well, I have been wrong one time before, but lets just wait and see what happens...I hope he does leave, just don't see it unless somewhere close to clemson
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Probably because he looks like a white rapper (ie Vanilla Ice) on the sidelines. Big ass Barney purple hoodie & crazy eye'd. Truth yo.
Looks like skelator off the comic show. I don’t think he eats between start of two a days and after New Years.
Why did big game Bob cut him loose in Norman Oklahoma?
He looks like fire marshall bill from in living color
Now that's funny. He is bogged down in Dabo's shadow and dragging his kids into it. Lifetime Clemmers stuck in way too deep.
You do realize he won the national championship with only three returning starters last year, right?
http://www.thestate.com/sports/college/acc/clemson-university/article60848267.html
Should've read further and you would have noted several posters have already mentioned it. Typical Clemson poster...read and react....and you wasted your time.
Y'all weren't as confident of that then. There was a ton of criticism...and some meltdowns...over that hire.
Starting to think he is the behind the scenes HC at Clemsux and let's the village idiot keep that handle
Not true! They wanted anyone after Steele had his melt down at the Orange Bowl and WV scored 70pts! How could you forget?
Understood. I just think he stands to get a better job than that one, but they aren't exactly chopped liver.
AD they are looking to hire at Arkansas was an old team mate of Venables. They apparently have a good relationship.
Presently, Venables loves his life, loves what he is doing, Clemson is family, and the area is home. He has said countless times, money is not a lure for him. The guy has his priorities straight and is a damn good DC. Players love him.
I think the tipping factor will be how much Venables wants to be a HC. As with comments made by Colin Cowherd, the pressure of being a HC in the SEC is a lot to deal with. Even proven HC's who are being courted, do not want to deal with the headaches and pressure of the SEC. Schools expect winners right away. Look at us for example. We just went from 3, to 6, to 8 (possibly 9) wins in a season, and we still have people bitching about why we are not better. Maybe Venables doesn't want to deal with all that crap.
Presently, Venables loves his life, loves what he is doing, Clemson is family, and the area is home. He has said countless times, money is not a lure for him. The guy has his priorities straight and is a damn good DC. Players love him.
I think the tipping factor will be how much Venables wants to be a HC. As with comments made by Colin Cowherd, the pressure of being a HC in the SEC is a lot to deal with. Even proven HC's who are being courted, do not want to deal with the headaches and pressure of the SEC. Schools expect winners right away. Look at us for example. We just went from 3, to 6, to 8 (possibly 9) wins in a season, and we still have people bitching about why we are not better. Maybe Venables doesn't want to deal with all that crap.
Bob didn't really cut him loose. Bob hired his brother and made him the Co-DC and BV did not take kindly to that especially after they had just won the Natty a few yrs before. Bob actually countered Clem's offer but BV wanted out. Felt he had been disgraced. Wasn't long after Bob's brother was asked to leave and they hired whoever is there now, I forget.
Didn't they win the NC when Bob's brother was Co-DC with Venables ? Thought they did, but can't remember.
I had to look it up. So in 2000 they won but Mike and BV were CO-DC but then OK played again in 2009 and did not win. Mike was not part of that staff. Then Bob brought his brother back a yr later and then I think BV was there for a yr and then left.
I do remember a few OK fans coming to a Clemson board and thanking us for taking him off their hands....
Schools want offense now. It’ll be an exception if/when he leaves. Making right at $2mm without the headaches ain’t a bad gig and recruiting to tatertown (regardless of what we think) must not be that hard. Year after year it seems to get better there. Dablow repeats it all the time but over 70 wins in the last 7 years with a lot of Bigtime wins over Bigtime programs has generated the interest. And then add in the dablow play building.
Sometimes a change of scenery is what someone needs. Maybe Stoops had his hands in the defense too much and that was part of the problem. Maybe what you see now is Venables running the defense the way he wanted too all along. Maybe he learned a few things that helped him get better from Hobby and Brooks who are/were two of the best in the game. You notice that after he left the defense hasnt been any better so it would seem that perhaps he wasnt the issue.
Venables is staying at Clemson for at least 4 years. His 3-star son committed there and will play LB. He isn't going anywhere else to coach for a while.
If he stays for the next 4, he stays period. He will become another Bud Foster and passed on his opportunity.
Might be good timing for the KState job. Snyder coaches another two, forces them to take his son for two, the son flops and is fired after a couple of years and perfect timing for Vanables to end his career with a HC job at his alma mater.
There’s about 8 crazy people out there already then who have already turned them down.
I’m not sure who exactly Currie has contacted. Perhaps he managed to keep some secret. However, we do know Dave Doeren turned them down. Dave Doeren! When that happens, you’ve reached rock bottom.
