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Back when Coach Brownlee was hired, during his introductory
Dec 9, 2019, 8:00 AM
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press conference, do y'all remember him telling us it would be an 11-year rebuild? Or did he seem confident he could win early and often? It must be the former.
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Don't remember him promising us anything.
Dec 9, 2019, 8:03 AM
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And he's delivered.
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Re: Don't remember him promising us anything.
Dec 9, 2019, 2:04 PM
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He has OVER delivered.
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Re: Back when Coach Brownlee was hired, during his introductory
Dec 9, 2019, 8:04 AM
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He said you would reach 90k points before he even came close to turning it around.
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Well - GWP has now reached the 90k point level ... so ...
Dec 12, 2019, 5:02 AM
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.. Coach can start turning it around !! Full speed ahead ... -
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I just listened to again actually he promised success early BUT
Dec 9, 2019, 8:11 AM
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He did say if there were injuries, transfers, poor support from fans, a few down years of recruiting, elevation of the game, facilities that need to be upgraded, that it may take longer
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Re: Back when Coach Brownlee was hired, during his introductory
Dec 9, 2019, 8:14 AM
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I remember he said that the clemson job is like any 15th century European cathedral, it is in a constant state of repair.
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Re: Back when Coach Brownlee was hired, during his introductory
Dec 9, 2019, 8:24 AM
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Hahahahaha. That’s a good one, man. Seriously. But . . . Also very sad. ??
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Re: Back when Coach Brownlee was hired, during his introductory
Dec 9, 2019, 8:35 AM
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I found a clip from the introductory conference. He looked pretty young back then.
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Was it CBB who said the program's engine didn't need a major
Dec 9, 2019, 8:38 AM
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overhaul just an "oil change"?
Or was that Monteleeee?
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Re: Back when Coach Brownlee was hired, during his introductory
Dec 9, 2019, 8:41 AM
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When you say "rebuild", what exactly was he "rebuilding" to? Going to the tourney and losing in the first round?
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getting to the tourney consistently is more than we do now
Dec 9, 2019, 8:43 AM
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If he doesn't correct the course this season his rebuild
Dec 9, 2019, 8:47 AM
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will include taking a team that went to the NCAA tournament for the 4th year in a row in his first year, to...
-Sweet 16 in his 8th year -Early NIT exit in his 9th year -Missing the NIT in his 10th year
That's some serious progress!
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Re: If he doesn't correct the course this season his rebuild
Dec 9, 2019, 8:55 AM
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Brad did say then" it's good to take over a program in good shape." Hate to see where it would be now if it was in bad shape.
I would like to ask him if the program is where he envisioned it at in year 10? . You can ask him tonight on his first Tiger Calls tonight on wccpfm.com.
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Re: If he doesn't correct the course this season his rebuild
Dec 9, 2019, 9:00 AM
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If you don't see progress on our roster, then you aren't watching. Look at our roster this year compared to his roster his second year....
Bryan Narcisse was our second guy coming off the bench that year. LOL. Oh yeah, and our back up center was Catelin Baciu.
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I definitely see progress in our roster from year 2 to year
Dec 9, 2019, 9:04 AM
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10. And next year will be even better. Hth
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Roster progress
Dec 9, 2019, 9:07 AM
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Sounds like a great criteria for the NCAA selection committee to use. I can just hear the discussion on selection Sunday now...
"Clemson - Hey they've made all kinds of roster progress. What's their record. 15-17....? NOPE!"
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Re: Roster progress
Dec 9, 2019, 9:13 AM
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Man, that is a fantastic argument. You should be a lawyer. You definitely interpreted my post exactly as intended. SMH.
My point is, is that we have the most talented roster than we have had since I can remember. Our team is very young, with our only senior being Tevin Mack.
We had our best recruiting class this past year and have 2 top 100 commits for next year.
We have had injuries to 3 of our starters and 4 injuries overall. This is a rebuilding year. Every team has them.
I never understood why fans have such lofty expectations of our basketball team.
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Apparently this is our 8th rebuilding year in
Dec 9, 2019, 10:27 AM
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Coach Brownlee's 10 years at Clemson.
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"such lofty expectations"
Dec 10, 2019, 11:44 AM
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What the heck are you talking about? It is NOT too lofty to expect to go to the NCAA tournament at a significantly higher clip than we have.
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Re: Roster progress
Dec 10, 2019, 9:50 PM
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You sound like a coot talking about their football program
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Re: If he doesn't correct the course this season his rebuild
Dec 9, 2019, 7:25 PM
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Classy that you attempt to defend Brownell by bashing his former players. Thing is, Baciu and Narcisse are still playing basketball 8 years later. None of Brownell’s graduated bench reserves in the last two seasons are playing basketball.
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No thanks, I'll complain on my own schedule. Based on prior
Dec 9, 2019, 11:12 AM
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years though, I can probably guess how this year will play out...
We'll win some games against bad ACC teams, we'll lose some games against good ACC teams. The wins will get people excited (as they should) and we'll sneak up and win a game or two that we shouldn't before losing a game or two that we shouldn't. We'll miss the NCAA Tournament again and be on the bubble for the NIT. We've all seen how this movie ends because we've watched it over and over.
