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Dylan Sumner-Gardner - Safety
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Height: 6-1   Weight: 190   Hometown: Mesquite, TX (West Mesquite HS)   Class: 2014
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Sumner-Gardner wanted to visit other schools when he got new offers such as Texas A&M, Baylor, Texas, etc. , and he thought the respectable thing to do was to decommit because of Dabo Swinney's policy on visiting other schools when you are committed.

On Wednesday, Clemson OC Chad Morris visited him at his high school in Texas and on Thursday Sumner-Gardner got an offer from Nebraska. He also had recently attended a junior day at Texas A&M.

Sumner-Gardner has a chance to be rated one of the top safeties in the class of 2014. He began to waiver on his commitment to Clemson when his recruiter Charlie Harbison left Clemson for Auburn.

This past summer, Sumner-Gardner rode 24 hours on a bus to make it to Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney’s camp and he left committed to what he then called "his dream school".

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TonyCrumpton®
spacer Dang!! Isn't this the kid who rode a bus by himself
acevans
spacer 23/24 hour bus ride if I remember correct***
Yzracer48
spacer I'll find it real hard to miss him... all I have heard is
clover65®
spacer Re: I'll find it real hard to miss him... all I have heard is
74TIGER
spacer We still have a year to reel him back in.***
tiger0927
spacer I understand let him go if it's
Tiger6060
spacer "The Chad" loses his one & only commit in Clemson history
coachmac
spacer Re: "The Chad" loses his one & only commit in Clemson history
deroberts
spacer Richard Trickle served with a plate of crabs for you
coachmac
spacer that is you mac***
cupton
spacer Could care less about him recruiting. Just keep having
Tiger5
spacer Maybe if we joined the Big 12?
CUAllTheWay
spacer HA
Yzracer48
spacer Yeah I mean coordinators are the best recruiters everywhere***
Orange T-Square
spacer So--all those head coach interviews w/other schools
tigrjm76®
spacer Yep. He probably won't ever get another recruit as long
FootballFan36
spacer 2 words: Billy Napier
Cedceb
spacer he NEVER should have been put in that position
Graphic Tiger®
spacer ever heard of Chad Kelly?***
CU_Kobe_24
spacer Don't need it...***
cupton
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armsb
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Coothater®
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Dugatiger®
spacer He's young
ancientorange
spacer Re: He's young
Dugatiger®
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TheRock14
spacer so, if he loves our staff and it was difficult for him...
camcgee®
spacer "I'm 100% committed to Clemson"
Cedceb
spacer So, Chad visits and now this.
CUAllTheWay
spacer Dabo encouraged him to decommitt to take other visits...it
cupton
spacer This explains it better
TigerzzRoar®
spacer I respect that
CU_Kobe_24
spacer I agree, it's much better than
TigerzzRoar®
spacer ^^This^^***
CUgrad2011
spacer It's OK Dylan....plenty of time to look & come back to DV#1.
lightbulbbill®
spacer Re: Dang!! Isn't this the kid who rode a bus by himself***
jrconnolly
spacer too far
jrconnolly
spacer I think the coaches advised him to decommit for now...
hufferbilly
spacer This was the right call. There is no reason to trash DSG.
ATigersL
spacer Re: This was the right call. There is no reason to trash DSG.
HungryTiger
spacer Some of you are ridiculous
Xrugger
spacer The problem is that we have heard that Dabo tries to
Tiger5
spacer Give the kid a break...
ClemfanWV
spacer Total respect for DSG. I hope we see him in Tiger Orange.
movino®
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thetigerdaddy®