What "thing" would you add to this book...
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A tater busted up The Rock.
The 1981 Championship is tainted.
Bat warmers are legal even though Tanner didn't use them.
The 1981 Championship is tainted.
Bat warmers are legal even though Tanner didn't use them.
Admit they lost a game because they were beat by the other team fair and square- didnt beat themselves and refs didnt give it away.
There were two prospects at the heart of the 1982 scandal, James Cofer and Terry Minor. These two guys never enrolled at Clemson. Neither even got into a Div 1 program. We wouldve never heard of them had they not taken gifts, signed with CU, and then try to back out to sign with Tennessee.
In 1980, they were two prep football stars in Knoxville who were allegedly offered cash, cars and other gifts by an overzealous Clemson booster (Buck Breazeale) who lived in the Knoxville area, as well as by Clemson recruiters. One of whom we know was Billy Ware, former letterman under Frank Howard who was a defensive coach on the Clemson staff before moving into the Athletic Department. The other was Willie Anderson, a former Clemson player too, who got Oklahoma State put on probation 10 years later.
They also include the "gave a prospective student-athlete a T-shirt/hat/cheeseburger/ride down the street" crap that you still see now.
Taken as a whole, it's damning, but does it add up to a "bought and paid for championship"? Not even close, especially considering that most of the really bad violations seem to have taken place prior to 1980. Pell departed in 1978 for Florida, another school he led to NCAA sanctions, so it's unclear if the contact with Cofer and Minor began then, when the players were likely sophomores in high school, or later.
In December 1981, with the Tigers ranked No. 1 in the country and prepping for the Orange Bowl game that would give the school its first national championship, Cofer and Minor, with the help of John Mark Hancock, a lawyer who happens to be a UT Booster seeking a $12 million sum from Clemson.
(another TIME article is here)
Clempson fans always forget this about there football history .
http://www.shakinthesouthland.com/2008/10/clemsons-ncaa-infractions-and-truth.html
In 1980, they were two prep football stars in Knoxville who were allegedly offered cash, cars and other gifts by an overzealous Clemson booster (Buck Breazeale) who lived in the Knoxville area, as well as by Clemson recruiters. One of whom we know was Billy Ware, former letterman under Frank Howard who was a defensive coach on the Clemson staff before moving into the Athletic Department. The other was Willie Anderson, a former Clemson player too, who got Oklahoma State put on probation 10 years later.
They also include the "gave a prospective student-athlete a T-shirt/hat/cheeseburger/ride down the street" crap that you still see now.
Taken as a whole, it's damning, but does it add up to a "bought and paid for championship"? Not even close, especially considering that most of the really bad violations seem to have taken place prior to 1980. Pell departed in 1978 for Florida, another school he led to NCAA sanctions, so it's unclear if the contact with Cofer and Minor began then, when the players were likely sophomores in high school, or later.
In December 1981, with the Tigers ranked No. 1 in the country and prepping for the Orange Bowl game that would give the school its first national championship, Cofer and Minor, with the help of John Mark Hancock, a lawyer who happens to be a UT Booster seeking a $12 million sum from Clemson.
(another TIME article is here)
Clempson fans always forget this about there football history .
http://www.shakinthesouthland.com/2008/10/clemsons-ncaa-infractions-and-truth.html
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I would be surprised if JD's sack record in dead valley will be supplanted in my lifetime. For some reason, it really seems to stick in their craws.
Eliminate the words "100 Things" and "Know & Do Before They" from the title.
