I mention how bad it was that Louisville does what they did to the Dutch Fork kid and the immediate response I get from a couple of you is "Spurrier does the same thing all the time". OK, I never even said a word about Clemson but you have to go that route. I cant remember Spurrier ever doing that two days before signing day so I dont know what you are talking about. Also, why do you always want to say he is Satan even when the topic is something completely unrelated to Carolina OR Clemson. Get over it people, you are getting sad, really sad.
Really Clemson fans, really?!?
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Lorenzo Mauldin and Jordan Montgomery are who they are referring too. Both had their scholarships yanked 18 hours before signing day.
A real fan does not create a brand new account simply to validate a negative report by the clemson board. That would be very stupid.
FAIL!
FAIL!
Dude, been a fan since 2009. I was simply telling the truth. I don't know enough about Clemson yet to hate them.
Been a fan since 2009 and don't know enough about clemson to hate them? Hmmm. You're not from around here are ya kid.
But you chose for your first post to back up something negative that the clemson board posted about OUR coach??
Yea....nahhh, sorry, not buying it.
Still a FAIL!
But you chose for your first post to back up something negative that the clemson board posted about OUR coach??
Yea....nahhh, sorry, not buying it.
Still a FAIL!
Simple as this post is, it shows the issue. I made a comment to them about Dutch Form and Louisville and they turn it completely around to them and us. I guess five years of losing does that to you and you have that much pent up frustration. . As far as the guys listed goes, they were out due to not being accepted because of admissions not because Spurrier didnt want them all the sudden. He even got onto the admissions department because f it.
I guess Clemson gets it from their coach. No matter what you talk about it has to always turn back around to being about them in some way. "Look at me" is their moto
I guess Clemson gets it from their coach. No matter what you talk about it has to always turn back around to being about them in some way. "Look at me" is their moto
If you've read posts here lately you'd see that a lot of fans here only count sos's tenure here since '09. They conviently leave off that we were basically a 7-6 team the other seasons also
Now, I gotta hand it to you taters who decided to open your man pleasers about this subject. After you guys MILKED Ray Ray McElrathby and his little brother for every ounce of publicity you could possibly wring outta that sponge, including Oprah, y'all yanked his ship. Now THAT was a shit move by Clemson University. Let's not mention the Tillman Hall ordeal and you guys supporting a murdering racist POS like Ben Tillman.
you were apparently not here in 2009 season. you said in one of your first 6 posts that "we finish in the top 25 every year".
the thread was just zapped by admins..
no "you" don't. here's the proof.
6 wins 7 losses. USF dumped y'all 31-26 in the 2010 Meineke Car Care Bowl.... I'm sure it was stricken from the minds of your sheeples by Rev Swiney and the Jonesville Tabernacle Choir singing "how great thou art" at the following spring game.
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Just as we would expect, Taters win once in six and now they proclaim that they have passed FSU and we will now be a tune up before they get in the final four. if their skinny legged QB can last until our game this year, hope we get a chance to bring him down to earth and look for Spurrier to unload on Dabo because he is as sick of their bullshit as anyone else.
They were told long beforehand that they had conditional offers. At the time that they committed, they were in terrible shape academically.
To make a long story short, they were not going to be Fall enrollees. USC was up front with them about it, but they still wanted to gripe about it. If they didn't like the terms, they shouldn't have committed.
STOP right there. There is NO WAY you are a fan for 6 years and don't know enough about Moo U to hate them. FAIL.
Get your lies straight. Ray Ray had his degree and had stopped attending the classes needed to stay eligible so Clemson pulled his scholarship.
Maybe you should get your lies straight. His scholarship was revoked months before he graduated. And he also said "But I was not a disciplinary problem. I did not have academic problems".
Ray Ray himself
Also...........
Clemson coach Tommy Bowden informed then-running back Ray Ray McElrathbey the day before the Tigers' spring practice that his scholarship would not be renewed for the 2008-09 academic year......... , they allowed the Atlanta native financial help, more than likely to avoid more negative P.R. as opposed to a true philanthropic motive........ Fast forward to this past March when Clemson released McElrathbey. As far as reasons, Bowden stated McElrathbey will soon have his degree (this August) and be able to "pursue other opportunities."
Yep yep
Clemson coach Tommy Bowden informed then-running back Ray Ray McElrathbey the day before the Tigers' spring practice that his scholarship would not be renewed for the 2008-09 academic year......... , they allowed the Atlanta native financial help, more than likely to avoid more negative P.R. as opposed to a true philanthropic motive........ Fast forward to this past March when Clemson released McElrathbey. As far as reasons, Bowden stated McElrathbey will soon have his degree (this August) and be able to "pursue other opportunities."
Yep yep
I can admit I was wrong on the timeline. Its still true the kid was not going to class like he was supposed to and if he doesn't do his part then why should Clemson?
Except that Mauldin did get into school. He played, pretty well, for Louisville for four years. We said, at the time, that we didn't think Mauldin would meet NCAA eligibility requirements, but he did. Would he have met our admissions requirements? Who knows? The kid's coach was really POed because we waited so late in the game to pull the offer.
I consider the Mauldin incident to be a bad chapter in our history. It has not been repeated, and I hope it won't be.
