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this is not good
Aug 23, 2013, 4:29 PM
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Mike Bianchi: Clemson, who's your ACC daddy? It's SEC-esque Florida State By MIKE BIANCHI Orlando Sentinel Posted: Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013
ORLANDO, Fla. Who died and made Clemson king?
Certainly not the Florida State Seminoles, who just happen to be the defending ACC Champions.
At least that's how I remember it.
But you surely wouldn't know it by listening to all the talking heads and reading all of the preseason magazines.
They all claim Climpson - the overrated, underachieving program that has won just one ACC title in the past two decades - is the team to beat in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Sports Illustrated, Lindy's, Athlon, The Sporting News, USA Today; they all have Climpson winning the ACC.
"Offense wins in 2013, and the Tigers are the best in the ACC on that front," writes Lindy's College Football Preview. "Clemson runs ACC table."
This is an absolute insult to coach Jimbo Fisher's Seminoles, who last year won the league for the first time in seven seasons and served notice that they are ready to dominate the ACC like they did during Bobby Bowden's heyday in the 1990s.
You want to know why Florida State will likely win the ACC again this year . . . and next year . . . and the year after that? Because the Seminoles are not really an ACC team. They are a SEC team that happens to play in the ACC.
It's no secret that Fisher is a Nick Saban disciple who has built his program at FSU in the Saban mold - with discipline, defense and downhill running. Not this newfangled, no-huddle, no-defense style of pinball that Climpson plays. Fisher, like friend and fellow Saban disciple Will Muschamp at Florida, is building his program with SEC-forged steel and concrete; not flimsy ACC gimmicks and gadgets.
As Muschamp likes to say, "The SEC is a line-of-scrimmage league." And if you can't compete along the line of scrimmage, you're going to get destroyed. This philosophy, more than any other factor, is why the SEC has won seven straight national titles.
Here's all you need to know: Saban's Alabama defense was ranked No. 1 in the nation last year. Fisher's FSU defense was ranked No. 2. And Dabo Swinney's Climpson defense was ranked No. 63. The year prior, FSU's defense was ranked No. 4 while Climpson's was 71st. Two seasons ago, when Climpson won its only ACC title in the last 21 years, the Tigers went to the Orange Bowl and got destroyed 70-33 by West Virginia.
Climpson's worst nightmare was realized last year when Florida State finally broke through and won its first ACC title of the Fisher era. And, believe me, it won't be the last. As Fisher explained after winning the championship last year, this era of Seminoles, at long last, knows what it takes to be a champion.
"This is huge," Fisher said then. "We've now got over the hump and won our first championship. You've got to win a championship before you can ever say, 'We're back!' Everybody wants you to win a national championship. You've gotta win a conference championship before you can win a national championship. . . . You have to keep climbing the ladder to get to where you want to go."
Fisher traditionally has a rule - no hats worn indoors at the FSU football complex. This offseason, though, he relaxed the rule - but only for those players who wore their ACC Championship hats.
"I wanted them to keep those hats on to feel that sense of pride and accomplishment," Fisher says now. "I wanted that joy to sink in. You just feel different when you win a championship. It's hard to explain until you get there. When you win a championship, you'll have a pride about you that you didn't have before. It's sort of like having a child. Your priorities change."
Last season, Fisher's Seminoles experienced the birth of their first child, er, championship and now they want another . . . and another . . . and another. They don't just want one child, they want a whole brood of 'em.
Step aside, Climpson.
Big Daddy Seminole is back home where he belongs.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/08/22/4256280/mike-bianchi-clemson-whos-your.html#storylink=cpy
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All-TigerNet [13112]
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Gee haven't seen that article linked or posted around here
Aug 23, 2013, 4:30 PM
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today....
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CU Guru [1211]
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Somebody sounds butt hurt
Aug 23, 2013, 4:30 PM
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Go Tigers!
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All-TigerNet [10871]
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They're like the sibling that isn't getting the attention
Aug 23, 2013, 6:47 PM
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anymore, so they kick, scream and cry till someone looks their way.
Do you FSU fans need someone to change your Huggies?
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Re: this is not good
Aug 23, 2013, 4:31 PM
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someone smells of chicken.
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110%er [5249]
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Translated
Aug 23, 2013, 4:31 PM
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"Pay attention to me!"
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All-In [27462]
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Duh!
Aug 23, 2013, 4:56 PM
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N,C. State beat them last year and held them to 16 total points. The Tigers put up 62 on the Wolfies. Sure they were the division champs but they were not the best team in the league and most realist know this. I think it would be wise for them to shut the f&&( up since they are coming to the Valley this year/ Can't wait for that game/ I hope it's a one pm game and its 99, outside.
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Why?
Aug 23, 2013, 4:55 PM
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N/M
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Who is Mike Bianchi?
Aug 23, 2013, 5:01 PM
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He sure isn't a journalist.
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All-In [27462]
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Re: Who is Mike Bianchi?
Aug 23, 2013, 5:05 PM
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I think he was a dj in the 50's and early 60's!!!!
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why?***
Aug 23, 2013, 5:01 PM
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Old dynasties never die, they just whine till you wish they
Aug 23, 2013, 5:08 PM
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were.
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CU Medallion [59216]
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Aug 23, 2013, 5:20 PM
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. . . .BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Free Shoes Homer
Aug 23, 2013, 5:25 PM
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Bianchi obvoiously is a Free Shoes Graduate of the Clown School, he wrote this like he was a reporter for the Free Shoes Times on the Tallahashee campus! He is not going to like the scalping our Tigers are going to put on them Noles I tell ya, we will see what he has to say then!!!
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Weak troll is...
Aug 23, 2013, 5:31 PM
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weak.
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All-TigerNet [10871]
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Good grief. I prefer ND over this deluded bunch...***
Aug 23, 2013, 6:40 PM
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Orange Blooded [2772]
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Re: this is not good
Aug 23, 2013, 6:43 PM
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Change your name to:
"Trollinaround"!
GO TIGERS!!!!!!!!!!
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