“Every player that comes through the program will leave with a diploma and a championship ring.”

That’s a paraphrase from Dave Clawson’s press conference today (right now), the 17th head coach at Bowling Green. The cool thing about Bowling Green and it’s students, alumni, fans and administration, there’s equal importance placed on both items Clawson mentioned. Even when the latter hasn’t come easy (16 years and counting), Falcon fans have put a ton of pride in the former.

I’ve only read what’s popped up online in the last three or four days, and listened to him for about eight minutes, but I like the hire. Just like hiring Louis Orr to run the basketball team, I get a good feel off Dave Clawson. I think I even felt that way when Gregg Brandon was hired on as coach (though he had a two-year headstart with the program). Even in the cut-throat world of college coaching, BG has seemed to do well hiring men and women that fit what the campus and community of Bowling Green is all about.

“I don’t like to be married to a system.”

I like it. We’ve had a lot of players that seem to have been under-utilized in the last few years, between RB’s and receivers. It’s good to know that if we have two stud backs, we’ll line up that way. And if we have six stud WR’s, we’ll line up that way, too.

Dave Clawson press conference audio

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