyer HS)

Lawrenceville, Ga. (Central Gwinnett HS)

6-0

194

Jr.

Cherry Hill, N.J. (Cherry Hill HS West)

6-0

225

Fr.

Brooklyn, N.Y. (Abraham Lincoln HS)

193

Fr.

Camp Hill, Pa. (East Pennsboro Area HS)

5-9

Newtown Square, Pa. (The Haverford School)

Garden City, N.Y. (Garden City HS)

180

Sr.

St. Louis, Mo. (Riverview Gardens HS)

5-10

174

Sr.

57 Palmer, Omari

OL

6-3

303

Jr.

42 Green, Jacob

TE

6-1

256

Jr.

89 Parris, Josh

TE

6-4

245

Jr.

23 Gulley, Prince-Tyson

RB

5-8

193

Gr.

49 Perry, Alryk

LB

6-1

215

So.

Akron, Ohio (Garfield HS)

242

Syracuse, N.Y. (West Genesee HS)

FS

Seattle, Wash. (Seattle Preparatory School)

6-2

West Henrietta, N.Y. (Rush Henrietta Senior HS)

Lebanon, Tenn. (Friendship Christian School)

Coram, N.Y. (Longwood HS)

TE

State College, Pa. (Mercersburg Academy)

24 George, Jaston

Chesapeake, Va. (Oscar Smith HS)

80 Provo, Tyler

Ellenwood, Ga. (Arabia Mountain HS)

Middletown, Md. (Middletown HS)

Castaic, Calif. (Valencia HS)

303

Baldwinsville, N.Y. (C.W. Baker HS)

Corona, Calif. (Riverside City College)

Lake Zurich, Ill. (Lake Zurich HS)

Fr.

Cleveland, Ohio (John Adams HS)

Jerseyville, Ill. (Jersey Community HS)

Brooklyn, N.Y. (Erasmus Hall HS)

179

Chicago, Ill. (De La Salle Institute)

New Castle, Del. (Eastern Christian Academy)

Hillside, N.J. (Saint Anthony HS)

5-11

Brooklyn, N.Y. (Fort Hamilton HS)

Miami, Fla. (North Miami Beach HS)

Harlem, N.Y. (Cardinal Hayes HS)

RB

Richboro, Pa. (Council Rock HS North)

London, England (Latymer Upper School)

Paxico, Kan. (Butler CC)

14 Philips, Ervin

West Palm Beach, Fla. (American Heritage School)

Miami, Fla. (Miami Central Senior HS)

Sierra Vista, Ariz. (Pima CC)

Fr.

West Haven, Conn. (West Haven HS)

Murrysville, Pa. (Franklin Regional HS)

Largo, Fla. (Largo HS)

315

Stone Mountain, Ga. (Stephenson HS)

Columbus, Ala. (Glenwood School)

DURELL LLL EESKRIDGE SKR FREE SAFETY

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SYRACUSE University

UNIVERSITY PROFILE Syracuse University was officially chartered in 1870 as a private, coeducational institution, offering programs in the physical sciences and modern languages. Syracuse, located in the heart of Central New York, is within easy driving distance of Toronto, Boston, Montreal and New York City.

Syracuse offers a rich mix of academic programs, alumni activities and immersion opportunities in numerous centers in the United States and around the globe, including major hubs in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles.

The total enrollment for fall 2013 was 14,422. The student population represents all 50 states and 123 countries. The full-time undergraduate student population consists of 55 percent women and 45 percent men.

UNIVERSITY FACTS

KENT D. SYVERUD

Location Enrollment President Athletic Director Nickname Color Conference Home Field First Year of Football Series Record Athletic Website

Syracuse, N.Y. 14,422 Kent D. Syverud Dr. Daryl Gross Orange Orange Atlantic Coast Conference Carrier Dome (49,262) 1889 Tied 1-1 Cuse.com

President

COACHING STAFF HEAD COACH Head Coach Scott Shafer (Baldwin-Wallace ‘90) Record at Syracuse (Seasons) 10-10 (2nd) Career Record (Seasons) 10-10 (2nd)

ASSISTANT COACHES

DR. DARYL GROSS Athletic Director

SCOTT SHAFER Head Coach

58

Coach George McDonald Chuck Bullough Tim Daoust Bobby Acosta Joe Adam Clark Lea Tim Lester Frank Reed DeAndre Smith

Position(s) Alma Mater AHC, OC Illinois ‘99 DC Michigan State ‘92 AHC, DL Wittenberg ‘01 TE Rowan ‘00 OL Grand Valley State ‘05 LB Vanderbilt ‘04 RC, QB Western Michigan ‘00 DB Mesa State ‘94 RB Missouri State ‘92

Home of the Orange

CARRIER Dome

2014 SYRACUSE FOOTBALL

ORANGE LEADERS

31

CLAY CLEVELAND

23

PRINCE-TYSON GULLEY

48

COLE MURPHY

FB • Sr. Boxford, Mass.

RB • Gr. Akron, Ohio

PK/P • Fr. Castaic, Calif.

52

ERIC CRUME

60

SEAN HICKEY

57

OMARI PALMER

NT • Sr. Detroit, Mich.

OT • Sr. Murrysville, Pa.

OL • Jr. Coram, N.Y.

35

DYSHAWN DAVIS

33

MARQEZ HODGE

89

JOSH PARRIS

LB • Sr. Woodbury, N.J.

LB • So. Miami, Fla.

TE • Jr. Stone Mountain, Ga.

92

RILEY DIXON P/PK • Sr. Blossvale, N.Y.

8

DARIUS KELLY

4

BRANDON REDDISH

SS • Sr. Sierra Vista, Ariz.

CB • Sr. Brooklyn, N.Y.

3

DURELL ESKRIDGE

38

CAMERON LYNCH

93

MICAH ROBINSON

FS • Jr. Miami, Fla.

LB • Sr. Lawrenceville, Ga.

DE • Sr. Cleveland, Ohio

22

ADRIAN FLEMMING

56

JOHN MILLER

68

NICK ROBINSON

WR • Sr. Ashburn, Va.

C • Sr. Carson, Calif.

OG • Sr. Baldwinsville, N.Y.

SEAN HICKEY OFFENSIVE TACKLE

13

RON THOMPSON

88

JARROD WEST

DT • Jr. Southfield, Mich.

WR • Sr. Bethlehem, Pa.

55

1

ROB TRUDO OG • Sr. Farrell, Pa.

JULIAN WHIGHAM CB • Jr. West Palm Beach, Fla.

94

ROBERT WELSH

5

AUSTIN WILSON

DE • Sr. Bay Shore, N.Y.

QB • So. Camp Hill, Pa.

59

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CLEMSON # 1 1 2 3 3 4 5 6 7 7 8 9 9 10 10 11 12 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 26 27 27 29 30 31 32 32 34 36 38 38 41 42 43 44 45 47 48 49 50 50 51 52 53 55 56 57 58 62 65 67 68 69 70 73 74 75 77 78 79 80 81 83 84 84 85 86 87 89 90 91 92 93 94 96 98 99

Player Ebenezer Ogundeko Trevion Thompson Mackensie Alexander Vic Beasley Artavis Scott Deshaun Watson Germone Hopper Dorian O’Daniel Tony Steward Mike Williams Demarre Kitt Tavaris Barnes Wayne Gallman Ben Boulware David Olson Travis Blanks Korrin Wiggins Nick Schuessler Adam Humphries Martin Jenkins T.J. Green Jordan Leggett Jefferie Gibson Cole Stoudt Jadar Johnson Charone Peake Jayron Kearse Adrian Baker D.J. Howard Tyshon Dye Zac Brooks Cordrea Tankersley Garry Peters Adam Choice Robert Smith C.J. Fuller Marcus Edmond Taylor Watson Ryan Carter C.J. Davidson Corbin Jenkins Kendall Joseph Ammon Lakip Kevin Williamson Alex Goode T.J. Burrell Stephone Anthony Korie Rogers B.J. Goodson Chris Register Alex Spence D.J. Reader Richard Yeargin Grady Jarrett Justin Falcinelli Taylor Hearn Kellen Jones Martin Aiken Tyrone Crowder Scott Pagano Jay Guillermo Ryan Norton Brant Bullister Oliver Jones Kalon Davis David Beasley Maverick Morris Roderick Byers Joe Gore Spencer Region Michael Sobeski Reid Webster Eric Mac Lain Isaiah Battle Milan Richard Stanton Seckinger Daniel Rodriguez Andrew Maass Cannon Smith Dane Rogers Sam Cooper D.J. Greenlee Jay Jay McCullough Shaq Lawson Josh Watson Bradley Pinion Corey Crawford Carlos Watkins Jabril Robinson Kevin Dodd DeShawn Williams

Pos. DE WR CB DE WR QB WR LB LB WR WR DE RB LB QB S S QB WR CB S TE S QB S WR S CB RB RB RB CB CB RB S RB CB S CB RB PK/P LB PK/P CB RB LB LB LB LB LB PK DT DE DT OG OT LB DE OG DT C OL OT OL OL OG OT OG OT OG LS OL OL OT TE TE WR WR TE DE TE TE TE DE DT P/PK DE DT DT DE DT

Hgt. 6-3 6-2 5-10 6-3 5-10 6-2 5-11 6-2 6-0 6-4 6-1 6-3 6-1 6-0 6-2 6-1 5-11 6-3 5-11 5-9 6-3 6-5 6-4 6-4 6-0 6-2 6-4 5-11 5-11 5-11 6-0 6-1 6-0 5-9 5-11 5-9 5-11 5-10 5-9 5-10 5-10 5-11 5-11 5-11 5-9 5-11 6-3 6-2 6-0 6-2 6-2 6-2 6-4 6-0 6-3 6-4 6-0 6-2 6-2 6-3 6-3 6-3 6-6 6-5 6-5 6-4 6-4 6-3 6-5 6-5 6-2 6-4 6-4 6-7 6-2 6-5 5-8 6-4 6-4 6-3 6-6 6-1 6-3 6-3 6-4 6-6 6-5 6-3 6-3 6-5 6-1

Wgt. 250 195 190 235 190 205 175 215 235 210 185 275 205 235 220 205 195 195 195 180 205 250 200 225 200 205 210 180 205 215 200 195 190 215 215 215 170 200 180 200 175 225 200 185 200 215 245 235 240 245 190 325 225 290 305 325 230 225 330 295 310 285 315 320 340 330 295 290 290 330 230 300 305 290 245 240 180 200 240 260 245 235 245 275 290 240 275 295 255 275 295

SYRACUSE Cl. *Fr. Fr. *Fr. *Gr. Fr. Fr. *So. *Fr. Sr. So. Fr. *Sr. *Fr. So. *Gr. Jr. So. *So. Sr. *Gr. So. So. Fr. Sr. So. *Jr. So. *Fr. *Sr. *Fr. Jr. So. *Sr. Fr. Sr. Fr. *Fr. *Gr. *Fr. *Jr. *Gr. Fr. *Jr. *Sr. *Sr. *So. Sr. Fr. *Jr. Fr. Fr. Jr. Fr. Sr. Fr. Fr. *Jr. *So. *Fr. *Fr. *So. *Jr. *Sr. *So. *Sr. *Sr. *Fr. *Jr. *Jr. Sr. *Sr. *Gr. *Jr. Jr. Fr. *Jr. Sr. *Sr. Fr. *Fr. *Gr. *Fr. *So. So. *Gr. Jr. Sr. *So. Fr. *So. Sr.

