Titans?

The sequal to "Remember the Titans?" I havent seen it. Clash was okay but the original was better. I thought the new Conan was pretty entertaining, but "Immortals" was pretty shitty. Been watching "once upon a time". Thats interesting about little Davis. Carolina winning is a given Thursay, but I think a lot of eyes will be on Marcus Lattimore to see if hes as dominant. I havent given sc as much thought or even looked at their roster this year, like I have in years past. I have heard a bit here and there on the radio about o line questions. And of course there will be a little bit of a question about a new dc, but with that talent uup front they probably will be top 20. I still think Connor Shaw is a question mark and i for one have never been insane about him. I think he id ok last year but again, sc was so goo on efene. I thought their offense looked like shit lol. But i am typing on my phone and cant see everything i am typing so i will end it here. Typos abound.

Just mostly messing with...

You bro, but not about the pistol. I simply think even if we had the most dominant OL in football, Morris would be running it. If and this is a big IF, it is an offense designed to overcome a weak OL, I have already said it's even better. It may help, but I don't think he said wow, the OL is weak, let's go to Nevada and study the pistol. I think rather he said, wow, I could run more plays quicker with that. But, the whole concept of his offense is certainly to have the defense gassed at the end, with allot of plays. In my mind you would need smaller, different type OL for his offense. I just have a different take.

Since my troll was obviously successful, Morris is not a guarantee yet, he's not proven. Looks positive so far, but all you said is true. One person gets credit for that, pulling him from no where if he is a home run. Dabo is smarter than he gets credit for. You think there are not more Chad morris's out there? Ellis Johnson gets credit for yours.

I've heard Tommy was a good OC, when he was an OC. Apples and oranges when you compare being an OC to running the show as a HC. Tommy could have been great, he just really got too satisfied winning 8 games.

I watched wrath of the titans, if you take it for what it is, a sequel to clash of the titans, it's allot better. You should watch clash of the titans first, the original I mean. Not the new crap.

Brent what have you been watching lately?

Watching wrath of the titans

Im sure you've both seen it but haven't heard you talk about it much?

In other news

It looks like James Davis' little brother will play this season. Even as early as Thursday night. Injuries to Shon Carson and Brandon Wilds has elevated Mike Davis to 3rd on the RB depth chart. The coaches said they like to give the 3rd string RB a few carries a game. Interested to see how he will do.

Mike joins TE Jerell Adams and WR Shaq Roland as the players from our most recent recruiting class that are likely to see the field in the season opener.

Which true freshmen on Clemson's squad do you guys think will see early playing time against Auburn?

By the way bro, you never told me how school was going.

Shaw update

Seems to be pretty bad, out for the season..


I kid! I kid! lol nothing serious. Shaw's dad heard about the spasms online. Connor didn't even call him about it. Says it's nothing to be concerned about..

As far as practice time they are not sure when he'll return. They already know the player he is and there is no need to push an issue of no concern into a issue of concern. No game time will be missed however..

Spurrier also disagrees with you about Dylan Thompson

but you obviously know more about it than Spurrier. Seeing as how you've been to our practices and seen Thompson in action..



From Spurrier:

"We have a lot of confidence in Dylan Thompson," Spurrier said. "He is the next one to go in there. Dylan is a big, strong kid that can run around a little bit and can throw it. He's been here for three years, so he knows the system a little bit. At times, he looks very good. Sometimes, he eyeballs his guy a little too much. Dylan is a very capable player. We have tremendous confidence in him if something happened to Connor. Dylan can go in there and manage the game. We have confidence Dylan Thompson is ready to go."

What a pleasent surprise to have Brent join us lol

I'll respond to you in a second. Vance first lol. I'm not sure why you're so upset about what WCCP is saying about the pistol? If it is being run to aid poor OL play I think it's a brilliant move by Morris. A good offensive coordinator is going to work to a teams strengths and around it's weaknesses. Spurrier did the same with Carolina recently. He ditched the fun & gun due to poor QB play by Garcia, and went to a zone read run offense due to the addition of Lattimore. Great part is it worked, we played for our first SEC (albeit badly lol) and won 11 games the next season for the first time in history. I know that says a lot about our history but it is what it is. Gotta start somewhere.

As far as Shaw, I don't know what you need to be sold on? He came in the middle of last season as a true sophomore and took over. He managed the game well, very accurate (65.4 comp %), and has good wheels (may be the fastest white boy in the SEC). He is 8-1 as a starter. So I'm not sure what you are looking for? Tahj Boyd is the same way, I'm not sure what he needs to sell either? He is great when he has time to throw it. He had an excellent season last season.

On to Venebles, you are just making stuff up now bro lol. I've never said one bad thing about Venebles or his defense. I don't know enough about him to even have an opinion about him. You said you didn't know what kind of D he ran either lol. Ward on the other hand I do know. And he does have coordinator experience by the way, very good returns from the bowl game last year. By the way, how much coordinator experience did Chad Morris have before coming to Clemson?

I pretty much know what to expect out of Ward's defense. I've explained his defense here and know enough about it to have an opinion. More than just who he has coached under over the years. That seems to be all anyone knows about Venebles. That and he had good defenses at Oklahoma. Oklahoma being a little different program than Clemson. So no I haven't said anything either way about him. I'll judge Venebles by what I see on the field this year at Clemson.

Being a good coordinator is more than just who you've coached under. Case in point, who has Chad Morris coached under? Coach Eric Taylor in Texas lol? Morris turned out to be pretty good. Another example, Tommy Bowden was raised by and coached under one of the greatest of all time. All Tommy has to show for it is his dominance over a poor South Carolina program.

By the way, me saying Ward is the next Bob Stoops never happened either lol. I guess that's Vance's expectations of him?

I've seen blakes take on Venables...

And it's not good Brent. But what is your take on hiring a dc with no dc experience. I know he has been a position coach for a very long time, but in your opinion is that a good thing? I know blakes opinion, but what's yours? You think ward is another bob stoops?

Brent, did not notice that was you...

I think Shaw is prolly a decent game manager and if Lattimore stays healthy they will be fine. But it would be the first year. I think most QBs would look good passing with jeffreys tho. I definitely don't think he is what I see scar fans posting (not talking about blake). If he is injured, as I posted earlier it's going to be real bad, I mean bad.

P.S. I am definitely not ready to anoint Boyd either, I am not sold on either one.

Not sure where...

You read I said he would run the pistol to run the option? I said nothing remotely like that, lol. Sorry bro, go back and read. I said the option is an offense that is designed for less talented teams on the OL. Nothing about Morris consistently running the option and he is not, lol. Maybe a couple times a game, but most teams do that.

Also, I am sure they are saying it, but what you posted didn't really sound like it was being ran to make up for the OL. Morris wants to run ALLOT of plays. Sounds like it's simply to run plays faster. But based on that theory, why not just a shotgun? There would be no steps. So far, I don't buy it. I think he is running it, but with different motivation. He definitely wants to get plays off and the ball out faster. Does Nevada run it to make up for their OL? I know they have statistically (a term for losers) one of the best offenses in the country. You and Philpots think it's with a bad OL? If it is an offense that makes up for a bad OL, imagine if a major program ran it? Would be unstoppable I guess. Because unlike the option, it's a well balance scheme. Something you can pass or run out of. You would not be married to the run. And Clemson's running it!!! But, I just don't buy in. I guess that's why TI is not talking about it.

Its kind of a hassle...

