Re: TNET: In a year when Clemson needed to make a statement, it's making the wrong one

I'm no football coach but I've watched the sport for decades. What I saw were a couple of glaring things:

1) There looked to me like a lot of guys loafing out there. A lot of guys who are supposed to be some of our best players. That wasn't acceptable pre-pay-for-play. In my opinion, it's even more unacceptable not that you are being paid hefty salaries to play football.

2) We have no identity on either side of the ball. I'll cut the defense a little slack on the lack of identity (not the lack of intensity) as we have a new coordinator. The offensive lack of identity is even worse. I have no idea what we are trying to do. And when we find things that appear to be working we routinely abandon them.

This is a professional sport now. I hate it, but it is. We are a sloppy, unprofessional football team however.

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Sep 20, 2025, 9:01 PM

David, you couldn't have said it any better. The last year and a half, players have become lackadaisical and going through the motions (those motions are questionable because they surely didn't come from a true position coach). Ever since $ entered it's way into the pockets of players, the effort and fire these players once had has faded away. But every postgame Dabo still admires their effort and the fact that 'they never quit'. Is he watching a different game than the 1 in front of him? And yes, it's great that SOME players don't quit, but are we playing for a National Championship or an invite to the Humanitarian Bowl? Or better yet the ACC Sportsmanship Award?

Where's the nasty our defense had?(Lawrence, Wilkins, etc) Where's the tempo on offense and ability to wear out opposing defenses? (Chad Morris) Or better yet where is the coaching? These number of bust on defense is inexcusable

I thought the hyp for this team was overboard to begin with, but even last year's team was better than this and it's basically the SAME PLAYERS.

Sweeney is a great coach and motivator, but some of these boys ain't drinking the same kool-aid

As far as our OC & DC, okay Dabo struck out twice. We need a Chad Morris type disciple (You still got Jeff Scott's #)
And on the other side, I think we were doing pretty dang good with BV and surely he has a understudy tht can move to clemson for the right $

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TNET: In a year when Clemson needed to make a statement, it's making the wrong one