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Maybe… from day 1 of Fitterer I felt the Seattle vision was an error. I still think Morgan has too much of that in common with with the old GM. The Seattle era was a unicorn. Not something to model after

Tepper, Morgan, Jim, Dom, etc. The but this time it will be totally different brainstrust

I save my delusional optimism for other teams. That’s an easy bet. Take the under. he was below his average last year vs the Saints. They know his flaws as good as any team and slammed full of savy vets.

Yep, #4 in takeaways last year and #8 in points allowed. people are calling them old….but we got a young/bad QB, a rookie OC and a rookie HC. The Saints being “old” really isn’t ideal for the our matchup. They are experienced on D vs newbies. Got to like that matchup the most in the this game. Our D is the 2nd best but got to think it’s a distant 2nd vs their favorable matchup

Majority of Clemson’s college playoff appearances featured them going in with a loss. You can take a L in a lot of years. It generally was always a bad L too. In the expanded format a 1 loss ACC team can get in.

Yeah, the reputation mad SEC folks talk about amongst themselves. Like I said, the real stat padding is that Clemson handled the ACC play with ease. That’s what folks were actually made about. Clemson’s out to conference generally always includes 2 SEC teams or if they can’t get 2 a Notre Dame type. Every school in including Bama, UGA, Ohio St plays the random nobodies. the argument is essentially Clemson shouldn’t be able to do what everyone else does….because they are an ACC school. Clemson is also penalized because the Gamecocks stink.

and Clemson’s small local team didn’t have to be App St. They could have chosen someone else. Their 2nd SEC game didn’t have to be UGA….they could have worked up a home and home or neutral site game with a lesser caliber SEC opponent. When they can, they always go tougher than they need to. Claiming Clemson stat pads or Dabo paid people but now others can legally….just shows you the vast real estate portfolio Dabo has taken out in people’s heads over the last decade. folks taking their victory lap on the back of UGA knowing Dabo likely finishes 10-2 or 9-3 while making a run at the ACC title….and that his disaster seasons are still really better than almost everyone else out there.

UGA is playing Tenn Tech Golden Eagles next week. Literally every school does that. But with Clemson it is stat padding lol Clemson didn’t have to schedule UGA. They didn’t have to schedule App St. Clemson consistently chooses tougher opponents for the traditional out of conference type games when they can…. Clemson plays in the ACC. So they play ACC teams. They can’t control that. IMO that’s the truth of the “stat” padding. Not the rest is the schedule.

That must be new. Or maybe both teams have to agree…I see Furman is out there getting their teeth kicked in without 10 min being applied

That’s what I don’t get. Dabo is 100% right on that. what’s the big money doing? Well, the big money and media wants everyone to know Dabo is behind the times. Game has past him by. Maybe he needs to go. Yes . He should go away if he won’t join us. You should agree with us too. That’s what being pumped out there. Truth is Dabo is right. Big money doesn’t want Dabo’s opinion on that to be heard or agreed with. Dabo should take that stand. It’s a shame no one else that matters is doing it in the same manner with him. NIL is fine. Dabo always said that stuff was fine. I’m thinking he is hoping he can weather the storm and a sensible fix could come. Because it should. He ain’t joining it. The pay for play portal is broken. More coaches need to join Dabo and ones that matter to fix it. Dabo is annoying. But Dabo is generally right on college football. Don’t need Kirby with a toe in the right logic pool. Need Kirby to jump in and do it while he is still on top…not when he gets taken down a peg and then everyone claims he is just mad he isn’t on top

They could. Dabo doesn’t run his program like that though. Heck, Kirby even echoed the general principle of it too in his presser. Dabo is not going to go pay some one year rental to replace someone in house doing it the right way. He wants to recruit and groom people up for 4 years. Most importantly, Dabo also isn’t going to join and do what he rightfully complains about AND that is wrong with college football. Dabo is right about that. They are breaking college football. It needs to be fixed. Not for Dabo to join the problem. You shouldn’t be able to be DJU essentially. Paid to play and hop year to year. Frankly college football needs Dabos right now. They need sensible voices that actually care about what it should be. Lose those and it has no hope of being fixed NIL is not NIL. It’s just pay to play and you shouldn’t be able to hop team to team with no penalty in that scenario

One 10 win season and Columbia is in trouble

I don’t know about today but all the sources and digging last year said it was Riley calling the shots and the O worse than the DJU era (where Cade looked better). Folks wanted Dabo to be the reason because it would mean him stepping away could fix it but it sure seems to be Garrett Riley is part of the problem. Playcalling was better for DJU. DJU just sucked. Cade might just suck too. But that playcalling today was straight trash.

coming off the high he gave us is really tough for some, they too emotional And all die hard Clemson fans know die hard Gamecock fans. They need to zoom out. Gamecock would be flipping cars in downtown Columbia celebrating if they could stack the last 3 trash Clemson seasons together.

