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The secret to the success of the Clemson offensive juggernaut

Robbie Caldwell, age 23. Coaching experience: one season as a graduate assistant and one season as a high school coach.

Then, out of nowhere, he received an offer from Dick Sheridan to become Furman University’s offensive line coach in 1978.

Wow! Talk about a career-changing opportunity at a young age. Yes, he would be coaching guys he played with a few years earlier, but what more could he want?

Sheridan, an assistant at the time, had known Caldwell as a player. “Too slow,” the coaches agreed. “But he always blocked his man,” then-head coach Art Baker said.