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A Texan's take
Nov 21, 2021, 12:25 PM
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For years I've read this board without jumping in. Figured it's time.
I'm the product of a Texas school so cannot claim Clemson insider's status.
Married a Carolina girl (which proves I have good taste/judgement) whose late granddaddy was Clemson '39 and whose large family are mostly Tigers. CU didn't offer her program so she went elsewhere (not UofSC, for the record) to get edumacated.
In other words, she was born a Tiger if not necessarily diploma'd that way. As for me, if I may speak in biblical terms without crossing lines, I'm a Gentile who, though I did nothing to earn it, relishes his status as a member of the Clemson family.
So I hope you'll welcome me while at the same time being merciful of my fanboy take which is:
Clemson athletics is a special thing. Clemson, overall, is a special place. Clemson fans, for the most part, are dialed right in and tend to know their stuff. They're also friendly. The only friendlier fans I've come across are Aggies.
Never understood the UofSC situation and I've tried. The cock-a-doodle-doo thing, for a Texan raised with Longhorns and Aggies and Sooners and Bears and so on, is hard to get behind.
Never been to a game down there but it seems it'd be an unpleasant (if not physically unsafe) experience.
Also, Williams-Brice looks less like a football stadium and more like a staging area for the Natty Guard.
So, yeah ... UofSC just can't really draw folks like me in.
To the football thing: Clemson fans have a reason to be a little disgruntled this year but as a long-suffering fan of a middling BXII program, count your blessings, too. It's been — and I think will continue to be — a pretty good thing to be a Tiger fan. Exhibit A: Clemson proved yesterday they're still the class of the ACC even with all the poor play and injuries. What a demoralizing loss for the Deacs.
DJ, with hard work, may never be a reason they win a lot of games; however, he can be a reason they don't lose some of them.
He is stressful to watch and as a Texan, a phrase comes to mind: "All hat, no cattle." Time will tell if that's the case with Mr. Number 5. Otherwise, I do not know enough about football to pick apart coaching/scheming. So that's where my analysis ends.
Happy Thanksgiving. Sic 'Em Bears. Go Tigers. Beat the Cacks. Future posts will not be this long-winded.
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To A Texan...
Nov 21, 2021, 12:35 PM
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Welcome & what an astute take on many fronts..from Clemson, Coots, Aggies, Big 12 (Bears), WF, DJ, etc..
and loved your new to me Western phase: “All Hat, No Cattle”!
YES, Happy Thanksgiving is in order..even for those we speak of in good fun!
GoTiGERs!
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Re: To A Texan...
Nov 21, 2021, 12:37 PM
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Gracias and you're welcome! Looking forward to having a little fun in here from time to time.
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 21, 2021, 12:47 PM
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Unfortunately, you might trigger some folks on here by referring in any way to DJ’s attire, and in particular The Hat.
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 21, 2021, 2:01 PM
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Eh. I get it. But then again, I don't think the triggered crowd will subscribe to most of my takes.
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 21, 2021, 1:13 PM
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Welcome. Thanks for the kind words. Just to satisfy my curiosity, what does the year 1835 reference?
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 21, 2021, 1:25 PM
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Couldn't make the whole cannon fit ... so just went with the 1835 part.
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 21, 2021, 1:44 PM
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Thanks for the education. Good article and welcome
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 21, 2021, 3:06 PM
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Thank you!
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 21, 2021, 1:51 PM
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Thanks for the history lesson. The “come and get it” flag reminds me of our Colonel Gadsden’s flag.
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 21, 2021, 2:04 PM
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Thanks. I guess I shouldn't say the flag has been appropriated by some of the fringe. I don't know that for a fact. I do know in these times, it'd be a candidate for such a use.
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 21, 2021, 1:14 PM
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Welcome, sir! Enjoyed your take from afar. You and your wife need to plan to come to a game next year,
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 21, 2021, 1:24 PM
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Thank you very much! We live in the Upstate and usually get to a passel of games each season. Were there yesterday and as always did not regret the decision.
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 21, 2021, 1:25 PM
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Class post. Welcome here any time. Re: DJ, I’ve used too much sizzle, not enough steak but will prob borrow your “all hat, no cattle” line going forward. Like that one. Hope you and your family have a great Thanksgiving as well.
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 21, 2021, 1:27 PM
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Love the "sizzle/steak" thing. And thanks for the kind note.
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 21, 2021, 1:34 PM
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Welcome to the board and your first post looks to be right on the money. Hope you are enjoying living in the upstate. For most of us we consider it God’s country but Texas ain’t bad either.
GO TIGERS!!
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 21, 2021, 2:03 PM
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Thank you - it is a great place to live and raise a family.
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 21, 2021, 2:06 PM
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Howdy neighbor! Nice to have you join us. I lived in Waco for a while and got my turf degree from T.S.T.C., then did my internship at Barton Creek C.C. in Austin. Have many good memories from those days and while I've always been a Clemson Tiger, I pulled for the Bears when I was out there. Grant Teaff was the HC and he was a good one.
Interesting story of the cannon...thanks for sharing. I hope you'll have many more fond memories here too! Clemson is like nowhere else and you know it's much more than the place and the people; it's a good spirit, goodwill, the love of Jesus, appreciation of life & God's blessings, and being a part of something bigger.
Welcome to the Clemson fambly....pardner! 
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 21, 2021, 2:29 PM
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Thank you! Texas in some good (and very obviously bad) ways was shaped by the men and women of South Carolina. A good number of the men who fought/died in the Texas Revolution were South Carolinians. A couple of them - Bonham and Travis - were from down around Saluda County.
