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DRad is the most overrated AD in college athletics.
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DRad is the most overrated AD in college athletics.


Apr 14, 2021, 10:37 AM

Change my mind.

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Apr 14, 2021, 10:41 AM

Before I can change your mind, could you possibly tell me where Ray Tanner is rated?

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Apr 14, 2021, 12:29 PM

Plus, I would think we would need to know DRad’s rating in order to judge whether he’s overrated or not.

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Apr 14, 2021, 12:31 PM

Excellent point!

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Did Tanner drop cross country?***


Apr 14, 2021, 1:12 PM [ in reply to Re: DRad is the most overrated AD in college athletics. ]



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There's something in these hills.


Re: Did Tanner drop cross country?***


Apr 14, 2021, 1:17 PM

Dis the coot even have CC? I know they had a mens trad team but the Correctional Faciluity did not have enough open space for long-distance running.

Tanner, did drop every other sport save Wimmez basketball and he is planning their demise too.

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Apr 14, 2021, 10:54 AM

I would say DRad is good for a school like Clemson where fundraising ability is essential to try and keep up with the bamas and Ohio states of the world . There’s only a few of us big money donors.

As far as hiring and firing of coaches, as long as Dabo is carrying the Athletic Department, he won’t get held accountable

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Re: DRad is the most overrated AD in college athletics.


Apr 14, 2021, 12:39 PM



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Some of our fans have a poverty mentality.


Apr 14, 2021, 1:18 PM [ in reply to Re: DRad is the most overrated AD in college athletics. ]

The whole “we’re just little ‘ol Clemson, we are simple folk who don’t have money” persona is neither beneficial nor true.

Our fan base has plenty of money. We have the best facilities in the nation for a reason.

I get it, we aren’t a huge school in terms of enrollment and we don’t have a law school, medical school, or dental school. But many alums and fans have been very successful and are willing and able to donate large sums of money.

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Re: Some of our fans have a poverty mentality.


Apr 14, 2021, 1:42 PM

No we have a hustle mentality. Work harder because it isn't going to be given. Sweat equity.

We are still little 'ol Clemson. Granted we are not "small"but compared to the alumni bases of Ped State, Ohio State or UCLA. Even others like FSU, UNC, UVA that do have more resources to waste. We can't waste resources and compete. In comparison, the coots can only squander.

However, resources do help but resources without hustle and hard work is just wasted. We have had a very dedicated fanbase that knows what it takes.

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I don’t view monetary resources and hustle as mutually exclusive.


Apr 14, 2021, 1:44 PM

In fact, they most often go hand-in-hand.

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Re: DRad is the most overrated AD in college athletics.


Apr 14, 2021, 10:57 AM

It's impossible to disprove a negative.

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Apr 14, 2021, 11:05 AM

Sometimes the best decisions is the decision to not break something that is working. TDP did great, ain't broke, no need to fix. Keep the train rolling

Plus his choices in Butler and Rattman have been great thus far. Lee has been inconsistent choice -looked good initially, sumped, looked good again, fallen off a cliff.

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Quick name 10 other ADs and their best and worst points.***


Apr 14, 2021, 11:08 AM



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Re: Quick name 10 other ADs and their best and worst points.***


Apr 14, 2021, 11:13 AM

Carla Williams

Pro-was the AD that took a no-name program to a natty in basketball.

Con- Can't win at football, completely ineffective vs powers and can only beat the coots. Soccer has completely fizzled, no longer competitive in conference. Baseball has went from power to the bottom of the table, and she went to Jawja


know the skool?

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Re: DRad is EXCELLENT!


Apr 14, 2021, 11:24 AM

National title contenders annually in football, soccer, golf, cheerleading and soon to be softball. Basketball and baseball are postseason teams. Can we upgrade from Brownell? Maybe. From Lee? Definitely, but overall our athletic programs are very good and he has made some wonderful hires with Butler and Rittman. He has also been a phenomenal fund raiser and is a huge reason we have the facilities to be top notch in recruiting. I think he is an amazing AD.

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Ríttman and Butler definitely his best hires


Apr 14, 2021, 11:45 AM

He inherited our other successful coaches, Penley, Noonan, Radwanski and Dabo.

Jury still out on Lee, both tennis hires and Franklin with volleyball.

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I wouldn't call Butler a best hire.


Apr 14, 2021, 12:42 PM

Two losing seasons after a very good first year.

Half the team entered the transfer portal.

She has to recruit a lot better.

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Re: I wouldn't call Butler a best hire.


Apr 14, 2021, 1:02 PM

85grad said:

Two losing seasons after a very good first year.

Half the team entered the transfer portal.

She has to recruit a lot better.


Likely you would not but any reasonable person who follows Women's basketball would disagree with your assessment

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Re: DRad is the most overrated AD in college athletics.


Apr 14, 2021, 11:52 AM

Football is annually top four
M Basketball has made the dance 2 of the last 3 years and is recently better than historical average
W Basketball had a rough year but is on the upswing as compared to the last 20 years
Track is top 15
Softball is top 20
Golf is top 10
M & M Soccer are both top 10
Baseball is lower than historical average but are not terrible

No idea about volleyball, rowing, w golf or M/W Tennis and don't really care.

What data do you have to say Drad is overrated?

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2 of last 4 for men’s basketball


Apr 14, 2021, 12:46 PM

We weren’t going to make it last year.

And I think you are underselling the baseball fall. A lot of Clemson fans used to say baseball was our second biggest sport and it has gone from consistent top 20 program to possibly having a losing season.

Also men’s and women’s tennis are at arguably their lowest points ever.

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Apr 14, 2021, 12:56 PM

TIP,

I know you follow as many Clemson sports closely as anyone on this board so I will pose this question to you.

