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New Story: Fans brave heat, long lines for Hunter Renfrow and Dabo Swinney signatures
Aug 20, 2017, 4:52 PM
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Re: New Story: Fans brave heat, long lines for Hunter Renfrow and Dabo Swinney signatures
Aug 20, 2017, 5:56 PM
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It was a waste of time. And for any one who cares about there family will avoid it in the future. You don't let people wait for hours in the heat than just turn them away . I hope Dabo can get better people to organize this in the future. Someone screwed up bad on the organization of this event.
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Re: New Story: Fans brave heat, long lines for Hunter Renfrow and Dabo Swinney signatures
Aug 20, 2017, 6:38 PM
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I don't know who hurt you, but we get it. It sucks not getting the autograph or picture or not getting in the stadium. Life is unfair man. You didn't think there was going to be long lines for the National champions? Obviously you don't know tiger nation, we show up to support our tigers for EVERYTHING.
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Re: New Story: Fans brave heat, long lines for Hunter Renfrow and Dabo Swinney signatures
Aug 20, 2017, 8:39 PM
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It's poor planning. A clicker and an announcement is all it would take. But thanks for your arragent sounding response.
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Partner, no one had a problem with long lines, but when you
Aug 20, 2017, 9:00 PM
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get in a line at 2:30 when the gates open, then at 3:30, a Clemson official comes to you and says,"Ok, everyone in front of this point gets in,(Which was about 25 people behind me,and that was everyone,because they had shut off anyone else from getting in that line), and, then an hour and a half later, when you are 5 feet from the door, they say,"Ok folks, everyone outside the door is out, it's over", then, that is just poor respect for your fans. Someone could have figured out how many people were being signed every 30 minutes and calculated how many they could take care of. They could then have gone down the line counting them out and cut off the line at that point. The people would have understood and they could have gone to other lines or gone home. But, to just let Clemson fans drive from who knows where, stand in line for 2 and half hours and then say, "See ya", and folks, I am not exaggerating, that is about what they said, well that is just poor on Clemson's part.
I guess they only turned away about 75 people.....but every one of them had been in that line since 2:30. I will vouch for that.
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Re: Partner, no one had a problem with long lines, but when you
Aug 21, 2017, 5:14 PM
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Yup, I'll second it. I got in Dabo's line at 2:05 and was about 20 feet from the door when they told us we weren't going to make it. That was at about 4:45. with 30 min to an hour left, they should've just started pushing people through.. one signature per person, no pictures, etc.
I don't even know what it was like in there, but it seems to me that the line should've moved faster than it did. I love how personable Dabo is, and how he tries to make everyone feel equally important, but when you cut the line off early and don't let anyone else in, you should do your best to make sure that everyone who you didn't cut off, gets something for it. Standing in line for almost 3 hours in the hot sun for nothing sucks.
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Re: New Story: Fans brave heat, long lines for Hunter Renfrow and Dabo Swinney signatures
Aug 20, 2017, 6:52 PM
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Yes, we do whatever it takes to support our Tigers- sort of like the US post office. No matter the weather we deliver our support. Sometimes things don't always work to our personal favor, but trust me when I tell you he knows you and others were there to support him. All in the Lord's plan... you will have another opportunity one day and maybe that moment will be even better. Go Tigers!
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Re: New Story: Fans brave heat, long lines for Hunter Renfrow and Dabo Swinney signatures
Aug 20, 2017, 8:42 PM
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Man you lift spirits. Now that's a tiger response thanks
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Re: New Story: Fans brave heat, long lines for Hunter Renfrow and Dabo Swinney signatures
Aug 20, 2017, 8:06 PM
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Sorry to hurt any feelings, but long waits for nothing is totally wrong. Bad planning at least. On a brighter note, Doc Redman just won the US Amateur Championship. A Tiger is a Golf Champion. GO TIGERS.
By the way. Clemson, plan the big events better or notify the fans. They matter, remember.
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Should probably quit doing them.The bandwagon's too full.
Aug 20, 2017, 8:09 PM
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I hate to say it, but that's reality.
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Re: New Story: Fans brave heat, long lines for Hunter Renfrow and Dabo Swinney signatures
Aug 20, 2017, 8:49 PM
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Sell tickets to this at a modest price in the future. $4 per kid and $10 per adult. Or like youth day limit autographs just for the kids. We need more than an 80 man roster to match that crowd. If you drove more than an hour what a waste of time and energy.
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Re: New Story: Fans brave heat, long lines for Hunter Renfrow and Dabo Swinney signatures
Aug 20, 2017, 11:01 PM
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I just got back to Charleston about 45 minutes ago. My experience was not as bad as Spuds but just as frustrating. So, we are in the WR line for about an hour and a half and these guys had come around and started counting. They pretty much came up to me and the 4 people behind me and let us believe that would be it. So, we stand there and stand there and they do it again, same thing a few people behind me. Well, had I known whatever the hell these people were doing didn't mean crap, I would have found another line to get in. 5 o'clock comes around and they say ok, that's it, now closed. We are literally in front of the guys and we got a few of the TE signatures. Guys just got up and walked out. My 9 year old had a photo he had previously gotten with Deon he wanted him to sign. Unfortunately it didn't happen. Stop the lines or something at a point, but don't let the guys walk out right in front of us. Just kinda sucked. Oh well.
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