The Clemson Dubcast

Ricky Sapp

Ricky Sapp joins the podcast to update on what he's been up to since his playing days, shares some of his favorite memories from Clemson and his recruitment, and gives his take on how far Dabo Swinney has taken the football program.

 

Durrell Barry and Chris Chancellor

Former Clemson football players and current police officers, Durrell Barry and Chris Chancellor weigh in on their emotions of the past few weeks. Barry was on the front lines in Columbia recently as protestors set fire to police cars and inflicted other damage. "I'm almost speechless when it comes to certain things that have happened, because I never thought I'd be in the middle of something like that. It was eye-opening, man. It was scary. You have to keep it professional as a police officer. I would want to protest too, but I'm a law-enforcement officer. I understand why everybody is upset with law enforcement as a whole, but they have to understand that doesn't represent 99 percent of law enforcement."

Mike Noonan

Clemson men's soccer coach Mike Noonan joins the podcast and reveals that he asked for a sabbatical from coaching from February to July. Dan Radakovich granted his request to "do a lot of things with my family that have been neglected for 34 years." The pandemic kept him from doing a lot of the traveling he planned, but he has treasured reconnecting with his family. We also discuss what things have been like for the soccer team as it phases back into a practice routine, Noonan's thoughts on the tumultuous time that has followed the George Floyd killing, his take on the new Phish album, his time following the Grateful Dead, and other stuff.

Harold "Dutch" Coleman and Patrick Sapp

Two popular Clemson personalities, former Tiger football players Harold "Dutch" Coleman and Patrick Sapp, give their thoughts and perspectives on recent events at Clemson and beyond -- how we got to this point, and how we can make it better. All of us.

Eric George

Eric George spent four-and-a-half years in Clemson's athletics department as the Tigers' chief financial officer. Now he moves on to Mississippi State to become the Bulldogs' executive senior associate athletics director and CFO. George reflects on what the past two-plus months were like at Clemson as everyone grappled with the pandemic, and discusses what college football could look like this season.

Bill D'Andrea

Bill D'Andrea joins the podcast to talk about being inducted into the Clemson Athletic Hall of Fame and gives his recollections of being Javis Austin's lone link back to Clemson after Austin's attempted suicide in 1999 (Austin earned his degree several years later). D'Andrea also shares where he was when he heard Danny Ford was done at Clemson -- in Bethlehem, Pa., having secured a commitment from a defensive lineman named Dwayne Johnson (yes, the same Dwayne Johnson who would go on to become The Rock). Johnson ended up at Miami, and D'Andrea ended up leading Clemson's foray into academic support for athletes as the head of Vickery Hall. D'Andrea also reflects on the details of Oliver Purnell's abrupt departure from Clemson for DePaul in 2010.

Javis Austin

Former Clemson running back Javis Austin recounts the incredible story of his decision to take his own life in the midst of conflicts with coaches and deepening depression. After shooting himself in the head with a .38 caliber pistol in November of 1999, he stood up from his bed and asked himself: "Why am I not dead?" In the two decades since his miraculous survival, he has worked to educate and help others who struggle with mental-health issues.

 

C.J. Spiller

Clemson legend C.J. Spiller joins The Dubcast to talk his induction into the 2020 Clemson Hall of Fame class, his budding career as a Liberty High School track coach, his relationship with current Clemson great Travis Etienne, and a bunch of other stuff.

Ruthie Millar and Pastor Ray Campbell

Our senior citizens are often isolated during normal circumstances, and far more so during the current pandemic. So we decided to do what we should have always been doing far more often: Sit and listen to some great stories about and from our elders. Ruthie Millar gives more insight into the group of Clemson football players who visited Clemson Downs to play bingo several times in February, and the special relationship that developed. Pastor Ray Campbell, a 92-year-old Clemson resident, tells priceless stories from his close relationship with Frank Howard -- including the spiritual awakening that Howard experienced late in his life.

Billy Davis

For decades as a member of the Secret Service, Billy Davis had to confront and resolve fear and danger every single day. So what advice and wisdom does he have for everyone who's dealing with fear and danger with the current pandemic? Davis, a member of Clemson's 1981 national championship team, also unearths some great stories from his recruitment as a blue-chip prospect from Virginia in the late 1970s -- including when Danny Ford found a Notre Dame pamphlet in Davis' bedroom and slapped him over the head with it. Davis went to New York in early April to visit Mt. Sinai Hospital and the Samaritan's Purse Field Hospital in Central Park.