College Football 2023

[LinvilleGorge]

26 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

To be fair, DJ was in the impossible position of following the man the myth the legend Trevor Lawrence. Always a tough situation in sports to be the guy who comes after “the guy”

It makes Drake Maye even more impressive. Howell was him at UNC. We have GOT to capitalize this year on having five consecutive years of elite QB play. We've never had that before. We have the best two QBs we've ever had back to back.

[LinvilleGorge]

29 minutes ago, Martin said:

I only watched 2-3 Clemson games last year and he was really bad in all of them. Couldn’t handle the pressure, bad accuracy etc. What games did you watch where he was “pretty damn good”?

He looked like the worst QB in college football in the ACC CG before getting yanked.

With that said, I never understood Clemson's play calling with him. They insisted on running him like they had Lawrence previously and Klubnik currently. But DJ is not a runner. He's a classic big bodied, big armed pocket passer. He's not a Bledsoe type statue but he's not a guy you should be dialing up designed runs for on the regular.

[weyco2000]

1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

He's an ideal college coach though. Great recruiter and motivator, but not the type of Xs and Os guy that the NFL is going to be clamoring after. Well, unless Tepper gets infatuated I guess 

 

Did you watch his reactions on the sidelines? Probably why his team quit in the final quarter, hell coach gave up after that last fumble.
The lack of effort on that last TD run by Duke was embarrassing to watch, guys on Defense jogging and avoiding contact. But Dabo doesn’t take ownership of an ill prepared team or take an asswhipping like a man… he uses the word “odd” to describe a loss, like he doesn’t understand how over 400 yds total offense results in 7 points. Well maybe someone should show him his reactions, pretty much self explanatory.
 

[LinvilleGorge]

4 minutes ago, weyco2000 said:

 

Did you watch his reactions on the sidelines? Probably why his team quit in the final quarter, hell coach gave up after that last fumble.
The lack of effort on that last TD run by Duke was embarrassing to watch, guys on Defense jogging and avoiding contact. But Dabo doesn’t take ownership of an ill prepared team or take an asswhipping like a man… he uses the word “odd” to describe a loss, like he doesn’t understand how over 400 yds total offense results in 7 points. Well maybe someone should show him his reactions, pretty much self explanatory.
 

Dabo always bitches and moans on the sidelines and acts like the refs are conspiring against his team. But you don't have the success that he's had without doing a lot of things right along the way. I don't think Dabo is a great game day coach, but he is a helluva recruiter and motivator. He's basically a better version of Mack Brown in that regard.

[Martin]

7 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

He looked like the worst QB in college football in the ACC CG before getting yanked.

With that said, I never understood Clemson's play calling with him. They insisted on running him like they had Lawrence previously and Klubnik currently. But DJ is not a runner. He's a classic big bodied, big armed pocket passer. He's not a Bledsoe type statue but he's not a guy you should be dialing up designed runs for on the regular.

He just seemed to struggle a lot with his processing when under any kind of pressure. But I’m sure the caches did Jim few favors.

[LinvilleGorge]

1 minute ago, Martin said:

He just seemed to struggle a lot with his processing when under any kind of pressure. But I’m sure the caches did Jim few favors.

And Klubnik looked the same way last night.

[Stuart Smith]

14 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I was about to say, Clemson fans gotta be at least a tad nervous that here is another QB that looked really promising in spot duty as a freshman looking pretty trashy as the anointed starter.

It is obvious their receivers are not the premier receivers we have become accustomed to at Clemson. 

[Stuart Smith]

1 hour ago, AceBoogie said:

Anybody who thinks DJ was holding Clemson back last year is in deep deep denial. 

Clemson imploded with the mistakes. No, they did not look like a Trevor Lawrence team. However, not scoring twice from the one yard changed the whole complexion of this game. 

[weyco2000]

1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Clemson certainly has a very talented roster but that didn't look like a typical Clemson roster last night. Usually they are very obviously head and shoulders more talented, athletic, and stronger than the other team. It just looks like men against boys. I didn't see that last night. Duke looked like they belonged on the field athletically and physically with Clemson. That's honestly more shocking to me than the outcome of the game.

Duke heating Clemson should look and feel flukey. That didn't look and feel flukey. 

Also, UNC has really made it a point to go hard for in state recruits and has severed that pipeline to other schools. Pretty much what Carolina is doing in Va, which has really effected Va Tech and UVA.

[LinvilleGorge]

2 minutes ago, Stuart Smith said:

Clemson imploded with the mistakes. No, they did not look like a Trevor Lawrence team. However, not scoring twice from the one yard changed the whole complexion of this game. 

So did Duke muffing a punt giving you a free red zone trip. Clemson shot themselves in the foot a lot with two blocked FGs and two redzone turnovers but give them those two FGs plus two TDs on the fumbles and you're still at only 27 points with 7 points off of a free trip to the redzone. That would've been good for 74th in the nation in scoring last year. And that's basically being as generous as possible with the potential scoring opportunities last night.

[weyco2000]

2 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

So did Duke muffing a punt giving you a free red zone trip. Clemson shot themselves in the foot a lot with two blocked FGs and two redzone turnovers but give them those two FGs plus two TDs on the fumbles and you're still at only 27 points with 7 points off of a free trip to the redzone. That would've been good for 74th in the nation in scoring last year. And that's basically being as generous as possible with the potential scoring opportunities last night.

Yeah not to mention the “odd” decision with 4 seconds left in the first half to not attempt a FG by a kicker who Dabo has said has the strongest leg he’s ever coached and has hit from 70… naaaah let’s just throw this little hook to end the half because we forgot our ladder. 

[4Corners]

Wonder where Elko ends up in a year or two. Maybe Clemson once Dabo heads to Bama?

[CRA]

2 hours ago, weyco2000 said:

 

Did you watch his reactions on the sidelines? Probably why his team quit in the final quarter, hell coach gave up after that last fumble.
The lack of effort on that last TD run by Duke was embarrassing to watch, guys on Defense jogging and avoiding contact. But Dabo doesn’t take ownership of an ill prepared team or take an asswhipping like a man… he uses the word “odd” to describe a loss, like he doesn’t understand how over 400 yds total offense results in 7 points. Well maybe someone should show him his reactions, pretty much self explanatory.
 

at least Dabo wasn't blaming the chain gang for eating a hotdog at halftime as the reason he lost. 

one of my favorite parts of Gamecock fans that have complained about Dabo all these years as a whinner.....is Shane Beamer is worse than Dabo.  Hard to find someone after a loss that looks worse than Beamer. 

[Harbingers]

If this is a double post. My bad. Coaches poll NOT AP.