Now, that being said, if I'm wrong and we make the NCAA Tournament, I will readily and happily admit that this season is among the greatest seasons ever coached. But I highly doubt that will be the case based on what we've seen so far.
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Re: No thanks, I'll complain on my own schedule. Based on prior
Dec 10, 2019, 12:43 AM
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Re: No thanks, I'll complain on my own schedule. Based on prior
Dec 10, 2019, 7:14 AM
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GWPTiger® Ring of Honor [89762] TigerPulse: 100% Posts: 40798 Joined: 12/23/08 No thanks, I'll complain on my own schedule. Based on prior [5] Posted: Dec 9, 2019 11:12 AM Reply
years though, I can probably guess how this year will play out...
We'll win some games against bad ACC teams, we'll lose some games against good ACC teams. The wins will get people excited (as they should) and we'll sneak up and win a game or two that we shouldn't before losing a game or two that we shouldn't. We'll miss the NCAA Tournament again and be on the bubble for the NIT. We've all seen how this movie ends because we've watched it over and over.
Now, that being said, if I'm wrong and we make the NCAA Tournament, I will readily and happily admit that this season is among the greatest seasons ever coached. But I highly doubt that will be the case based on what we've seen so fa
man i sure wish we had more fans like you. you must be quite a guy. the life of the party kind of guy.
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Oh hi there derp, I've missed you! Quick question, is
Dec 10, 2019, 8:06 AM
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anything I said incorrect based on the last 10 years?
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Re: Oh hi there derp, I've missed you! Quick question, is
Dec 10, 2019, 8:12 AM
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i doesnt matter if you are correct or not. the guy is our coach and he deserves our support as long as he is our coach. but if it makes you and all these other goobers feel like real men to get on an internet board and trash him then that is certainly your right. it just makes you look sad and kind of pitiful imo. while you are at it maybe you morons can fill us in on who has done a better job at a place where it certainly is not easy to win.
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Most of the criticisms aren't anti CBB...
Dec 10, 2019, 9:47 AM
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they are simply facts put out there to correct the false narrative a few posters are continually shoving in the face of tnetters.
Everyone hopes CBB does well. Everyone hopes Clemson basketball does well. No one wants to be force fed justification after justification for the state of the program after every single win/loss. It's tiring and leaves a bad taste in the mouth of the casual and/or undecided fan.
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it's weird how some folks complain about the fact that
Dec 10, 2019, 11:51 AM
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many fans have grown weary of this same old so g and dance. They take the citing of facts as complaining and a lack of support. Look, I support Coach Brownell, but he needs to do better. And he's MORE THAN ENOUGH TIME to show signs of doing better. And this year - unless he shows marked improvement - looks like it could be a looong season. Nothing wrong at all with expecting better than that in year 10.
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I'm going to need to see your hall pass missy.
Dec 10, 2019, 12:44 PM
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Re: For starters...
Dec 10, 2019, 12:53 PM
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Be careful. You're going to get added to the
Dec 10, 2019, 1:02 PM
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"TaterNet Hall Monitor" group.
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Re: Be careful. You're going to get added to the
Dec 10, 2019, 1:10 PM
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Again, I didn't make anything up.
Dec 10, 2019, 4:13 PM
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I have no reason to make something like that up.
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Great, this should be easy to clear up...
Dec 10, 2019, 4:32 PM
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Please provide a link to any ranking service that listed Colgate as their 2019 preseason #1 team.
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Buzz Williams, Leonard Hamilton, Rick Barnes, Oliver Purnell
Dec 10, 2019, 10:14 AM
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Gregg Marshall, Scott Drew, Frank Martin, Chris Beard, Randy Bennett, Jim Larranaga and Tony Bennett...off the top of my head.
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Re: Why don't we wait to see how this year plays out
Dec 9, 2019, 12:39 PM
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Lol this is hypocrisy its finest. You were ready to fire Scelliott after the TAMU game last year, despite them having way accomplished more than Brad.
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Geez, and that was on Sept 9, 2018? I guess it's acceptable
Dec 9, 2019, 1:57 PM
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to whine and complain that early in the season in football after Clemson had been to the playoffs 3 years in a row, winning it all in 2016, but in basketball you have to be patient and see how the season plays out in the 10th friggin year of the coach's tenure.
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Yes.***
Dec 9, 2019, 1:59 PM
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I'm no expert,
Dec 9, 2019, 2:05 PM
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but even I can see a pattern here.
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I wasn't ready to fire anyone.
Dec 10, 2019, 12:46 PM
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I strongly disagreed with the play calling in that game. I feel that I was justified, since we nearly lost the game and the QB our OCs hitched their wagon to proved that he was neither a superstar QB nor devoted to Clemson.
The playcalling for Trevor in that game was very poor IMO.
It says a lot about you and some of the others here that you feel the need to reference a post I made over a year ago in a feeble attempt to make me look bad.
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You don't anyone on Tnet to make you look bad.
Dec 10, 2019, 4:22 PM
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"You don't anyone on Tnet to make you look bad."
