Another reason for the loss last night, Clemson fans…..

Nov 25, 2012, 10:50 AM

For a decade plus now, Clemson fans have accepted mediocrity. We have had an AD for 11 years that was nothing more than a fund raising puppet for President Barker. Under President Barker, Clemson athletics has went down big time. After TDP's retirement he hired an AD from GT, which has seen both their football and basketball programs go down under his tenure. The drive to be successful in football has been all talk and no action. President Barker led the drive to try to keep the ACC intact, after years of Clemson being a second class citizen under the direction of John Swofford.

All you lovers of the ACC this is what you get when you play about 9 cup cake games a year. The team can't handle adversity against a well coached or a solid team. In our two games against ranked opponents, the football team quit during the game (the 2nd half of the FSU game, and after the 1st qtr of SCU). As ridiculous as it is geographically, the Big 12 is the only option for us if we want to be a top 15 team. You can't handle adversity when you get to coast by on your talent about 9-10 games a year.

Attendance by Clemson fan's the last 3 games was pathetic. None worse than last night's game. We had a good season going, and all of a sudden a bunch of Clemson fan's decided to stop showing up. It was unbelievable how many shamecock fans were in the lower decks. There were some posters on here complaining about people wearing dark colored jackets at the 2010 SCU game, well guess what just like this year, all those fans wearing dark colored jackets were shamecock fans. This year I sat in the south lower deck, and where there was Clemson fans all season long, last night there were shamecock fans. Clemson fans should never, ever have to be surrounded by shamecock fans in the lower deck. We have to many traitorous fans that sold their tickets to shamecock fans just to make a few extra dollars. Back in the 80's, and heck even the 90's you would never see that many opposing fans in the lower decks. Growing up in the 80's as a kid, I never thought I would see the day where Clemson fans would accept mediocrity and sell their tickets to shamecock fans.

The coaching was bad, the players played bad, but also our fan base has become too apathetic. What's happened these past 4 years should never happen again.

One last thing, FIRE PRESIDENT BARKER!!!!!!!!!!!

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one of them, much smaller than me, challenged me to a fight. Of course using common sense, even though I could have easily took him, I stayed at my seat and ignored him.

I don't by the theory that corporations are buying tickets and selling them to anybody. There may be a few, but nowhere near enough to account for all the coot fans in the lower deck. Besides where the 6 shamecock fans sat, the Clemson fans that sat there during the season were the same people pretty much throughout the season. Companies do buy up tickets for professional teams, but that really doesn't happen at the college level anywhere close that it does in the pro's. Besides Clemson is in a small town, most pro teams are in big cities and are able to attract companies buying tickets.

Another reason for the loss last night, Clemson fans…..

Re: Another reason for the loss last night, Clemson fans…..

While I agree

I kind of disagree. TDP needed to hire best available guy,

Re: While I agree

Remember they kept Tommy Bowden on for 9 years…..

And many times they were louder than us

Re: Another reason for the loss last night, Clemson fans…..

Re: Another reason for the loss last night, Clemson fans…..

Had 6 shamecock fans taunting me the whole game...

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