They Are an Elite Group
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And they ain't all the taters have. Wake up
Keep in mind that Ohio State ought not to have even been in the playoffs. They lost to Penn State. Penn State won the Big 10. OSU limped to the finish line by barely beating Michigan (OT) and a 3-9 Michigan State team (17-16). The only reason they were in the playoffs is because of their hype machine. They just got exposed.
Meanwhile, Washington's offense was 3d in the FBS and Alabama drubbed them. The line is going to move. But it isn't going to move much and it might move in Alabama's direction.
Meanwhile, Washington's offense was 3d in the FBS and Alabama drubbed them. The line is going to move. But it isn't going to move much and it might move in Alabama's direction.
Clempson isn't good enough to beat them without them making a lot of mistakes.
Ohio state wasn't great, I saw this coming a mile away, I'm not saying clempson isn't good, but beating the teams they beat doesn't make them world beaters.
I wish people would quit using louisville as a crutch to make clempson better than they are. Louisville got smashed by lsu, beat by ky and had to fight off wake.
Sorry I'm just not buying elite status.
This right here, there were a lot of teams better than osu. Anyone who didn't see clempson doing exactly what they did are fools.
Sorry but that could not be further from the truth. Reckless and lazy thinking. Pull yourself together, man.
So you're saying that before the game if anybody didn't see that Clemson blowout coming then they are a fool?
Please
Sure hope the heck your right.
Take the garnet glasses off. It's time to recognize right now their the number 2# program in College football. If not then who is. This is second straight National title game and I don't even know how many 11 win seasons they're at right now in a row. It's a nightmare scenario for us as Gamecock fans to be sharing a small State with this program in the shape it's in compared to ours.
Recruiting, getting better coaches. I mean wouldn't you think ?
Recruit like crazy, hire the best assistant coaches money can buy. Fire the ones until you get the perfect fit. Fix weakness and turn them into strengths (lines). We got rid of Elliot which is step one. Find the best to replace him. Find the best OC out there that probably isn't Roper. Same with S&C coach who he was buddies with at Florida. I think we can all agree that is what Clemson figures out.
Unlike SOS Clemson will not relax. They have a chance to be a very good team for a long time. It will be easier for us by far to win the East than to be competitive with Clemson.
Wilkins, Ferrell, Cain, Feaster, Dex Lawrence, Renfrow, Hyatt, and most of our starters are either freshmen or sophmores
Many decades ago is more like it. That may be in the record book, but who cares about those games. In a few more years, our 5 game run won't be much to brag about anymore either. The avg tenure of a college football player is between 3-4 years, so rolling 4 year periods is really all we as fans should care about.
Not sure about the rest but Feaster definitely is not a starter. Last I heard from some Clemson friends, he was no higher than 3rd or 4th and was not doing as well as expected or hoped.
We are and have been "recruiting like crazy". Assistant coaches are hit and miss and most of the time its a system fit so do we keep firing them after 1 year if the fans dont like them? Shawn Elliott was never criticized for being a poor offensive line coach until we had a bad year or 2 then all of a sudden he couldnt coach a lick. The best OC? Thats another system fit and you have to have the players to run it so Im not throwing Roper under the bus just yet.
We just got a new staff last year and we are having a pretty damn good recruiting year so far.
/\ /\ This /\ /\ plus a 51 million playhouse and yard for the football team. Bass Boats,jet skis, and a slip & slide. Dabo is now building a 20,000 sq. ft. new house near campus with indoor basketball court,training room for recruiting and present players. This kind of stuff is not new they are bench-marking everything after Bama.
I just hope Will doesn't hold onto coaches because they are friends. I'm not talking about wholesale changes but no one was ever beating Elliot's door down to be their OL coach. I also don't think a good OC would do play action 4th down in overtime, do you?
This is the problem it's self. Our fans don't or will not admit it. Until we do and demand more from the AD & BOT things will stay the same.
Went into Norman and destroyed OU. Watch what OU does to Auburn tomorrow.
I dont think anyone ever beat down a door for an OL coach and as for the play action, sure its a good call when it works and freezes the linebackers.
Oklahoma? Gimmeabreak. They are overrated too and have been for at least 10 years.
It can be done here. We have enough resources if they are intelligently applied by committed people who know what they are doing.
Our school has to be willing to invest money before other schools. We have been and still are reactive. Look at the new football ops building...yes, it's great, but Clemson's is about done, and other schools have had one for a while. Same with the IPF. always behind schedule. We have to do better at opening up the check book that we have.
Always easy to be "optimistic" with turnovers....LOL.
Bama's offense is too one dimensional in my opinion. Maybe Bama can just come out and run the ball down Clemson's throat without having to throw the ball but I don't think so. Clemson is very stout on the Defensive Line. We had some success running the ball with Dalvin Cook because we were actually a threat to throw the ball. I think Clemson will schematically stop the running game and dare Hurts to beat them throwing the ball. Maybe he will, and maybe he won't. On the other side, Bama hasn't seen an offense close to what they are seeing in Clemson. Clemson has a good Running Back in Wayne Gallman, a great Tight End in Jordan Leggett, the #1 WR prospect in this year's draft in Mike Williams plus a couple of other very good Receivers and a very good Offensive Line. Then throw in the best Quarterback in the country. The closest offense they saw to that was Ole Miss and Ole Miss put up 43 points on the Bama defense. Now carry on.
Having a pro AD with some autonomy would be a good start.
Now, this is the most CORRECT STATEMENT I have seen in a long time. Folks, it takes money and a commitment. Lots of it! Thanks for that statement!
Spurrier and RT were more like co-workers than a boss employee relationship. Probably because that's what they were for many years
Autonomy to run the department on a day to day basis independent of the Columbia politicos and meddling board members is what I mean.
