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Bowden, Doba on the coaching hot seat entering 2007

By Mark Schlabach
ESPN.com

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Former Texas Tech football coach Spike Dykes once said a coach loses 10 percent of his team's fan base with each defeat. The way Clemson coach Tommy Bowden figures it, he has even more to lose as he begins his ninth season with the Tigers. "We just set a record for ticket sales, so I have a bunch of people who don't like me -- most in Clemson history," Bowden joked last month at the ACC Kickoff news conference in Pinehurst, N.C. After his team lost four of its last five games, Bowden on ...

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