TIGERS vs. ORANGE

STARTING LINEUPS WHEN CLEMSON HAS THE BALL CLEMSON OFFENSE Pos. LT LG C RG RT TE WR QB RB WR WR PK

# 79 68 58 77 67 86 5 18 9 13 7 36

Player Isaiah Battle David Beasley Ryan Norton Reid Webster Kalon Davis Sam Cooper Germone Hopper Cole Stoudt Wayne Gallman Adam Humphries Mike Williams Ammon Lakip

Pos. DE DT NT DE SLB MLB WLB CB SS FS CB P

# 94 13 75 93 35 33 38 4 8 3 1 92

Player Robert Welsh Ron Thompson Wayne Williams Micah Robinson Dyshawn Davis Marqez Hodge Cameron Lynch Brandon Reddish Darius Kelly Durell Eskridge Julian Whigham Riley Dixon

Hgt. 6-7 6-4 6-3 6-4 6-5 6-6 5-11 6-4 6-1 5-11 6-4 5-11

Wgt. 290 330 285 300 340 245 175 225 205 195 210 200

Cl. Jr. *Sr. *Jr. *Gr. *Sr. *Gr. *So. Sr. *Fr. Sr. So. *Jr.

Wgt. 257 257 326 266 225 218 231 184 195 205 185 221

Cl. Sr. Jr. Jr. Sr. Sr. So. Sr. Sr. Sr. Jr. Jr. Sr.

SYRACUSE DEFENSE Hgt. 6-3 6-3 6-4 6-4 6-1 5-11 6-0 5-10 5-10 6-4 6-1 6-5

WHEN SYRACUSE HAS THE BALL SYRACUSE OFFENSE Pos. LT LG C RG RT TE WR QB RB FB WR PK

# 60 55 78 68 57 89 22 4 23 31 8 48

Player Sean Hickey Rob Trudo Jason Emerich Nick Robinson Omari Palmer Josh Parris Adrian Flemming A.J. Long Prince-Tyson Gulley Clay Cleveland Steve Ishmael Cole Murphy

Hgt. 6-6 6-4 6-3 6-6 6-3 6-4 6-4 6-0 5-8 6-1 6-2 6-3

Pos. DE DT DT DE SLB/NB MLB WLB CB S S CB P

# 93 50 91 3 44 42 7 2 20 27 26 92

Player Corey Crawford Grady Jarrett Josh Watson Vic Beasley B.J. Goodson Stephone Anthony Tony Steward Mackensie Alexander Jayron Kearse Robert Smith Garry Peters Bradley Pinion

Wgt. 306 300 285 279 303 245 206 177 193 217 184 193

Cl. Sr. Sr. Jr. Sr. Jr. Jr. Sr. Fr. Gr. Sr. Fr. Fr.

Wgt. 275 290 290 235 240 245 235 190 210 215 190 240

Cl. Sr. Sr. *Gr. *Gr. *Jr. Sr. Sr. *Fr. So. Sr. *Sr. Jr.

CLEMSON DEFENSE Hgt. 6-5 6-0 6-4 6-3 6-0 6-3 6-0 5-10 6-4 5-11 6-0 6-6

OFFICIALS Referee Duane Heydt Center Jeff Flanagan Umpire Jim Hyson Head Linesman Arthur Hardin Line Judge Robert Bassett Side Judge Darrell Harrison

Field Judge Kip Johnson Back Judge Paul Vargo Tech. Advisor Tom Zimorski Communicator Roger Parramore Replay Tech. Kennon Holcombe ECO Greg Honea

# 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 7 8 8 9 10 11 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 38 41 42 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 55 55 56 57 58 59 60 65 67 68 69 71 72 73 74 75 75 78 80 81 82 83 84 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99

Player Ashton Broyld Julian Whigham Quinta Funderburk Wayne Morgan Durell Eskridge Mitch Kimble A.J. Long Brandon Reddish Luke Arciniega Austin Wilson Ritchy Desir Oliver Vigille Steve Ishmael Darius Kelly Brisly Estime Josh Kirkland Colton Moskal Corey Winfield Ryan Norton Ron Thompson Ervin Philips Juwan Dowels Rodney Williams Jonathan Thomas Joe Nassib Cordell Hudson Chauncey Scissum Adrian Flemming Prince-Tyson Gulley Jaston George Jeremiah Kobena George Morris II Antwan Cordy Devante McFarlane Parris Bennett Clay Cleveland Travon Burke Marqez Hodge Adonis Ameen-Moore Dyshawn Davis Alex Hodgkinson Cameron Lynch Eric Anthony Jacob Green Zaire Franklin P.J. Batten Sam Rodgers Cole Murphy Alryk Perry John Raymon Donnie Simmons Jr. Eric Crume Marcus Coleman Rob Trudo John Miller Omari Palmer Donnie Foster Aaron Roberts Sean Hickey Jamar McGloster Michael Lasker Nick Robinson Keith Mitsuuchi Alex Hayes Ivan Foy Jon Burton Seamus Shanley Denzel Ward Wayne Williams Jason Emerich Tyler Provo Jamal Custis Alvin Cornelius III Sean Avant Ben Lewis Adly Enoicy Kendall Moore Jarrod West Josh Parris Cameron MacPherson Isaiah Johnson Riley Dixon Micah Robinson Robert Welsh Chris Slayton Jalen Harvey Kayton Samuels Trevon Trejo Ryan Sloan

Pos. WR CB WR CB FS QB QB CB LB QB SS LB WR SS WR LB LB CB PK DT RB CB FS LB CB CB FS WR RB FS WR RB CB RB LB FB FB LB RB LB PK LB SS TE LB TE LS PK/P LB NT DE NT DT OG C OL C OG OT OT OT OG LS OG OT OT OG OT NT C TE WR WR WR WR WR TE WR TE TE DE P/PK DE DE DE DT NT DE DT

Hgt. 6-3 6-1 6-4 5-11 6-4 6-4 6-0 5-10 6-4 6-3 6-0 6-2 6-2 5-10 5-9 6-2 6-0 6-1 5-11 6-3 5-11 5-10 5-10 6-1 5-9 5-11 6-2 6-4 5-8 5-10 5-11 6-0 5-8 6-0 6-0 6-1 6-0 5-11 5-11 6-1 6-2 6-0 6-0 6-1 6-0 6-3 6-2 6-3 6-1 6-5 6-2 6-2 6-1 6-4 6-3 6-3 6-3 6-4 6-6 6-7 6-5 6-6 5-10 6-2 6-5 6-8 6-1 6-8 6-4 6-3 6-2 6-5 6-1 5-10 6-2 6-5 6-5 6-3 6-4 6-3 6-5 6-5 6-4 6-3 6-4 6-2 6-0 6-5 6-3

Wgt. 216 185 201 198 205 211 177 184 240 214 188 225 184 195 180 200 225 181 183 257 179 166 187 202 180 166 206 206 193 174 188 194 169 198 223 217 249 218 246 225 185 231 200 256 238 230 231 193 215 325 248 297 281 300 288 303 316 285 306 303 303 279 227 303 292 321 279 353 326 285 242 232 193 191 212 230 231 209 245 235 287 221 266 257 267 315 319 260 306

Cl. Jr. Jr. Sr. Jr. Jr. So. Fr. Sr. Sr. So. Sr. Sr. Fr. Sr. So. Sr. Fr. So. Jr. Jr. Fr. Fr. Fr. Fr. Sr. Fr. So. Sr. Gr. Sr. Sr. Jr. Fr. Jr. Fr. Sr. Sr. So. Sr. Sr. Sr. Sr. So. Jr. Fr. So. Sr. Fr. So. Jr. Sr. Sr. Jr. Sr. Sr. Jr. Fr. Fr. Sr. So. Jr. Sr. Jr. So. Sr. So. Jr. Fr. Jr. Jr. So. Fr. Jr. So. Jr. Fr. So. Sr. Jr. Jr. So. Sr. Sr. Sr. Fr. Fr. Fr. Sr. Sr.

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2014 OPPONENT RESULTS & SCHEDULES GEORGIA (6-1) Opponent Clemson * at South Carolina Troy * Tennessee * Vanderbilt * at Missouri * at Arkansas

W-L W L W W W W W

SC STATE (4-3) Score 45-21 35-38 66-0 35-32 44-17 34-0 45-32

Date Opponent Time 11-1 * Florida 3:30 p.m.

11-8 * at Kentucky 11-15 * Auburn 11-22 Charleston Southern 11-29 Georgia Tech

Opponent at Benedict at Clemson at Coastal Carolina Furman * at Hampton * North Carolina A&T * North Carolina Central Date 10-25 11-1 11-8 11-15 11-22

BOSTON COLLEGE (4-3) Opponent at Massachusetts * Pittsburgh Southern California Maine Colorado State * at NC State * Clemson Date 10-25 11-1 11-8 11-22 11-29

W-L W L W W L W L

FLORIDA STATE (7-0)

W-L Score W 63-0 L 7-73 L 3-30 W 17-7 W 17-10 W 13-0 L 35-48

Opponent Time * Bethune-Cookman 1:30 p.m. * Savannah State 1:30 p.m. * at Florida A&M 3 p.m. * at Morgan State 1 p.m. * Norfolk State 1:30 p.m.

SYRACUSE (3-4)

Score 30-7 20-30 37-31 40-10 21-24 30-14 13-17

Opponent Time * at Wake Forest 3:30 p.m. * at Virginia Tech * Louisville * at Florida State * Syracuse

Opponent Villanova at Central Michigan Maryland Notre Dame * Louisville * Florida State * at Wake Forest Date 10-25 11-1 11-8 11-22 11-29

W-L W(2OT) W L L L L W

Opponent * at Clemson * NC State * Duke * at Pittsburgh * at Boston College

Opponent Oklahoma State The Citadel * Clemson * at NC State * Wake Forest * at Syracuse Notre Dame Date 10-30 11-8 11-15 11-22 11-29

W-L W W W(OT) W W W W

Score 37-31 37-12 23-17 56-41 43-3 38-20 31-27

Opponent Time * at Louisville 7:30 p.m. * Virginia * at Miami (Fla.) * Boston College Florida

WAKE FOREST (2-5) Score 27-26 40-3 20-34 15-31 6-28 20-38 30-7

Opponent at Louisiana-Monroe Gardner-Webb at Utah State Army * at Louisville * at Florida State * Syracuse

Time 7 p.m.

Date 10-25 11-6 11-15 11-22 11-29

Opponent * Boston College * Clemson * at NC State * Virginia Tech * at Duke

W-L L W L W L L L

Score 10-17 23-7 24-36 24-21 10-20 3-43 7-30

Time 3:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

NORTH CAROLINA (3-4) Opponent Liberty San Diego State at East Carolina * at Clemson * Virginia Tech at Notre Dame * Georgia Tech Date 10-25 11-1 11-15 11-20 11-29

W-L W W L L L L W

Score 56-29 31-27 41-70 35-50 17-34 43-50 48-43

Opponent Time * at Virginia 12:30 p.m. * at Miami (Fla.) * Pittsburgh * at Duke 7:30 p.m. * NC State

GEORGIA TECH (5-2) Opponent Wofford at Tulane Georgia Southern * at Virginia Tech * Miami (Fla.) * Duke * at North Carolina Date 10-25 11-1 11-8 11-15 11-29

Opponent * at Pittsburgh * Virginia * at NC State * Clemson at Georgia

W-L W W W W W L L

Score 38-19 38-21 42-38 27-24 28-17 25-31 43-48

Time 3:30 p.m.