Dec 10, 2019, 4:26 PM
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In English, please.
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I left out "need" on porpoise
Dec 10, 2019, 6:25 PM
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just so you could try to get the last word.
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Re: I wasn't ready to fire anyone.
Dec 10, 2019, 7:18 PM
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I'm guessing that's you making fun of yourself?
Dec 11, 2019, 9:31 PM
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Since you said that most of your posts are you making fun of yourself.
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That’s a man putting on sunglasses...
Dec 11, 2019, 9:36 PM
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take it how you want.
Hit dog hollers.
By the way, did you ever find that poll?
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"The QB our OC's hitched their wagon to"
Dec 11, 2019, 5:49 PM
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Wait.....you mean the one they named the starter after week 4 who lead us to a championship?
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No, the one who started the first few games of the season.
Dec 11, 2019, 9:32 PM
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Including the A&M game.
That was clear in my post.
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uh-oh
Dec 9, 2019, 9:10 AM
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Karen is NOT going to like this.
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Please try to be more respectful
Dec 9, 2019, 10:02 AM
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and address her as Judge Karen
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You have no idea as to the situation he inherited.
Dec 9, 2019, 10:51 AM
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There were some very significant issues behind the scenes within the program that were not made public, which took a great deal of time and energy to address and repair.
I know you and others here don't care for me, and will ask for links, but there are no links. You'll just have to trust me on this. No, I can't share details. There are certainly other people who are aware of those details as well, but they won't be sharing them either.
Disclaimer: this is not an excuse for where we are in year 10, and I am not blaming our loss yesterday or any other current negative aspects of the program today on that situation. But it was a huge deal in the first few years of Brad's tenure.
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link to all of these behind-the- scenes issues?
Dec 9, 2019, 10:53 AM
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Yes.***
Dec 9, 2019, 10:53 AM
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I couldn't help but notice that you didnt answer my question
Dec 9, 2019, 10:59 AM
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He’s also had “many” people who aren’t familiar with Clemson
Dec 9, 2019, 11:40 AM
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ask him why our flag wavers wear overalls. “Many” people.
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How many is "many"?
Dec 9, 2019, 11:49 AM
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I don’t care if you believe me.***
Dec 9, 2019, 11:49 AM
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"trust me"
Dec 9, 2019, 11:54 AM
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All of tnet did.***
Dec 9, 2019, 11:56 AM
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Well, since you say that ALL of TNet said so...
Dec 9, 2019, 9:20 PM
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I think it should be called TaterNet from now on.
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Sounds about right
Dec 10, 2019, 9:16 AM
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coot!
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Re: In the words of a true tnet legend...
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That post contained a lot of emotion over an
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article of clothing.
I'm glad the orange overalls mean a lot to some people, but I don't like them. Guess what? That's okay, and it doesn't mean I don't appreciate our traditions or want to honor them.
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No, you don’t have to do any of those things...
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but you don’t have to make fun of Clemson fans that do, either.
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You and your hall monitor pals make fun of
Dec 10, 2019, 4:26 PM
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other Clemson fans, multiple times daily, for a variety of reasons. Your attempt to defend anyone from unfair criticism isn't fooling anyone.
With that said, you clearly have a strong attachment to orange overalls. Did you dress up for a farmer for Halloween?
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Link to me making fun of any tradition that has roots in
Dec 10, 2019, 4:42 PM
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Clemson's history? Link to me making fun of anyone for their major? Link to me making fun of anyone for their background, or what they do for a living? Let me guess, you're not wasting your time?
That's the problem with your arguments, you make up things to support your stance with no evidence. And when you get called out? Well, rinse and repeat.
If you read my posts you'd know that the vast majority of the time I'm making fun of myself.
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What you fail to realize, is that you are the current butt
Dec 10, 2019, 8:33 PM
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of Tnet jokes, simply due to the unrelenting, pretentious insults from your self perceived ivory tower.
Your arrogance and inability to see your own hubris, compounded by a overwhelming attitude of piety and entitlement is precisely the opposite of what makes the Clemson alum proud of their university.
If you are simply trolling, then I admit my error. If sincere, then maybe Clemson just isn't the right fit for you as a fan, and God help us if an alum.
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Re: What you fail to realize, is that you are the current butt
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What you fail to realize
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is that the self-proclaimed importance you and your pals (aliases?) place on what goes on here really doesn't matter one iota in the grand scheme of things.
I'm guessing that you will continue responding with sarcastic memes, insults, and accusations, because that's what you do. I'm assuming you will try to justify it in the name of being the ultimate Clemson fan/representative, who thus decides what is and is not worthy of being posted on TigerNet. If I didn't know better, I would think that you guys are official forum moderators here.
I am a proud Clemson alum and fan, as I'm guessing you are. I passionately love our university, and all of its athletic programs - including men's basketball. I don't apologize for defending our school and sports programs, and voicing my opinions on those topics. After all, that's what message boards are for.