I think I’m okay. I think I can pull of the SC “win” vs Old Dominion was just as embarrassing as our loss. Old Dominion gave away that game. Took two fumbles inside their own 10 for SC to be able to beat them and have any offense. Think Clemson’s O is going to look like a juggernaut vs South Carolina.

It was over at half time. Dabo played too conservative and wasted it all while the D played as good as it gets vs UGA. That was the window. The first half. Mafah is a fine RB but you can’t run him vs UGA like you would a Duke. Gameplan was never about winning IMO. for all the talk of Garrett Riley, his O (playcall and design)…..has been trash at Clemson.

true, UGA, Bama, Texas, Michigan, and everyone else finally has a level playing field with Clemson and can now start paying folks the big money Dabo was doing. Because that was clearly the secret sauce in Clemson lol.

All I really care about is trash talk, so to survive work on Tuesday… I need Old Dominion to take care of these Gamecocks

Depends. I guess if Clemson is only the 2nd half team vs the #1 team in the nation they can’t beat State. But maybe State is really more that first half team that couldn’t handle Western Carolina if we just pick and choose a half

I suspect when Dabo is done at Clemson he will be done with football. but the Dabo/Clemson talk is just silly. Acting like his historic run is supposed to be sustainable and that being a consistent top 25 program year in and year out is somehow embarrassing is silly if you zoom out lol. Dabo isn’t looking for a new school. No power 5 school is going to let him in there to try to remake what he did with Clemson. It’s a different era. Dabo has the keys and power to do whatever he wants in Clemson and does. Rightfully so. Clemson’s dark times are still better than what So Car, No Car, etc are doing. Like I said, anyone outside Clemson wanting Dabo fired just want bad things for Dabo and Clemson. They are not wanting good things for Clemson football

I mean, how many SEC teams UGA and Bama embarrassed over the years and will this year too. Lot of folks don’t belong in the SEC

College football is broken though. Dabo was right about most of all that in reality. It needs to be fixed IMO….not so much Dabo join the problem. the fix is probably in the middle but I don’t care if Dabo does his thing. Frankly there should be a place for that model in college football. Folks acting like Dabo/Clemson are the modern day Temple Owls or some poo lol. They ain’t present day UGA. That’s a long list of basically every power 5 school. And a week 1 game vs the #1 team in got ugly in the 2nd half.

Last 3 seasons is the Dabo is finished and Clemson is done era. Fire Dabo era. Meanwhile, it’s 3 straight winning seasons. 30-10. Top 25 finish each of them. His bad is still the best that is being done in the ACC. they aren’t competing for a natty each year. Frankly, that’s like 4 programs in reality year in and year out. Clemson fans wanting Dabo fired are just emotional and not realistic about college football IMO. People outside of the fanbase that want him fired? They don’t want Clemson to be good lol. They aren’t looking out for Clemson. They want to see bad things happen to someone they dislike lol

I mean, Clemson is the best program in the ACC….and that as this letdown version of Clemson (big picture they are) so what do you do…realistically? You lose Dabo and most likely….you just get worse. Clemson had a HISTORIC run with Dabo. Overshadowed by the fact it was occurring as Saban did his thing. But maintaining that was never realistic. In reality, when Clemson was competing for nattys on a consistent basis their rosters were never comparable top to bottom with who they competed with. Clemson’s bad is still a dream for almost all ACC programs. I can handle Clemson’s version of bad. hypothetically the grass is greener….odds favor that if they move from Dabo that it will predictably be a bad decision with much worse results. *some great Dabo means going around Twitter right now though

Clemson generally has an elite defensive front. They have that still. That’s also different than an elite overall defense. Not sure Clemson has ever had that Clemson’s pass game simply hasn’t existed the last 3 seasons. This should be a 4th. the D front is good. Saw that today. UGA wasn’t winning the line of scrimmage vs them today. UGA eventually conceded that and went outside. I assume the backend is weaker this year as Clemson opted not to bring their normal pressure packages. But they 100% got an elite D front as always