NC STATE (4-4) Opponent Georgia Southern Old Dominion at South Florida Presbyterian College * Florida State * at Clemson * Boston College * at Louisville Date 11-1 11-8 11-15 11-29

W-L W W W W L L L L

Opponent * at Syracuse * Georgia Tech * Wake Forest * at North Carolina

LOUISVILLE (6-2) Score 24-23 46-34 49-17 42-0 41-56 0-41 14-30 18-30 Time

GEORGIA STATE (1-6) Opponent Abilene Christian * New Mexico State Air Force at Washington * at Louisiana-Lafayette * Arkansas State * at South Alabama Date 10-25 11-1 11-8 11-22 11-29

W-L W L L L L L L

Score 38-37 31-34 38-48 14-45 31-34 10-52 27-30

Opponent Time * Georgia Southern 2 p.m. * at Appalachian State 3:30 p.m. * at Troy 3 p.m. at Clemson * Texas State 2 p.m.

Opponent * Miami (Fla.) Murray State * at Virginia at Florida International * Wake Forest * at Syracuse * at Clemson * NC State

W-L W W L W W W L W

Score 31-13 66-21 21-23 34-3 20-10 28-6 17-23 30-18

Date Opponent Time 10-30 * Florida State 7:30 p.m.

11-8 * at Boston College 11-22 at Notre Dame 3:30 p.m.

11-29 Kentucky

SOUTH CAROLINA (4-3) Opponent * Texas A&M East Carolina * Georgia * at Vanderbilt * Missouri * at Kentucky Furman

W-L L W W W L L W

Score 28-52 33-23 38-35 48-34 20-21 38-45 41-10

Date Opponent Time 10-25 * at Auburn 7:30 p.m.

11-1 * Tennessee 11-15 * at Florida 11-22 South Alabama 11-29 at Clemson

* - conference regular-season game; Note: All times are Eastern; home games in bold.

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Just ask School of Computing assistant professor Shaundra Daily: “If you look around, technology is everywhere,” says Daily, whose Clemson lab is called the MorphLab. “So that means students in our discipline have the opportunity to impact society by coming up with solutions to issues that affect our homes, our workplaces and our world.”

One of Daily’s latest projects includes working with young girls to design and research interactive technologies to support shifts in perspectives, attitudes and knowledge about computing. The project, which sparks fifth- and sixth-grade girls’ interest in three-dimensional character programming, has been backed by a $580K grant from the National Science Foundation.

The hope is that the Virtual Environment Interactions project will steer more girls toward computer science — a foundation for many fields of study.

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2014 CLEMSON FOOTBALL

BOWL SCHEDULE Date 12-20

Day Sat.

12-22 12-23

Mon. Tue.

12-24

Wed.

12-26

Fri.

12-27

Sat.

12-29

Mon.

12-30

Tue.

12-31

Wed.

1-1

Thu.

1-2

Fri.

1-3 Sat. 1-4 Sun. 1-12 Mon. Note: All times are

Time Bowl Location 11 a.m.

R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl New Orleans, La. 2:20 p.m.

Gildan New Mexico Bowl Albuquerque, N.M. 3:30 p.m.

Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl Las Vegas, Nev. 5:45 p.m.

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Boise, Idaho 9:15 p.m.

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CLEMSON’S INNOVATIVE & IMITATED VICKERY HALL WAS THE NATION’S FIRST STAND-ALONE FACILITY BUILT SOLELY TO PROVIDE ACADEMIC SUPPORT TO STUDENT-ATHLETES. TODAY, THE STATE-OF-THE-ART FACILITY & 17 STAFF MEMBERS PROVIDE A HOLISTIC, EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE BY INSPIRING AN ENVIRONMENT OF RESPECT, INTEGRITY & EXCELLENCE.

EIGHTY-THREE OF THE 90 SENIOR LETTERMEN (92 PERCENT) IN DABO SWINNEY’S FIVE FULL YEARS AS HEAD COACH HAVE GRADUATED, THANKS IN LARGE PART TO VICKERY HALL. THE OTHER SEVEN WHO HAVE NOT GRADUATED ARE ON NFL ROSTERS.

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ince its inception in 1991, the Department of Athletic Academic Services, located in Vickery Hall, has provided Clemson student-athletes a continued commitment to excellence in its pursuit of an elite college education.

Vickery Hall has a staff of 17 fulltime staff members, two interns and over 100 tutors, mentors and strategic tutors.

In Vickery Hall, the mission is to address the total student-athlete by coaching our student-athletes to success in the academic, athletic and career arenas.

Clemson University has a long-standing vision and commitment to the personal and academic growth and development of its student-athletes. That vision established Vickery Hall, which was the first stand-alone facility in the country constructed solely to provide academic support to student-athletes.

The 27,000 square-foot, two-story, $3 million structure is an aesthetically

impressive structure that provides premier academic support and services.

Vickery Hall and its programs are dedicated to providing a holistic, educational experience by inspiring an environment of respect, integrity and

excellence. Under the direction of the associate athletic director for athletic academic services, Steve Duzan, the staff guides and encourages each individual to reach his or her full potential as a student, athlete and citizen.

THE VICKERY HALL STAFF MEMBERS GIVE TIGER FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION TO SUCCEED IN THE CLASSROOM.

As an original member of the NCAA CHAMPS/Life Skills Program, Vickery Hall, in conjunction with the Department of Student-Athlete Development, provides opportunities and services to address the changing needs and skills of student-athletes during college, as well as after graduation.

The program has a strong tradition of success and was selected for the FBS Athletic Director’s Association “Program of Excellence” Award, recognizing CHAMPS/Life Skills excellence.

The Vickery Hall staff is a major reason the Clemson football team is the only program in the nation to finish in the top 25 of both polls on the field and in the top 10 in terms of APR scores in the classroom each of the last three years. That includes top-10 rankings in both categories each of the last two seasons, something only Stanford can also claim.

Clemson is one of only five FBS programs in the top-10 percent each of the last four years in terms of APR scores, joining Boise State, Duke, Northwestern and Rutgers. Clemson’s team APR scores have actually been higher than Harvard each of the last two years, 985 to 983 in 2012 and 983 to 980 in 2013.

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his brief NCAA rules education is aimed at outlining basic rules to help potential students-athletes, parents and boosters better understand the regulations. Clemson University is committed to recruiting and conducting our athletic program with the highest level of integrity. If you have any questions, contact our compliance services office at 864-656-1580, compliance-L@clemson.edu or visit our website (ClemsonTigers.com).

ARE YOU A BOOSTER? The NCAA definition of a “representative of athletics interest” generally encompasses most individuals who regularly attend Clemson sporting events (reminder - once a representative, always a representative). Specifically, a booster or “representative of athletics interests” is any individual, independent agency, corporate entity or other organization that is presently or has ever: • Participated in promoting the institution’s athletic program (such as buying season tickets to sporting events).

• Assisted in providing benefits (such as summer employment) to enrolled student-athletes.

• Assisted or been requested by the department of athletics staff to assist in the recruitment of prospective studentathletes.

CUAD MISSION STATEMENT The Department of Athletics offers nationally-prominent athletic programs.

Through a dedicated commitment to educational interests, a competitive athletic program and integrity in all areas, the student-athletes, coaches and staff strive to bring credit and recognition to Clemson University.

The mission of the Athletic Department is to sponsor a broad-based athletic program that provides educational and athletic opportunities for young men and women to grow, develop and serve the interests of Clemson University by complementing and enhancing its diversity and quality of life.

Furthermore, the Athletic Department seeks to be a source of pride for the citizens of the State of South Carolina and to be recognized as a nationally-prominent program, through consistently high levels of performance and accomplishment in athletic competitions.

The Athletic Department strives to develop student-athletes academically and athletically with the total commitment of aiding their efforts to graduate from Clemson University and advance to careers that will enable them to be productive members of society.

The Athletic Department will act in an ethical and honest manner, dedicated to compliance with all Federal, State, NCAA, Conference and University rules and regulations.

• Attended Clemson University.

• Contributed to the department of athletics or IPTAY. • Participated in or been a member of IPTAY. • Been otherwise involved in the Clemson University athletics program.

ASK BEFORE YOU ACT Prospective student-athletes may...

• Identify outstanding potential studentathletes in your area and forward information, such as newspaper articles, to the coach of that sport at Clemson.

• Continue to establish friendships with friends and neighbors, even those with prospect-aged children. However, contact with those for recruiting purposes is prohibited.

• Attend, on your own initiative, events such as games and banquets where prospective student-athletes are present as long as you do not contact the prospect(s) or their family for recruiting purposes.

• Answer a call from a prospective student-athlete (you may not initiate the call) regarding only Clemson University in general, but not about Tiger athletics. Please promptly inform compliance services or the coach should this situation arise.

• Make donations to a high school if it is located in your community, the donation is not made at the request of Clemson or Clemson coaches, and the funds are distributed through established channels and not directed towards a specific student-athlete.

Current student-athletes may...

• Continue to come out and support student-athletes at Clemson athletic events.

• Provide summer employment to student-athletes, but only if you contact Clemson’s office of compliance services (compliance-L@clemson.edu) first and the student-athlete is compensated for work actually performed at a rate commensurate with the going rate in the locality for similar services.

WHAT EVERY BOOSTER SHOULD KNOW • Extra Benefit - Any special arrangement by a Clemson employee, booster (IPTAY member) or alum to provide a prospective or enrolled student-athlete or their families/friends with a benefit not permitted by NCAA legislation. Examples of prohibited benefits are (but not limited to): • Arranging employment for family and friends of the student-athlete.

• Free or reduced housing agreements.

• Gifts of money, awards, food/drinks or other tangible items.

• Loans of money or automobiles.

• Professional services without charge or at a discount.

• Promises of employment or loans following college graduation.

• Providing transportation for the student-athlete or their friends and family.

• Use of ATM, credit or other types of gift cards.

• Institutional Control - A central principle of the NCAA by-laws. Institutional control requires that Clemson University conducts its intercollegiate athletics program in compliance with NCAA rules and regulations. This includes booster activities.

• Prospective Student-Athlete - A student, regardless of their athletic ability, who has started classes in the ninth grade or any student enrolled at another two or four-year institution.

• Recruiting - Any solicitation of a prospect or a prospect’s family by Clemson’s coaches or representatives of athletics interest for the purposes of securing the prospective studentathlete’s ultimate enrollment and participation in athletics at Clemson. Only designated Clemson athletics department staff members may recruit.

• Student-Athlete - A student whose enrollment was solicited by a Clemson athletic department staff member or other representative of athletics interest with a goal of the student’s ultimate participation in Clemson’s athletics program. Student-athletes are not just those who were recruited or receive athletic scholarships, they are also those who participate in intercollegiate athletics.

ACTIVITIES THAT HARM PROSPECTIVE STUDENT-ATHLETES You may not...

• Contact (including phone calls, texts, email) or interact with a prospective student-athlete or family members for the purpose of persuading them to attend Clemson University.

• Contact coaches, teachers, guidance counselors or other school administrators in order to gain information on prospective student-athletes.

• Make contact with a prospective student-athlete or the prospect’s family during official or unofficial visits.

• Provide any other extra benefits to a prospective student-athlete, family, friends or their coaches.

• Provide prospective student-athletes or their family and friends with transportation or financial assistance.

