The demise of the Clemson football program has begun. (long)

Aug 28, 2018, 8:53 AM

This QB controversy is just the latest manifestation of a bigger problem. But it’s hard to ignore the obvious:
our coaches are just being lazy by naming Bryant the starter. Rather than put the hard work into evaluating
all the candidates, they took the easy route. “Oh, we need to name a starter? ####, let’s just plug in that
kid from last year, he did OK.” But anybody can plainly see the hippie dude is much better.

Paradoxically, the beginning of the end was on April 20, the international holiday of all hippie dudes. That’s
the day a fella bought a Clemson ink pen that wouldn’t write. As I noted at the time:

If "Best Is The Standard" then by gawd a Clemson ink pen should work. This is how complacency creeps
in and destroys elite football teams. It's like a cancer that starts small and eventually spreads throughout
the whole program. A pen doesn't work and nobody notices. Then people start slipping empty envelopes
into the New Spring offering plates. Next thing you know, the players are skipping voluntary workouts.
I guaran-damm-tee you the Bama pens work.

So, what has happened since that fateful day in April?

We got lazy on the recruiting front. Nothing but 3-stars. Not only that, but we started giving away 5-stars
to other teams. We gave Hunter Johnson to Purdue, and we made an early Christmas gift of Josh Belk… to
the freaking Lamecocks. (You know, maybe Brad Scott was a trojan horse. It took 20 years for the master plan
to come together under his son, but it's obvious that someone is undermining the program from within).

It gets worse. Now players don’t even have to transfer to another school to try to beat us. I read the
other day that a Clemson student is the starting QB for Furman. ###??? Talk about a program that is totally
out of control. I guess we shouldn’t be shocked if Big Dex suits up for FSU when we play them.

You turn on the TV this summer and Dabo is all over the place. He’s a celebrity now. I guess Oprah is
next, maybe a guest spot on The View. How about the team… surely they’re grinding it out in preparation
for another title run, right? Hardly. The only grinding I've seen are lap dances for MILFs. You know, in
between playing on their cute little swingsets and going down the slide…

You know what Bama was up to this summer? Saban did 2 weeks of training with the Navy Seals, and then
meditation in the Himalayan mountains to sharpen his mental focus. The Bama players are toting concrete
blocks up and down the stadium steps in the midday sun until they drop. If they complain about being
thirsty, they get a nice little water-boarding session, and then back to the steps.

Oh well, it was nice while it lasted. We just couldn’t handle success and got complacent.

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By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
-- Ecclesiastes 10:18

Nor ought we to believe that there is much difference between man and man, but to think that superiority
lies with him who is reared in the severest school. -- Thucydides

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TL,DR: We're hosed.

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The demise of the Clemson football program has begun. (long)

This is why we can't have nice things***

Re: The demise of the Clemson football program has begun. (long)

OMG the complacency has creeped into Tigernet now!!!***

I have no other option

Can Purdue replace Germans as old news?***

ONLY if they BOMB Pearl Harbor !!!!!!

who cares... he'll probably end up starting the 2nd half for Furman

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HOF.***

LOL

Re: The demise of the Clemson football program has begun. (long)

Toad Ellis...is that you ?!?!?! Bless your heart !!!!!***

Re: Toad Ellis...is that you ?!?!?! "Purdue?"

Re: The demise of the Clemson football program has begun. (long)

I especially like the part....

Re: The demise of the Clemson football program has begun. (long)

Well, Dabo does have a new castle with a drawbridge

Re: When a lunger lectures us about pen)s that don't work

Seriously? You couldn't be more wrong.

Re: Seriously? You couldn't be more wrong.

Pssst!!

I didn't know all that and wish you hadn't told me.

I know. It's sad. But we'll always have 2016.***

It needed to be said - Thank You!***

Re: The demise of the Clemson football program has begun. (long)

No, I'm serious. As serious as a midget in a John Holmes flick.

Wow

It was fun while it lasted.

Re: The demise of the Clemson football program has begun. (long)

This is a very accurate account of the situation

Thank you both for posting.

Hunter is really at Northwestern, but I understand your

The Jap Zeros used aftermarket parts from the German Stukas.

All those words, and no mention of Dippin' Dots?***

Well crap! Guess I’ll just quit enterwebbing on the tnets.

Re: The demise of the Clemson football program has begun. (long)

dude, you hosed the thread....***

Re: The demise of the Clemson football program has begun. (long)

sorry, I'm not hiring. day drinking is solo work.***

Who would td this? Bama fans? Epic post.. hilarious!!***

Only Heller, Orwell or maybe Danny Ford & his Hemp Machine

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