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Commitement to mediocrity
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Commitement to mediocrity


Mar 16, 2016, 3:41 PM

With the football and baseball teams on the rise, basketball program seems left behind, stuck in the mud. Compare CU to VA's program after 5 yrs. with T. Bennett. They just keep getting better. Cu can do better than just playing .500 ball and no tourney invites.

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Mar 16, 2016, 3:44 PM

YOU DO REALIZE TONY BENNETT MOVED INTO A NICE NEW SHINY BUILDING.

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Mar 16, 2016, 3:46 PM

YOU DO REALIZE WE'RE ABOUT TO HAVE A SHINY NEW ARENA NEXT SEASON RIGHT?

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Mar 16, 2016, 10:39 PM [ in reply to Re: Commitement to mediocrity ]

Bennett showed up 3 years after they renovated it.

Auburn built a shiny new arena and it has had no impact for them. It isn't the building. It's the coach who makes the program a winner.

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Nobody is saying that the coach isn't important.


Mar 16, 2016, 11:03 PM

But you're kidding yourself if you don't think facilities matter a whole lot when it comes to recruiting. Look at how much our football recruiting improved when we upgraded and added facilities.

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"All those 'Fire Brownell' guys can kiss it." -Joseph Girard III

"Everybody needs to know that Coach Brownell is arguably the best coach to come through Clemson." -PJ Hall


... Not to mention their football program.***


Mar 16, 2016, 3:47 PM



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"I've played multiple sports and would bet any amount that I'm still more athletic than you at this present time...."


Apparently DRad is ....


Mar 16, 2016, 3:50 PM

one of those buffoons who believes you either can't or shouldn't be good at football, baseball and basketball.

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Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.


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Mar 16, 2016, 4:15 PM

D Rad is not "All In" when it comes to basketball.

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Makes me long for "Dollar Bill" McLellan.


Mar 16, 2016, 5:31 PM [ in reply to Apparently DRad is .... ]

Yeah, we crossed the line a few times on his watch, but he knew that winning was important and he knew how to make it happen. He made the hires and we got the players . . . and we won. In 1978, our basketball team went to the Elite 8 in the NCAA tourney, our baseball team went to the college world series, and our football team went to the Peach Bowl (in the days when there were only 15 bowl games) and finished ranked #6 in the country. Clemson finished in the top 5 all-sports rankings 5 times under Dollar Bill, and won 34 ACC championships in 9 sports.

I know the times are different now, but there's nothing inherent about Clemson that keeps us from attracting top athletes in all sports.

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Mar 16, 2016, 5:43 PM

play in the Peach in 78, that was the year we beat OSU in the Gator...We lost the peach to Baylor in 79...You are definitely right about Dollar Bill, he wanted to win, and win we did...we also got investigated and penalised more than once

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Mar 16, 2016, 8:15 PM

excuses for the things that we got dinged for back in those days, they were wrong. It was a different time though, and all successful programs had similar ways of getting good athletes and getting around the obstacles that otherwise would have kept them out of school. Was Clemson wrong? Absolutely. Were lots of other schools just as guilty but went unpunished or underpunished? Absolutely again. Violations and investigations aside, McLellan understood the importance of winning and the cost of losing.

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Re: Commitement to mediocrity


Mar 16, 2016, 4:15 PM

Va. don't do very well in Football in fact they are poor performers,I wouldn't trade their BB team for our football program. They have always seemed more interested in a good BB program and not football.I don't think we are will ever be a great BB program and it has nothing to do with who the coach is.

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Don't forget LaX.. ...


Mar 16, 2016, 7:05 PM

Nm.....

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Re: Commitement to mediocrity


Mar 16, 2016, 4:49 PM

Comparing Clemson to a basketball-first school with the best facility in America is not reasonable.

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Re: Commitement to mediocrity


Mar 16, 2016, 4:58 PM

Nice first post...


/s

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and it took a year and a half to come up with that?***


Mar 16, 2016, 5:06 PM



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Headline of the OP hooked me .


Mar 16, 2016, 8:18 PM

My bad , I thought this was gonna be an expose` into the historical insignificance of Gamecoot football .

I'll show myself out.

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DB23


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