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Legend [6705]
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The term "##########"
May 21, 2015, 3:34 PM
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Guys, Did any of you listen to the Sirius / XM College Sports channel yesterday morning? It was the program called "the First Team" with Taylor Zarzor and Greg McElroy. They have been counting down their college football picks from 40 to 1 over the last couple of weeks. Yesterday they picked Clemson as #4 which was awesome. They did 3 picks a day and spent about 30 minutes after each pick explaining why they picked the team at that particular number. They picked Clemson #4 but then spent the better part of 30 minutes beating us up. They kept using the terms "pulling a Clemson" and "##########" They took 3 calls and 2 were obvious coot fans. The one Clemson fan took issue with the terms they were using and they beat him up pretty bad. Today they finished up the top 3 and they asked the question to themselves "who have we ranked too high and who have we ranked too low"? The first answer: Clemson, too high. And they did it again, "I think they will pull a Clemson somewhere in their schedule". Dang y'all, have I missed something are do other teams lose a game once in a while? We have stopped losing to the Wakes of the world. Do we have to win the National Championship to get that term off our backs? Thoughts?
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Legend [6865]
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Re: The term "##########"
May 21, 2015, 3:40 PM
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Neither adds or detracts from who Clemson is. If talk was the charm the Coots would win the National Championship every year. Sure would rather "Clemson" than "Cooting" any day!
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Yep, don't believe we have ever gone from #6 to 6-6 or....
May 21, 2015, 3:41 PM
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from 6-0 to 6-6.
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Tiger Spirit [9970]
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Stop listening to ignorance. They obviously cannot come...
May 21, 2015, 3:40 PM
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up with any original commentary and have just jumped on an old term that hasn't applied in the last 3 seasons. Yes, all teams choke at times, but for whatever reason, ESecPN decided we would be the shining example of it a few years ago during the Bowden era. unfortunately it stuck and all we can do is keep winning.
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Re: The term "##########"
May 21, 2015, 3:43 PM
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Wish I could call his show and give them the Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of the word ##########. By definition, ########## means losing to a team that is unranked. Which means losing to the likes of highly ranked Georgia, or Florida State or a ranked Geogria Tech team, by definition, is NOT ##########.
As a matter of fact, maybe they should began calling it "Chickening" because South Carolina has lost to an unranked team more than we have as of late.
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Varsity [202]
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Re: The term "##########"
May 21, 2015, 3:47 PM
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Wish I could call this show and give them the Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of the word "##########." By definition, "##########" means losing to a team that is unranked when Clemson is ranked. Which means losing to the likes of highly ranked Georgia, or Florida State or a ranked Geogria Tech team, by definition, is NOT "##########."
Maybe they should began calling it "Chickening" because South Carolina has lost to more unranked teams than we have as of late.
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Re: The term "##########"
May 21, 2015, 3:50 PM
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The six turnovers to the Coots and the loss to FSU last season. All though not ########## but very head scratching losses.
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Re: The term "##########"
May 21, 2015, 3:48 PM
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Well if they picked us at #4 that's a good thing. It means people are noticing and that Clemson is in their heads. It seems like in the past when the so called experts start giving Clemson some love. The Tigers use to make them eat their words.
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Orange Blooded [2609]
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Re: The term "##########"
May 21, 2015, 3:52 PM
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Lol their ranking shows what they really believe. The rest is just because they are butthurt about it
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^^^^^This!^^^^^
May 22, 2015, 6:43 AM
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nm
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All-TigerNet [14233]
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Yall take this way too personally.***
May 21, 2015, 4:01 PM
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110%er [3966]
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Considering the crap you whine about....
May 21, 2015, 9:57 PM
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...not sure you have much room to talk.
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Re: Yall take this way too personally.***
May 21, 2015, 11:33 PM
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Should've just said, "########## is losing to an Unranked team when you're ranked. We haven't lost to an Unranked team (while being ranked) in 27 games in a Row I might add. Second longest streak in the Nation behind Alabama." So suck it!!!
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I'd truly enjoy no longer seeing this "term" posted
May 21, 2015, 4:04 PM
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on Tigernet......
You post seeking some method of getting rid of the word, and yet use it in the subject line. Lack of use will soon relegate it to short term memory loss.
But regardless, please stop posting it here.
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Re: The term "##########"
May 21, 2015, 4:07 PM
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I listen to this in the morning and when they got past 10 and Clemson wasn't mentioned I was thinking to myself they aren't going to rank Clemson in the top 40. So for them to be at 4 on the show is very surprising on that show.
Greg McElroy is good on the show. I think he adds a lot but also can really come off with some stupid stuff. A while back he was talking about lineman having SEC speed.
Taylor Zarzor is a closet NC State guy. I believe that is where he issues with Clemson is. When they come up he often goes off on the ########## term and how they have to stop doing it. If you disagree with him then he talks over you and then hangs up.