CONTACT INFORMATION Email compliance-L@clemson.edu Phone 864-656-1580 Fax 864-656-1243 Mailing Address P.O. Box 31; Clemson, S.C. 29633 Overnight Address Jervey Athletic Center; 100 Perimeter Road; Clemson, S.C. 29633 Website ClemsonTigers.com

ACTIVITIES THAT HARM CURRENT STUDENT-ATHLETES You may not...

• Generally provide benefits that are not available to other members of the Clemson student body.

• Provide extra benefits to student-athletes or their family and friends. Examples of prohibited benefits include (but not limited to): • Gifts of money, awards, food/drinks, occasional meals or other tangible items.

• Free or reduced housing agreements.

• Loans of money or automobiles.

• Providing transportation for the student-athlete or their family and friends.

• Professional services without charge or at a discount.

• Promises of employment or loans following college graduation.

• Sending student-athletes items to be autographed and returned or using autographed items to raise funds for high schools.

• Use of ATM, credit or other types of gift cards.

• Use the name/image of a current student-athlete to advertise, recommend or promote products/services.

CONSEQUENCES Violations of these NCAA, ACC and University policies can result in severe penalties, including: • Disassociation - Clemson University may permanently disassociate itself with an athletic booster. You could lose the privilege of purchasing season tickets, the privilege of being an IPTAY member or any other Clemson athleticrelated benefit deemed appropriate.

• Harm to the Enrolled Student-Athlete - Violations can also result in the enrolled student-athlete or entire team being unable to compete for Clemson University.

SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING Please notify compliance services immediately of any potential violations involving Clemson University. @ClemsonFB

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ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT STAFF

JACOB ADDISON

JAMES ALLISON

GRACE AMMONS

DAN ARBLASTER

RICK BAGBY

Assistant Supervisor of Athletic Grounds

Director of Aviation Operations

Assistant to the Women’s Basketball Head Coach

Pilot

Director of Athletic Video Services

ROBERTA BALLIET

K.C. BELL

IDA BENSON

SAM BLACKMAN

ZANE BOLKA

DR. LARRY BOWMAN

Administrative Coordinator, Olympic Sports

Assistant Supervisor of Athletic Grounds

Human Resource Manager

Senior Associate Director of Athletic Communications

Administrative Specialist, Ticket Operations

Team Orthopedic Surgeon

DONNA BULLOCK

JEFF CAREY

LISA CHAN

WAYNE COFFMAN

STEVE COLEMAN

NIK CONKLIN

Assistant Athletic Trainer

Associate Director of Athletic Academic Services

Sports Nutritionist

Senior Associate Director of Athletic Academic Services

Information Resource Consultant

Digital Media Coordinator

KAREN COUNTRYMAN

WESLEY CRIBB

KAITLYN CUNNINGHAM

RAENEEVA DAVIS

ABBY DEDECKER

KATIE DIXON

Administrative Assistant, Athletic Academic Services

Assistant Ticket Operations Manager

Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach

Associate Director of Athletic Academic Services

Assistant Athletic Trainer

Administrative Specialist, Ticket Operations

STEVE DUZAN

DANNY EARNHARDT

MIKE ECHOLS

STEPHANIE ELLISON

LUKE FIESER

RICK FRANZBLAU

Associate Athletic Director, Athletic Academic Services

Equipment Room Mechanic

Supervisor of Athletic Grounds

Associate Athletic Director, Compliance Services

Associate Director of Athletic Academic Services

Assistant Director of Olympic Sports Strength & Conditioning

JOE GALBRAITH

JONATHAN GANTT

SHELLY GEER

MATT GLENN

AMANDA GRAY

JEFF HALEY

Assistant Athletic Director, Athletic Communications

Director of New Media

Administrative Coordinator, Olympic Sports

Assistant Director of Athletic Video Services

Assistant Athletic Director, Compliance Services

Assistant Supervisor of Athletic Facilities

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KESHANA HAM

ASHTON HENDERSON

BRAD HENDERSON

BRIAN HENNESSY

MARIA HERBST

Administrative Assistant, Men’s Basketball

Associate Director of Athletic Academic Services

Associate Director of Athletic Academic Services

Senior Associate Director of Athletic Communications

Associate Director of Athletic Academic Services

VAN HILDERBRAND

NATALIE HONNEN

DARRIC HONNOLD

DR. LORETO JACKSON

TRAVIS JOHNSTON

JEFF KALLIN

Associate Athletic Director, Event Management

Associate Athletic Director, Senior Woman Administrator

Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach

Associate Athletic Director, Student-Athlete Services

Assistant Athletic Trainer

Associate Director of Athletic Communications

YIANNA KAPPAS

LIBBY KEHN

BARBARA KENNEDY-DIXON

BRETT KEY

MELISSA KING

SHARON LITTLEJOHN

Associate Director of Athletic Academic Services

Associate Director of Athletic Communications

Special Assistant to the Director of Athletics

Assistant Director of Athletic Video Services

Travel & Purchasing, Business Office

Assistant Business Manager

KYRA LOBBINS

MATT LOMBARDI

DENNIS LOVE

DR. MILT LOWDER

YASHICA MARTIN

TIM MATCH

Assistant Director of Student-Athlete Services

Associate Director of Athletic Academic Services

Director of Olympic Sports Strength & Conditioning

Sports Psychologist

Associate Director of Athletic Academic Services

Associate Athletic Director, External Affairs

KATE MCCRARY

ANDY MCPHERSON

TINA MIDDLETON

MIKE MONEY

LESLIE MORELAND-BISHOP

DON MUNSON

Director of Ticket Operations

Assistant Athletic Trainer

Assistant Ticket Operations Manager

Assistant Athletic Director, Marketing & Game Management

Associate Director of Athletic Academic Services

Director of Broadcasting

GRAHAM NEFF

TORI PALMER

ROBBIE PHILLIPS

SAM PLONK

JORDAN PLUMBLEE

GINTY PORTER

Associate Athletic Director, Finances & Facilities

Spirit Squad Coordinator

Supervisor of Athletic Facilities

Associate Director of Athletic Academic Services

Assistant Director of Marketing

Associate Director of Athletic Academic Services

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ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT STAFF

BUD POUGH

SHEILA PRICE

JEROME RAZAYESKI

DR. LEN REEVES

DARRYL RICHARD

Compliance Coordinator

Administrative Assistant, Women’s Basketball

Assistant Athletic Trainer

Team Physician

Assistant Director of Business Operations

LINDSEY RICKETTS

SUSAN RUARK

PHILIP SIKES

JOE SIMON

LYNN SPARKS

TERI TOWNSEND

Associate Director of Athletic Academic Services

Assistant to the Men’s Basketball Head Coach

Associate Director of Athletic Communications

Assistant Athletic Director, Facilities

Director of Sales

Assistant to the Director of Athletics

GARY WADE

SHARON WEAVER

JASON WILLIAMS

MIKE WILSON

BRAD WOODY

KYLE YOUNG

Assistant Athletic Director, Facilities & Grounds

Athletic Insurance Coordinator

Pilot

Director of Equipment, Olympic Sports

Assistant Athletic Director, Compliance Services

Associate Athletic Director, Administration

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HEAD COACHES

LESLIE HASSELBACH ADAMS

BRAD BROWNELL

MARK ELLIOTT

STEPHEN FRAZIER WONG

NANCY HARRIS

JOLENE HOOVER

Women’s Diving

Men’s Basketball

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Women’s Tennis

Women’s Volleyball

J.T. HORTON

JACK LEGGETT

CHUCK MCCUEN

MIKE NOONAN

LARRY PENLEY

EDDIE RADWANSKI

AUDRA SMITH

Women’s Golf

Baseball

Men’s Tennis

Men’s Soccer

Men’s Golf

Women’s Soccer

Women’s Basketball

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IPTAY STAFF

DAVIS BABB Chief Executive Officer

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ince 1934, IPTAY has been a leader in intercollegiate athletics fundraising, and our brand has been built by grassroots efforts and representatives spread throughout the Southeast who work in their communities to build support.

We have had many people contribute their time and resources and who have been very supportive of the University.

That has manifested itself in large season-ticket bases, incredible passion and many people being involved. We are trying to grow the brand even more by expanding the scope of what IPTAY does.

The process of recruiting studentathletes is critical to the success of Clemson athletics. As we recruit top high school prospects from around the country, we must be prepared to offer them the best possible student-athlete experience.

Because of generous IPTAY donors, the “One IPTAY” enterprise was able to raise a record total of $32 million in 2014. These dollars contributed by our 14,906 members directly impact the lives of our nearly 500 student-athletes in our 19 athletic programs through scholarships, facilities and academic support. From the Tiger Cub Club to the Annual Fund, Major Gifts and everything in between, your gifts matter.

As I mentioned above, we are truly “One IPTAY.” This is to say that IPTAY includes all components - annual fundraising, major gifts and planned giving. Beginning this year, we are excited to add two new components to our umbrella - oversight of the premium seating program and Tiger Letterwinners Association. These will be two additions to our donor offerings as we grow.

The future is bright for both IPTAY and Tiger athletics because of our very important members! If you are not currently a member, I urge you to join and support the “One IPTAY” enterprise.

The IPTAY Board and our staff are dedicated to doing everything possible to ensure funding for Clemson athletics will be on solid footing for years to come.

Thank you for all you have done and continue to do for IPTAY, our studentathletes and athletic program. You are important members of the team, and I appreciate all of your support.

SUPPORTING THE SUCCESS OF CLEMSON’S STUDENT-ATHLETES IN THE CLASSROOM & ON THE FIELD SINCE 1934.

JEAN ARMITAGE

GAY COPELAND

BOBBY COUCH

LINDA DAVIS

AARON DUNHAM

TRAVIS FURBEE

Administrative Coordinator

Administrative Coordinator

Director of IPTAY Major Gifts

Administrative Specialist

Associate Director of IPTAY Major Gifts

Director of IPTAY Annual Fund

BERT HENDERSON

REED KRAMER

ROBIN LAY

LINDSEY LEONARD

BOB MAHONY

ROBYN MASSEY

Director of IPTAY Planned Giving

IPTAY Assistant Director

Accountant/Fiscal Analyst

IPTAY Assistant Director

Executive Director of Tiger Letterwinners Association

Administrative Specialist

JILL RICHARD

CONNIE SEXTON

KYLE SHIELDS

JULIA STUMP

FORD WILLIAMS

JASON WILSON

Accountant/Fiscal Analyst

IPTAY Major Gifts Development Coordinator

Director of Premium Seating & Major Gifts Officer

IPTAY Assistant Director

Assistant Director of IPTAY Major Gifts

IPTAY Assistant Director

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IPTAY Board of Directors COUNTY/REGIONAL Chairpersons DISTRICT I

County (S.C.) Abbeville Anderson McCormick Oconee Pickens

County Chairperson Mason Speer Art Klugh Charles Watts Sammy Dickson Terry Long

DISTRICT II

FRED FAIRCLOTH

JOE TODD

DR. EDDIE ROBINSON

RICK GRIFFIN

PRESIDENT District IV Director

PRESIDENT-ELECT District X Director

SECRETARY District III Director

TREASURER District V Director

County (S.C.) Cherokee Newberry Saluda Spartanburg Union

County Chairperson Boone Peeler Charles Bedenbaugh Chad Berry Chad Dalton Jerry Brannon

DISTRICT III County (S.C.) Aiken Barnwell Edgefield Lexington Orangeburg Richland

County Chairperson Bryan Young Samuel O’Neal Lewis Holmes Jim & Marilyn Bull Kenneth Buck David Mitchum

DISTRICT IV

JAN CHILDRESS

DANNY GREGG

STEVE HAWLEY

DR. JANIE HODGE

KATHY HUNTER

District I Director

Alumni Association President

District VI Director

NCAA Faculty Athletic Representative

District IX Director

County (S.C.) Chester Chesterfield Darlington Fairfield Kershaw Lancaster Lee Marlboro York

County Chairperson Samuel Stone Bill Tillman Tommy Usher Philip Wilkins Tommie James Larry Wolfe Green Deschamps Mark Avent Jack Cox

DISTRICT V County (S.C.) Allendale Bamberg Beaufort Berkeley Charleston Colleton Hampton Jasper

County Chairperson Frank Young Joseph Ott Lisa Sulka H. Dewitt Al Byrd Samuel Hazel Henry Foy Roy Pryor

DISTRICT VI

BEN LEPPARD

JOHN N. MCCARTER JR.

