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How much more do we have to do to be a "blue blood"
Sep 18, 2017, 9:07 AM
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You keep reading about "Clemson is recruiting with the blue bloods" "Clemson is competing with the blue bloods" blah blah blah. At what point are we a blue blood? We are top 20 in wins, bowls, conference championships, etc and climbing the lists pretty rapidly.
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Re: How much more do we have to do to be a "blue blood"
Sep 18, 2017, 9:10 AM
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Friend, we are blue bloods. The rest of college football is starting to figure that out. The days of flying under the radar are over.
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Re: How much more do we have to do to be a "blue blood"
Sep 18, 2017, 9:18 AM
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I think it's related to our safe places, how well they're decorated. Do we bring in a decorator from Atlanta or just pick up stuff at tj maxx. That would be tacky, stuff like that keeps us from qualifying.
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Re: How much more do we have to do to be a "blue blood"
Sep 18, 2017, 9:12 AM
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14.West Virginia739
15.Virginia Tech732
16.Texas A&M727
17.Georgia Tech724
18.Clemson720
We're closing in on these teams. I think we'll pass GT and possibly AM this year. VT will be hard to catch up to since they are still winning 10 games a year
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To many in the college football world we are "Nouveau Riche"
Sep 18, 2017, 9:25 AM
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While they may not look at us as The Beverly Hillbillies, they certainly look down on us as "new money" trying to break into high society.
This is what you face from a mind set that still sees Notre Dame, Texas, and Nebraska as "Blue Blood" programs.
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Re: To many in the college football world we are "Nouveau Riche"
Sep 18, 2017, 9:33 AM
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the big N and ND are living off the past. we need to win another National championship an continue to win conference champion ships.
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Basically winning consistently for a generation is needed to
Sep 18, 2017, 9:45 AM
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break through the stereotype.
A 20-year stretch of consistent winning at a high level with multiple titles and play-off appearances is what it will take.
Do that and generations in the future will see Clemson as a "blue blood".
It's not going to happen quickly.
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You don't just become a blue blood
Sep 18, 2017, 9:41 AM
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The 8 blue bloods have had so much success in the last 100 years, there's no way for Clemson to make that up any time soon. Teams like Miami, FSU, Florida, LSU are not blue bloods so obviously we aren't either. We are 100% an elite program right now, but becoming a blue blood is a whole different story.
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Being a blue blood is more about what you did
Sep 18, 2017, 9:41 AM
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decades ago than what you've done recently. Our football program has basically had two dominant stretches, '81-90 and '2011-present), and a whole lot mediocrity for the rest of it's existence. Maybe without the ~20 years of Hatfield, West, and Bowden we would be considered a blue blood already.
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Keep oxygen from getting to it.
Sep 18, 2017, 9:48 AM
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That's what makes it turn red.
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