Challenge: Can you come up with a more winnable schedule than the one we have for '15? 2 rules...

> Prefer Open date a few weeks later.
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> If unable to move Open date, then:
> Week 3 Notre Dame
> Week 4 Open
> Week 5 Georgia Tech
> Week 6 Louisville (on a Saturday)
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> Maybe an easier game before FSU (swap FSU/Syracuse
> dates, swap Miami/BC dates)

Week 3 ND plays UMASS. Kind of mess everything up from there.

I'd like to see us play a bit of an easier slate be for FSU, too.

Swapping Miami BC games gives us ND/GT/MIAMI all in a row. Early in the year, This may not be the best recipe do success. It's really difficult, taking other teams' ooc games into account, to have us enough up with a better setup than this.

A whole summer to pick Petrino's brilliant offensive brain going back to his Razorback days and before. Great for us bc BV not hasn't faced off against him but one time. This will allow him to become almost too familiar with what'll be coming our way.

Almost 16 days off before ND after that Louisville game to again prepare for one of the offensively elite play-callers in the game, in Kelly.

During that time, we can also rest DW (the value of this time off can't even be measured, with him coming off an ACL injury), dedicate 2-3 days towards prepping for GT, and give our new impact players THAT much more time to ready themselves to compete at a National Championship caliber level come Oct. 3 (the start of maybe the toughest stretch of six games in football).

Again. Valuable time, those 16 days, plus the 2 weeks of Wofford and App St. If we can beat UofL with DW being pocket passer (which we can easily do, given his accuracy and QBR rating last year), that essentially buys him an extra month of rehabbing his knee before big-boy football gets going. Could you imagine these guys having to open with AU this year? Again, perfect setup.

16 extra days in the weight room can be night and day do something of these Fr O-linemen and D-linemen we'll be counting on.

Overall, I think it's the best possible scenario for us, given what ESPN and the ACC had to work around. Maybe the best regardless.

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Re: Here you go

Jan 29, 2015, 11:30 PM

> I think this would be the most winnable schedule.
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> Sept. 5 WOFFORD
> Sept. 12 APPALACHIAN STATE
> Sept. 19 at NC State
> Sept. 26 BOSTON COLLEGE
> Oct. 3 NOTRE DAME
> Oct. 10 GEORGIA TECH
> Oct. 17 at Miami
> Oct. 24 OPEN
> Oct. 29 at Louisville (Thurs.)
> Nov. 7 FLORIDA STATE
> Nov. 14 at Syracuse
> Nov. 21 WAKE FOREST
> Nov. 28 at South Carolina

This would be a solid schedule as well.

Only thing that would concern me is only having 6 days to prep for Brian Kelly's offense (one we've never seen before, unfamiliar with their play-calling tendencies out of which formations, on which down and distances, etc..). They'd also be playing the UMass minutemen before us - which equals 2 weeks of peparation for our offense - while we'd be playing two physical ACC teams in consecutive weeks leading up to them.

And keep in mind, the schedule that we have, is essentially ESPN's way of sayingg "We're pulling for Watson to become the beat QB in CFB, with all of the weapons surrounding him." Clemson will resemble last year's Oregon team. They were America's darling, and a huge ratings draw every week due to the heisman and playoff race - and the rest of the country not hating them - like BAMA, LSU, OSU, USC, UT, FSU, Miami (had it's own 30 for 30), UF, Ole Miss.

However, be even moreso a darling than Oregon (bc although they've never won a National Championship, they have a multi-billion dollar booster who owns nike and provides different jersey attire for the kids EVERY game, not to mention the nicest facilities in the country - and that pisses a lot of people off)

So essentially, we're the kid in the movie who gets picked on, told we're not good enough (clemsoning), that it just can't be done... but we live and do things the right way and doesn't deserve most of the harsh judgement/pain. So everyone in the audience pulls hard for said kid to just buck up and gain the courage to do everything within his power to change only that which is within control. The guy everyone cheers for to prove wrong those who carelessly throw around unfair and unfounded slanders and judgement - that's the one the whole country can agree that if it's not their own team in the playoff - we're pulling for that team to just dominate the other hated teams who've been given unfair preferential treatment do as long as they can remember

Ive' talked to numerous people outside of SC about Clemson and the all have respect for, and nothing but good things to say about the program that's been run under Dabo... many even pulling for us to slay that gaint that is FSU, ESPN SEC lovers, the doubters and any other mis-informed journalist with an agenda who try to pile it on us with the use of the ancient term Clemsoning.

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Yea, really tough to make it more winnable without moving OO

How's this for an easy schedule:

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Got it covered.

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