My view of Clemson is that of a wonderful university and special place - one that has proud and unique traditions, with its best days ahead of it. The Clemson University of today isn't the one many people grew up with, nor is it the Clemson some people seem to long for. Just as we have moved on from our all male, all white military status, we have also moved on from the rural agricultural school we used to be. I think that heritage should be honored and valued, but to act like it's still here today is failing to see the reality of present-day Clemson.
I don't expect everyone to agree with me on all things. That's okay, as long as we can all have a respectful discussion about it and disagree like adults. I feel like you and your pals (aliases?) are either unwilling or incapable of doing that on many occasions.
I'm left with the impression that you are not interested in having a real discussion regarding most topics here. Your input (aside from a sarcastic gif or image) is conspicuously absent in most of the legitimate sports topics. If I'm wrong, and you are interested in having real discussion rather than just recruiting your friends to gang up on people, I will look forward to seeing real conversation from you moving forward.
Go Tigers!
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I've never seen a resepctful dscussion where the word
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"stupid" was used.
Do you regret how you worded your original OP? Or, do you only want a respectful discussion when it suits your enlightened sensibilities?
And for the record, I'm neutral on orange overalls. But IF I had a negative opinion, I wouldn't be "stupid" enough to insult my university's fanbase.
See how that works?
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I haven't made up any facts.
Dec 9, 2019, 10:59 AM
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I don't need to make up facts when discussing the current state of our program. The fact that you don't always like the facts I post, or find them to not line up with your arguments, aren't my problem.
Truthfully, I don't really care what your opinion is. My posts here aren't intended to change your thinking.
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Not that I'm really curious - but what ARE
Dec 9, 2019, 11:08 AM
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He’s just minding his business and supporting Clemson...
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basketball.
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Re: I haven't made up any facts.
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Seriously Judge. That is not cool allowing Francis Marion to have his own opinions. I thought this was America?
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Re: I haven't made up any facts.
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Seriously Judge. That is not cool allowing Francis Marion to have his own opinions. I thought this was America?
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Yes or No...
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Regarding Colgate, you said: “ They are considered by some to be the best mid-major team in the country this year.”?
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Yes, I said that.
Dec 9, 2019, 9:13 PM
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I’m not sure why you still have a problem, weeks later, with me posting the opinion of others about a school you probably thought invented toothpaste.
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A simple yes/no would have been sufficient...
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Now, please provide a link to where anyone had them as the #1 mid-major team in the country, preseason, 2019.
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And an added insult at the end of your response?
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He doesn't have time to research that.***
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I’d be ecstatic if I thought 11 yrs was a reality***
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Re: Back when Coach Brownlee was hired, during his introductory
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He said biggest thing I need is somebody on TNet to support me unconditionally .... that is my Number 1 need !! -">
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Re: Back when Coach Brownlee was hired, during his introductory
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The Basilica of Saint Peter in Rome was started in the 4th century. Work continues today.
HTH
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But it's in better shape than our basketball team!!***
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Re: But it's in better shape than our basketball team!!***
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I think Brad said he needed Dabo and the football program to have overwhelming success to cover the major lameness of the basketball program except when playing overseas??
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Look, Clemson is rural and there are no ...
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basketball players in SC and OP took off in the middle of the night. Cut him a break.
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Re: Back when Coach Brownlee was hired, during his introductory
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Here’s the press conference that BB supporters don’t want you to see. Clearly says he didn’t take over a dumpster fire.
https://clemsontigers.com/brad-brownell-hiring-press-conference-transcript/Brad Brownell Hiring Press Conference Transcript April 13, 2010 Clemson Athletic Director Terry Don Phillips: "Thanks for being here today and we are delighted to introduce our new head basketball coach. Brad has had an opportunity to meet with the team very briefly. We are very proud of our basketball program and our student-athletes. They have a great foundation to build upon and move forward in the future and give us an opportunity to win championships. The best recommendations you can have and counsel you can have is from people in the coaching community. In conducting this search it was very evident that people in this profession feel very strongly about Brad. He is a disciplinarian in that the team is going to be very well prepared and do things right. Every team that he has coached, UNC Wilmington and Wright State, have been teams that have played extremely well and been well-coached. That is the most telling thing as I talked to basketball coaches throughout the country, with regard to coaches they believed had an opportunity to take our kids - and we are very proud of the kids we have here - and the foundations we have here and build upon it in a very aggressive state." Brownell's Opening Statement: "This has been a whirlwind five or six days for me. I was contacted and asked to come meet with Terry Don and Bill D'Andrea. I felt right from the start