...to post via my phone. I gotta figure out the best way to do it. It took me ten minutes to remember my password and get everything going and theres gotta be a phone friendly way to post a blog, as its in full web version at the moment. I am not real familiar with the pistol either, but 40 percent or more seems high. Im not sure what to expect from the o line. It is scary, but i believe in Morris and I also believe that every team has major questions somewhere. Its part of the game these days. Hell, I for one am not sol on Connor Shaw and his recievers....and that was before I hear he is having back spasms today. Sorry for typos.

Yes the 40 to 50% was guessing

But the decision to study the pistol to help the OL out was not. They had the college football kickoff show on WCCP today. All of them on the Clemson flagship station agreed that this was Chad's way to work around the inexperience on the OL. It gives the QB less steps to take to drop back therefore he can get the ball out quicker. In the run game it gives the RB a head start and running downhill. I wouldn't have used the term "bandaid" but you're more witty than me when coming up with terms lol. I never heard anything about the option being the reason the pistol was installed but you know more about it than me? All I have to go by is what those guys tell me on WCCP. That's really the reason I asked because you possibly know more through TI. You seem to put more stock into what TI says than the radio here. So are they saying the option may be ran out of the pistol on TI. I would be interested to see that this season if so. You think Morris may have something like that up his sleeve?

How is school going?

The entire Clemson coaching...

staff definitely visited Nevada in the off season. Only stands to reason it was to research the pistol. No doubt you will see it, I have not heard it will be 40 to 50% of the time. I doubt anyone other than Morris and Dabo would have that information. It very well could be the case tho, not denying that. I am guessing the guy on the radio is guessing as well. I did not know that the pistol was something you ran to overcome a weak OL. I just don't know enough about it to comment, if so I guess it makes sense. If it is happening, I doubt it is being done as a band aid for this year. I think most would agree its very effective and something Morris would like to have in his play book. I would guess it fits right in with a hurry up fast paced offense? If the pistol is something like the option designed to overcome an OL or even for a different type of OL, I am all over it tho. As you know I believe there are not enough OL to go around. I believe thats why Danny Ford was able to have a good team consistently because running the option countered that. If the pistol does that like you say, I think its great.

Nine catches are quite a few for a freshman and snaps are also important even when you don't catch the ball. More than one of those catches were significant plays as well. I'd definitely count him in the group of recievers with experience, it being his second year. But you are right, we will see if the ball comes his way in the opener and the next game too.

Da'Rick Rogers out at TN

Another one bites the dust lol

What do you think about the pistol formation?

I heard a while back that Morris visited another program to learn about it. I figured they would run it a few plays a game. I heard Philpot say on the radio today that this was a way around the OL woes and that Clemson would run it 40% to 50% of the time. First I had heard that, thoughts?

Oh no doubt Bryant has the potential

but he really isn't that experienced. He has some experience but he only caught 9 balls last season. There is no doubt he is a talent but he really hasn't done much yet. I think he will this season if Boyd gets the ball to him. Auburn game will be a good time for him to showcase his talents. I think you will see him early and often in that game.

Carolina also has some talent at WR but much the same as Bryant they have very little experience. Byrd is one of the fastest guys in the country and he only caught one pass last season. DL Moore has great hands and great leaping ability but he has played the same position as Alshon. He wasn't beating him out but out of all the WRs we have Moore is the most like Alshon. Nick Jones also did well last season with 12 catches. We have the talent I think but lack experience. We're definitely behind a Clemson team that has Watkins and Hopkins.

As I told you before though, you will see a lot of balls thrown to the TE this season by Carolina.

I am not real...

concerned about the ball getting caught if Boyd has time to get it off, I am also not worried about Ellington running if a hole is there to run thru. Lots of "ifs" there.

I don't think...

you can have discussion without Martavious Bryant. He has experience, played well last year and its rumored he out ran Watkins in a race in practice.

It will be interesting

to see the WR corps against Aubs without Watkins. They have Hopkins and he is a great player and Brown played well last season also. After that you have talent but you have guys that haven't played alot also. I'm ready to see if those guys will step up in Sammy's absence. It wasn't pretty when you played without him last season.

It will also be interesting to see how we do without Alshon. Outside of Ace Sanders and Bruce Ellington we don't have a lot of experience there either.

I think it's safe to say that we won't be seeing Petrino at Carolina with Dorrell's fiance being hired on lol. I hope we go after Mike Leach when Spurrier leaves. If Spurrier has any influence on the hire that's who it will be. He loves the guy and kind of gushed when he talked about him at TT.

Strange at best about Sammy Watkins....

at the same time irrelevant, it really just takes away from the validity of his rankings. Because if you don't think he is going to be top 5? You must be smoking pot, lol. Who knows how they will do, but I think Clemson's WR's corp would rival anyone in CFB.

I read the fits news article already...

I thought it was funny and I started to post it. If Bobby Petrino came to Clemson I would not say one word. If Scar hired him, I would be extremely worried and I would not laugh one time. But if in the very unlikely event they hire her? A complete bone headed move. I think part of the stink was that Petrino got her hired and she was underqualified, in addition to the bad press? I'd dare say there is quite possibly some hanky panky going on with your admin and her, lol. But not with Spurrier.

I would not doubt it about Michigan and his Michigan teams were know for having WTF games, makes you wonder how often that went on.

Started back to school last night, glad to be at it again.

The 12th annual Herbie awards

Lattimore, Clowney, and Watkins mentioned a lot. Surprisingly he doesn't have Watkins as a top 5 WR. I would have him at least 5th..

Also interesting is his pick of FSU over SoCal in the NC. Can the ACC get back to the NC this year?

http://espn.go.com/college-football/preview12/story/_/id/8284250/top-players-coaches-teams-honored-herbie-awards

And here's a link from South Carolina's version of the National Inquirer

This guy is a joke but I wonder if there is any truth to this? Keep Spurrier away if so lol.

http://www.fitsnews.com/2012/08/20/that-arkansas-chick-is-coming-to-south-carolina/

South Carolina's very own

Darla Moore joins Condoleezza Rice as the first female members at Augusta National.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/condoleezza-rice-darla-moore-first-female-members-at-augusta/2012/08/21/8b8bef35-fe4b-4077-9742-1189bf993adb_video.html

Wow bro lol..

Read this article:

http://www.chatsports.com/michigan-wolverines/a/Former-Michigan-player-Nearly-half-the-team-was-stoned-during-Appalachian-State-loss-10-2-3043

Being a conference champion...

as a requirement to play for the title has definitely been discussed. I don't know if it will happen, but as a result of last year it has been talked about. If that simple thing happens, it will solve everything. But it would mean you would never have a non-conference teams playing for the title no matter how many teams are in the playoffs. In this scenerio last year this is the 4 teams that would have gone:

1. LSU
2. Ok St
3. Oregon
4. Boise St

Thing about it is

We will be seeing more non-conference champion BCS teams play the NC. With the NCAA moving to a 4 team playoff it will happen. Then if they eventually go to a 8 team playoff, and they eventually will, there will be no way around it.

