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TNET: K'Von Wallace to the doubters: "We are the best dern team in the country...Stay tuned"

TigerNet News® · 2019-12-02T18:12:34.037Z

K'Von Wallace to the doubters: "We are the best dern team in the country...Stay tuned" Expect K’Von Wallace to play his best game of the season in Saturday’s ACC Championship against Virginia. Wallace is playing with a chip on his shoulder, and he’s not mad at any one person or team. He’s just mad in general at anyone who has disrespected him or his team. Full Story »

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Dec 2, 2019, 4:01 PM

Dabo certainly is standing up for his players, and for that matter, the accomplishments of himself and his whole staff. NONE of that is a problem whatsoever. No apologies necessary for that lobbying by Dabo.

The problem is, IN ADDITION to that, he throws in this "poor ole Clemson" card in a more *general*, overarching way ("they're trying to keep us out of the playoffs," "they don't respect us," "we have to win 30 in a row just to get in" etc.). All of THIS stuff IS laughable. Clemson has gotten tons of respect, from commentators across the spectrum - loads of special pieces written and filmed about our program's culture, Dabo's background, and on, and on, and on. And that playoff that they are "trying" to keep us out of? Well, crap, we're placing #3 in that thus far. Not even on the bubble, but yet, they're supposedly "trying to keep us out," or "don't want us in" or whatever. Well heck, they're doing a terrible job of implementing that plan, I guess.

So, consider the defense of his players individual accomplishments "Complaint A," and his assertations about playoff bias "complaint B." Well, we can acknowledge Complaint A is legitimate. But, the problem is, every time someone points out that complaint B doesn't wash, we are again given the defense that "he is just defending his players and program." But that line of argument relates to Complaint A, and has nothing to do with B. You can't defend comments about "wanting to keep us out of the playoff that we're currently #3 in," by suggesting that ETN should be a Heisman or Doak Walker candidate. Please. Those who are defending Dabo's are co-mingling two different claims. Dabo is right to highlight the lack of due regard many players individual accomplishments have gotten, but the playoff comments - are, well, they WOULD be funny if they weren't so glaringly false. There are 3 unbeaten teams. Dabo can do the math. Someone must be #3. If Dabo thinks that BY DEFINITION, that means someone wants that #3 team OUT of the playoff, then I've got some beachfront property in the Sahara for him. But I don't think he really thinks that. I think he's simply over-selling his point. But he needs to be advised to tone it down. This is the kind of thing that will make us get portrayed as the whiny privileged types of the college football world. Dabo is a wonderful and gracious guy, but he needs to learn to extend that character trait to this issue and be less sensitive.

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I have seen only one game out of 12 games that showed that we can play poorly if we drops passes, turn the ball over with fumbles or throwing the ball into the hands of our opponents. Our guys have played only one game out of 12 that showed we could beat ourselves if we didn't prepare the way our coaches taught them to prepare or pay strict attention to what the coaches were telling them. That game with UNC was one of those games that our players could have easily lost, but when they had the opportunity to stand up and prove they had the ability stop UNC when it most counted, they done exactly that. We hear those out side our program say that UNC just missed the 2 point conversion, when the truth was, our D stood tall and stopped them. At that point where it was win or lose, those guy never doubted that they was going to stop UNC in their tracks, and they wasn't going to get the two points they needed to win bc, I saw an unstoppable D that one play!!! UNC didn't miss it, our Tigers Took it!!!

TNET: K'Von Wallace to the doubters: "We are the best dern team in the country...Stay tuned"

He is 100% correct. It is ridiculous.

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