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YOUR BALANCE
Anyone remember in 1981 how bad our offense sucked.
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Anyone remember in 1981 how bad our offense sucked.


Oct 12, 2021, 9:57 AM

We could barely score 21 points.

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Re: Anyone remember in 1981 how bad our offense sucked.


Oct 12, 2021, 9:59 AM

first game I believe Wofford led 10-7 at the half

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That group got better as the season progressed


Oct 12, 2021, 10:02 AM

The only caveat to the comparison is that they managed to win all the low scoring games.

This team is not the 1981 Tigers, but they still have the chance to improve on offense start scoring points.

I prefer to compare this team to the 2003 Tigers ... horrible start to the season, but fantastic finish.

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i dont know if i'm reaidng this right.. but it looks like 40


Oct 12, 2021, 10:11 AM

points per game... average.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/years/1981-ratings.html

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Geville Tiger on Clemson football , "Dabo's only problem is he has to deal with turd fans questioning every move he makes.”


That's definitely wrong.


Oct 12, 2021, 10:40 AM

We scored 82 against Wake and 45 against Wofford. That was back when Wake was worse than Furman.

Median score was 21 that season.

I'm not suggesting at all any sort of comparison to this year. I'm just saying that we were not good at all on offense that season. Our defense was absolutely incredible.

Different times. That's all. It's just interesting how the standards have changed. I think it's more acceptable now to win games 55-48 like Oklahoma than it is to win games 19-13.

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No, that isn't right...they averaged 28.2, which was 19th


Oct 13, 2021, 8:38 PM [ in reply to i dont know if i'm reaidng this right.. but it looks like 40 ]

highest in the country that year. And they only gave up about 8 per game!

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Yes. Tigernet was a mess that year.

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Oct 12, 2021, 10:11 AM

Crump finally went back and deleted all that garbage.

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Back when we would listen to Leonard's Losers each week, and


Oct 12, 2021, 3:34 PM

then probably listen to the away game on the radio.

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Re: Anyone remember in 1981 how bad our offense sucked.


Oct 12, 2021, 1:23 PM

The majority of the offense was running with a few passes scattered here and there. Back then we had an OL that would wear the DL down through the game.

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Re: Anyone remember in 1981 how bad our offense sucked.


Oct 12, 2021, 3:13 PM

People were definitely worried when we had trouble with Tulane. The Tarhole game was also extremely tight but overall and especially late in the season, our defense was very dominant. That’s how I remember it.

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Re: Anyone remember in 1981 how bad our offense sucked.


Oct 13, 2021, 11:04 PM

Opening game we trailed Wofford 0-3, 3-3 end of the 1st Quarter, 10-3 at the half. Trailed Tulane 0-5 after 1st Quarter, 7-5 at the half. Trailed Kentucky 0-3 at the half. Scored on the opening possession of the 2nd half.

So in 1981 we never trailed in a game after our 1st possession of the 2nd half!

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Re: Anyone remember in 1981 how bad our offense sucked.


Oct 12, 2021, 2:25 PM

I thought the same until Nancy State unloaded on us. That hurt my defensive feelings.

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We got


Oct 12, 2021, 2:31 PM

Beat that year?

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You clearly dont know how the game was played 40 years ago


Oct 12, 2021, 3:38 PM

3 yards and a cloud of dust was pretty much standard procedure.

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Re: You clearly dont know how the game was played 40 years ago


Oct 12, 2021, 3:48 PM

We were an option team in 1981, but we had a pretty wide open offense. It was not the wishbone.

Every time Homer Jordan took a snap, there was the good chance the play would go all the way.

Very few clouds of dust.

Also, our passing game with guys like Perry Tuttle was strong.

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Re: You clearly dont know how the game was played 40 years ago


Oct 12, 2021, 4:02 PM

I was referring to the game in general. But as for us, we average 28.....but if you take out the 82 point Wake game it was 23. Take out the Wofford game and it was really around 21 per game. May have been pretty "wide open" for the day.....

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Taking out high scoring games to affect the narrative is not


Oct 13, 2021, 7:56 PM

legit.

All games count toward the cumulative season statistical results.

I mean, take out the Georgia and NC State games and were 3-0, right.

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1981 would beat the #### out of 2021 team


Oct 12, 2021, 4:06 PM

1981 team was #3 all-time Clemson team iMHO.

# 1 2018 Power Rangers, strong DB’s and LB’s, TL16 and WR’s.

#2 2016 was DW4 putting Clemson back on top beating a Bama team who was better at 15 of 22 positions.

But like Skalski sez, let’s see what kind of heart this 2021 team has - lots of ball to play and lots of opportunity for improvement.

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I was born in 1981***


Oct 13, 2021, 7:58 PM



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Oct 13, 2021, 10:55 PM

My son was also born in November 1981. The Tigers averaged 28.2 points on offense and the Defense allowed 8.7 points per game. Nine times the defense held a team to 10 or fewer points. I had to stay close to home and only got to go one away game and that was Tulane. A 13 - 5 victory.

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Re: Anyone remember in 1981 how bad our offense sucked.


Oct 13, 2021, 8:58 PM

Shoot, the 13 points we scored on UGA in 1981 would've beaten them this year

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We got nine turnovers in that game and won by 10 points!


Oct 13, 2021, 11:14 PM

We beat anybody any year with nine turnovers ...

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Re: We got nine turnovers in that game and won by 10 points!


Oct 14, 2021, 8:41 PM

The DC Tom Moore saw on film that Buck Belew threw high if he didn't plant his feet and we came after him with a DB deep in ccoverage I think Belew threw 5 ints.

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Re: Anyone remember in 1981 how bad our offense sucked.


Oct 13, 2021, 11:08 PM

Back then offenses were more time of possession dominators than high scorers.

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I wish I could convince you how stupid that comparison is


Oct 14, 2021, 8:47 PM

but why?

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Re: Anyone remember in 1981 how bad our offense sucked.


Oct 14, 2021, 9:26 PM

82 points against Wake Forest.

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All the offenses kinda sucked back then


Oct 14, 2021, 10:00 PM

Nowadays it’s an offensive game. What makes our lack of offense even more frustrating is that we have a championship caliber D this year (most years really)

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