Re: The are mixed feelings among the fans regarding Tony Elliot. I met him

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Dec 6, 2021, 3:51 PM

We have had 1 season of adversity and immediately it’s all on Tony Elliot. What happened to the past several years of success Clemson experienced. I guess Tony had no part in that. It sad that coaches are being thrown under the bus when the team goes through a difficult season.

You have to consider CoVid, introducing NIL and the transfer portal which have had a negative affect on several teams including Clemson.

How would you like to be a part of 10 years of excellent work. Then you have an off year which cost you your job?? Is it fair to judge you based on 1 bad year out of 11 years which include 10 years of success??

Tony Elliot is being judged based on 1 year full of adversity including injuries, transfers a QB who have his best while he is dealing with personal issues with in his family, injuries, WR’s who dropped catchable passes and injuries to the OL. Coach Elliot is being blamed for all of our offensive issues this year which I think is totally unfair. He is not fumbling the ball, missing blocks, or dropping passes. Then throw in some bad calls.

I think Tony deserves less criticism for the offensive troubles this year and should be given more credit for Clemson’s successes. Especially the last 2 games. I am not saying Tony should be held total blameless for the offensive struggles this year. I just think he is being held accountable for more than his share for this year’s offensive issues.

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I think people like TE are very high character and overall great for the program. My biggest beef, and maybe it isn't really true, was that it seemed like TE milked the playbook of Chad Morris without really updating our plans to fit the adapting defensive schemes of our competition. Case in point, BV was constantly re-engineering what he did on defense to keep up with the times and I just feel like TE's biggest failure was not doing the same. We relied exclusively on talent to overcome an aging scheme and got away with it for several years before it kind of caught up with us. Certainly, injuries and transfers and the inexperience on offense this year contributed. It was like the perfect storm hit on offense and we simply had no answers. Unfortunately, we also wore our defense out and injuries set in because we had too many 3 and outs and the defense spent way too much time on the field.

Maybe we found something late in the season to build on. The question is whether or not TE is the right coach to take us into the future and get it fixed. He has earned the opportunity but I'm OK with bringing in some new blood if he moves on. I certainly don't feel the same about BV. That is a big loss that will take some time to get over.

The are mixed feelings among the fans regarding Tony Elliot. I met him

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