I tell you what, all these HS coaches getting pissed when an offer is pulled, do they get pissed when their athlete commits and then backs out a couple of days before signing day? The more this happens the less it bothers me when a school pulls an offer. Shouldn't a commitment be a two way street? If athletes want to be able to change their minds then the coaches and school have every right.
Mauldin could get into Louisville but he couldn't get into USC. Why is it so hard for people to understand that USC doesn't follow the NCAA minimum requirements for admission? Ours are HIGHER! It's the same reason Davon Durant went to Arizona State this year. There's nothing our coaching staff could do about it.
Wait, WHAT?!?! You're "from North Dakota" as you "claim" and you didn't get into college football until you moved to SC? You're either a liar or a fool. You have one of the best FCS teams that's won multiple National Championships and has a HUGE following in the state of ND. College Gameday has been there TWICE. Yeah, you didn't get into college football when you "lived" in ND. Riiiight.lol
I will address this klempsun attitude and agenda, not the specific comment. I am very familiar with this kind of reaction from tater fans. I was at a party a couple of weeks back. Ran into an acquaintance, who is a big tater fan. I said, 'go ahead and brag about klempsun football!' He made a smart comment about our de-commits and specifically brought up the Fields flip. Then he said something like, 'if you guys can actually hang onto a few recruits, you might have a decent season this fall.'
Up to that point, it was just typical football program banter. Then he said this, 'You know, Spurrier is just such a bad person.' No examples or proof, just 'he's a bad person.' I responded by calling Dumbo 'phony.' His response? 'No way!! Dabo is totally genuine!' At that point, I realized that it is true. Tater nation really is a cult and they do believe that Spurrier is the antichrist and dumbo is the savior.
That's what narcissists do. No matter what happens they always find a way to shine the spotlight on themselves to magnify their greatness or gain sympathy. I have some sane Clemson friends, but most of those I've known over the years are "holier than thou Pharasees" with a sense of entitlement, not only when it comes to all things Clemson, but in their personal lives as well.
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Screw that TATER !!!!!! Dabo jerked 3 kids chains last year with Grey Shirts as their class filled up.
And if you know the facts, you know it was because their high schools told the staff the kids wouldn't academically qualify.
Kornblut discussed those two on the air today on Bobby's Hartin's Fan Talk in Charleston.
Much different than Petrino's deal.
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I live in Anderson and I work in Seneca so I see this on a regular basis. You would be absolutely amazed at some of the things I hear around here. But what I learned 11 years ago when I moved up here is that most of their ridiculous thoughts come from the local media. From the interwebs, to the radio, to the newspapers it is a complete 180 up here from what Carolina fans are used to in Columbia. Think about it for a minute.
On the interwebs, we have "realists" who tell it like it is here and on TOS. Some's good, some's bad. In Clemson it has basically been 110% pro Clemson since the message boards were started. They have the "All-In For Clemson Spend All Day and Night on Our Knees for Dabo" crew that you find on Tigernet. Tigernet hasn't said 3 bad words about Clemson in 15 years. Look at Chris Ard on Tiger Illustrated. He had to distance himself from interviewing recruits because he has been a Clemson booster in the past. He also enjoys taking weird photos of half naked Clemson football players (has nothing to do with this but it's weird). What about ShakingTheSouthalnd? That site was critical of Clemson and it got shut down or at least other people took over. The people who started it were too critical and they basically gave it up when the CU athletics department pressured the network. Don't get me started on David Hood's softball question to Dabo that started "the rant' a few years ago. Could you see Wes Mitchell and Spurrier doing that? All by themselves on the practice field after all the other media has left?
Look at the radio stations. WCCP is the biggest joke radio. Like the websites, are they EVER critical of Clemson? Walt Deptula and Dan Scott were. Dan got fired and Walt is now the biggest homer on that station. They told Walt to get in line or get out. Walt got in line. What do we have in Columbia? 107.5 is the home of the Gamecocks but all I hear on the message boards is how everyone hates about half of the people on the air and they don't listen any more. Same for 560am. What about the game broadcasts? Pete Yanity wasn't all in so they canned him and hired Dabo's BFF. I guess all those years he spent under Dabo's desk finally paid off.
What about the newspapers? I don't know much about newspapers since no one reads them anymore but no one can be as critical of Clemson up here as The State is of USC. The State has had it out for USC since day one and Spurrier finally had to cause a ruckus that gained nationwide attention when he put Ron Morris in his place a few years ago.
Dabo basically put a lockdown on the media up here and ONLY ONE media outlet pushed back -- Shakinthesouthland.com. They pushed back, Dabo stepped in and went to the SB Nation network, and the writers that ran it are gone. No one else up here has the balls to do anything because they will get cut off too. You're either all in or you're fired!
Clemson is a small town and a lot of good ole boy stuff goes on around here. Everyone is "all in" and yes, it is a cult to an extent. I think even most rational (term used loosely) Clemson fans will agree. A paranoid guy like Dabo would NEVER survive is a bigger market area. He can hide out in the hills and only release what he wants to. If too much info gets out, that relationship is severed and info is cut off. That's why their message board writers have to stay in step with Dabo's message.
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