The N&R’s Ed Hardin wonders who will come calling next for Wake forest coach Jim Grobe. He also had an interesting point of view on Tommy Bowden’s last hours as Clemson following Thursday’s defeat at the hands of the Deacs:
Bowden stayed in the stadium long after the loss to tape his weekly coach’s show. It was a strange sight, Bowden and the show’s host sitting on a mock set with lights shining in the darkness of Wake’s stadium, clean-up crews all around them blowing trash from the seats and walking in and out of the camera’s view.
The end was bitter for Bowden, sitting there in a coat and tie, his hair done just for the show as the bus carrying his team to the airport pulled away without him. When the taping finally ended, he walked off the field with ACC associate commissioner Mike Finn and a South Carolina state trooper behind him.
They walked to the darkened field house at the end of the stadium, where Bowden’s wife, Linda, dressed in gaudy orange, put an arm around her husband. They walked out together with no idea that he’d coached his last game.
