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I don’t believe the sky is falling.
May 13, 2022, 10:00 AM
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It is VERY difficult to get a D1 scholarship to play football. I’ve seen countless players that had the physical abilities and athleticism to go as far as they wanted not ever play one snap on a college field.
Every college team has good athletes. The difference is coaching, development, schemes, team unity, etc.
Sure, depth of the Jimmies and Joes makes a huge difference, but mostly in a close game. Blowouts happen because one coach prepared his team better than the other. When we beat Bama 44-16, it wasn’t because we had more talent/size/depth than them, it was because we totally shocked Nick Saban like nobody ever had.
Dabo will win at a high level, no matter what happens over the next few years. We may miss some playoffs, we may go undefeated again; but I KNOW that we have an excellent staff. Dabo has shown stubbornness in the past, and he is loyal to a fault sometimes. I believe he makes choices that are best for the current season, whenever he can without compromising future seasons. Example: He is loyal to DJ right now, but I believe he won’t risk a post season on letting him avg the worst QBR in the nation. He will make the right choice and we will be fine.
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Being an optimist is a great thing. But, winning at a high
May 13, 2022, 10:11 AM
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level, and winning at THE HighEST Level are two completely different things. All you have to do is look at the rosters of LSU in 2019, and 0310 State in 2020 to see that transfers played a HUGE role in those teams success over us. Namely transfers at THE most critical position, quarterback.
Now, with NIL, some schools are literally buying their QBs right out of high school, or tampering behind the scenes to get their man to transfer to the school of their allegiance.
It IS going to get worse before it gets better. And, without some kind of new, stiff rules changes concerning NIL and transfers, it is just going to get worse, period.
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Re: I don’t believe the sky is falling.
May 13, 2022, 10:30 AM
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2018: 15-0
*transfer portal*
2019: 14-1 (Burrow)
2020: 12-2 (Fields)
*NIL + portal*
2021: 10-3
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Re: I don’t believe the sky is falling.
May 13, 2022, 10:42 AM
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that does show an increasing decline but hardly supports the “sky is falling” argument. If we saw Clemson fall out of the top 25 in recruiting….something like that would indicate a more tumultuous decline.
Ether way those stats don’t lie. This year and next will be huge recruiting years and with some ACC teams getting better, we will see if Clemson can stay in the top 10 or not.
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Re: I don’t believe the sky is falling.
May 13, 2022, 10:45 AM
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It's not all about recruiting though. FSU and South Carolina were still recruiting well when they collapsed to irrelevancy. Obviously we have Dabo while they had Jimbo and an old Spurrier. But still, we want to remain an elite program. It doesn't appear like we will.
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depends on your definition of "sky is falling".....
May 13, 2022, 11:42 AM
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I personally think that Clemson has a "Floor" which is higher than MOST of the ACC even if you include NIL & Portal. The problem with the floor is it's probably 7-5/8-4, which to ME is "sky is falling" type of stuff considering where we built up to.
so if you look at it objectively we had a GREAT build up from 2011-2014 from a HIGH LEVEL RECRUITING standpoint, that primed us for the RUN we made from 2015-2018. Since then the downward trend started.
2019 LSU blowout in title game
2020 Ohio State blowout in semi game
2021 underwhelming 10-3
I believe our 2022 team has a chance to at least sustain or be slightly better than what we saw last year because of our defense..........MAYBE, so it may be a "status quo" from last year 9-3 to 11-1 depending on how a LOT of question marks on our team come together, but considering 2023 will be year 3ish of the NIL+portal era it'll be tough for Clemson to remain the 2015-2018 level program that we came to love and enjoy................UNLESS something big/unforeseen happens that shifts the portal/NIL landscape to our favor.
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