An open Letter to David Hood (and all interested T'netters)

Mar 28, 2012, 1:07 AM

‘Deer’ David,

In 1977, I returned to Clemson for my second “stint” in the College of Architecture. That fall, the Clemson Tigers football team defeated the Georgia Bulldogs and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets on the road on back-to-back weekends. This was so exciting that I was motivated to keep those Sunday newspapers for their accounts of these games; that evolved into my first scrapbook. Eventually, as this hobby grew, I was not only saving articles during the season but also began clipping articles relative to the football team during the off-season.

Pictured below are 4 years of my football scrapbooks (1980, 1981, 1982 & 1984). When compiling my scrapbooks back then, I had little idea that they may be useful 30 years hence as a resource in the pursuit of equity. With that said, I will be pleased to make them available to you, if you desire, for researching the published chronicles of the NCAA and ACC penalties and probation on the Clemson University football program from 1982-84. This topic appears to be of great interest to many in the Clemson family as well as some others throughout the conference footprint. The scrapbooks contain daily newspaper reports from various newspapers (mostly The Greenville News and Greenville Piedmont, but also from The State and Charlotte Observer) and/or other sources (magazines, etc.), as well as Tiger memorabilia and personal mementos.

I have previously posted a few articles regarding this subject when it was topical to other posts. If you believe that this resource can be of some value to you, then please respond to this post or T-mail me. I will be pleased to assist in your efforts as well as those of this fan base in pursuit of an equitable justice, one which is applied with the same standard upon all institutions which are members in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Go, Tigers!