Well, a bigger elephant-in-the-room is the fact that collegiate sports are not "amateur" anyway. Dabo Swinney probably makes more money than his entire team, their families, the coaching staff, and Pickens County, SC combined. I'm exaggerating, but not by much!
3 things come to mind
Maybe the winner part, but I don't get the other two. Plenty of Christians don't like him and nobody cares about clemson, other than football, outside of SC.
You mad he speaking the truth? It was pretty laughable that they even made the playoffs. Six games isn't enough. Doesn't matter how good you are. But they bring in money, so everything is ok.
Yeah... Longo is to blame for missing two TD opportunities and opting for FGs. Field goals in that game were never going to be enough.
Is Longo the one that decides when to go for it though? I thought that decision was Mack's to make.
I think the RBs were the only big difference.
while that may be true about our defense in that context, the reason we made the Orange Bowl and competed well in it while seriously knee-capped personnel-wise, is because of the defense. Don't laugh. Compare the defense now not just to two years ago but to earlier in the year, and then understand that the reason we amassed 540 someting rushing yards against Miami is because the defense gave them the opportunity.....an opportunity that it wasn't providing earlier on in the season.
I freaking loved those uni's and I hope they (or some variation) become the standard. Not a drop of argyle anywhwere
I think Sam has good confidence but I don't think he has the giant ego of a real killer. He probably feels the weight of responsibility a little too much. Hopefully he'll get over that.
he isn't the one who decided to go for it, a call I completely agreed with. But I am sure he was who decided, on a night when our RB's were being fairly well contained, to send a back straight into the teeth of a defense that was just waiting for him.
Those unis were decent in the 90's and ok as a one off during the season. But we have a top five uniform right now with the most creative tie in between all sports. It's something that we should never get rid of. Just the fact that they upset moo fans is reason enough to keep them. Also, you have to be wrong, because @gteeitup hates the unis as well. No way you guys can agree on something.
I think of the WF game and shudder, but after watching Notre, Miami & A&M, i'm back to officially really liking Bateman.
Opponent yards per play is 78. Yikes, feels like we were better than that though.
www.teamrankings.com
Opponent yards per play is 78. Yikes, feels like we were better than that though.
81st opponent-points-per-play
48 in opponent 3rd down conversion.
College Football Stats - College FB Team Opponent Yards per Play | TeamRankings.com
College Football opponent yards per play, by team.
edit @heelmanwilm where you see those stats? teamrankings also has us in the 70's in total pts and total yards.
www.ncaa.com
Generally I feel jimmys/joes > x&o's, but I especially feel this is true on the defensive side. So i'm happy if we can keep Bateman. Longo could be better, he could also be Gary Tranquil, Shoop, etc
yet we very likely would have won that game with that defense if we had the opted-out players, and A&M is basically a playoff team. A&M only won the game in the last three minutes or so. How is that not competing with a playoff caliber team?
And so it begins. Mack knows what he's doing.
