This winter when Terry Don Phillips hired Dabo Swinney and signed him to one of the lowest contracts of any coach at the BCS level, much was made of Phillips' promises to make that up to Swinney in the salaries of additional support personnel.
So far, some of those promises have been realized, with the additions of Woody McCorvey as director of football operations and Mike Dooley as director of High School relations. However, other positions have not materialized as promised.
A recent example of Phillips failing to go to bat for the football team occurred with Clemson Football Chaplain Tony Eubanks. As many of you know Tony Eubanks has been the Team Chaplin since 2003. Eubanks has led many of our players to Christ and is an instrumental mentor that is key in helping our players lead positive lives not only while at Clemson but long after they leave.
Tony Eubanks
Heart & Soul of Clemson Football
According to anonymous sources inside the Athletic Department in the week leading up to our game against Middle Tennessee State, our Athletic Director sided with Assistant AD Katie Hill in trying to eliminate Eubanks' role with the team. A near mutiny amongst some of the players and a few of the coaches almost occurred, with players threatening to leave the program and coaches willing to resign their positions in outrage. Dabo Swinney himself was forced to go to the mat for Eubanks. Phillips backed-down, temporarily, in response and allowed Eubanks to remain as Team Chaplin.
Does this sound like an athletic director giving Dabo Swinney total support and making good on the promises he made when he hired Dabo last December?
This is absolutely ridiculous. I had heard that Dabo had to deal with something like this the week before MTSU. Barker, TDP, and Katie Hill have well worn out their welcome.
ReplyDeleteBased on two initial posts, this blog appears to be designed to stir up negative energy in the Clemson camp.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you come out on your profile and say who you are if you are going to be borderline libel and quite judgemental in your first two posts?
jlg u mad?
ReplyDeleteI'd be more than willing to take the conversation further in person.
ReplyDelete2 blog posts....both trying to stir the pot. hmmmm.....
ReplyDeleteThanks Roy for the link and for the support!
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting that both rivals and scout employees have basically confirmed these details. This doesn't sound like an administration that is "all in".
ReplyDeleteKatie Hill is an ABSOLUTE cancer to our program. She works for our athletic department yet she could care less if our sports teams are successful. Terry Don obviously doesn't care much either. He put ZERO effort into finding a soccer coach and he knew the second the incident happened with Coach Adair that he'd need a new coach. Guess with all that sleep he does that he doesn't have time for his job.
ReplyDeleteIf they hire D'Andrea we won't be any better off. We need new blood in the AD ASAP
I think lumping President Barker in with AD personnel is a little unfair first Anonymous poster. Barker's primary concern is not and should not be Tiger Athletics. Clemson University as a whole has benefitted from his leadership. And that's his job.
ReplyDeleteJoe: Sorry I can't agree about Barker. He originally sucked me in with his talk of love for Clemson, but he quickly sold his soul to the demon that is mythical magazine rankings. He is willing to sacrifice the mission of Clemson University for the false glory of a meaningless magazine ranking.
ReplyDeleteYou obviously have no reliable sources, and this blog itself is a cancer to Clemson sports - as if we need that...
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