I don't deny ##########. It was Tommy Bowden who made Clemson that way. Getting blown out by Wake Forest, Beating Miami and then losing to 2-10 Duke. But it hasn't happened since 2009 Maryland or 2011 NC State. I would argue NC State was the same as West Virginia. Just got your ### beat. That happens. It is nice that the guys on Thursday night have recently tried to say that doesn't happen anymore. They also put it back on Carolina this year. Oh well, at the end of the day their ranking means nothing on May21st.
Go Dogs Go Tigers
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All-TigerNet [11024]
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Even Jesse Palmer the inventor of the term does not
May 21, 2015, 4:12 PM
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use it anymore...
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Re: The term "##########"
May 21, 2015, 4:13 PM
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I feel we will lose a game or two this year. I honestly hope we don't. L'ville and FSU do scare me and the GT game will be a toss up and let's don't forget the ND game. Playing L'ville away will be the game that scares me the most. Our defense will be pretty good and our offense will be better than last year, especially if DW is injured. 95% of the teams lose to someone they shouldn't each year. If Watson didn't get hurt in the GT game, I believe we would have won.
Even if we do lose this year, I don't think we will pull a "Clemson". Heck, last year usc was a top 5 pick and they barely made a bowl so how many times did they "pull a ####"?
Clemson football has had four great years and people are getting jealous. How many people now strongly dislike Alabama? I know I do and it is because they are winning at a high level and they are there every year. I was getting tired of the run FSU had in the 80's 90s and early 2000's. Hopefully now. It is our turn.
Go Clemson Tigers!!!
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Re: The term "##########"
May 21, 2015, 4:16 PM
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LOL pull a ####
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Legend [6705]
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Re: The term "##########"
May 21, 2015, 9:46 PM
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When I look at the schedule I could see a loss or two as well. The NC State game at NC State could be a tough one. Just got to beat the team in front of you and don't look ahead.
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If I had a dollar for every negative comment made about
May 21, 2015, 4:23 PM
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Clemson over the past 50 years, I could build a new Death Valley.
If I had a dollar for every time I have heard those type of comments and said multiple times, "Screw the b@#stards," I could rebuild every stadium in the U.S. of A.
In other words I really don't give a hoot in he1l what any yingyang has to say...including that Coot of all Coots: GWPCoot.
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^ POTD***
May 21, 2015, 4:48 PM
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Greg McElroy is one of the biggest idiots on the radio
May 21, 2015, 4:47 PM
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Send them this:
Teams that have "Pulled a Clemson" (i.e. lost to an unranked team as a ranked team) since we last did:
Arizona Arizona St. (3) Arkansas Auburn Baylor Boise St. (2) BYU (2) Cincinnati Duke ECU Florida Fresno St. FSU GT Kansas St. LA Tech Louisville (4) LSU (4) Marshall Miami (2) Michigan (2) Missouri Miss St. Nebraska (3) Northwestern(2) Notre Dame (2) Ohio Ohio State University, An Oklahoma OK State (3) Ole Miss (2) Oregon (2) Oregon St. (2) Rutgers (2) Stanford (3) TCU (2) Texas (2) Tex Tech (3) Toledo UCLA (4) UGA (2) USC (real one) (4) USuCk (2) VT (3) Washington Wisconsin (4) WVU (3)
11/19/11: Clemson loses to NC St
9/8/12: #8 Arkansas 31, UL Monroe 34 #13 Wisconsin 7, Oregon St. 10 #16 Nebraska 30, UCLA 36 #18 OK St. 38, Arizona 59
9/15/12: #13 VT 17, Pitt 35 #25 BYU 21, Utah 24
9/24/12: #19 UCLA 20, Oregon St. 27
9/27/12: #8 Stanford 13, Washington 17
10/6/12: #3 FSU 16, NC St. 17 #15 TCU 23, Iowa St. 37 #24 Northwestern 28, Penn St. 39 #25 UCLA 17, Cal 43
10/13/12: #5 WVU 14, Tex Tech 49
10/20/12: #21 Cincinnati 23, Toledo 29
10/27/12: #7 Oregon St. 17, Washington 20 #10 USC (the real one) 36, Arizona 39 #18 Rutgers 23, Kent St. 35 #20 Michigan 9, Nebraska 23 #23 Ohio 20, Miami (OH) 23
11/3/12: #19 Boise St. 19, San Diego St. 21 #20 Tex Tech 22, Texas 31 #23: WVU 38, TCU 39
11/6/12: #23 Toledo 27, Ball St. 34
11/10/12: #11 Louisville 26, Syracuse 45
11/17/12: #2 Kansas St. 24, Baylor 52 #19 LA Tech 41, Utah St. 48 #23 Tex Tech 21, OK St. 59
11/22/12: #18 Texas 13, TCU 20 #19 Louisville 20, UCONN 23 #21 Rutgers 6, Pitt 27 #25 Miss St 24, Ole Miss 41
12/1/12: #14 Nebraska 31, Wisconsin 70 #24 OK St 34, Baylor 41
8/31/13: #19 Boise St. 6, Washington 38 #25 Oregon St. 46, E. Washington 49
