The Clemson Dubcast

We present the final two installments of our interviews with Clemson's assistant coaches. Kyle Richardson is entering his second season as the Tigers' tight ends coach and passing-game coordinator. Even after losing Davis Allen, he has high hopes for a group that includes Jake Briningstool, Sage Ennis and Josh Sapp. Mickey Conn is in charge of a safety group that brings back a wealth of experience...

Clemson's assistant coaches recently visited with the media for an extended period. We present the uncut audio from the sessions with Mike Reed and Lemanski Hall. Reed is preparing for his 11th season as Clemson's cornerbacks coach, and is a valuable member of the Tigers' recruiting staff. Hall has worked for Dabo Swinney for eight seasons and welcomes back Xavier Thomas and Justin Mascoll at defe...

Clemson assistant coaches Nick Eason and C.J. Spiller sit down for extended interviews to discuss the 2023 season. Eason, in his second year as defensive tackles coach, oversees a loaded position group that includes freshman phenom Peter Woods. The interior defensive line was also bolstered by the return of Tyler Davis and Ruke Orhorhoro after both seriously considered going to the NFL. Spiller is...

We present the uncut audio from this week's media sessions featuring Clemson's coaches. Thomas Austin, preparing for his second season in charge of the Tigers' offensive line, reflects on the quest for depth up front after the line had very little of it the past two seasons. Austin also shares what's different under new offensive coordinator Garrett Riley, who is committed to running the ball afte...

We present the uncut audio from Wes Goodwin and Garrett Riley visiting with the Clemson media earlier this week. Goodwin shares what it was like to be thrown into the defensive coordinator fire with no previous play-calling experience. He said the 2022 season provided sobering and difficult lessons that make him better entering his second season in charge of the defense that Brent Venables left in...

K'Von Wallace is back in Clemson this summer training.  He says most players don't go back to their alma maters to work out. But his love of Clemson, coupled with the resources the football program makes available to its former players now in the NFL, makes it a no-brainer to come back home. Wallace, who is preparing for his fourth season with the Philadelphia Eagles, reflects on the differences b...

It’s been a busy summer for Brad Brownell, who’s preparing for his 14th season at Clemson. He and assistant Billy Donlon pulled off the coup of landing Syracuse guard Joe Girard out of the transfer portal. Then Brownell waited anxiously as a fully-healthy P.J. Hall turned the heads of NBA scouts who were evaluating him during various combines and workouts. Hall recently elected to return to Clemso...

Melanie Hall, mother of Clemson star basketball player P.J. Hall, joins the podcast to tell the story of her son as he grew up in a family of high-level athletes. Melanie, who played college basketball at College of Charleston, reflects on the recruiting process that ended with her son choosing Brad Brownell and the Tigers. At one point during his childhood PJ had his room decked out in all things...

In March, Clemson assistant coach Nick Eason shared his life story in full for the first time when he sat down with Tigerillustrated.com for three-plus hours. The six-part series was published in April and featured an almost breathtaking series of life struggles Eason has fought and overcome -- from overt racism as a high-schooler in his hometown of Lyons, Ga., to watching teammate and friend Bran...

In March, Clemson assistant coach Nick Eason shared his life story in full for the first time when he sat down with Tigerillustrated.com for three-plus hours. The six-part series was published in April and featured an almost breathtaking series of life struggles Eason has fought and overcome -- from overt racism as a high-schooler in his hometown of Lyons, Ga., to watching teammate and friend Bran...

In March, Clemson assistant coach Nick Eason shared his life story in full for the first time when he sat down with Tigerillustrated.com for three-plus hours. The six-part series was published in April and featured an almost breathtaking series of life struggles Eason has fought and overcome -- from overt racism as a high-schooler in his hometown of Lyons, Ga., to watching teammate and friend Bran...

The full, uncut audio from recent press-conference interviews with first-year offensive coordinator Garrett Riley, second-year defensive coordinator Wes Goodwin, and second-year offensive line coach Thomas Austin.    

One of Grace Raynor's first experiences covering Clemson was for a football game some folks might remember -- in Tampa, featuring the Tigers and Crimson Tide playing for the national championship. Raynor still shudders at her harrowing experience writing on a tight deadline late that night for The Post and Courier newspaper. It was such a traumatic experience that she called her mother the next mo...

