I'm a little restless today.

Jul 23, 2013, 5:21 AM

Phil, my youngest son got the letter he was waiting on from Columbia. After a week or two of anxiety those few seconds felt like an eternity so I asked 'What did they say?'

"They said I was a POS and should crawl back under my rock and die," he says. I chucked a little knowing that the Columbia thing was down and only the Penn University offer stood between him and his going to Clemson.

He told me he didn't get his application in on time and some other BS type stuff but the folks (if you can call yankees 'folks,' without getting cussed out) at Penn University invited him to come to campus and they'd provide him accommodations and show him around.

My heart dropped cause I didn't want to go through this 'I might not go to Clemson,' crap of his any longer. He said, "I made up my mind a while back that Clemson was my first choice."

I demanded (with my tone) to know when and why he didn't tell me then. He said "Dad, I was eight or nine at the time. I told you then, did you forget? It's been a dream all my life to grow up and go to Clemson. I guess I got a little distracted over the years but the dream overwhelmed me a few days ago. I told my boss to do the paperwork to transfer me to the Greenville division. That was after the Penn invitation and before the Columbia rejection."

NOTE TO ALL WHO GAVE ME PURE HADIES FOR FEIGNING OBJECTIVITY WHEN I DISCUSSED THESE EVENTS OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS ON THIS FORUM:

I'm the guy who influenced him when he was a small child to have that dream. I couldn't post my true feeling about it here becuase he is apt to read this forum and knows I post here often. This had to be his decision.

Had I pressed or influenced him and caused him to ignore Ivy offers he and I both would have always wondered 'what if.'

Misters Tommy and Brian, I know this is out of place on your website but let this one stay here please. It ain't taking up much room and it has a lot more to do with Clemson Football than some of the stuff here.

Coots and leghumpers, my son didn't apply to your schools. He wants a good education so he ignored your jr colleges and applied to Clemson and other Ivy-class institutions.

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He got this letter from Penn last week. The program they invited him to participate in is for those who had previously left school (he had a baseball scholarship to Tennessee Wesleyan, failed a drug test for coke and quit with a GPR of 0.0 for the five classes he'd signed up for) and has successfully returned to school and finished two years at a jr college. His got to keep those grades when he returned to school three years later.

It's difficult to imagine why the Ivy would have a program of this nature but he fit the profile. The scholarship Penn was offering would have cost him $13K per year. His firm has a branch in Pittsburgh and he could have worked there if he chose.

I'll be honest. He had my nerves frazzled while he made a slow and considerate adult type decision. I really think he thought this through and followed his heart but I never trusted the summabich for sometime he acted like his mother.

Of course I'm not dreaming of him getting his 6'-4" frame in shape and walking on the baseball team. What reasonable Clemson grad would possibly be considering that for his son?

I'm a little restless today.

Re: I'm a little restless today.

Soooo, you think he might go to Clemson?

Can I borrow your ladder if he doesn't...

I'm sure your son will be successful where ever he goes,

Re: I'm sure your son will be successful where ever he goes,

Sorry,

You may be restless, but you're sure not

Thanks bob,

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