MARK MUSSMAN

ROBERT L. PEELER

BOB RIGGINS

District VIII Director

University Trustee Representative

District II Director

University Trustee Representative

District VII Director

IPTAY REPRESENTATIVE PROGRAM

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he IPTAY Representative program continues to be one of the most important marketing tools available for the growth of the IPTAY Scholarship Fund. This dedicated group comprising nearly 700 men and women throughout the country volunteer their time to encourage those in their communities and in their circle of influence to join IPTAY on an annual basis and to support Clemson in all endeavors. Despite the economic challenges throughout the state and region, IPTAY had a successful 2014 campaign due to the tireless efforts of this group.

The recruitment of new donors, those who have a potential for leadership gifts and creating a link between Clemson

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and its constituents each representative. leadership provided by of Directors and our

is the goal of With continued the IPTAY Board past presidents,

the REP program will continue to be successful.

For more information, contact Jason Wilson at wilson@clemson.edu.

County (S.C.) Clarendon Dillon Florence Georgetown Horry Marion Sumter Williamsburg

County Chairperson John Ducworth Douglas Lynn Charles Grace Reed Barker Laurence Bolchoz T.C. Atkinson Tracy Pender Sam Drucker

DISTRICT VII Region Region Region Region Region Region

(N.C.) Regional Chairperson I Timothy Long II Robert Dunnigan III Jeffrey Goldsmith V William Worth VI Donald Barrett

Region Region Region Region

(Ga.) I II III

DISTRICT VIII Regional Chairperson Todd Ballew Earle Maxwell Bill Heatley

DISTRICT IX Region (U.S.) Regional Chairperson Northeast Michael Straley Southeast Charles Cooper

DISTRICT X County (S.C.) Greenville Greenwood Laurens

County Chairperson Richard Ammons Wayne Bell Randy Garrett Annette Patterson

2014 CLEMSON FOOTBALL

IPTAY PAST PRESIDENTS

MARY ANNE BIGGER

DR. JIM BOSTIC

CHARLIE BUSSEY

LYNN CAMPBELL

CHARLES DALTON

EDDIE N. DALTON

DON GOLIGHTLY

F. REEVES GRESSETTE JR.

JOHN H. HOLCOMBE JR.

FOREST E. HUGHES

DR. GLENN LAWHON JR.

EDGAR C. MCGEE

THURMON MCLAMB

JIM SANDERS

LAWRENCE STARKEY

JOHN TICE

DR. JOHN TIMMERMAN

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Player Pos. Team O.K. Pressley C 3 Banks McFadden B 1 Joe Blalock E 1 Joe Blalock E 1 Ralph Jenkins C 1 Bobby Gage B 1 Jackie Calvert S 1 Tom Barton OL 2 Joel Wells RB 3 Lou Cordileone OL 1 Wayne Mass OL 1 Harry Olszewski OG 1 Dave Thompson OG 1 Bennie Cunningham TE 1 Bennie Cunningham TE 1 Joe Bostic OG 1 Joe Bostic OG 1 Jerry Butler WR 1 Steve Fuller QB 3 1979 Jim Stuckey DT 1 1980 Obed Ariri PK 2 1981 Jeff Davis LB 1 Terry Kinard FS 1 Perry Tuttle WR 1 Jeff Bryant DT 2 Lee Nanney OT 2 1982 * Terry Kinard FS 1 William Perry MG 3 Johnny Rembert LB 3 1983 William Perry MG 1 James Robinson DT 2 James Farr OG 3 1984 William Perry MG 1 Dale Hatcher P 2 Donald Igwebuike PK 3 1985 Steve Reese OG 2 1986 Terrence Flagler RB 1 John Phillips OG 1 1987 Michael Dean Perry DT 1 David Treadwell PK 1 Donnell Woolford CB 1 John Phillips OG 2 1988 Donnell Woolford CB 1 1989 Stacy Long OT 1 Chris Gardocki PK 3 1990 Stacy Long OT 1 Chris Gardocki PK 2 Levon Kirkland LB 2 1991 Rob Bodine MG 1 Jeb Flesch OG 1 Levon Kirkland LB 1 Ed McDaniel LB 1 1992 Stacy Seegars OG 2 Nelson Welch PK 3 1993 Stacy Seegars OG 1 1995 Brian Dawkins S 2 Anthony Simmons LB 3 1996 Anthony Simmons LB 1 1997 Anthony Simmons LB 1 Jim Bundren OT 2 1998 Antwan Edwards CB 1 1999 Keith Adams LB 1 2000 Keith Adams LB 1 Rod Gardner WR 1 Kyle Young C 2 Robert Carswell FS 3 2001 Kyle Young C 3 2002 Brian Mance CB 4 2004 Leroy Hill LB 1 Justin Miller KR 2 2005 Tye Hill CB 1 2006 * Gaines Adams DE 1 Nathan Bennett OG 3 2007 Barry Richardson OT 1 Chris McDuffie OG 2 2009 DeAndre McDaniel S 1 * C.J. Spiller RB 1 Thomas Austin OG 3 2010 * Da’Quan Bowers DE 1 DeAndre McDaniel S 3 2011 Dwayne Allen TE 1 Sammy Watkins WR 1 Andre Branch DE 2 2012 Tajh Boyd QB 1 Dalton Freeman C 1 Sammy Watkins WR 1 DeAndre Hopkins WR 2 2013 Vic Beasley DE 1 Sammy Watkins WR 1 * - unanimous All-American; Note: Highest All-America honor listed.

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Player Banks McFadden Bobby Gage Lou Cordileone Bennie Cunningham Jerry Butler Steve Fuller Jim Stuckey Jeff Bryant Perry Tuttle Terry Kinard William Perry Terrence Flagler Donnell Woolford Chester McGlockton Wayne Simmons Trevor Pryce Anthony Simmons Antwan Edwards Rod Gardner Tye Hill Gaines Adams C.J. Spiller DeAndre Hopkins Sammy Watkins

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Player Pos. Year(s) Dan Benish DT 1987 Jeff Bostic C 1982,87,91 Dwight Clark WR 1981,84 Bennie Cunningham TE 1978,79 Ty Davis CB 1986 Nick Eason DT 2008 Terrence Flagler RB 1988,89 Steve Fuller QB 1985 Chris Gardocki P 2005 Andy Headen LB 1986 Tony Horne WR 1999 Terry Kinard FS 1986 Bill Mathis RB 1968 Byron Maxwell CB 2013 Dexter McCleon CB 1999 John McMakin TE 1974 William Perry MG 1985 Trevor Pryce DT 1997,98 Archie Reese DT 1981 Wayne Simmons LB 1996 Jim Stuckey DT 1981,84 James Trapp DB 2000 Anthony Waters LB 2009 Charlie Waters S 1971,77 Note: Years reflect regular seasons.

Team Redskins Redskins 49ers Steelers Giants Steelers 49ers Bears Steelers Giants Rams Giants Jets Seahawks Rams Steelers Bears Broncos 49ers Packers 49ers Ravens Saints Cowboys

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Year 1952 1955 1961

Player Pos. Ray Mathews HB Ray Mathews HB Bill Hudson DT Bill Mathis RB Harold Olson OT 1963 Bill Mathis RB 1976 Charlie Waters S 1977 Charlie Waters S 1978 Charlie Waters S 1980 Jerry Butler WR 1981 Dwight Clark WR 1982 Dwight Clark WR 1983 Jeff Bostic C 1985 Dale Hatcher P Kevin Mack RB 1987 Kevin Mack RB 1988 Terry Kinard S Johnny Rembert LB 1989 Michael Dean Perry DT Johnny Rembert LB David Treadwell PK 1990 Michael Dean Perry DT 1991 Michael Dean Perry DT 1993 Michael Dean Perry DT Donnell Woolford CB 1994 Chester McGlockton DT Michael Dean Perry DT 1995 Chester McGlockton DT 1996 Terry Allen TB Chris Gardocki P Levon Kirkland LB Chester McGlockton DT Michael Dean Perry DT 1997 Levon Kirkland LB Chester McGlockton DT 1998 Ed McDaniel LB 1999 Brian Dawkins S Trevor Pryce DT 2000 Trevor Pryce DT 2001 Brian Dawkins S Trevor Pryce DT 2002 Brian Dawkins S Trevor Pryce DT 2004 Brian Dawkins S 2005 Brian Dawkins S 2006 Brian Dawkins S Justin Miller KR 2008 Brian Dawkins S 2009 Brian Dawkins S 2011 Brian Dawkins S 2012 C.J. Spiller RB Note: Years reflect regular seasons.

Team Steelers Steelers Chargers Jets Bills Jets Cowboys Cowboys Cowboys Bills 49ers 49ers Redskins Rams Browns Browns Giants Patriots Browns Patriots Broncos Browns Browns Browns Bears Raiders Browns Raiders Redskins Colts Steelers Raiders Broncos Steelers Raiders Vikings Eagles Broncos Broncos Eagles Broncos Eagles Broncos Eagles Eagles Eagles Jets Eagles Broncos Broncos Bills

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A NEW ERA COLLEGE FOOTBALL ENTERS A NEW ERA AT THE FBS LEVEL, AS 2014 MARKS THE FIRST SEASON OF A FOUR-TEAM PLAYOFF. READ ABOUT THE CHANGES THAT ARE IN STORE.

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

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he 2014 college football season marks the beginning of the newly-formed college football playoff, where a four-team playoff determines the National Champion. Below is a brief description of the new format.

Bowls Six traditional bowls rotate as hosts of the semifinal games. The championship game is awarded on a year-by-year basis. The championship game will be played in Arlington, Texas in 2014-15, Glendale, Ariz. in 2015-16 and Tampa, Fla. in 2016-17.

Below is the schedule for the first three years of the system.

SCHEDULE Bowl 2014-15 Cotton Jan. 1 Fiesta Dec. 31 Orange Dec. 31 Peach Dec. 31 Rose *Jan. 1 Sugar *Jan. 1 Championship Jan. 12 * - semifinal

2015-16 *Dec. 31 Jan. 1 *Dec. 31 Dec. 31 Jan. 1 Jan. 1 Jan. 11

2016-17 Jan. 2 *Dec. 31 Dec. 31 *Dec. 31 Jan. 2 Jan. 2 Jan. 9

DATA Selection committee members have a wealth of information, including review of video, statistics and their own exper-

tise to guide them in their deliberations.

They emphasize obvious factors like win-loss records, strength of schedule, conference championships won, headto-head results and results against common opponents.