I believe if...

you have a loss against a team like that, one that there is no doubt you just had a bad day it should not be that big of a knock. I think last year really helped allot more than it hurt tho. That was some of the lowest ratings ever in a NC game. I didn't even consider watching it. I could be wrong, but I don't think it will ever happen again. Oklahoma St had something very important that Bama did not have, they won their conference. Now we finally have something we should never have, a National Champion, supposedly the best team in the nation, that did not win their conference. I also think allot of the conferences woke up finally last year to what is happening. But this is not expansion or anything complicated like that, its simple, you should win your conference to play for the NC. I think Oklahoma St could well have beat LSU also. Its a mental thing as much as anything and it certainly did seem as tho LSU took Bama for granted. Looking at it from an LSU sympathetic point of view, they should not have had to face Bama twice.

If you want certain teams to play twice, just get rid of divisions within the conference altogether and have the best two play at the end. Would solve allot of scheduling conflicts.

I can't ever see it happening either bro

Because I can't see Catolina ever going undefeated in the sec. About the best we can hope for is being one of those 2nd sec schools that makes it to a bcs game.

For the record, I wanted to see ok st play in the nc as well. Unfortunately they had one of the worst loses out of any of the top 10 teams last season in Iowa st. If they would have won that game they would have went undefeated and played for it.

Also, this time of the year...

I am very tired and always in a hurry. I am sure I over reacted. If you win the SEC, its almost a guarantee you would go to the NC. You were right.

I cannot see it ever happening...

all those undefeated major programs in the same year. You go undefeated and most years even as a one loss team you are probably going to the NC game.

My opinion is simple really, this is not about the best team going. Its about money and who brings in the most. Its not going to be Clemson in any of those situations even if we are in the SEC. No doubt in my mind Oklahoma St should have gone last year. But no one cares about Oklahoma St.

Like I said, we can play what ifs all day

I disagree with nearly all of what you said. Good enough for me lol.

Strange that you...

Bring up a team that I didn't mention and leave out all those teams I did mention that are ahead of you right. Sure bro, a team on probation would not pass you. But Notre dames schedule is better than yours and no team the country would be out an undefeated Notre dame team. The top 2 most influential and powerful teams in college football are Texas and Alabama. You're not beating out an undefeated Texas team either.

So Bama, lsu and fla would likely beat out most of those teams, but Notre dame, but you would not. Why? Because you are not those schools, you don't have the fan following, winning tradition etc... They have. What do you think most fans would want to see? Texas vs USC or scar vs USC?

Sorry bro, but every time you talk about how great it is for scar to be in the sec be prepared to back it up. Bringing up school on probation or what happened with lsu or Bama (comparing yourself to them) does not work with me. When you beat out one of those schools undefeated that's when I will believe it. I don't agree it's great and I am not envious of you in the sec at all. You are not going to the national championship with one or two loses as sec champs like Bama and lsu, it's just not happening.

We can discuss it, you can say I am just trying to argue whatever bro, but I'm not going to let that ride, the sec and scar deal. Look at what happened to auburn when they went up against those schools. You think if it had been Bama, lsu or Florida they would have got left out? There in the same division.

If South Carolina goes undefeated

after starting the season at #9 and wins the SEC championship? Yes we will play for the NC lol.

We would have a much better shot than all those teams considering Ohio State is on probation and can't play for it (no postseason games), we are 6 spots ahead of Texas, and Notre Dame isn't even ranked. No way any of these teams, or any team for that matter, would jump us if we went undefeated with the schedule we have to play this year in the SEC. Just wouldn't happen.

Like I said, we can play "what ifs" all you want but it doesn't matter because it will probably not happen this year and will probably never happen.

With the scenarios you gave me though or any scenario really I would like our chances if we went undefeated.

Let's do another one then bro...

Let's say Texas, Michigan and scar go undefeated, who goes? How about Notre dame, Texas and scar? How about USC, Oklahoma and scar, who goes? Just asking bro, who goes and if you believe it's scar which team in each scenario would you beat out?

I said recent history shows

that if you win the SEC you will play in the NC. We could do "what ifs" all day long but it all boils down to South Carolina wasn't good enough to win the SEC that year. Hence the reason they didn't play for the NC. Auburn was and they played for it and won it just like every SEC champion has done since 2005. Hell the SEC even had two teams in there last year lol. Right or wrong that's what happened. I think it's safe to say that if SC ever wins the SEC they have a great shot to play for the NC, damn near a shoe in. I don't think that is reaching at all. Now saying that SC will win the SEC this year would be reaching lol. It's a dumb convo because it's likely never to happen..

Sounds reasonable bro...

Except one part tho, you believe then if you had beat auburn in the championship game and been sec champs, you would have went to the national championship game? As a 3 loss team?

Check your mail...

For the latest pics bro.

I could see us playing for the SEC

But I could see that last season too and we didn't. All you can ask for is to get to the SEC title game. If you get to that game you have a chance to win because you're playing in it, although the odds are great or slim. But if you can win the SEC title game, as recent history can show, you are going to play for the national championship.

So, the first goal for South Carolina is to play for the SEC championship which is extremely hard. Second is to win the SEC championship which is damn near impossible. Third goal is to play for the NC and win it. The odds wouldn't be as bad as you think in the NC game if we are good enough to win the SEC. Winning the SEC like I said is damn near impossible if you're South Carolina.

I think we are good enough to get there (the SEC champ game) and if you get there, there is always a chance great or slim.

I'm in agreeance with you, pretty much a season like last season would be great and last season was great for us. Any other year it would have got us to the SEC championship game. May be this year we will and we'll make some history, who knows?

Before last season neither one of us thought Clemson would sniff the ACC champ game and they ended up running away with it. Now I know it's completely different in the SEC than the ACC but may be this year is the year for Carolina. Spurrier sure seems different, even the fans at UF that have followed him the longest seem to think so.

I definitely...

Would not count them or Spurrier out. I am just thinking a similar season to last year which is a great year. But honestly, do you see them winning the sec? National title? Just asking what are your expectations?

Just be tough to watch after all these years, Dexter is a character you definitely get attached to.

At least it's not just me, UF fans see it too..

Check out this thread bro:
http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=2208&tid=176918209&mid=176918209&sid=880&style=2




I'm also sad about Dexter. I don't want him to die but I feel sure that is what is going to happen..

I agree bro...

You just don't compare players who have not seen the field to spiller, or Jeffery. His position is actually harder than jeffreys IMO. One reason TE are not really go to receivers is because all that blocking with your hands during a game really makes them not as sure handed. There are exceptions, like Dwayne Allen.

It's gonna be interesting to see what happens with Dexter. But I almost dread it a little, because it's probably going to be sad.

Oh no, I wasn't comparing him to those players

I was asking if he potentially could have a freshman impact like those guys did. I was saying that all those guys had great freshman season's as ball catchers and if Adams could be the next one to have a great freshman season like that. My bad if it wasn't worded right.

But you could compare the type of player Adams is to Alshon a little bit. Alshon wasn't fast but he could catch the ball and take it from anyone around him. Alshon was 6'3" 230lbs last year compared to Adams 6'6" 225lb. I could easily see a player like Adams stepping into that roll. Yes even as a TE. Yes, I also know that a TE's primary objective is to block but there have been plenty that have been known to be good possession receivers. Just watch the NFL. Hell Carolina has even had one in 3rd round pick Jared Cook a couple of years ago. By the way, I'm not saying that Rod Mcdowell is a bad player but whoever had you guys thinking he would be the next Spiller should be ashamed lol. You hit the nail on the head though about Adams, we just won't know til we see them on the field in a real game.

He may just have to kill Deb bro. May be that is where it will all start crashing down for him.

PS.. I hope he kills Debra, she gets on my nerves.

