Well there was the whole "Clowney isn't productive because he is lazy" thing. They seemed to latch onto that pretty good, including during this past NFL season. Of course, no one takes into account that he had played through a lot of nagging injuries and a serious knee injury during his rookie year. BUT, facts be damned. Let's slam him and his school.
For many players coming out of the South Carolina program, NFL teams have an inherent concern over the athletes are truly motivated.
FWIW, most players drop significant pounds for the combine in order to achieve better numbers.
It is spillover from the Clowney BS... But.. PERCEPTION IS REALITY. Unfortunately, highly dedicated workhorses like Connor Shaw, Dswag, Gilmore... Don't get our team the attention the deserve for being hard workers. Our flash in the pan once in a lifetime superstar talent was Clowney who was a laid back dude that got a rep as being lazy and people view him as the face of our program instead of a kid lime Lattimore. I wish one of these idiots who try to connect this as though it is a program wide issue would take a look at Latti or Shaw and tell me if our program has a problem with producing lazy players.