The playoff group has retained SportSource Analytics to provide the data platform for the committee’s use. While the details of the platform have not been finalized, it is anticipated that it will include countless pieces of statistical information for every FBS team. It also includes general information, such as each team’s opponents’ record and opponents’ opponents’ records. The platform allows the committee members to compare and contrast every team on every level possible.

It should be noted that the committee does not use a single data point, such as the Ratings Percentage Index (RPI), that is used for NCAA Championships.

MEETINGS The selection committee members meet weekly in-person in Dallas, Texas on Mondays and Tuesdays to produce rankings. The committee will issue its first rankings on Tuesday, October 28 after the completion of the ninth week of the regular season.

DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS DAN RADAKOVICH IS ONE OF 13 MEMBERS OF THE SELECTION COMMITTEE.

The committee’s rankings will be announced on ESPN each Tuesday evening beginning October 28 and continuing for the next five weeks. The final rankings and the teams in the college football playoff will be announced Sunday, December 7.

MEMBERS Clemson Director of Athletics Dan Radakovich was named to the college football selection committee on October 16, 2013. Below are the members.

• Barry Alvarez - director of athletics, University of Wisconsin • Lt Gen Mike Gould - former superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy • Pat Haden - director of athletics, University of Southern California • Tom Jernstedt - former NCAA executive vice president • Jeff Long - committee chairman, vice chancellor and director of athletics, University of Arkansas • Oliver Luck - director of athletics, West Virginia University • Archie Manning - former University of Mississippi quarterback and all-pro NFL quarterback • Tom Osborne - former head coach and director of athletics, University of Nebraska • Dan Radakovich - director of athletics, Clemson University • Condoleezza Rice - Stanford University professor, former Stanford provost and former U.S. Secretary of State • Mike Tranghese - former commissioner of the Big East Conference • Steve Wieberg - former college football reporter, USA Today • Tyrone Willingham - former head coach of three FBS institutions

PARTICIPANTS Both participants in the Orange, Rose and Sugar Bowls are contracted outside the playoff arrangement (Big Ten and Pac-12 to Rose Bowl; Big 12 and SEC to Sugar Bowl; ACC to Orange Bowl against the highest-ranked available team from the Big Ten, SEC and Notre Dame).

If a conference champion qualifies for the playoff, the bowl chooses a re-

placement from that conference. When those bowls host the semifinals and their contracted conference champions do not qualify, the displaced champion(s) plays in the other New Year’s bowls.

The Cotton, Fiesta and Peach Bowls host displaced conference champions and the top-ranked champion from a non-contract conference. The highestranked available teams fill any other berths. The selection committee makes the pairings.

VOTING PROCEDURES The committee ranks the top-25 teams in the country and assigns teams to the semifinals and to the Cotton, Fiesta and Peach Bowls in years when they are not hosting semifinal games. In summary, the committee identifies small groups of teams that will then be evaluated against each other in a detailed and deliberative manner. The committee then votes the teams into the rankings in a combined selection-and-seeding process.

VOTING PROTOCOL Each committee member creates a list of the 25 teams he or she believes to be the best in the country, in no particular order. Teams listed by three or more members remain under consideration.

Each member then lists the best six teams, in no particular order. The six teams receiving the most votes comprise the pool for the first seeding ballot.

In the first seeding ballot, each member ranks those six teams (1-6), with No. 1 being the best. The three teams receiving the fewest points become the top-three seeds. The three teams that were not seeded are held over for the next seeding ballot.

Each member lists the six-best remaining teams, in no particular order.

The three teams receiving the most votes are added to the three teams held over to comprise the next seeding ballot.

Steps No. 3 and No. 4 are repeated until 25 teams are seeded. All votes are by secret ballot. @ClemsonFB

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his morning, Clemson University, Tiger Band, alumni and friends dedicated the John H. Butler & Bruce F. Cook Tiger Band Plaza.

With five years of planning, design and construction, and more than $1 million in private funds raised, the Tiger Band practice field renovation has became a reality.

With the new plaza, the Tiger Band outdoor facility becomes the premier college marching band rehearsal space in the country. Band alumnus and lead donor Keith Snelgrove, along with his wife Risse, named the plaza in honor of two former Tiger Band directors, John Butler and Bruce Cook.

What began as a modest beautification concept for the practice field turned into a major fundraising effort that not only raised enough for the renovation, but also will create a $500,000 scholarship endowment for Tiger Band members through the generosity of the Mike Jansen family.

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Along the way, inspirational quotes are etched into markers every five yards.

Visitors to Spirit Walk can choose an alternate pathway (ADA accessible) that takes them by a “Tiger Band History” wall sponsored by Dr. Rick and Lesa Foster and family that marks major events and milestones in Tiger Band’s past.

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The plaza itself incorporates brick pavers with naming opportunities for band alumni and friends.

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Today’s show previews our last show of the year - Film Music of 2014. Tiger Band performs music from “How to Train Your Dragon 2,” then welcome

the Homecoming queen and her court.

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MEN'S BASKETBALL S P O T L I G H T

F Name Rodriquez James Hall Jr. Full Major M PRTM SSport Basketball JJersey #12 PPosition Guard HHeight 6’1” W Weight 205 CClass Senior HHometown Augusta, Ga. HHigh School Lucy C. Laney HS DDate of Birth 199 Jan. 12, 1993

ROD HALL

THE TIGER SENIOR BRINGS TOUGHNESS AND AN ATTITUDE TO THE CLEMSON PROGRAM THAT IS AS VALUABLE AS ANY AMOUNT OF POINTS HE SCORES.

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oughness is a skill. That’s what noted ESPN broadcaster Jay Bilas wrote in his 2013 book, “Toughness: Developing True Strength On & Off the Court.” As Head Coach Brad Brownell often says, it’s a talent - same as the ability to shoot or block a shot.

Current Tiger point guard Rod Hall personifies toughness. His best friend,

Darnell “Dee” Brown, was tragically killed before Hall’s senior year of high school. To honor the memory of his fallen friend, Hall wears Brown’s jersey number (12) and writes “RIP DEE” on the toe of his game shoes. Despite the difficulty of moving forward without Brown by his side, Hall has done so admirably.

His numbers are not eye-popping.

Hall enters his senior season with 642 career points and 287 assists. But his game has rarely been about putting up numbers. It was his toughness and dependability that gave him a chance to compete against 25 of the nation’s best guards - players like Marcus Paige (North Carolina), Kevin Pangos (Gonzaga) and Fred Van Vleet (Wichita State) - this summer at Chris Paul’s CP3 Elite Camp.

Hall and the other campers interacted daily with the six-time NBA All-Star and former Wake Forest stand-

out near Paul’s hometown in WinstonSalem, N.C. this August.

Few believed Hall had a chance to play basketball at the ACC level, let alone a chance to learn from one of the NBA’s best point guards. But he formed a relationship with then Assistant Coach Earl Grant, who ultimately convinced Brownell to take a look at the Augusta, Ga. native.

Brownell liked Hall’s competitiveness and decision-making, and offered Hall a scholarship. Because he was splitting time as a standout football player at Lucy C. Laney High School, Brownell thought he had a chance to make big gains by focusing solely on basketball.

Hall has certainly made big gains since enrolling in 2011. He has delivered his share of tough plays late in games, dating to his freshman season in the Diamond Head Classic in Hawaii.

Trailing by three points in the waning seconds against Southern Illinois, Hall drove through contact and finished at the rim while being fouled. He stepped to the line and converted the free throw to force overtime, and the Tigers eventually won.

Two games after he was stripped on a no-call in the 2014 ACC Tournament against Duke, Hall shrugged off the disappointment in the NIT, providing the game-winning layup with 9.3 seconds left in a 50-49 triumph over Illinois.

Hall maintains he was not on anyone’s recruiting radar because he didn’t play in any camps growing up. He didn’t want his mother, Tracie, to stress by paying for him to attend the camps. In his own words, “I did it without earning any stars.”

He came in with a group of five players who made up Brownell’s first recruiting class. Now, Hall is the last man standing from that group. Three players transferred, while close friend K.J. McDaniels moved on to the NBA after a stellar junior season.

Hall’s loyalty is another testament to his toughness.

“I think it shows that I’ll stick through adversity,” explained Hall. “I appreciate everything Coach Brownell did to get me here. I felt like he deserved my loyalty.

I wanted to be a guy the coaches could depend on. So I told myself if I ever got a chance, I’d make the most out of it.”

Brownell said his point guard is one of the most loyal, underappreciated players he has ever coached.

“Rod is a loyal guy,” said Brownell.

“A lot of coaches on the road talk to me about Rod and the stability and toughness he brings to our team.”

When members of the coaching fraternity speak that highly of a player, it says volumes about his toughness.

Clemson’s coaches are just happy they have one more season with Rod Hall. @ClemsonFB

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F Name Full Natasha Nicole Dixon M Major Psychology SSport Basketball JJersey #21 PPositions Guard, Forward HHeight 5’10” CClass Senior HHometown Alpharetta, Ga. HHigh School Milton HS DDate of Birth Aug. 24, 1993

NIKKI DIXON

THE SENIOR HAS ENDURED UPS AND DOWNS TO SERVE AS A LEADER FOR THE PROGRAM.

BY MATT CASTELLO

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ack in 2011, there was a senior out of Milton High School near Alpharetta, Ga. who played all over the place. She averaged 15.3 points per game and dished it out aplenty (3.5 assists per game) to teammates. And she picked opponents’ pockets (4.1 steals per game) with much frequency. She led her team to the Final Eight of the AAAAA state playoffs and was selected to play in the Florida-Georgia All-Star Game en route to becoming a McDonald’s All-America nominee.

Fast forward several years and that same scoring, rebounding, assisting, charge-taking player, among many other things, is the 23rd and most recent Tiger to reach 1,000 career points.

Although if Nikki Dixon had it her way, there would be no fast forwarding at all.

Dixon came to Clemson in the fall of 2011 as the nation’s No. 49 guard by ESPN. She settled in nicely and immediately made an impact, playing all 28 games with 27 starts. She was named to the All-ACC Freshman team, but she looks back now with plenty to tell her freshman self.

“Relax!” said Dixon with emphasis and a chuckle. “If I could go back, I’d tell my younger self to take your time and don’t rush. Enjoy it all! Try not to think too much about your future and

enjoy the four years that you’re blessed with.

“I would give the old Nikki advice to never take her sport for granted and never take her opportunities in front of her for granted, because those can be taken away from you.”

Dixon has certainly made the most of her time at Clemson. She led the Tigers in scoring (12.4) and steals (2.6) in her rookie campaign, becoming the first freshman to lead the squad in scoring since Chrissy Floyd in 2003. She was also just the fifth freshman in school history to accomplish the feat.

Fast forward to her sophomore year, Dixon again started all 29 games. She improved her shooting percentages, both from the field (36.6 to 40.2) and the free-throw line (59.0 to 72.4), and again led the team in scoring. Dixon became the fastest to 500 career points since Floyd in 2001 and the fastest to 100 steals since Lele Hardy in 2007.

Fast forward again to reach her junior year, one in which she reached 1,000 career points. She finished the year with 1,141 points, 17th on the Clemson list.

Dixon is ninth on the all-time steals list (185). She took a career-high 12

charges last season, proving that the bigtime stats are not all she plays for. All of this came in a season after a coaching switch from the staff that had originally recruited Dixon.

“Just like you deal with everything else in life, you adjust to it,” she said.

“I think in life, you’re going to be dealt cards that weren’t laid out for you when you signed up.”