when I got in that interview room, that it was very evident how much I felt like I fit the Clemson family. We talked about values and ideals and what their expectations were, and I just felt a connection with both of these men and myself in how I believe a program should be run. I think they felt and sensed the passion from a guy that is looking for an unbelievable opportunity. "I can tell you today that I am humbled by this opportunity. I am truly humbled. This is a wonderful university. I am taking over a program that is in good shape and is in the best basketball league in the country. To have that chance is something I didn't know would ever happen. I am proud of myself in that I am a self-made coach. My dad was a high school coach. I played small college basketball but I worked my tail off as an assistant, graduate assistant, third assistant, second assistant, and associate head coach to get myself a chance to be a head coach one day. Then, I worked every day as a head coach with the idea of making my players have a great experience. "I want my players to have a great experience. I want them to win, because I think that is part of it. I want them to do well in school, graduate, and get involved in the community. I think if you do all of those things they will leave college a better man and with a great experience. Fortunately, I have been blessed to be at two great schools and we were able to recruit good kids and good players. "One of the things that attracted me to the Clemson job was, as soon as I was preparing for this interview, I immediately looked at the roster to see who is coming back, what do they have, are the guys any good, what have they done in the past. Obviously it didn't take me long. I knew they had been in the tournament and they have good players in the program. So to come into a situation that is not completely broken - one where you aren't asked to be a magician and fix it - is truly exciting for a young coach like me. I have done it both ways. I have taken over at UNC Wilmington for Jerry Wainwright, whose was a very good coach and a mentor to me. I took over a program that had been to the NCAA Tournament and we were able to go back my first year. I have also taken over at Wright State, where the program had not been in good shape. "I just talked to the players about how we were able to develop an unbelievable bond and relationship with that group (first team at Wright State) in a short amount of time, and we were able to get to the tournament in my first year. I feel blessed to be at this school and be with these guys. "I certainly want to thank President Barker. He was probably the most difficult of any of the interviews; he was tough and asked some really good questions. One of them being what my expectations were of him. Maybe I am smart enough to figure out my expectations of him are whatever his are of me. He was great. He talked to me about the Clemson family and the values here. I just felt like I fit that. I am a family man and believe in working really hard and doing things the right way. I believe in being honest. Our players are going to have those values. They are going to play like that and as a team. They are going to be successful. "I also want to talk about the league. The opportunity to coach in the ACC is wonderful, probably in April, but will be challenging come next January and February, but it is exciting. I want to compete against the best. My next goal is to take a team to the Final Four, and I told the people here that that was my goal. Certainly, if you can play well enough in the ACC and compete with the best teams in the ACC, then you have every opportunity to do that. I think it is possible at Clemson because this is a great place. Places are great because of people. The people here have an undying loyalty to this school and an unbelievable loyalty to each other. "The fan base is terrific. I watched ESPN's College GameDay here and it was unbelievable. I have coached in Littlejohn a long time ago, and it was a great experience. You have to have a great home court to be successful, and we have that here. There is good talent in the program. Good talent will help us recruit more good players. "I also have a history of doing well in conference tournaments. I like versatility and having a roster that has all kinds of different players. We have done a great job in recruiting. There are many ways to recruit. Just take a look at what Butler did, and I coached against them more times than I would have liked to last year. People get too caught up in rankings; it is not just how you collect pieces, but how you make pieces fit. How you make the pieces fit comes down to coaching, and I have full confidence that our coaching staff will make the pieces fit. If these guys will play as hard as they possibly can, not for me, but for each other and for Clemson, then we can be successful. I think that is what is great about this place. "These guys were so respectful to me, and they are talented and hungry, and I know I am. I am just excited about all of that. I believe in three things, what I call the principles of our program. I think you have to be passionate. I don't believe you wake up on the wrong side of the bed. You wake up with a good attitude and hit the ground running. I want guys that are passionate about our team. I want them to be passionate about each other, our school and about the process of getting better. Champions are passionate about getting better. Secondly, I think you have to work really hard and with purpose. You also better work smart. You better be intelligent and work at your craft in a way that is going to improve you. Talent is God-given, but skill is what you should be measured by. I think you are given a certain amount of blessings, and what you do with those blessings is how you should be measured. We are going to play with great purpose. You need to take great pride in what you do and we will take great pride in who we are and who we are playing for. We are going to give you great effort. I am unbelievably thankful to be here. I want to connect with our guys as much as possible and with everyone on campus and in the community. Our family is about as open and easygoing as they come. I think we are going to have a good time and adjust really well." How do you sell yourself to the players here and take ownership of them? "They are my players, and I told them that in the meeting. They are Clemson's players, and I am Clemson's coach. I think too many coaches get wrapped up in the stigma that this player is recruited by this coach. That won't happen here. I just hope we do it through honest dialogue. Change is difficult, but if you spend time with guys the right way, trust will come." Have you talked to any other coaches about their thoughts on you taking this job? "I have gotten probably 75 to 100 congratulatory calls. I did some research in talking to several coaches. Jerry (Wainwright) was one of them, as was my college coach Royce Walton. Jim Crews was another mentor of mine. I