The writers really wanted this to be the last season of Dexter and you can see they set up for it. They were talked into making 2 more seasons. It's going to be interesting to see how they drag it out this season. One thing for sure I don't think it's going to end well, lol.

You still watching breaking bad?

Kinda weird...

To hear you compare a TE to all those great WRs. He could very well be great, but would you not compare him to Dwayne Allen if you were speaking of Clemson players? I mean TE do catch passes but his primary job will be to block.

JMO bro, that's not to say he could not have an even bigger impact because he does block. He should be a key player for sure. You just don't know until they hit the field tho. We kept hearing about how great hot rod McDowell would be, the answer to cj spiller. He wasn't.

Quick note

Carolina may have found their answer for the absence of Jeffery. Freshman TE Jerell Adams has really shown out in practice. He spent a year at prep school before coming to Carolina. He's a 6'6" 225lb guy so he is more like a big WR right now than a TE. He brings that possession, go up and catch everything, element that we had with Alshon. Spurrier has had something good to say about him after every practice. He even said that it caught him off gaurd when Adams came out here looking like a pro bowl TE lol. I think he was joking a little there. You won't know until you see them in live action but early returns on Adams have been very positive. Just remember Watkins, S Rice, and Alshon all showed out their freshman year. Could Adams be the next one of those guys?

One thing is for sure, we are stacked at TE. Justice Cunningham is a veteran and a great blocker, Buster Anderson made some of the most clutch catches Carolina had all season last season, and of course I've mentioned Jerell Adams. You will see our offense run a lot of two TE sets this season IMO.

Picture Caption: Adams is #89, pictured on left is #4 Shaq Roland. Roland was the top player in the state last recruiting cycle. He and Adams are easily the most impressive true freshmen on the team going by practice reports.

No that's what it is

First 2 mins of Dexter

I cannot see Youtube at work...

But is it the first 2 minutes of Dexter? If it is I was going to post it for you when I got a chance. Is it something else?

Not sure if you've seen this

Bit of a spoiler I guess:

I agree...

Boyd looked good early and his weight gain during the season last year really impacted his mobility by the end. He has lost over 20 lbs in the off season and hopefully he keeps the weight down. He has all the tools and the work ethic, if he can just stay on track mentally. Much easier said than done. I will admit I don't know much about Shaw, he looked much better than Garcia what little bit I saw. Certainly good enough if Lattimore stays healthy.

Both Stoops and Venables were products of Bill Snyder. I had no idea about Spurriers comments, but I looked it up and he really pissed Freeze off. I bet Richt is not real happy about it either. I hope he says some things about Clemson, with all the out of state players we really need something to get them fired up. Big difference between when they play Auburn, FSU, VaTech compared to when we played Scar. I think Auburn had allot to do with it as well.

I have heard the 4-2-5 mentioned also with Venables. I will be honest bro, I don't know either. I did not watch Oklahoma and its not talked about for whatever reason. Sometimes what you see the first year is not what you will eventually see, especially if he is changing defensive strategies. I guess it would be easy enough to find, but honestly I don't know bro.

Yeah, you don't want to bring the house every play. But I don't think Ward will do that.

I thought the same thing bro

when I saw that we would be facing Vandy at Vandy for the kickoff of the college football season on a Thursday night. I can promise you it wasn't devised by Spurrier or anyone at Carolina. The SEC has control of scheduling the conference games. I'm sure they do it with the help of ESPN now with the TV contract. ESPN won't get many viewers out of Vandy on a mid-week game but a SEC conference game to open the season against #9 South Carolina? They see $ signs there. May as well get the money out of Vandy wgere they can. Spurrier has even joked a little about Carolina's conference scheduling even as recently as a few weeks ago calling out UGA for an easy conference schedule. He's said something to the regard that if he made the schedule he would have UGA facing LSU and Carolina facing Ole Miss. That didn't go over well with the new Ole Miss coach lol.

I'm over it now myself. I've gotten passed it being a scary game and realised that the reality is that it is a game that we should win. If we don't win that one, first game or not, we are not a team that can win the SEC. Anything can happen however.

As far as Venebles I know your feeling. Stoops wouldn't have kept a guy that long just because of a friendship. He knew the caliber of coach he was just like Spurrier with Lorenzo Ward.

A lot of people don't know it but it took a little more than most know about to get Ward to Carolina. You see the athletic program has a rule or clause or whatever you may call it that says that newly hire "position coaches" can only be hired with a one year contract. Ward wouldn't take the job with less than a 3 year deal. So Spurrier created a new title for Ellis Johnson, "Head Defensive Coach". This way Spurrier could hire Ward as the "defensive coordinator" and not just a position coach. This gave Ward the 3 year deal he wanted. I think it speaks volumes that Spurrier went as far as to create a loophole to get Ward hired. Spurrier knew what he was doing by hiring Ward and I think it will pay off. Let's face it, the man isn't too shabby when it comes to hiring defensive coaches with the guy you named earlier in Bob Stoops and of course Ellis Johnson. I might also mention that Ward spent 6 years on Bud Foster's staff at VT. He left there because he was hired by Art Shell to coach with the Raiders. I mean Foster, Shell, and Johnson. I would say that's a pretty damn good coaching pedigree to have.

As far as my prediction on what we will see out of Ward's defense this season.... PAIN! Just kidding bro lol. I think you will see something very aggressive. It will resemble Johnson's defense in the 4-2-5 formation but much more aggressive. You will see more blitzing. You will see more sacks. The aggressiveness doesn't stop with the pass rush though. You will see more man press in coverage. You will see more attacking the ball, creating turnovers by going for picks and stripping the ball. Ward has made it know that he will take a page from his coaching days in the NFL and go after the ball.

Sounds great right? Not so fast..

You will also see allot of blown coverage, missed tackles and over pursuing the ball carrier in the backfield. It will be a very risky approach. The talent we have will help I just hope the good will outweigh the bad. I think you will see more turnovers going our way and and more big plays given up by our defense. We'll find out soon enough.

Now I want to hear what you predict to see from Venebles defense. What scheme will he run? Will it be aggressive? Conservative? What formation does he primarily run out of? I'll admit to not watching much of Oklahoma's defense and I'm intrigued.

As far as the QB's go for our teams, I wouldn't be concerned. As in I don't think those are the ones to be concerned with as far as the QBs performances go. For Clemson it's the OL and for Carolina it's the WRs.

When the OL gave Boyd time last season he threw some of the best passes I saw last season. I mean deep throws into coverage that were right on the money. It was remarkable what he did at times. On the other hand, late in the season when he played good against a good pass rush and got pressured you saw a completely different guy. He made some of the worst decisions I saw last season. If you give him time he will be one of the best not just in the ACC but in the Nation. I really believe that.

As far as Shaw, he did pretty damn good after being thrown to the wolves if you ask me. Half way through the season Garcia was your starter then all of a sudden he's dismissed and you give Shaw the ball and say "go play". He came out and won half of our games without Lattimore. He brings a different element to the game for Carolina. He is a runner and he is damn fast. He is a legit 4.5 guy. Teams don't usually look at a white QB as a 4.5 guy. He is smart and doesn't make dumb mistakes mainly because if he sees pressure he can take of and run and pick up necessary yardage. Thing is he always had Jeffery to depend on for the crucial clutch play. Jeffery is gone. No more 3rd and 5 outs to old faithful. We have to see what we will do without Jeffery to depend on. Until then our passing attack is just a question mark. I do think Shaw can make the throws and manage a game. He has a average arm but pretty accurate. He can not win a game with a game on his shoulders but he can distribute the ball to get the job done with help from the WR corps. Question is will the WR corps provide help?