One can choose to fast forward the tale of Dixon, but she prefers to pause and take everything in, perhaps even preferring to rewind for a minute. Such was the case when asked to give her favorite moment, or moments, as a Tiger.

“There are two moments that I think of,” said Dixon, getting increasingly animated the more she went on. “The first is beating UNC for the first time in Chapel Hill (52-47 in 2012-13). We played so well as a team, and that feeling can never be taken away or forgotten.

“I have a couple of friends from Georgia Tech, so it was nice to get a win over them last year in overtime. Those are great games, and when you start winning games like that, all the bad stuff, all the transitions of coaches and so much of all the adversity goes out the window, and you just remember the joy you felt in that moment. Those high moments make you realize why you fell in love with the game in the first place.

“That’s what makes it worth it.” @ClemsonFB

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LIVING THE DREAM

BY TIM BOURRET

THE CONSISTENT KICKER HAS MADE 54 OF HIS LAST 56 FIELD-GOAL ATTEMPTS DATING TO HIS SOPHOMORE SEASON AT CLEMSON. READ MORE ABOUT THE WAVES HE IS MAKING IN HIS ROOKIE SEASON IN THE NFL.

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he winter and spring of 2014 was a busy time for Chandler Catanzaro. The Tigers’ all-time leading scorer on the gridiron spent half his days preparing for medical school interviews and studying for the MCAT, and the other half working on his craft as a placekicker.

Catanzaro has always had a plan, both long-term and short-term. The short-term plan centered around continuing his career as a placekicker at the NFL level. But if that did not work out,

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he would go to medical school and pursue his long-term dream of following in his father’s footsteps as a dermatologist.

“My dad has always been my hero and I have always wanted to be a doctor just like him,” said Catanzaro.

Both pursuits were time consuming and both were a grind, one mentally and one physically.

From a kicking standpoint, Catanzaro knew the knock on him was his perceived inability to put the ball in the endzone on kickoffs. That has become

more and more important in the NFL as teams try to force the opposition to start at the 20 and go 80 yards for a touchdown. Catanzaro did not kick off at Clemson, as that job was held by current Tiger Bradley Pinion.

However, Catanzaro knew he could do it...he just had to put in the work.

“I did everything I could. I worked with Morten Andersen (NFL’s all-time leading scorer and future Hall of Famer) and some other kicking coaches. I had to work on my steps, add strength and

change my swing a little so I could hit the ball more consistently.

“Kickoffs are really all about your rhythm so you can hit the ball high and deep and get good coverage. I had to make my hips explode.”

His hard work paid off in the spring.

He had a solid pro day at Clemson’s indoor practice facility in April, and it led to tryouts with three NFL teams.

“First, I had a tryout with the Falcons, then the Cardinals showed a lot of interest, and then Detroit.

“By the time the draft came around, I thought the Lions or the Cardinals might draft me, but I was realistic. Not a lot of kickers get drafted.”

The draft concluded May 10, and Catanzaro was not selected. But it did not take long for him to get a phone call.

“Detroit took Nate Freese (Boston College) in the seventh round,” said Catanzaro. “Thirty seconds after the draft, I got a call from the Cardinals’ special teams coach, Amos Jones. That was a very exciting time in our home. While I didn’t get drafted, the call came so quickly that it was like getting drafted.

I was going to get a chance.

“I had gone to Clemson as a walk-on, and now I was going to get a chance in the NFL as a free agent. I was going to have to earn my way on the team. It was a similar circumstance.”

When he arrived in Arizona, he had to face the challenge of battling returning veteran placekicker Jay Feely, who had been the starter with Arizona for four years and was a veteran of 13 NFL seasons and 207 games. Feely finished the 2013 season 21st in NFL history with 329 field goals and had made 83 percent of his field goals in his career, the 17th-best figure in NFL history.

It was similar to Catanzaro’s freshman year (2010), when Richard Jackson was the returning starter from a team that won the ACC Atlantic Division. But “Catman” won the position in fall camp and went on to have a great career at Clemson.

A four-year starter, Catanzaro finished with a school-record 404 points, second-most in ACC history, and booted 67 field goals, second in school history behind Nelson Welch (72). His accuracy was incredible, as he made 39 of his last 41 field-goal attempts over his last two-and-a-half years, and he twice hit walkoff field goals to win games.

The confidence he earned at Clemson continued in the preseason with Arizona.

He did not miss a kick during preseason games. Then on August 25, Arizona cut Feely, opening the door for Catanzaro.

Catanzaro made 18-19 field goals in his final year at Clemson and has made

his first 15 attempts for the Cardinals, helping his new club to a 5-1 start. He is 5-5 on attempts of 40+ yards, including a 51-yarder, the same distance as his career long at Clemson. He is the team’s leading scorer with 56 points and is among the NFL leaders in kick scoring.

In a win over Washington on October 12, he made 3-3 field goals in the second half to help Arizona to victory. He was named NFC Special Teams Playerof-the-Week, just the seventh Cardinal

rookie since 1985 to win an NFC playerof-the-week honor.

“This has been exciting...I am living the dream,” said Catanzaro on October 15, the day it was announced he won that honor.

For most NFL rookies, the transition can be difficult, but it has not been for Catanzaro. The results show that, but he has had some help off the field.

“Having Andre Ellington and Jaron Brown here has certainly made things

easier for me. Having former Clemson teammates, plus Coach Brentson Buckner, I always have someone to turn to.”

Buckner played 12 years in the NFL and is now in his second year as a coach with the Cardinals. He believes Catanzaro has made a big difference with the team from an offensive and defensive standpoint.

“He has really done a great job from a kickoff standpoint,” said the former Clemson All-ACC defensive tackle. “NFL teams score just 40 percent of the time when they start a drive 80 yards from the goal line. When you have a kicker who can get touchbacks, it makes a big difference.

“You think about kickers doing things offensively, but Chandler is really helping our defense just as much.”

As stated earlier, some were concerned about Catanzaro’s ability to boot touchbacks, but he has 22 on 34 kickoffs, among the NFL leaders in touchbacks and percentage.

Buckner said Catanzaro has the demeanor to be a placekicker for a long time in the NFL. “He doesn’t get too high or too low... he is the same smiling Chandler all the time. I think you have to be that way as a kicker. His concentration is outstanding.”

Just as he represented the Tiger team with that ever-present smile on and off the field, Catanzaro is doing the same in the community in Arizona. On an off day in early October, he went to a local middle school and met with kids as part of the NFL PLAY 60 campaign.

“I told them my story, making it as a walk-on at Clemson and now as a free agent in the NFL,” said Catanzaro. “I told them they can do whatever they want to accomplish as long as they do things the right way.”

Catanzaro is progressing rapidly towards his short-term goals in the NFL. As far as that long-term plan of becoming a doctor...we are sure he will also reach that goal some day.

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DISTINGUISHED ATHLETES AWARD “WE ARE THANKFUL FOR ALL YOU DID FOR CLEMSON AND CLEMSON ATHLETICS, BUT WE ARE EVEN MORE THANKFUL FOR THE TYPE OF PERSON, STEWARD AND ROLE MODEL YOU HAVE BECOME IN YOUR LIFE AFTER CLEMSON.” - STEVE & MARGARET BOND

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ormer Tiger golfer Steve Bond and his wife, Margaret, had a vision to honor Clemson athletes who not only succeeded and lettered in their sport, but also employed life lessons to become successful role models in their community and career.

The Bonds created the Clemson Distinguished Athletes Award and presented it to Clemson athletics. The perpetual award includes a gold ring presented each year at the Homecoming football game. The honorees’ names are displayed on a permanent plaque in the lobby of Vickery Hall.

This year’s recipient is Clemson President Emeritus Jim Barker.

Barker competed in track & field from 1968-70 as a pole-vaulter. While most track athletes reported to practice in the afternoon, Barker spent time in the architect studio during practice and arrived as many of his teammates were leaving. Attempting to balance the rigors of school and athletics, Barker learned a crucial skill that applied in all aspects of life.

“It helped me understand how to make the most of every minute that you have,” said Barker. “Trying to be

an architect and a part of a team was a challenge, but sooner or later it occurred to me that one was teaching me lessons for the other.

“The kind of focus I had to have as I was preparing to run down a runway and getting over a bar was the same kind of focus I needed to prepare a presentation for a group. I had to shut out everything else and focus on that.”

In high school, Barker was driven to break certain pole-vault heights, but once he arrived at Clemson, he knew he had to change his priorities. It was important to contribute to the track & field team, but Barker also knew the importance of maintaining his scholarship by immersing himself in his architecture studies.

Barker recounted a story that highlights the difficulty of being a student-

athlete. After staying up for two days straight working on a project, he decided to attend practice before going to sleep.

“I pole-vaulted once and landed in the foam pit and thought to myself, ‘This is really comfortable.’ I fell asleep and woke up the next morning and was convinced I was dead. I was surrounded by all this white stuff and I couldn’t figure out where I was, and then I figured out what had happened.

Those kind of experiences were good for becoming a faculty member and good for being president.”

As president of Clemson University, Barker continued to set goals, including the goal for Clemson to become a top20 public university. It was an honor the university accomplished this past September. After hanging around the low 20s, Clemson passed the coveted threshold.

“It was like clearing 14’6” when we finally did it, maybe even more wonderful because it took 15 years to really make it happen,” stated Barker.

“The truth is my role in it was the easy part.

My role was to say that is the vision we should have. I knew Clemson was a better university than we were ranked at the time and I knew we could incrementally get better through discipline and focus, lessons learned on the track.”

As important as it was to crack the top 20, Barker admitted the most important aspect was to keep the traits that make the Clemson Family so strong. He would rather not achieve his goals if it meant compromising the Clemson brand, but as his

JIM BARKER

JIM BARKER AND WIFE, MARCIA

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track & field days taught him, it was possible through focus and dedication.

“We had trustees who would remind me once we got to the top 20, we wanted Clemson to still be Clemson. We didn’t want to sacrifice any of those qualities that make the Clemson Family so strong.

“That’s the most gratifying part, that Clemson is still Clemson, and yet here we are a top-20 public university. I feel really good about how we’ve become a more united university and strengthened all aspects of Clemson in the process.”

After a hard-fought battle with cancer, Steve Bond passed away in August 2013, just months before the inaugural award was presented to Bobby Conrad and Carolyn Creel. Margaret plans to carry out their vision by recognizing distinguished former athletes each year.

Barker has always been impressed by Bonds’ dedication to his university.

“I’m very honored to be a part of that and the family whose name this award is crafted around,” added Barker. “The Bond family is just remarkable. I didn’t know him very well, but everything I learned about him and this concept was so impressive.”

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TIGER BROTHERHOOD

MOTHER OF-THE-YEAR THE 2014 MOTHER-OFTHE-YEAR HAS BATTLED OVARIAN CANCER FOR 10 YEARS THE ONLY WAY SHE KNOWS HOW...WITH FAITH AND COURAGE.

BY HANNAH BURLESON

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or Shan Thrift Pate, the 2014 Tiger Brotherhood Mother-ofthe-Year recipient, making her college decision was an easy one. Pate grew up in nearby Westminster, S.C. and only knew one color...orange.

“I always wanted to go to Clemson,” said Pate.

While in college from 1983-87, she majored in nursing and was a member of Delta Delta Delta and Central Spirit.

“I loved the Clemson experience.”

Pate met her husband, Kirby, while she attended Clemson.

