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LG, where is the Lopez kid from??

Thats a good point. But I was more worried about his offense. Gotta think Bill can improve a college D

Bill era off to a good start.

Much like Bryce though….not sure Hunter really fits Dave. So, just for the record it’s not me picking on Bryce with fit of scheme

How about 2 legit good games in a row? I still think his post season benching is romanticized and overstated…. I mean his turnaround was amazing. But that had more to do with how bad he was than how good he actually became.

Canales said it was a concern when he was justifying all his roster moves. Which I still say you can’t take what coaches say as the gospel when they are explaining things on a mic. Hunter said we got games coming up, so I guess we will see.

I think how good of year Hunter has boils down to Canales’ scheme and playcalling. If he just runs the stuff he did last year and asks him to run ATs routes….Hunter won’t do much

Dabo said the timeline is about 3-5 years. IMO, he has been pretty spot on about college football overall…..and IMO I think he was speaking not off a gut but just the general inside consensus. the end game is for the top of college football to essentially have their own league/division and that doesn’t just mean Clemson leaves the ACC….it means UGA, Michigan, etc all leave their conference too.

True and as a Clemson fan I’m really not living in present day college football like most. So I’m still getting a bigger slice of the way it was than your average college football fan. We still tuning in to watch year 4 of the of the guys that have been on the roster and watching the same kids year after year. to an extent, Clemson is as good as it gets as a college football fan. But that’s just today. Will it keep us from another natty? Probably, but we got about 3-5 more years of sorta watching college football as I like it. Would our odds of winning a natty be stronger if we just hired the top merc at RB for this year and whatnot? Sure. That was THE spot to fix. But I’ll just enjoy moaning about our longtime WR converted to RB and which freshman can grow into it as this, they way it is ride is almost over

Here is a trivia question….LaNorris Sellars broke a drought and was the first Gamecock quarterback to win a game in Atlanta in 48 years. Name the last Gamecock QB to win in Atlanta. here is a hint

Thats the timeline Dabo has been out there talking of. Handful of ACC team will go to whatever mega conference there is. He thinks 30-50 total teams and that will be the end of college football. Everything that made it good at least

I don’t know about yall but I sort of believe in UNC. I think new head honcho Jordan Hudson and her assistant Bill might surprise some folks

Really makes polls and judging most programs impossible early. So many teams are fielding almost uniquely new offenses and defenses from 1 year to the next.

I think they just needed a couple weeks to figure out a RB. You can’t play good SEC teams and just run the Clemson pass attack all game long. Cade sort of setup to fail there. Cade isn’t Watson or Lawerence. Miles better than DJU. Cade probably in the Taj Boyd tier for me. Both can/could really play well….it just rarely was in the big game (Cade did play well in that playoff game but outside of that he seems to panic a bit in the bigger ones) I like Sellars. I talk mad poo about the Gamecocks but that’s just for giggles. My people are Gamecocks. Family played football there too. They can win every game but 1 each year as far as I am concerned

what about the that bomb VT threw to #0 after that SC ruling. That should have been a catch? It was to the sideline and he didn’t control it to the ground….he fell out of bounds? it does get logically weird to have to control it to the ground if you aren’t out of bounds….but don’t if you are out of bounds or in the endzone. I think you either leave the rule as is or you have to say the ground can’t cause an incompletion. If given those two choices, the flawed first is better I think. whatever the rules are…teams are going to feel screwed I would think

TX/OSU had no offense. LSU/Clem had no offense. No watch Beck channel Cam Ward and have some insane passing day since this was viewed as the least hyped top 10 matchup

Gamecock fans going to be hard to handle until October gets here. They could flirt with a real high ranking by the end of Sept. Path seems there to flirt with a top 5ish spot Not sure that combo of Shula playcaling+ that OL + no Rocket is going to work in October though. Sellers going to have to be Cam I think in terms of what is asked of him and that body

What about a catch in the middle of the field? You do you want them to maintain control as they fall? Thats the catch? Having different rules for the endzone vs everywhere else. *I’m not arguing one way vs the other. But a catch has to be universal rules IMO regardless of location of play

Yeah, identical call to last night. Which is the rule. They shouldn’t be TDs given the rule is the rule. Announcers in both games doing all they can to get the fans mad though…as both games the announcers seem to basically disregard and play dumb about the catch rules.

Shula is a great hire if you are the Gamecocks. College is college. Shula will use him like a college team should

I do think those that think Renfrow and AT are essentially the same are going to be either really mad or really happy. Renfrow will not go out there and do what AT did. I think folks happiness will come down to what Canales ask Renfrow to do in the O.

I think it sets up to be sorta similar to last year. Hard to imagine the O is going to ready to be near whatever ceiling it will eventually have. Young WRs, chemistry lacking, and all that gotta be worked out. Canales isn’t really a creative guru so it’s really just going to be on them to get better and up to speed. but the schedule is rather favorable the first quarter or so. in the end I think they sort of progress similar to last season. D a constant. O goes from weak to meh to sorta okay….but the pass game will be asked to do too much and won the ready for that ask.

I agree you don’t who is what this early… and while I don’t think he will be the best college quarterback….Sellars is really the only one as you look to the next draft who I think really has the tools that make you think be might be special at the next level as of right now.

The point was, largely it was cool to be critical of select players all off season (XL) and not be questioned about your fandom, being negative…..but select folks react different if done to Bryce. and if XL had an army of defenders (which he didn’t) there would be plenty of “derailment” as you say. But people largely accepted you should be able to be critical of XL. Therefore the good and bad were BOTH largely accepted convo. I have no clue about your joke analogy. Racist jokes suck. Jokes about race can be funny. I do know some people view it all as the same thing.

Well, Clemson just couldn’t afford to lose their #1 WR that early in the game. overall, thoughts are generally the same. This season was going to come down to two things….can they run the ball and stop the run. I thought the D was actually okay enough. Cade going to catch the heat but…. It’s the run game. Lead RB had 5 carries (9 RB carries overall) in a game that was tied 10-10 in the 4th. Cade ain’t that good enough to carry a game like that and be out in that spot. still think they will figure out the run but that was the worst part of a tough week 1 matchup. Zero time to figure that weakness out Clemson can afford that loss. It’s a an ACC championship world for the ACC primarily