I went off on a little tangent I know but I'm hyped up bro!

I would not want to...

open with Vandy. Thats like something we would do with scheduling, whoever decided you should open with an SEC upset type team like Vandy did not do a good job. Thats like Clemson opening with Wake Forest. But I do think you will win.

It is opening day and we will be without Sammy, does not look good IMO. You are not really going to know about DL or OL until they hit the field.

My opinion is that Venables is a good fit for the type of football team Clemson is trying to put together. Thats a fast paced hurry up spread team. Defensive numbers statistically are not going to be great, but stats are for losers. Venables does not strike me as a guy that is going to accept mediocrity and if you believe Bob Stoops kept him around all that time because they were such good friends? Stoops knows defense and he is not that nice a guy.

Will be interesting to see for sure, but the real key for both of us that does not get talked about nearly enough? Shaw and Boyd, how will they both be able to manage the game and respond to pressure? No way to know until they get on the field.

I don't think anybody really knows what Auburn will be this year

I guess the first game will tell the tale. They are kind of a mystery. They was pretty bad last year but you would think they would improve a lot with the way they recruit. I think they will struggle on offense and have a pretty good defense particularly the DL. I'm really looking forward to the match up. It's a really hard game to predict. It will tell a lot about what kind of team Clemson is too. Has the defense improved under Venebles short tenure or will he need more time? Will the OL struggle? Can Clemson win the big game without Sammy? All of these a legit questions that will get answered in a couple of weeks.

As far as our first game goes, who knows. I know we are a better team than Vandy and have more talent but you never know in the first game of the season. Vandy had our number a couple of years ago and they seem to be a up and comer. Not like a 9 win type team but a team that makes a bowl every year at least. I like their coach. He seems to have his players wanting to play for him. He is also recruiting well. Grabbing a couple of 4 stars here and there. South Carolina should win this game. We haven't lost a season opener since Spurrier's arrival and I don't think we will now. First time for everything I guess.

You took the words out of my....

We both sound silly. Just trying to get up for the season.

Anytime Clemson plays Auburn your best bet is auburn. But the OL is the question as usual i might add, so old its obnoxious really. It's just a fact, anything else is orange glasses. The only thing is this is Dabo's rivalry game and he will pull out all stops as he has done the last 2 years. Bama over Michigan easily and NC State over tenn (hard to predict).

Maybe if I was there with you I might watch the panthers more, be tough to get into. Might sound silly but I am looking more forward to school than anything.

Ok you lost me when you used "Dabo"

and "winning a national title at Clemson" in the same sentence. It's obviously getting way too silly lol.

Let's take a step back and look at how retarded we look. Pretty much both of us look like this:


For real enough of that crap lol. What a great gif though.

I'm watching the Carolina Panthers play a preseason game right now vs the Texans. I will tell you something right now, one of the best LBs in the NFL will be a rookie that plays for the Panthers. Luke Kuechly out of Boston College is a really good player. He is all over the ball. He had a forced fumble and a interception just in the little bit that I've been watching. I'm gonna try to watch more of the Panthers this season. I say that every year but maybe I will this year.

Since I hope we are going to get more serious now I have a serious question for you. How do you think Clemson will do in their first game vs Auburn? It's like a huge game the first week along with Bama vs Michigan and Tenn vs NCST. So what's your take on the game?

Ryan went to Carolina's first scrimmage today. I would have went but I was coming home from Florida today. I'm trying to get him to post a practice report here and he says he will but he probably won't.

Brent also sent me a text the other day that said

"I know I haven't been exactly football frenzied, but I will give my analysis on the blog by the start of the season."

Take that for what it's worth lol.

Hey bro, on a serious note...

Check your email for more pics..

I'm gonna start responding like you...

Here goes, Dabo doesn't coach defense. Of course he has no experience as a dc.

Just keep clinging to West Virginia and Spurrier bro. You have absolutely nothing else to cling to. We have multiple coference championship and you don't have one in your conference and are not going to have one either. Hows that sec deal sounding now? It's 50 times more likely Dabo gets a national championship than Spurrier does at scar. Last year is as good as it gets.

Cling to the Clemson wins while you still can bro, the clock is ticking and it will be 20 years or longer before this happens again. You got allot to look forward to.

Tick Tock

Yep we are gonna beat LSU

Worse than we beat Clemson the three past years. Actually our goal is to beat them worse that wvu beat clemson but Ward's defense isn't quite there yet lol. Speaking of Ward, I'm pretty sure he has more coaching experience than Venables, just look it up. Ward has been a coach longer. Oh you meant as a coordinator? In that case look at dabo lol. He has never even been a coordinator. Imagine how big the gap is between him and Spurrier. It really shows too.

So now that Badger is gone...

What's your prediction vs lsu? You are going to beat them right?

They will bro...

As soon as we get past this little spurrier bump, you're going right back in the saddle. When I say past it, it could have already happened. I think he hit gold with Ellis Johnson, it sure was not his offenses that done. He's gone now, mysteriously I might add lol. Things are so great with money spurrier, the bestest ever. But Ellis Johnson the key to your success just walks out. Kinda makes you wonder doesn't it?

No idea about Venables bro, I only know he has 300 times more experience than yours.

Ingram was great, which is another good point. Your just going to go out and replace Ingram effortlessly with a dc with no experience and no transition, got it bro. Also, jeffreys should be no problem for you to replace either, there should be no transition. Lol

Keep spinning it bro, it's bound to come true, lol.

Couple of interesting SEC links:

Honey badger dismissed at LSU:
http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=5200&ATCLID=205576641


Coeds kicked out of Mizzou practice (read the article, pretty funny):
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/gary-pinkel-shoos-exercising-coeds-away-mizzou-practice-151740178--ncaaf.html

Would I compare Ingram to any of those you just named??

Hell yea I would lol. He was one of the top players in the SEC and one of the top defensive players in the nation. Yes he is right up there with all those players. Hence the reason he went 18th overall in the NFL draft. To even mention him and Steward in the same sentence is a joke lol. He hasn't done anything at all at Clemson. Just because they are rated 5 stars coming out of HS doesn't mean that sticks with them strait through their college career. Just ask Mike Bellamy. If all of Clemson's 5 stars turn out to be Bellamys and all of our 4 stars turn out to be Ingrams I'll be content. I told you before I don't have much confidence in the star ranking system anymore. Comparing a player like Ingram to a player like Steward is a big reason why.

Hey I hope Clemson's boosters will trump the SEC/ESPN TV deal.......... LOL.



On to our defense, I have seen Ward's defense in action at Carolina vs Nebraska and it looked pretty damn good. We also return a bunch guys from last year's defense. That could be bad for some teams that had a terrible defense last year but in our case it's good lol. Oh and how has Venables' defense looked in a game at Clemson so far? Oh wait..

We may have beat Auburn with Clemson's players but I'm glad we had the players we had when we played Clemson lol.

Send us a pic of the glasses bro. I'm supposed to wear them but never do.

In other news...

I start back college 20 august and now I wear glasses, lol.

Yes...

But what Clemson will go with is an inovative business background guy. One guy they will go for is TCU's old athletic director that is with the Carolina Panthers.