talked to Rick Barnes about Clemson. Everybody has been very positive about the experience. Certainly there are challenges, but everyone comes back to the same thing. It is a great place and a great opportunity and you are going to be coaching against some of the best players and coaches in America. Why would you not want to do that?" Did you target this as a job you wanted when Oliver Purnell left? "Yes. Immediately. I knew that this is right in my wheelhouse. This is a breadbasket job for me. I spent 12 years of my life at UNC Wilmington; I absolutely loved the place and the people were terrific. When you come to this part of the country and for 12 years you see the ACC, you realize they love basketball. I felt like this was a job that fit me. As soon as I spent time with Terry Don and Billy D, it took me about 30 minutes to realize I had to get this job. These are great people and this is a great place, and I needed to try like crazy to get this job." What are your expectations for the team? "I don't really get into what we are going to be and what our record is going to be. I expect us to play really hard and conduct ourselves in a professional manner. I have to get to know them, see them work out and interact with them. My expectations are high, no doubt. My expectations are high every year, and a lot of that will depend on the players. They have to buy into me and into what we are trying to do, and I think if that happens, we can be pretty good." What is your philosophy? "Again, versatility. You have to recruit versatility. When you are coaching at Wright State and Wilmington it is different because not a lot of kids grow up wanting to go there. Hopefully there will be kids who grew up wanting to go to Clemson. I don't just recruit a speed point guard or a big wing. I recruit players, and I want you to be a basketball player. I want to know about your character and what you will bring as a player in other areas. Are you going to bring toughness? That is a talent that can be overlooked in recruiting. We will press a little bit because these guys are used to doing it. I don't claim to have all the answers. I make adjustments. I have to get to know our personnel and make adjustments. I do believe this: to be successful at the highest level, ultimately your players have to make plays. The plays don't make the players. I want our guys to learn how to play. I want to teach them how to play, how to play with each other, teach them to play in flow, and how to play when a set breaks down, and in transition. There are some reads and reactions that have to be done in a motion offense that are not easy to pick up sometimes. We are going to figure out a way to make it work." Are you going to bring any staff from Wright State? "It is not 100 percent set. I am very optimistic that our associate head coach will be named the head coach at Wright State, so he may not come. I am taking names and listening. My phone is ringing off the hook about people that want to come join us here. They know this is a great place, and know this will be a great opportunity to make a name for themselves." What do you do about recruiting, since Clemson's lone signee has opted out of his NLI? "You don't panic. You do what you need to do to make roads in those situations. You get to those people quickly. You get a survey of the land, but you don't just hand out scholarships to fill spaces. You find out what your needs are, and people that are going to help your basketball program. You give yourself a chance to sign better players a year from now, but you don't go sign players just to sign them. I am excited about selling Clemson, and we will get out there and fight for the guys that originally committed and also for guys we think can help our team in the future." How different will it be recruiting here as opposed to Wright State? "It is a little more difficult from the standpoint that you have to get started a little earlier. You have to look at kids as sophomores and freshmen, as opposed to the other schools where you looked at just juniors and seniors. You have to get out and evaluate early. There are a lot of good players out there. I think you have to evaluate properly. I think misevaluation is common in our business. It will definitely be competitive, but I think there are also people that grew up wanting to come to Clemson and that can work to your advantage." Did you recruit in South Carolina when you were at UNC Wilmington? "It was more around the coast and a little bit in Columbia. I think you can get kids to come south. I tried to get kids to go north and that didn't work, so we stopped that. We had great success at Wilmington recruiting guys from Ohio to come play. We are not just going to look right around here in our breadbasket. We will certainly look at those areas first, but we are going to keep our eyes open for the Midwest and Northeast." Has the success of Oliver Purnell helped the program from an image standpoint? "I hope so. I haven't sold anything yet, or been out recruiting, but I would certainly think that since they have had success that people would see that. That opens eyes that you can be successful here." What are your thoughts on the major in-state rivalry? "I suppose I have to say I hate South Carolina, right? Is that a softball question; are you the guy I go to that makes me look good? I like that. I appreciate that. I think the rivalry is good. I haven't been here long enough to know. I know Darrin (Horn) and I respect him for what he has done, making his way from mid-major basketball to get to the highest level. He had to earn his job, too, and he is a very good coach and they will be a very formidable foe. At the same time, I hope that we will be as well." How much of an influence is Bobby Knight on what you do? "He was a big influence, but not directly, because I never worked for him. My two first mentors, Coach Walton that I played for, and Jim Crews, were part of the Indiana family and national champions there. There is no question they had the biggest impact on me in terms of style of play and coaching philosophy. Jerry (Wainwright) is great and I think I learned a lot about recruiting from him. He helped me figure out how to run a program the right way. He and I worked well together on the defensive side as well." Do you find it funny Jerry Wainwright started this by leaving DePaul? "I guess so. He is a great guy and a great coach. He was in a very difficult situation. He is one of the more respected coaches in our business. That is one thing I appreciate about what Terry Don said in his research of me, that coaches care about what other coaches think of them. He is unbelievably highly thought of in the coaching profession. We all know you can get in a tough situation at the wrong time, and it is hard to get out. It is a little bit ironic that it led to me having an opportunity. After talking to him on my way down here today, he is happy that I did get this opportunity and I am sure you will see him wearing orange at one of our games."