9/7/13: #12 Florida 16, Miami 21 #15 Texas 21, BYU 40 #25 USC (the real one) 7, Wash St. 10
9/12/13: #24 TCU 10, Tex Tech 20 #20 Wisconsin 30, Ariz St. 32
9/9/13: Clemson-NC State: Jesse Palmer rants about “##########” for about 5 mins
9/28/13: #11 OK St. 21, WVU 30
10/5/13: #22 Ariz St. 34, Notre Dame 37 #24: Ole Miss 22, Auburn 30 10/12/13: #5 Stanford 21, Utah 27 #12 Oklahoma 20, Texas 36 #18 Michigan 40, Penn St. 43 #19 Northwestern 6, Wisconsin 35
10/18/13: #8 Louisville 35, UCF 38
10/19/13: #6 LSU 24, Ole Miss 27 #11 USuCk 21, Tenn 23 #15 UGA 27, Vanderbilt 31 #20 Washington 24, Arizona St. 53
10/26/13:#16 VT 10, Duke 13 #25 Nebraska 23, Minnesota 34
11/9/13: #14 Miami 24, VT 42 #24 Notre Dame 21, Pitt 28 #25 Tex Tech 26, Kansas St. 49
11/16/13: #5 Stanford 17, USC (the real one) 20 #24 Miami 30, Duke 48
11/23/13: #5 Oregon 16, Arizona 42
11/29/13: #16 Fresno St. 52, San Jose St. 62
11/30/13: #14 Wisconsin 24, Penn St. 31
12/30/13: #21 Arizona St. 23, Tex Tech 37
9/6/14: #8 OSU 21, VT 35
9/13/14: #9 USC (the real one) 31, BC 37 #17 VT 21, ECU 28 #21 Louisville 21, UVA 23
9/20/14: #8 LSU 29, Miss St 34 #18 Missouri 27, Indiana 31
9/27/14: #13 USuCk 20, Missouri 21
10/2/14: #2 Oregon 24, Arizona 31
10/3/14: #18 BYU 20, Utah St 35
10/4/14: #8 UCLA 28, Utah 30 #16 USC (the real one) 34, Arizona St. 38 #17 Wisconsin 14, Northwestern 20
10/11/14: #10 Arizona 26, USC (the real one) 28 #22 GT 25, Duke 31
10/18/14: #4 Baylor 27 WVU 41
11/1/14: #11 UGA 20, UF 38 #23 ECU 10, Temple 20
11/4/14: Clemson beats Wake in Winston-Salem on a Thursday night, Rece Davis wonders aloud if “##########” is applicable anymore; Jesse Palmer remains curiously silent; Rece Davis buried under The Meadowlands after Monday Night Football by ESPN
11/8/14: #3 Auburn 38, TAMU 41 #23 WVU 16, Texas 33
11/15/14: #6 Arizona St. 27, Oregon St. 35 #17 LSU 0, Arkansas 17 #18 ND 40, Northwester 43 #21 Duke 16, VT 17
11/22/14: #8 Ole Miss 0, Arkansas 30
11/28/14: #8 UCLA 10, Stanford 31 #24 Marshall 66, W. Kentucky 67
12/30/14: #23 LSU 28, Notre Dame 31
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Legend [6705]
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Re: Greg McElroy is one of the biggest idiots on the radio
May 21, 2015, 9:48 PM
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That's good stuff right there!
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Kick
May 21, 2015, 5:07 PM
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everybody's a$$, win another NC and the term will go away.
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Re: The term "##########"
May 21, 2015, 6:20 PM
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Yeah, I was listening. I about threw up in my mouth. I used to like that show when Bill King was the host, but these two know very little about college sports and clearly have some other objective other than unbiased reporting. They just parrot back what other have said. I've stopped listening to them since they land-blasted the caller who to exception to the 'c......ing' remark. They spent two weeks running through their rankings and then tried to say that they don't pay attention to ranking when it comes to c.......ing.
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Legend [6705]
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Re: The term "##########"
May 21, 2015, 9:57 PM
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Exactly. It was like the Clemson guy that called in really made them mad. He was not disrespectful or anything. He just said that Clemson had not lost to a ranked team in years and that we were 2nd only to Alabama in that stat. He couldn't get it out of his mouth before they were all over him. They said ########## had nothing to do with rankings but had to do with not meeting expectations. Basically losing to less talented teams. They brought up the GT loss and said we got blown out by a much less talented team and we need to stop making excuses. It was really weird.
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Might as well learn to live with it
May 21, 2015, 10:17 PM
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Just like the woo hoo the term "##########" is not going away any time soon. We could go undefeated for three seasons and the first loss in season 4 would be pulling a Clemson. Even though it's meaning has not applied to Clemson in several years but has to many of the other schools across the country (looking at you UGA and coots) it's a term that sticks with us because it's catchy and a simple way to make a backhanded comment about the team where the ones using the term feel witty. Kind of like FSU being called "free shoes university", that was quite a while back when that happened (plenty will say it never stopped) but other fans will use it for ever.
We just need to keep winning and ignore all the stupidity surrounding the rest of college football media.
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