“All of the ‘Tri Delts’ went out for pizza on Sunday nights as a tradition. I spotted Kirby with his sister, Elizabeth, who was also a ‘Tri Delt.’ I wanted to know who the cute boy she was dating, and then someone said it’s her brother.”

Word got back to Kirby and he asked her out shortly after. The couple began dating during her sophomore year and got married after she graduated with her nursing degree in 1987. He graduated in 1986 with an architecture degree and with his master’s degree in 1988.

The Pates moved to the Atlanta area, where she worked as a nurse until she gave birth to her two children when she decided to be a stay-at-home mother.

Their two children, Kep and Callie, have followed in their parents’ orange footsteps and have experienced Clemson as students, not just fans. Kep graduated with a visual arts degree in December 2013 and Callie will graduate in May with a marketing degree.

Though they are a literal “Clemson Family,” it took Pate a second to collect her thoughts and put into words what Clemson Family means to her.

“Clemson is family to us,” she said.

“We love when all of us get together on Saturdays for football and in the winter and spring for basketball games. We love to come to Clemson for any occasion.

She used words like, “Close-knit, loving, caring and helpful,” to describe Clemson and noted how the university is so, “full of tradition, pride and support for each other.”

During Pate’s senior year, she was subjected to that Clemson Family.

“While struggling with several large boxes, a very kind gentleman offered to help,” she recalled. “Once we arrived at Smith Hall, I realized he looked familiar and asked if we had met before. He smiled and introduced himself as Max Lennon. Then I realized the president of Clemson University had just helped unload my car!”

She summed it up best by saying, “The Clemson Family is an extension of our immediate family. No matter where we are when we see another Clemson fan or grad, there’s an immediate connection, and I love that.”

Other than weekend visits to Clemson and spending time at the family’s nearby lake house, Pate spends a lot of time ministering. She is a three-time ovarian cancer survivor and is currently battling a fourth reoccurrence.

“I’m going for a fourth survival on that,” said Pate matter-of-factly.

Pate’s faith is incredibly important to her and she does her part to give back in her church community at Johns Creek Baptist Church. For the last 20 years, she has run a mothers’ fellowship and bible study once a week that averages 70 women a week.

She also started a “Sweet Tea” ministry, in which the group puts on four gatherings a year to serve as, “an uplifting experience for anyone touched by cancer.” The group has speakers and comedians (including former Clemson basketball player Tanner Smith) visit so, “the ladies leave with less of a burden than they had walking in.”

When Pate talked about the moment she found out she was chosen as Mother-ofthe-Year, she still struggled to find words. But the smile on her face said it all.

“I was speechless,” said Pate. “A few of the Tiger Brotherhood members came to our house. My husband told me a client was coming to visit and that I needed to get a little dressier than usual, but I didn’t suspect a thing.

“The doorbell rang and I saw Matthew Gabriel (vice president of Tiger Brotherhood).

I thought he was there to see my son, but it

turned out he was there to see me. They had orange roses. I think it took about 30 minutes for me to be able to talk. I was so surprised! The fact it was Mother’s Day made it the best day ever!”

Pate is honored to receive the award and can’t wait to “dot the i” on Homecoming, a tradition she has watched for as long as she can remember.

“It’s so overwhelming,” admitted Pate. “I can’t imagine what it’ll feel like. I cry every time I think about it. I’ve watched others do it for so many years. It will be one of the most exciting moments of my life, behind my wedding and the birth of my two children. I’ve never been more humbled or flattered.”

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

CHARLIE WATERS HE WAS A STANDOUT FOOTBALL PLAYER UNDER TWO LEGENDARY HEAD COACHES WITH CLEMSON AND THE DALLAS COWBOYS. NOW, HE IS A STANDOUT IN THE BUSINESS WORLD.

BY SAM BLACKMAN

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ne of the most popular football players at Clemson that made it big in the NFL was Charlie Waters. As a professional, he played for what is known as “America’s Team,” the Dallas Cowboys, under legendary Head Coach Tom Landry.

But he got his start at Clemson under another legendary coach, Frank Howard.

“I remember Coach Frank Howard and Coach Art Baker recruited me when I was at North Augusta High School,” said Waters. “Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee were also looking at me with a few other schools. Many of the schools I heard from wanted me to play defensive back and wide receiver, but I had my heart set on playing quarterback. I chose Clemson since they wanted me to play quarterback and I loved the idea of playing in-state. Plus, my brother, Keith, was already at Clemson playing on the baseball team.

“Coach Baker was a great man,” recalled Waters. “I remember Coach Howard as a very tough coach who believed in hard, physical play. This really helped me in my professional career.

Another Clemson Hall of Famer had a big impact on Waters during his time in Tigertown.

“Whitey Jordan is who I have to thank for moving me to wide receiver. This allowed me to become more athletic. I was able to show my skills better and I believe this is why Dallas drafted me. They saw that I could be moved to another position. They weren’t just interested in positions, they were looking at athletic ability.”

As a junior in the spring of 1968, Waters was competing with Billy Ammons for the starting quarterback position.

When Ammons hurt his knee in spring practice, Waters won the position. But when Ammons’ knee healed, he took over the starting job and Waters moved to flanker for the remaining 15 games of his college career.

As a senior, he had 44 receptions for 738 yards, a record that stood until Jerry Butler broke it in 1977. Waters was also named First-Team All-ACC in 1969 as a senior.

During his Clemson career, Waters totaled 68 catches for 1,196 yards, good for 17.1 yards per reception. He is ninth all-time in yards per reception, ahead of Clemson greats Bennie Cunningham, DeAndre Hopkins, Perry Tuttle and Sammy Watkins.

Waters was selected by the Cowboys as a defensive back in the third round (No. 66 overall) of the 1970 draft. He started six games at the end of his rookie year and had five interceptions, making the NFL All-Rookie team as a free safety.

He was moved to cornerback the following year, where he played for four seasons. Waters was eventually moved to strong safety in 1975 to replace Cowboy great Cornell Green, and he responded with three interceptions for 55 yards and a touchdown.

As a strong safety, Waters became an All-Pro, and along with close friend Cliff Harris, they formed one of the best safety tandems in the NFL in the mid 1970s. Waters was selected All-Pro twice (1977,78) and to the Pro Bowl three straight years (1976-78).

Waters injured his knee before the start of the 1979 season and had to sit out the year. But he returned in 1980 and had five more interceptions. He retired after the 1981 season with 41 interceptions (same as his uniform number), third-most in franchise history.

Waters played 12 seasons in the NFL, never experienced a losing season and only missed the playoffs one time. He played in five Super Bowls, with victories in two games. He set the NFL record for most playoff interceptions (9), including three in one playoff game, and has the unique achievement of blocking four punts in a two-game span.

“Playing for Coach Landry was a great experience,” added Waters. “He was a disciplinarian, and I loved it. He had us so prepared. He was very detailed and very precise. He had an engineering

background, and that is where his detailed approach came from.

“When he drew plays on the board, it would be so detailed down to the steps a player should take. By the end of the week, we knew more about our opponent than they did about themselves.”

Waters was inducted into the Clemson Hall of Fame in 1981. He was also inducted into the North Augusta and South Carolina Athletic Halls of Fame.

He retired and became an NFL and college coach. He was defensive coordinator of the Broncos in 1993 and 1994, then was the same at Oregon in 1995.

He retired from coaching in 1995 and is now working with Harris, his longtime friend and former teammate, at Energy Transfer Technologies in the electricity and natural gas delivery business as well as the building of compressors.

AS A SENIOR AT CLEMSON IN 1969, CHARLIE WATERS HAD 738 RECEIVING YARDS, A SCHOOL RECORD THAT STOOD FOR EIGHT YEARS.

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PHOTO OFTHE THEWEEK

BY CARL ACKERMAN

THE TIGER DEFENSE, LED BY GRADY JARRETT AND CO., CAME UP BIG WHEN THE TEAM NEEDED IT MOST TO PRESERVE CLEMSON’S 23-17 WIN OVER LOUISVILLE ON OCTOBER 11.

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THE LAST WORD

THE HENDRIX FAMILY CORNERSTONE GIFT

THE CLEMSON FOOTBALL PROGRAM CONTINUES TO UNDERGO RENOVATIONS TO ITS FACILITIES ON CAMPUS. AND WITH THIS GENEROUS DONATION FROM THE HENDRIX FAMILY TOWARDS THESE PROJECTS, CLEMSON’S FACILITIES WILL REMAIN AMONG THE NATION’S BEST.

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BY JOE GALBRAITH

t is often said that recruiting is the lifeblood of a football program. One of the aspects that lends itself to attracting talented prospective student-athletes is top-notch facilities. Clemson has long been a leader with its facilities, on and off the field, and the trend does not appear to be letting up thanks in large part to Clemson University’s first athletics cornerstone gift.

The Hendrix family has pledged $2.5 million, the largest gift ever to Clemson athletics, toward the latest facility enhancements, including upgrades to Memorial Stadium and a new football operations center.

Leon J. “Bill” Hendrix Jr., his wife, Pam, and children, Jill, Joy, Holly and Jim (all Clemson graduates, as are two of their spouses), are longtime supporters of Clemson athletics.

Bill Hendrix served as the student body president in 1963, received the Clemson Medallion in 2009, has served on the Clemson University Board of Trustees since 1995 and was chairman for three terms from 2003-09.

The cornerstone program is a vital part of the new athletic facilities initia-

tive. With new facilities, upgrades or rebuilds planned for football, basketball, baseball, tennis, soccer and Vickery Hall, it will be the most comprehensive change to the facilities of athletics ever undertaken at Clemson.

The Hendrix family cornerstone gift is largest single pledge to Clemson athletics, pushing the family’s total giving to the university to over $5 million. The generous donations have benefitted facilities such as the Hendrix Student Center, and programs such as the Hendrix Family Endowment for the Office of Student Body President, the President’s Leadership Circle and the Pamela Mad-

dex Hendrix Dream Jar Study Abroad Endowment.

As it relates to the Tiger football program, the Hendrix family partnered in the construction of the WestZone, indoor practice facility and endowed a scholarship for the placekicking position.

The Hendrix family cornerstone gift is simply the latest in a long line of philanthropic contributions to Tiger athletics.

“Bill and Pam, along with the entire Hendrix family, have deeply impacted the Clemson campus in positive ways for many years,” said IPTAY CEO Davis Babb. “The first cornerstone gift is a significant step for our programs, and we

sincerely appreciate their passion and support for Clemson athletics.”

Not only does the cornerstone gift support the entire athletics program, but it is also part of the university’s “Will to Lead” capital campaign to raise $1 billion. The campaign is designed to support Clemson students and faculty through scholarships, professorships, facilities, technology and enhanced learning and research opportunities.

Just as the names Heisman, McFadden and Riggs are engraved and omnipresent for the programs they helped build, the names of Clemson’s cornerstone contributors will be engraved on every new and renovated athletic facility. The Hendrix family is the first of what administrators hope will be several significant philanthropic contributions in the ever-changing world of college athletics.

As the competitive landscape continues to evolve, the Tiger program must stay ahead of the curve when it comes to facilities and financial support. Through this charitable donation by the Hendrix family, it appears well positioned to do so for the foreseeable future.

THE HENDRIX STUDENT CENTER IN THE HEART OF THE CLEMSON CAMPUS IS NAMED AFTER BILL HENDRIX FOR HIS GENEROUS DONATION. THE HENDRIX FAMILY CORNERSTONE GIFT WILL FUND FUTURE STATE-OF-THE-ART ATHLETIC FACILITIES.

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