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Re: Back when Coach Brownlee was hired, during his introductory
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Here’s the press conference that BB supporters don’t want you to see. Clearly says he didn’t take over a dumpster fire. https://clemsontigers.com/brad-brownell-hiring-press-conference-transcript/Brad Brownell Hiring Press Conference Transcript April 13, 2010 Clemson Athletic Director Terry Don Phillips: "Thanks for being here today and we are delighted to introduce our new head basketball coach. Brad has had an opportunity to meet with the team very briefly. We are very proud of our basketball program and our student-athletes. They have a great foundation to build upon and move forward in the future and give us an opportunity to win championships. The best recommendations you can have and counsel you can have is from people in the coaching community. In conducting this search it was very evident that people in this profession feel very strongly about Brad. He is a disciplinarian in that the team is going to be very well prepared and do things right. Every team that he has coached, UNC Wilmington and Wright State, have been teams that have played extremely well and been well-coached. That is the most telling thing as I talked to basketball coaches throughout the country, with regard to coaches they believed had an opportunity to take our kids - and we are very proud of the kids we have here - and the foundations we have here and build upon it in a very aggressive state." Brownell's Opening Statement: "This has been a whirlwind five or six days for me. I was contacted and asked to come meet with Terry Don and Bill D'Andrea. I felt right from the start when I got in that interview room, that it was very evident how much I felt like I fit the Clemson family. We talked about values and ideals and what their expectations were, and I just felt a connection with both of these men and myself in how I believe a program should be run. I think they felt and sensed the passion from a guy that is looking for an unbelievable opportunity. "I can tell you today that I am humbled by this opportunity. I am truly humbled. This is a wonderful university. I am taking over a program that is in good shape and is in the best basketball league in the country. To have that chance is something I didn't know would ever happen. I am proud of myself in that I am a self-made coach. My dad was a high school coach. I played small college basketball but I worked my tail off as an assistant, graduate assistant, third assistant, second assistant, and associate head coach to get myself a chance to be a head coach one day. Then, I worked every day as a head coach with the idea of making my players have a great experience. "I want my players to have a great experience. I want them to win, because I think that is part of it. I want them to do well in school, graduate, and get involved in the community. I think if you do all of those things they will leave college a better man and with a great experience. Fortunately, I have been blessed to be at two great schools and we were able to recruit good kids and good players. "One of the things that attracted me to the Clemson job was, as soon as I was preparing for this interview, I immediately looked at the roster to see who is coming back, what do they have, are the guys any good, what have they done in the past. Obviously it didn't take me long. I knew they had been in the tournament and they have good players in the program. So to come into a situation that is not completely broken - one where you aren't asked to be a magician and fix it - is truly exciting for a young coach like me. I have done it both ways. I have taken over at UNC Wilmington for Jerry Wainwright, whose was a very good coach and a mentor to me. I took over a program that had been to the NCAA Tournament and we were able to go back my first year. I have also taken over at Wright State, where the program had not been in good shape. "I just talked to the players about how we were able to develop an unbelievable bond and relationship with that group (first team at Wright State) in a short amount of time, and we were able to get to the tournament in my first year. I feel blessed to be at this school and be with these guys. "I certainly want to thank President Barker. He was probably the most difficult of any of the interviews; he was tough and asked some really good questions. One of them being what my expectations were of him. Maybe I am smart enough to figure out my expectations of him are whatever his are of me. He was great. He talked to me about the Clemson family and the values here. I just felt like I fit that. I am a family man and believe in working really hard and doing things the right way. I believe in being honest. Our players are going to have those values. They are going to play like that and as a team. They are going to be successful. "I also want to talk about the league. The opportunity to coach in the ACC is wonderful, probably in April, but will be challenging come next January and February, but it is exciting. I want to compete against the best. My next goal is to take a team to the Final Four, and I told the people here that that was my goal. Certainly, if you can play well enough in the ACC and compete with the best teams in the ACC, then you have every opportunity to do that. I think it is possible at Clemson because this is a great place. Places are great because of people. The people here have an undying loyalty to this school and an unbelievable loyalty to each other. "The fan base is terrific. I watched ESPN's College GameDay here and it was unbelievable. I have coached in Littlejohn a long time ago, and it was a great experience. You have to have a great home court to be successful, and we have that here. There is good talent in the program. Good talent will help us recruit more good players. "I also have a history of doing well in conference tournaments. I like versatility and having a roster that has all kinds of different players. We have done a great job in recruiting. There are many ways to recruit. Just take a look at what Butler did, and I coached against them more times than I would have liked to last year. People get too caught up in rankings; it is not just how you collect pieces, but how you make pieces fit. How you make the pieces fit comes down to coaching, and I have full confidence that our coaching staff will make the pieces fit. If these guys will play as hard as they possibly can, not for me, but for each other and for Clemson, then we can be successful. I think that is what is great about this place. "These guys were so respectful to me, and they are talented and hungry, and I know I am. I am just excited about all of that. I believe in three things, what I call the principles of our program. I think you have to be passionate. I don't believe you wake up on the wrong side of the bed. You wake up with a good attitude and hit the ground running. I want guys that are passionate about our team. I want them to be passionate about each other, our school and about the process of getting better. Champions are passionate about getting better. Secondly, I think you have to work