Now for the rest....

This much you can bank on. Clemson has been trying to get back to their winning tradition. There winning tradition was built on one concept. Running the football with a damn good hard hitting defense.

Having said that Hatfield was not the worst coach. In fact way back before my time even before Ford with the exception of Charlie Pell (hard to say he was there for such a short time). The Tigers had some terrible times. Why? They tried to become a passing team. Ford brought back the winning tradition and with that the running game. Blake daddy can back me up on this one (the terrible passing years).

Spence has done a wonderfull thing. He has brought back the running game. Its only a matter of time now. Like Brad Scott said, good running backs make an offensive line look and play better. They will continue to block good due to the running backs. Yes, J.D. and CJ have made a big impact. Don't give them all the credit. I see 4 and 5 star backs all the time. Believe me, most of the time in fact they are not JD or CJ. The talent was developed by the coaches and utilized correctly.

You can believe that we are gonna continue to get good RB's. Andre Ellington for example could easily be the next JD and running backs don't take as long to develope as QB's.

Whitehearst was a solid QB. The last QB that I remember with such a name was Rodney Williams. This was during the Ford years and he was not a Joe Montana. He was an option QB with a knack for finding a way to win games. I cannot however say that Spence who was brought in to run the football should have wasted a whole year for a 5th year senior by changing his priorities. Spence has spent the past 2 years changing the Tiger offense. Guys, it takes time to totally change your offensive strategy and he has done just that. Now he can work on smoothing out the rough edges. Its coming.

The Clemson Tigers need to run the ball to win consistently. We need to do what we have been doing and yes win more but, the games we need to win are the games that we are not supposed to lose. That's not so bad and do-able. I wouldn't trade that for getting dogged out by every major school that we play like we did for so long after Ford.

Thats why I am a big supporter of Paul Johnson and Grobe if Bowden must go. They run the football. A passing coach won't work for us. The types of QB's that would be need are scarce and take too long to develope to ever be a major threat consistently along with exceptional receivers which get snapped up by the ND's, Michigans and Florida schools.

I believe college football is going to go back to running offenses. I don't see the usually dominant passing schools doing so well these days and even Navy and WF with minimal talent is able to compete with them if not win consistently. Bring in a running coach like Paul Johnson or Grobe to a major school that gets good talent and they will rule college football.