Others can respond if they would like as well.

Baseball is having a bad season and there is no arguing that.

However, in most seasons with Monte it has been the pitching staff that falls short when it matters. We have rarely held teams under 5 runs in the postseason which I think is the measuring stick when you want to compete with opposing postseason pitching staffs. We can't be expected to score 7-10 runs just to stay in a game every year in Regionals.

My question is, with the season ending early in 2020, does it get completely ignored as a plus for Monte?

He had what I feel was without a doubt his best pitching rotation and finally seemed to have some arms that could compete in the postseason, but we never got to find out if that was going to happen.

Saying the baseball program has had a massive fall is ignoring last season.

Hitting is hot and cold for every team throughout the season, but absent this baseball season have been consistent Friday and Saturday starting pitchers and the needed 1 or 2 shutdown guys in the pen.

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I think it’s hard to count last year in any way


Apr 14, 2021, 1:47 PM

We had started off well but it was very early in the year before much of the meat of the schedule. It could’ve been a super regional year or another regional loss. There’s really no way to tell.

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Apr 15, 2021, 10:33 AM

I understand that we don't know the conclusion of what would have happened.

On the other hand, how can you throw out a team that was developed for 6 and a half months from September to mid-March and seemed to be really strong in the time they got?

We had 3 losses a third of the way through the season.

It seems many who are pushing that baseball is a bad program under Coach Lee like the idea of throwing out last season because we didn't get to see the end of what would have happened. I am not including you in this group.

I think we have to take it for exactly what it was which was an outstanding third of a season.

This year is not the same team and is another conversation totally, but we can't pretend we played 2 or 3 games last season instead of 20 when discussing baseball's recent results.

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Apr 14, 2021, 1:05 PM [ in reply to 2 of last 4 for men’s basketball ]

T_I_P said:

We weren’t going to make it last year.

And I think you are underselling the baseball fall. A lot of Clemson fans used to say baseball was our second biggest sport and it has gone from consistent top 20 program to possibly having a losing season.

Also men’s and women’s tennis are at arguably their lowest points ever.




You have no idea if they would have made it last year as they were playing well at the end of the season

Not underselling or overselling baseball. Monte looked like and was lauded as a great hire when it happened. He certainly has a lot left to prove but the landscape of college baseball has changed over the years so the frequent trips to the CWS is likely over but we should still beat teams like CofC.

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You would prefer to have Tanner?**


Apr 14, 2021, 12:34 PM

Nm

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This would imply that you (or any of us for that matter)


Apr 14, 2021, 1:01 PM

actually know, in detail, what makes an AD good at their job. I'm guessing that you (and probably the rest of us), have no clue. There's a helluva lot more involved that just hiring and firing coaches.

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Apr 14, 2021, 1:04 PM

Sometimes it involves cancelling sports that are doing well.

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Apr 14, 2021, 1:09 PM

You're wrong. You know that you are usually wrong about things that are based upon opinion. Life has taught you this lesson many times and your current status/station is abject proof of this. Your only good decisions have been when you've gone against your instincts.

How's that?

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Apr 14, 2021, 1:13 PM

This seems like a very personal response to the OP.

I am imagining a scenario where rgby is a scok of the OP and he is using this thread to bring himself down a notch because he is feeling a little full of himself.

When nobody else presented definitive proof that the OP was wrong, the scok had to step in to make sure he ended the speculation.

I'm LOL'ing at my scenario.

Please nobody stop me. It's been a really slow day at work.

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Apr 14, 2021, 1:34 PM

While I agree my response seems first person familiar, I assure you the OP and I are separate entities. Over the years I have developed an uncanny insight into the mindlessness of others, a superpower if you will. I find that most people on here are easy reads, heart on the sleeve posters. Especially those of the self-defecating humor ilk. I seldom opine on others out of humble self-restraint and the understanding that most serial posters are extremely sensitive and have esteem issues. All apologies.

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Apr 15, 2021, 10:36 AM

My response was in jest.

I know you have no connection to the OP.

I very much appreciated the humor in your post as well even if none was meant.

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Let me guess...


Apr 14, 2021, 1:19 PM

You like to throw around “best is the standard,” expect all of our athletic programs to be elite, and tell anyone who disagrees that they are settling for mediocrity.

Am I right?

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All DRAD has to do is stay out of DAbo's way and listen to


Apr 14, 2021, 1:28 PM

Dabo when Dabo says he needs something... as far as that goes. He's been outstanding. The moment a Clemson AD starts wielding some kinda self propagated power or tries to spread out the wealth evenly among the other vagrants..then he'll ruin the program and DAbo will be moving on.

But as far as innovation or some great skill..nah.. he's just not screwing it up.

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Re: DRad is the most overrated AD in college athletics.


Apr 14, 2021, 1:36 PM

Changing the mind of a woman is impossible unless it’s her idea or she’s getting jewelry, car, horse etc.

D.Rad has been apart of the greatest football era ever at Clemson & top 5 in the NCAA in modern football.

A couple of the other sports like woman’s basketball, softball & both soccer programs have done well.

If Dabo is happy & your a football fan I’d leave D.Rad exactly where he is.

Go Tigers

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You're only saying that


Apr 15, 2021, 9:52 AM

because you're upset our basketball and baseball programs aren't perennial top 5 teams, and you're completely ignoring any contributions made to football and facilities in general.

Change my mind.

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Apr 15, 2021, 10:14 AM

Where can I find AD ratings? Who rated DRAD and why do you give a f?

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Sure.


Apr 15, 2021, 10:41 AM

https://youtu.be/xwdba9C2G14

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Geville Tiger on Clemson football , "Dabo's only problem is he has to deal with turd fans questioning every move he makes.”


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