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posted 10-13-2008 12:32 PM
The life of a big time football coach can be very precarious to say the least.
Tommy Bowden, midway through his 10th season as the head coach of the Clemson University football team, has been fired.
Assistant head coach Dabo Swinney will take over the team for the remainder of the team's season.
Swinney will be on the sidelines when the Tigers (3-3, 1-2 in the ACC) face Georgia Tech on Saturday.
WYFF News 4 learned Monday morning from a source at Clemson that Bowden would be replaced.
Clemson has scheduled a news conference for 5:15 p.m. on Monday to discuss the coaching change.
The Tigers were expected to contend for their first conference title since 1991, but have lost two straight games to Atlantic Coast Conference opponents in recent weeks.
Clemson, ranked in the preseason Top 10, opened with a lopsided 34-10 loss to Alabama.
The team rebounded with three straight wins, beating the Citadel, N.C. State and South Carolina State.
But the Tigers lost 20-17 at home to Maryland on Sept. 27 and fell 12-7 to Wake Forest on Thursday night, apparently sealing Bowden's fate.
Bowden had announced late last week that he was benching starting quarterback Cullen Harper in favor of highly touted redshirt freshman Willy Korn.
Bowden finishes his stint at Clemson with a 72-45 record and eight appearances in bowl games.
Swinney began the season as the Tigers' receivers coach. A graduate of the University of Alabama, Swinney has been on Bowden's Clemson staff for six years.
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