Also, if Plyler said that he needs to just stop. 3 or 4 million is not going to make one shred of difference when you are talking about 60 70 80 million dollars. I think winning is the key really and I like our chances much better over the long haul.

So you are comparing recruiting a player like Ingram to recruiting players like clowney, Lattimore, then the out of state players at Clemson like Watkins, Spiller, Steward, the list goes on... I wasn't talking about that type of player, I was talking the number one player, top ten in the nation types. In other words clowney and Lattimore. But I think you know that already bro.

Also, you did win 5 of 6 games and had the best football team in scars history? (if you agree) in other words a damn good team. But you were still the 4th or even arguably the 5th best team in the SEC. If it's not depth what is it bro?

How would you know how your defense is? You have a new DC and I believe 90 percent of your success on the field was Ellis Johnson. All that swapping dl etc... Has to be coordinated.

Also, while you may not have won 11 games with Clemson players you would have beat Auburn. Lol

I think you should have a better team than Clemson tho.

Yes but everyone has weak spots on their OL

outside of a select few schools like LSU, Bama, SoCal, ect. And Carolina has one of those SEC defenses that you speak of that can exploit weaknesses. Somewhere in there it balances out. All I'm saying is that all teams will have trouble with injuries. That's why you have depth and I believe Carolina has it now. They didn't before last year.

As far as Lattimore and Clowney go sure they are great players. It may take the state of SC a while to churn out another player like them. But now I bring you back to losing Lattimore half way through the season. We won 5 of our last 6 games without him. Clowney was a freshman last year and yes he made some big plays but was he a game changer as freshman? I would be willing to bet that we would have won the same amount of games without him last year. The way we rotate our DL it wouldn't have been a big deal. We still had Ingram. Speaking of Ingram, he was probably our best player on the whole team last year. Guess where he was from? North Carolina. We recruit a lot of good players out of Ga, Fl, and NC. As a matter of fact 9 of the 22 starters on our team are from out of state. That's one more than Clemson. We have just got our better players from instate lately. I guess that's where the myth comes from that we don't recruit well out of state.

As far as the changes at Clemson, that sounds great. Sounds like they have some big things going on there. Sure if you can make up the difference of the TV contracts with booster money that's great. I think what Plyler was saying is that South Carolina, UGA, and most of the other SEC schools get the TV contract money and the booster money. They don't have to make up for what they don't get from TV money with booster money. The SEC schools just start out with a big head start, that's all.

I do think Clemson will be better off with a new AD. I'm not sure a lot of the boosters wanted to give money to a athletic dept that was under his control. Not sure I blame them.

South Carolina started a big capital campaign right after Spurrier started and it really has made a difference. One other reasons Tanner was chosen for the AD job is because he is familiar with the ongoing campaign and they know he can get the $$$ from the boosters with the clout he holds amongst the Gamecock faithful. The man is pretty much an idol and they will give anything he wants.

Less than 3 weeks away bro! Probably before Carolina is upset by Vandy and Clemson the same by AU LOL. J/k bro, I think both our teams will be fine this season.

Its a prime example...

but at the same time a coincidence. Yes, looks as if the starting RT is out or not at 100% Now what? Even if we had the best back up RT in college football, what happens when he gets injured or tired? It happens, and it only takes one weak spot on your OL, a good DC (the best are in the SEC) will exploit this all day long. But the truth is IMO, we don't have any great OL back ups. If they were great they would be starting because they are very hard to come by. We generally have holes in the OL before the injuries even start.

No one said anything about his job being in jepardy. Just saying he has no excuses right now for fielding a crappy team. It might be 20 more years before the state of SC produces another Clowney or Lattimore and then not at the same time. In terms of talent I don't think its going to get any better unless you start pulling them from out of state. So now is the time.

A team of successfull bussinessmen were hired to evaluate IPTAY, the way fundraising is done etc... some time ago. TDP's is pretty much falling on the sword to gut the whole thing. Clemson is in the dark ages in terms of management of funds, fundraising etc... You are going to see alot of money shelled out for the next AD aimed towards fundraising as one priority and IPTAY is also getting gutted. Katie Hill is also leaving, Clemson is expected to hire externally. But we will see. Thats yours and Plylers answer to the money gap. The conference really does not have allot to do with it. But money givers definitely are going to want to see results on the field.

Spurrier out of excuses?

I haven't heard Spurrier use depth or injuries as an excuse for losing since he's been at Carolina. I was referring to us as fans using injuries as a excuse. I don't think Carolina fans can do that anymore. As I said, I think we now have the depth that yes UGA, UF, Tenn, ect has. And yes I think that we would be just as well off as any of those teams if we lose our starting QB. It wouldn't be good for any of those teams but our situation wouldn't be worse than any of the rest. That goes for most positions at Carolina including OL, DL, and LB. We are solid on all fronts. We are thinner in some areas than others but every team is including the ones I named above. We wouldnt be in any worse shape than them if we lost a player. I'm not talking about Lsu and bama. Bottom line is that injuries happen. It's a part of football. It would be hard to enjoy the season if you worry about injuries all the time. Speaking of, I hear Clemson lost their starting RT with a knee. May be that's where this stuff is stemming from. You can't worry about it bro. If you do you will be in for a miserable season.

Going back to Spurrier, he doesn't have to have any excuses. He just led Carolina to their best season in the history of the program. I would say the guy's job is safe. It will never not be safe while he's at Carolina. He's said before that he won't have to be ran off. If he knows he's not doing the job he'll step down and hand it over to somebody else. I'm not worried about that though. I think he proved last year he's got some good coaching years yet ahead of him.

Anyway, this is good discussion. Nothing wrong with arguing both sides. I'll take the glass half full approach. I mean the only consequence is that I'll have to admit that I'm wrong lol. Won't be that bad.

You also have me interested in these big time changes at Clemson. So there are a LOT of them huh? Do you know what they are or?

LOTS of big time changes...

coming at Clemson, TDP you already knew. But allot of other ones too.

I do trust you....

but you already hit the nail right on the head. He is out of excuses, its no longer time time say we are just not looking good, we should be better but we are not. He has got his staff, his players and as much talent as you could hope for at Scar. There is no more room for those kinds of excuses right now. So if you come out and say we are not very good right now? Should not be very acceptable.

Also, its not out of the question, its simply out of the ordinary. For Scar in fact when is the last time you put together back to back 10 plus win seasons? I think you have a damn good shot to do that this year. But, it is not easy to do or something that happens allot. So if it does, its a big deal.

Same with Clemson, back to back 10 win seasons, been quite a while and I am not expecting it.

Sorry bro, but I still believe our QB situation is more dire than most other major teams we compete with. For you its LSU, Florida, UGA, Arkansas etc... If Lattimore actually stayed healthy this year I would agree it would not be as big of an issue for you.

So you are telling me if you had a couple of OL or DL go down you could just replace them with no problem? How about LBs? Its not impact postions, its the trenches and what right behind the trenches thats important. Injuries does not always mean out of the game completely, many are playing injured by the end and not at 100%. But if you have got all that and I am not saying you don't because I certainly don't know as much as you, then you are there.

You play glass full and I will play less than half full, lol. But I am not really disagreeing with you. Just presenting the other side.

Yes it will be interesting to see if the other SEC teams improve

It will also be interesting to see if Carolina improves. If we do, and that's not out of the question, we should be better than everyone in the east again.

