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Fighting at practice/The Great Bear Crawl
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Aug 10, 2023, 8:29 PM
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I guess everyone has seen my tweet (or X?) by now about fighting during the W drill at practice today. I've heard that practices have been very competitive and everybody has been going at it. That's all good to hear because I think the best teams have that fighting spirit to them. And that made me think about the 2018 team, which we know won a title. I have heard the story before, but called a former player tonight to make sure I have the facts straight.
Practices were chippy that year, and the DL and OL had been going at it for a few weeks. Remember, that OL had guys like Matt Bockhorst and Gage Cervenka and Sean Pollard and John Simpson. The DL had Dexter Lawrence and Christian Wilkins and Clelin Ferrell, and we all know they loved to get chippy.
Well, one day it all boiled over. Something happened fairly early in practice and Big Dex and Bockhorst, egged on by Wilkins, went at it. Epic fight. But they got them separated, and Dabo told them that if they had so much energy they had to fight, he would work it out of them.
So he made the entire team do bear crawls. Bear crawls, for 100 yards, are brutal. You are on your fingertips and your toes, and you go the length of the field that way. Did they do it once or twice? Nope. One OL told they did it for eight or nine periods, and players had trouble walking the next day. But they stopped fighting and started hating Dabo and that turned into a championship club. A lot of people have told me that was the day that team really became a TEAM and was the turning point of the season.
Anyway, I remembered that today, and thought I would share it. I will share it again in the morning.
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Re: Fighting at practice/The Great Bear Crawl
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Aug 10, 2023, 8:30 PM
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Thanks David!
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Re: Fighting at practice/The Great Bear Crawl
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Aug 10, 2023, 8:35 PM
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cool story...
when we getting out of the acc?
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Re: Fighting at practice/The Great Bear Crawl
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Aug 10, 2023, 8:40 PM
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cool story...
when we getting out of the acc?
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Re: Fighting at practice/The Great Bear Crawl
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Aug 10, 2023, 8:37 PM
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OK…..soooooooooo……I’m in favor of the team doing 20 X 100yds Bear Crawls, every day for the next week. That’s how much I like winning.
All in favor?
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Re: Fighting at practice/The Great Bear Crawl
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Aug 10, 2023, 10:08 PM
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According to Coach Frank Howard, players fighting at practice was a good sign. I remember when he was coaching, and the team had a big game that Saturday. A reporter asked Coach Howard if he thought his players would be ready. He answered that he knew they were ready because they already had two player fights in practice that week. He went on to say that players were ready to play when they were fighting each other at practice.
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Re: Fighting at practice/The Great Bear Crawl
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Aug 10, 2023, 9:52 PM
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Great story David. Hope we see a little of that this year.
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2023 Clemson Football
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Aug 10, 2023, 10:03 PM
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Program Changers
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Re: 2023 Clemson Football
Aug 11, 2023, 2:33 PM
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I don't know if we need it to change, but we do need it to get back to what it was a couple years ago!!!
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Re: Fighting at practice/The Great Bear Crawl
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Aug 10, 2023, 10:05 PM
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Great story!!!
Go Tigers!!!
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That's a shithot story.
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Aug 10, 2023, 10:08 PM
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Thank you.
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Re: That's a shithot story.
Aug 11, 2023, 2:41 PM
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I would very much appreciate if you only used that joined word to describe only one person place or thing, that one thing is for Shitface Swofford!!! 
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BRING ON THE BEAR CRAWL, COACH!!!!!!***
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Aug 11, 2023, 12:39 AM
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Re: BRING ON THE BEAR CRAWL, COACH!!!!!!***
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Aug 11, 2023, 5:55 AM
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I hope your right Mr. Hood. Thanks for the information.
GO TIGERS!!!!!!
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Re: Fighting at practice/The Great Bear Crawl
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Aug 11, 2023, 7:25 AM
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Great story but hard to grasp the concept that that team hated Dabo???
Dabo always had a theme “word” for the team each year. I was thinking that team’s word was “love”. Maybe that was the day he came up with it??
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Lol, that sounds like a direct throwback to Bear Bryant days
Aug 11, 2023, 7:42 AM
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at Bama. Being as Dabo learned under a Bear disciple, Gene Stallings, the lineage is clear.
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Re: Lol, that sounds like a direct throwback to Bear Bryant days
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Aug 11, 2023, 10:03 AM
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Any team that can do that nine times has no chance of ever losing!
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Re: Lol, that sounds like a direct throwback to Bear Bryant days
Aug 11, 2023, 2:44 PM
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Playing either!!!
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Re: Fighting at practice/The Great Bear Crawl
Aug 11, 2023, 11:32 AM
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I do NOT miss bear crawls.
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Shirley CW would have never egged anyone on. ;)***
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Aug 11, 2023, 11:34 AM
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Re: Shirley CW would have never egged anyone on. ;)***
Aug 11, 2023, 1:42 PM
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Yep, that didn't need to be vetted!!
[+] Maybe nowadays, if players get in a fight, Dabo threatens to send them into a dogpile with CW42.
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Re: Fighting at practice/The Great Bear Crawl
Aug 11, 2023, 2:29 PM
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Any time you have two or more men, women, boys or girls competing against each other, there is a high risk of a fight breaking out, it's human nature IMO!!!
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Separating Big Dex and Bockhorst...
Aug 11, 2023, 2:50 PM
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that's one third of a ton of people.
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Wilkins was involved? Somebody got their oil level checked!
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Aug 11, 2023, 2:55 PM
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Re: Wilkins was involved? Somebody got their oil level checked!
Aug 11, 2023, 10:24 PM
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You know he was a clown and laughing the whole time knowing he messed with that guys head & all…lol
Christian Wilkins still plays with joy in the NFL talking mess and having fun the whole time!
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