One entire branch of my wife's family is Texan. Meanwhile, I've got great-great-greats who lived/died in the mountain regions of Western NC.
So we make a good pair. One thing we've learned in our time together: never judge a book by its cover; folks tend to treat you the way you treat them, no matter where they're from.
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 21, 2021, 2:20 PM
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What part of Texas are you from ?
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 21, 2021, 3:02 PM
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All over, really. My folks are deep East Texans for whom the oil business was a way to build a little wealth. Their folks lost it all in the Depression. As a result, family was a religion and 42 (dominoes) a sacrament. Football, of course, was usually on in the background.
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"ALL OF ME," would have been a more proper Tnet response.***
Nov 22, 2021, 9:15 AM
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Re: A Texan's take
Jan 24, 2022, 8:47 PM
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I'm in Princeton Texas DFW area Native South Carolinian. Parents went to Heaven 2020 so with my daughter now. Clemson used to have big Clemson Club in about in mid 70s and mid 80s. I hope that still have one. Nice to have any Texan Clemson fan.
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 24, 2021, 10:11 AM
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Thanks! Princeton's over there northeast of Dallas. I know of it but never been through there.
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 21, 2021, 3:15 PM
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You know how to make a statement for a new man in town! And you've made some great friends including LBB and Clemgal in a hurry like a fairly dangerous man.
I'm a 1984 alum and transplant from southeast VA who fell in love with Clemson upon arrival to campus in 1979. I'm married to an agnostic Dawg, and we live in Savannah, GA - not a bad place to be. Big fan of NC from the mountains to the Outer Banks.
That said, my Clemson and VA friends can agree if we left the Southeast that Texas would be the preferred landing spot on our list. I can only hope the best parts of Texas are not lost for good in the upcoming years and decades. I know from experience, Austin was a blast in the 90's and early 00's.
Anyway, welcome and all the best ...
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 24, 2021, 10:12 AM
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Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving.
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 22, 2021, 7:36 AM
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Welcome. Your only mistake was when you said you didn't know enough about football to pick apart coaching/scheme. Everyone knows that Tnet is populated with Vince Lombardis and Bill Walshes; if our coaching staff knew half as much about football as Tnet we woulda won every game this season by 35.
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 24, 2021, 10:25 AM
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LOL - I guess it's the divine right of fans to vent spleen every now and again. Having played a little bit of football (and that not very well), all I know is never let the receiver get behind you (lest you get burned), never lead with the top of your helmet (lest you break your neck), watch the runner's belt not his legs (lest you get juked) and finally, speed kills.
The rest is well beyond my ability to pick apart.
I think Venables is Omar Bradley to Dabo's Eisenhower. Elliott is ... neither here nor there. But it's the lot of Offensive Coordinators to get skewered when things go south.
And Skalski looks like Erroll from ###### ... which is streaming on Prime, btw.
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 24, 2021, 10:28 AM
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Sn*tch
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 22, 2021, 8:07 AM
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As another outsider, I'll give you my perspective.
Expect to get the usual posts about you being a coot or a master troller. But, after a few weeks this board will accept you graciously. Great bunch of guys. I'm an FSU fan. But, now I am posting more on this board than on my Nole board. The discussions here are great. You will enjoy if you hang around. Welcome.
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I don't blame you.
Nov 22, 2021, 9:22 AM
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When we lose a game I take time off this board to avoid the pain of reading unwarranted emotion driven criticisms of our program and those charged with keeping it.
BTW, DJ is the first player to frustrate me since Mike Bellamy.
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Re: I don't blame you.
Nov 22, 2021, 10:42 AM
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Mike Bellamy, yuk!!!
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Re: I don't blame you.
Nov 22, 2021, 11:15 PM
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mixed up kinda kid.actually feel sorry for him.lots of talent wasted.hopefully he's ok.
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Re: I don't blame you.
Nov 24, 2021, 10:42 AM
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I don't think I'm as emotionally invested as many on this board. But I do get frustrated when a scholarship player describes himself as an "entrepreneur" on his IG account https://www.instagram.com/shaboidj/ ... while turning in one of the worst P5 QB performances in the nation.
Do the one thing well and then get your brand up. Not the other way around.
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You a Baylor guy? I was living in Texas when Chuck Reedy
Nov 22, 2021, 10:47 AM
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followed Grant Teaff as HC. Impossible job, but Chuck was a Clemson favorite for a long time.
Also, froze my young butt off in 1979 watching BU beat our Tigers in Atlanta Fulton County Stadium.
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Re: You a Baylor guy? I was living in Texas when Chuck Reedy
Nov 22, 2021, 6:51 PM
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Samuel Maverick was from Pendleton and another South Carolinian who was involved in the Texas Revolution. He was not a defender at the Alamo and was not as famous for the revolution. After the independence, he refused to brand his cattle as other ranchers did, and his name became famous as one who didn't conform to the norm.
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Re: You a Baylor guy? I was living in Texas when Chuck Reedy
Nov 24, 2021, 10:45 AM
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I am a UT and Baylor guy. Interesting aside on Maverick!
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 23, 2021, 7:32 AM
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Broad but accurate assessment of DJ, unfortunately-
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 24, 2021, 10:47 AM
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Thanks - broad is about all I can bring to the table without getting wonky on stats.
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 24, 2021, 10:44 AM
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Welcome! Glad to have you here!
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Re: A Texan's take
Nov 24, 2021, 10:48 AM
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Thanks - good to be here!
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