I know what you're saying about the QB getting injured. That can go for any team though. I bet you can't name 10 teams in the country that wouldn't be in trouble if they lost there starting QB. I think Carolina would be able to handle it as well as any one. Spurrier has had some really good things to say about Dylan Thompson. Judging by the play by play in the mini scrimmages we've had so far I can see why. He's been able to drive it down field and score. Kinda surprising to me honestly but they say he's one of the hardest workers on team so I guess it shouldn't be. He's a guy that plays it very safe and doesn't make stupid mistakes. May be too conservative at times. We just had a pretty talented QB transfer in tanner mcevoy because Thompson was so far ahead of him.

I also think Carolina has got to the point where we can't blame it on depth any more at any position really. We have quality talent back ups at every position. We've finally gotten to the point where we have SEC depth. I'm not talking about LSU and Bama type depth but UF, Tenn, UGA, Arky... certainly. I can kinda point it back to last season with Lattimore getting injured. Carolina had already lost their 2nd string RB in Shon Carson the 2nd week of the season. They then lose the backbone of their offense in Lattimore. Everybody including me thought our season was done. We then came out and won 5 of our last 6 games. Another sign of good depth at Carolina: our starting CB Akeem Auguste has been out with a groin injury since the beginning of Fall practice. When Lorenzo Ward was asked about it he said it wasn't a Carolina problem it was a Auguste problem. While he felt bad for Auguste we had plenty of players that could play.

I just think Carolina is finally to the level that we can't blame depth and injuries any more. I guess we'll find out though. I could be wrong.

We do have question marks, like all teams. The big one is punting. We don't have a sure fire guy right now. We did get a little help from a transfer that just got on campus yesterday. They say he can boom it but when he got into live practice drills he shanked it. We've had good reports about our WRs but I wanna see how we'll do without Jeffery. That will be a "?" for me until I see it in a game.

I'll let you be the judge. Go watch some of Spurriers post practice interviews and tell me if he seems different or not. I think he believes he has something this year. You tell me if it's just me.

It was different last year...

and if either or both teams actually improve as they should logically it should be great years. But.......

I think Scar will do well, just curious to see what other teams in the SEC improve? It really depends on that IMO, you could be 5th best in the SEC with a damn good football team, especially if you are just a little bit unlucky. But what is the most important and also most uncontrollable factor for both of us is injuries. We simply do not have the depth when it comes to that. But if both teams actually stayed healthy all year? Would be all the difference in the world on the season.

But if the starting QB from either teams goes down? Its going to be ugly.

No, I know you don't mean anything by it

and I know what you're saying. The difference is that it is Spurrier saying this stuff, not GCC. Yea GCC gives reports like that all the time, maybe not quite as homerish but they do give sunshine reports. Spurrier on the other hand doesn't. It's kind of uncharacteristic for him. I'm sure it's coming but he hasn't went off on his "QBs are playing lousey" vent yet. He has nothing but good things to say about Shaw. The stuff in my last post came from Spurrier, the only thing that didn't was the stuff about Sutton being the best backup DE in the SEC. That part was a little sunshine nugget from GCC lol.

Can't help but to have high hopes a little this year. May be it will be different this year. Last year was for both teams. We'll see how it goes, can't wait.

Lol...

I don't mean any thing by it bro... But every year at least for Clemson we get these type reports. Right now Boydd is the next Dan Marino, our offensive line would rival Mike Ditka's Chicago Bears superbowl team. The defense is really buying in to Venables and they are going to tackle much better. Chad Morris did not implement his blocking scheme or most of his plays last year and now he has and the OL etc... have really caught on (Dalton Freeman). Martavius Bryant is like Jerry Rice only taller and Nuke Hopkins is ahead of him. I'm going to say it now bro, Clemson is going to win the National Championship!!!!!!!!

Then the season starts and WOMP WOMP WA WAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Most of that is not true as you already know, just like every year, at least at Clemson.

Practice is in full swing now

Spurrier seems happy. The QBs are throwing the ball well and WRs are catching it. Lattimore is full speed, not holding back any. Clowney is beating everyone off the edge like last year. Spurrier even mentioned moving him to middle LB in some formations like they did with Ingram last year. As you know Ingram was very successful moving around like that. It's a lot harder to double team a MLB than it is a DL. I think this is also to let Chaz Sutton see the field more. People are saying he is the best backup DE in the SEC.

I'm just doing a little sunshine pumping bro lol. Excited for the season.

I definitely...

Would say that there are more and more over rated 4 stars every year. It's definitely important to do your own evaluations. I think some coaches go for the stars, lol. I think Richt does that at uga. You can look at Bama for the opposite, well evaluated legit highly rated talent.

Did you get the pictures from what I did yesterday?

Good post

I can see it both ways.

Fall practice starts tonight for the Gamecocks! It's finally here. I'm pretty pumped about the season this year bro. Remember when we used to say that we wanted both of our teams to be undefeated when we play each other? Well this is the season that gives us the best shot. I'm not at all saying either team will. In fact I don't believe either team will but I think this is the best both teams have been at the same time. Carolina in the top 10 and Clemson in the top 15. Pretty amazing really. Our little old state has to teams ranked that high. I'm ready for it bro.

I'm hearing it's official that Sammy will be out for the first two games. It's rumor right now but that's what I'm hearing. How bad do you think it will hurt vs Auburn?

I tried to get Brent to post. Don't know if he will or not.

I think stars...

matter a little in terms of impact players. I consider your secondary and DE's to be impact players or at least a talented DE is an impact player. Same thing on offense, I think it matters at RB, QB and to a lesser extent WR. Not often you are going to see a 2 or 3 star RB do that great in the SEC. For a QB it just really depends what type of offense. Power running sure, spread offense? Not so much IMO, especially in the SEC. I say SEC because of defense of course, if we are speaking offense and the spread I would look to the Big 12.

Look forward to the pics

I hate that you're not excited for the season though. I can't help it, this time of year is very exciting for me. I can't wait for kick off!

I think to say that clemson's class is taking shape a little bit is an understatement. Clemson is killing it right now. I don't think they have to do allot more in this class to make it solid. Same with Carolina really. We just got a 4 star DB tonight by the way. A player that from Georgia that UGA really wanted (Check the MB http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=2208&tid=176379612&mid=176379612&sid=880&style=2 )(also had offers from every other SEC school). The UGA rivals insider came over to GGC to talk about him and said he is one of the best pure athletes in the state of Georgia this year.

I don't care a whole lot about the stars anymore however. The 5 stars are the only ones that are 95% automatic great players. The others 2-4 stars can go either way. That's the truth of it. I've seen as many 2-3 stars succeed as I have 4 stars fail at Carolina. It all comes down to player evaluation and player development. As long as our teams can do that we will be fine. Not saying pure talent doesn't matter but I put more stock into evaluation, strength and conditioning, and player development.

Kind of went off on a tangent but solid post on how I feel..

Sorry bro...

Busy time of the year, but I am starting Saturday for sure. I we cannot talk about it here, but I will email you for sure today. I tried to post here last night (my time) and my Ipad would not let me type in the box for some strange reason.

Yes OL are certainly not know for being smart but good lord. How stupid can you be? If I'm MR, social media sites would be getting the axe for a while for the team. He had better do something on the field this year, he is actually starting to lose allot of top prospects from the state and that has always been his bread and butter.

