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TNET: Find another number!!! Swinney breaks down Etienne's decision to return
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TNET: Find another number!!! Swinney breaks down Etienne's decision to return


Feb 6, 2020, 3:56 PM

 
Find another number!!! Swinney breaks down Etienne's decision to return

Running back Travis Etienne shocked the world in late January when he made the decision to return to Clemson for his senior season, but it’s a decision that head coach Dabo Swinney thinks will pay off in the end. It also means several players will have to wait a year for the coveted No. 9. Full Story »


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9 won't be an available number for long around here.


Feb 6, 2020, 4:11 PM

We'll see it in the ring

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“poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.”


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Feb 6, 2020, 6:12 PM

I see it hanging in my closet, for the 3rd year

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Feb 6, 2020, 4:59 PM

Agents and money grubbing family members tell these kids they are going to be rich and they listen. I haven't kept up the past couple of seasons, but one year, 47% of the players declaring were drafted. Most of those guys didn't have degrees and most of them never will have. It's just really sad that some kid leaves home with a chance to better himself and he has school paid for and he doesn't finish.

Now, if you are a sure fire first round draft pick, that is another matter. Go ahead and leave and make the big bucks. Otherwise, coming back is always better.
Like TL will be the number one guy next year and it's a no-brainer. But, most of these guys should come back to school.

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Feb 7, 2020, 7:17 AM

Etienne made the right choice for him but the blanket assumption that everybody is better coming back unless they are a first round pick doesn't hold water. If they are going to be drafted at all then they have the money to return to school if they choose. As a 5th round pick Renfrow got a $574K signing bonus and $316K guaranteed on his contract. That is $890,000 if he doesn't make the team. I like seeing these young men come back, and love that the NCAA now allows the universities to insure them. On the other hand, I can't fault these guys for going early because staying a year might have them make $10 million instead of $5 million. I would take the $5 million now all day long.

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Feb 6, 2020, 6:08 PM

I think that we have seen quite a few juniors just simply ignore the advice that Dabo had give them after they had talked to the NFL scouts, and they never got drafted, and they never made it even after a chance through free agency. I feel for those guys, but they are the ones that made that choice after Dabo had told them the truth!!!

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Feb 6, 2020, 6:39 PM

Van Smith was a player who should have listened to Dabo about his draft potential for sure. Of course he still made many decisions better than I, so I shouldn’t talk.

I do believe he would have really had a shot to make the pros had he listened to Dabo.

I wish these guys that trusted Dabo to come to Clemson would trust him on when they should leave. The outside influences can become bigger than life because family sees $$$$$$ ca-Ching.

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Feb 6, 2020, 6:58 PM

they've been thinking about that money for years. the sad part isn't the family that's going to sponge off of them, it's the poor saps who are really, really talented, but not enough to make it in the NFL, then they find themselves out on their own with no degree... I realize some guys are truly ready for the NFL before the end of a normal college career, but too many are suckered into leaving without having obtained what should have been their primary goal: a college education and degree.

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Feb 6, 2020, 6:58 PM [ in reply to Re: TNET: Find another number!!! Swinney breaks down Etienne's decision to return ]

they've been thinking about that money for years. the sad part isn't the family that's going to sponge off of them, it's the poor saps who are really, really talented, but not enough to make it in the NFL, then they find themselves out on their own with no degree... I realize some guys are truly ready for the NFL before the end of a normal college career, but too many are suckered into leaving without having obtained what should have been their primary goal: a college education and degree.

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Feb 6, 2020, 8:40 PM [ in reply to Re: TNET: Find another number!!! Swinney breaks down Etienne's decision to return ]

I think that the biggest things there is, they have family and friends that can't wait for them to get rich, and they are telling them that what Dabo says is to just keep at Clemson and making him look good with their play bc they believe they know more about what it takes to play in the NFL than a coach at Clemson. I would bet that is what's happening with most of them that Dabo is telling they're just not ready yet!!! Family and friends are telling them just how stupid what Dabo is telling them is!!!

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Re: TNET: Find another number!!! Swinney breaks down Etienne's decision to return


Feb 7, 2020, 4:41 PM

Travis Etienne will finish his college career 1000 yards ahead of Ted Brown, a record that may never be broken in the modern era with pass happy football. He will have the record for the number of touchdowns. These things never lose meaning.

Further, many running backs never get beyond their rookie contract so being stuck with second round money when perhaps you could get first round money in the next year makes some degree of sense for a position in the NFL we are longevity is rare.

Unattainable, Unreachable records set for college football last a lifetime. The second national championship lasts a lifetime.

Also, it has to be more fun and more pleasant to achieve your goal of graduating when you are truly the big man on campus. Cannot imagine what it will feel like to be Travis Etienne walking across the stage as the most recognizable man on Campus not named Trevor Lawrence.

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