Grayson Mann is a rising senior at Clemson and an aspiring sports journalist. In addition to working for Tigerillustrated.com as an intern, Mann has his own podcast on which he's interviewed various Clemson football and basketball players. On this episode, Clemson Dubcast host Larry Williams drops by Mann's podcast and we talk what it's like for a middle-aged man to cover one thing year after year...

The full audio of recent press conferences featuring Clemson defensive tackles coach Nick Eason, running backs coach C.J. Spiller and receivers coach Tyler Grisham. Eason discusses the motivations behind his substantial weight loss since last September, plus the sensation created by freshman tackle Peter Woods. Spiller and Grisham discuss the adjustment to Garrett Riley, who became Clemson's third...

Roy Philpott has been an ESPN play-by-play announcer for a decade, and occasionally his job will bring him back to the place he went to school and worked. He was back at his alma mater for the recent Clemson spring game, standing on the field and following a mic'd-up Dabo Swinney. Philpott was a publisher at Scout.com and covered Clemson on a daily basis back when Swinney arrived as Tommy Bowden's...

Former Clemson football player Richard Yeargin has found his calling after years of soul-searching and trying to reconcile life without football. Yeargin was involved in a horrible car accident in Greenville in 2017, just a few months after he and the Tigers were atop the mountain in Tampa celebrating Clemson's first national title since 1981. He played for Boston College in 2019 and was planning...

Kyle Richardson is a "pig in mud" as he transitions to the offense of Garrett Riley, as both have roots in the Air Raid offensive system. Richardson acknowledges that the 2022 season, his first as an on-the-field coach at Clemson, was difficult because it was his first time coaching tight ends. Richardson believes his top player, Jake Briningstool, is "a totally different player" and headed for bi...

Patrick Sapp joins the podcast to talk a multitude of topics including the mental health of athletes and how it's much different nowadays than when he played at Clemson in the 1990s. Sapp shares that he almost joined Dabo Swinney's staff when Swinney took over as head coach in 2008. At the time, Swinney wanted Sapp to be an offensive analyst and Levon Kirkland an analyst on the defensive side, but...

In January of 2012, Dan Scott finished up his daily radio show on WCCP-FM and was called into his boss' office. He was abruptly fired, immediately severing the high profile Scott enjoyed on the radio airwaves for more than a decade as he also become a prominent radio voice of Clemson's baseball team. As Scott reveals, his life was already close to rock bottom even before the firing as he had moved...

After a life in Charleston that included 20 years working with John Kresse and Bobby Cremins at College of Charleston, Tony Ciuffo and his wife were looking to retire somewhere. They chose Clemson, where Ciuffo is now working in a broadcasting role with various Tigers sports. Ciuffo's son Nick was once an elite high school baseball player who went in the first round of the 2013 MLB Draft and is no...

Three days ago, Graham Neff sat down with reporters and put his full support behind Brad Brownell while declaring Brownell will be back for a 14th season. That stance is now the target of criticism after Clemson's embarrassing loss to Morehead State in the first round of the NIT. With many wondering whether Neff might walk back some of his comments, or even reconsider his stance on Brownell's retu...

In late December, we had a lengthy interview with the father of Cade Klubnik for more background on Cade's upbringing, his extraordinary competitiveness, and his love of Clemson. Tod Klubnik and his wife Kim are frequent visitors to Clemson as they travel from Austin across the country in the RV purchased after Tod's retirement. Tod shares what it was like for Cade last season looking on as the of...

Jack Leggett will be back in Doug Kingsmore Stadium tonight, back facing bitter rival South Carolina in a three-game weekend series. Leggett is asked what he'd say to Gamecocks athletics director Ray Tanner and South Carolina assistant Monte Lee if their paths cross this weekend. "Probably not going to be a lot of conversation," he said. Leggett says he has nothing against Lee, who replaced him as...

By age 22, Nic Brown had achieved rock-music stardom.   As the drummer in the band Athenaeum, a group that initially came together for a middle-school dance when Brown was in the eighth grade, he was touring the country and sharing the stage with major acts including the Foo Fighters.   From the outside, the trajectory for this pop-rock band seemed limitless as it had already enjoyed one of its so...