Clemson's class is starting to take shape a little now, we have a good chance to be in the top 10 this year I think. Just depends if we hold them and sign a couple of more. I will try to get excited about the season, but I think it will take a good run for that to happen for me. I am more excited about starting back to school, wood working ect... to be quite honest tho. Like I said, maybe that will change when it starts?

Watched a decent movie yesterday

"Meeting Evil" with Luke Wilson and Samuel L Jackson. It was ok, kinda weird.

Boat pics

Where are they?

Hey bro check out this moron lol

http://www.redandblack.com/blogs/dog_days/georgia-offensive-lineman-tweets-picture-of-playbook/article_0bd8c650-da51-11e1-b2e9-0019bb30f31a.html

You are really going to want...

to see what I am starting on this weekend, the boat... I can't really talk allot about it here for everyone to see, but I will email you some details when I get off work.

I guess too much lifting isn't the worst problem he could have

He could be getting drunk like Garcia everyday lol.

I want to see pics of the table when you're done.

Yes...

I would guess even a little bit of size difference would change accuracy or whatever. I agree, does not sound like a bad thing for him.

No, I doubt I would ever own the business. Little bit over my head and probably at the stress level I would want anyways. But I would definitely enjoy working for the comapany. I do think of businesses all the time, I would like to have one as a hobby that would carry over into retirement. I mean my true retirement at age 60+.

Overhead would need to be real low and breaking even would be fine. Furniture is a good idea and possibly the motorbikes (the funner and less likely to make money one).  I see enough furiniture at the Bowman mart that needs refinishing to get started. But I have to finish school and get a real job too, lol. I just finised staining my work bench yesterday. It looks pretty cool, red stain makes anything look good.

I am working on a Chinese themed end table right now, I started before I went on leave. It should be prettty cool when I finish it.   

I knew you was joking

But after you said it I thought about the same thing. Like at halloween playing horror movies. Would be cool..

Hey if you wanna go in the video board business I'll work for ya lol.

I finally got to watch Spurrier's media golf outing today. One of the things he said was he told Connor Shaw that he needed to lay off of the lifting a little bit. His arms are getting so big he is starting to look like a little LB. Thought that was pretty interesting. Of course you don't want your QB to get too big but it may be pretty good with the type of QB Shaw is. It will make him a more powerful, durable runner.

Getting excited about the season bro..

I was joking about...

The movie, but then I got to thinking. Could you imagine if they had two of those in a stadium and played movies on it? Would be kind of cool actually. I bet other things could be done too.

At any rate, there is a job for us bro, maintaining giant scoreboards. Somebody is raking in some money for sure, kinda like what you said tho. Got to add the electronics in with the computers for something like that. I wish I had let the Navy send me to Med Repair school, wish I could get that one back.

I hope they don't...

But they could hire from within. I am sure the bot and president has a list. That he will be leaving is pretty well known. I have not seen anything on who is being considered other than Billy D of course. Some people mention Bobby Johnson etc... It's a shame didn't end up the head coach, he obviously loves Clemson.

I'd like to see them not hire from within simply because I think it's good to have change, especially from an administrative standpoint. Tdp has not done that bad a job. But just like anywhere they are going to want a puppet.

Yea that would be cool lol

If I had a press pass I would ask if I could eat some hot wings at your new training table lol.

It will be interesting to see who replaces TDP. Do you think they will hire from within? They should have a list of candidates if it has been known for a while. Who might they be?

And if I had...

A press pass I would ask your athletic director can I watch a movie on it.

Looks tdp is leaving, been pretty well known for a while. Just depends who replaces him.

Looks pretty good

I guess I got confused about the training table because all of that along with rehab equipment was brought in at the same time at Carolina. Honest mistake.

The video board definitely needed to be upgraded at Carolina. It was about 15 years behind, maybe more. I think you should be able to see replays on the video board from every part of the stadium. With the old one you might be lucky to see it half way across the stadium. It's impressive imo but I agree you could go overboard. I must admit that I like Clemson's idea of having two but that's just me.

The "training table" sounds like a huge issue at Clemson if the OL are living off of fast food? Sounds like a bigger upgrade than most would think. Maybe it will take some heat off of Batson?

Not sure bro...

They could be smaller for all I know. I only know it was posted we are getting new ones, did not pay attention.

A training table is not equipment, its a dining facility for athletes where their food intake is monitored, special meals for athletes, nutritionists, the whole 9 yards. I can't post pictures on my IPad. But here is the link to the thing, I think it's almost complete:

http://www.shakinthesouthland.com/2012/3/28/2909513/clemson-breaks-ground-on-indoor-facility

Like I said, I'd rather spend money on this, no doubt it will help recruiting, but more importantly it will help on the field. What athletes eat is more important than exercise and I think Clemson OL live on a diet of chick filet and mcdonalds. Which one you think is better? The indoor practice field is close to being done also.

I did not think it was green bro, lol. Should push Alabama, lsu, fla etc... To all build bigger one now. Maybe one day there will be one bigger than the stadium somewhere? Lol. Just messin with you bro, it's nice.

Well it was either going to be green or orange

I'm glad they went with green lol. No bro, I'm sure that is just construction stuff but I have a hunch that you know that.

The video boards do make a big difference. It excites the fans and helps make more pile into games. I know I'm going to game this year just to see it. It also helps with recruiting at least a little bit. I guess I should say that it doesn't hurt recruiting. That high school scoreboard we had before would have hurt recruiting, it was pitiful. Remember when they had it held up with a crane that year lol? The new one is a top of the line HD scoreboard where the other one was SD. Not to mention it's huge. Should be as attractive as any in the SEC. It wouldn't have been as big of a deal if we weren't so far behind everyone else.

What Clemson is doing with their video board is pretty neat as well. What I've heard is it will be the same size as the one they had before, but HD. The neat part comes in where they will add an additional one in one of the corners of the endzones. Correct me if I'm wrong, that's just what I've heard. I think that will be cool.

Yes the training tables will make a big difference. I know the training upgrades Carolina made worked wonders. A lot of impressive equipment they have.

Hearing chatter on the Plyler show this morning about TDP not renewing is contract and he may be gone after this school year. I'm sure you've heard it and I'm also sure it doesn't hurt your feelings at all lol.

Pretty cool...

but is it going to be green like that? Clemson also has plans to upgrade theirs of course, but honestly I could not care less about that sort of thing.

I guess if I went to the games I would? I know they did ok last year, but I won't be going to the games unless whats on the scoreboard improves.

I am way more interested in the new training table and indoor facility underway for Clemson. We needed both badly. Many people say the training table is a huge part of the problem especially with the OL which sounds logical to me but who knows?

Check this out

Picture of new video board in construction

Yea I could see me and you lol

You asking Spurrier stupid questions and me doing the same at Dabo. That would be really funny LOL.

But....

if they do start handing them out to bloggers, I will certainly request one. Lol

Yes...

and hopefully they don't start handing out press passes to every retard that starts a blog on the internet. Considering both schools have reporters that they would like to revoke and its obviously a huge hassle to pull them. It should be easier than it is.

Penn State gets hammered pretty good, just not a feel good situation at all.

Clemson gets a relatively unexpected commit from Pagano, since I have been following recruiting I don't think there was a bigger out of no where recruit. I guess Spiller was more unexpected but I did not really follow recruiting until about the time he committed. Always good when its one of the guys up front. But why can it never be an OL? LOL

Thought you might find this funny bro

http://www.fitsnews.com/2012/07/24/rebuked/