really hard and with purpose. You also better work smart. You better be intelligent and work at your craft in a way that is going to improve you. Talent is God-given, but skill is what you should be measured by. I think you are given a certain amount of blessings, and what you do with those blessings is how you should be measured. We are going to play with great purpose. You need to take great pride in what you do and we will take great pride in who we are and who we are playing for. We are going to give you great effort. I am unbelievably thankful to be here. I want to connect with our guys as much as possible and with everyone on campus and in the community. Our family is about as open and easygoing as they come. I think we are going to have a good time and adjust really well." How do you sell yourself to the players here and take ownership of them? "They are my players, and I told them that in the meeting. They are Clemson's players, and I am Clemson's coach. I think too many coaches get wrapped up in the stigma that this player is recruited by this coach. That won't happen here. I just hope we do it through honest dialogue. Change is difficult, but if you spend time with guys the right way, trust will come." Have you talked to any other coaches about their thoughts on you taking this job? "I have gotten probably 75 to 100 congratulatory calls. I did some research in talking to several coaches. Jerry (Wainwright) was one of them, as was my college coach Royce Walton. Jim Crews was another mentor of mine. I talked to Rick Barnes about Clemson. Everybody has been very positive about the experience. Certainly there are challenges, but everyone comes back to the same thing. It is a great place and a great opportunity and you are going to be coaching against some of the best players and coaches in America. Why would you not want to do that?" Did you target this as a job you wanted when Oliver Purnell left? "Yes. Immediately. I knew that this is right in my wheelhouse. This is a breadbasket job for me. I spent 12 years of my life at UNC Wilmington; I absolutely loved the place and the people were terrific. When you come to this part of the country and for 12 years you see the ACC, you realize they love basketball. I felt like this was a job that fit me. As soon as I spent time with Terry Don and Billy D, it took me about 30 minutes to realize I had to get this job. These are great people and this is a great place, and I needed to try like crazy to get this job." What are your expectations for the team? "I don't really get into what we are going to be and what our record is going to be. I expect us to play really hard and conduct ourselves in a professional manner. I have to get to know them, see them work out and interact with them. My expectations are high, no doubt. My expectations are high every year, and a lot of that will depend on the players. They have to buy into me and into what we are trying to do, and I think if that happens, we can be pretty good." What is your philosophy? "Again, versatility. You have to recruit versatility. When you are coaching at Wright State and Wilmington it is different because not a lot of kids grow up wanting to go there. Hopefully there will be kids who grew up wanting to go to Clemson. I don't just recruit a speed point guard or a big wing. I recruit players, and I want you to be a basketball player. I want to know about your character and what you will bring as a player in other areas. Are you going to bring toughness? That is a talent that can be overlooked in recruiting. We will press a little bit because these guys are used to doing it. I don't claim to have all the answers. I make adjustments. I have to get to know our personnel and make adjustments. I do believe this: to be successful at the highest level, ultimately your players have to make plays. The plays don't make the players. I want our guys to learn how to play. I want to teach them how to play, how to play with each other, teach them to play in flow, and how to play when a set breaks down, and in transition. There are some reads and reactions that have to be done in a motion offense that are not easy to pick up sometimes. We are going to figure out a way to make it work." Are you going to bring any staff from Wright State? "It is not 100 percent set. I am very optimistic that our associate head coach will be named the head coach at Wright State, so he may not come. I am taking names and listening. My phone is ringing off the hook about people that want to come join us here. They know this is a great place, and know this will be a great opportunity to make a name for themselves." What do you do about recruiting, since Clemson's lone signee has opted out of his NLI? "You don't panic. You do what you need to do to make roads in those situations. You get to those people quickly. You get a survey of the land, but you don't just hand out scholarships to fill spaces. You find out what your needs are, and people that are going to help your basketball program. You give yourself a chance to sign better players a year from now, but you don't go sign players just to sign them. I am excited about selling Clemson, and we will get out there and fight for the guys that originally committed and also for guys we think can help our team in the future." How different will it be recruiting here as opposed to Wright State? "It is a little more difficult from the standpoint that you have to get started a little earlier. You have to look at kids as sophomores and freshmen, as opposed to the other schools where you looked at just juniors and seniors. You have to get out and evaluate early. There are a lot of good players out there. I think you have to evaluate properly. I think misevaluation is common in our business. It will definitely be competitive, but I think there are also people that grew up wanting to come to Clemson and that can work to your advantage." Did you recruit in South Carolina when you were at UNC Wilmington? "It was more around the coast and a little bit in Columbia. I think you can get kids to come south. I tried to get kids to go north and that didn't work, so we stopped that. We had great success at Wilmington recruiting guys from Ohio to come play. We are not just going to look right around here in our breadbasket. We will certainly look at those areas first, but we are going to keep our eyes open for the Midwest and Northeast." Has the success of Oliver Purnell helped the program from an image standpoint? "I hope so. I haven't sold anything yet, or been out recruiting, but I would certainly think that since they have had success that people would see that. That opens eyes that you can be successful here." What are your thoughts on the major in-state rivalry? "I suppose I have to say I hate South Carolina, right? Is that a softball question; are you the guy I go to that makes me look good? I like that. I appreciate that. I think the rivalry is good. I haven't been here long enough to know. I know Darrin (Horn) and I respect him for what he has done, making his way from mid-major basketball to get to the highest level. He had to earn his job, too, and he is a very good coach and they will be a very formidable foe. At the same time, I hope that we will be as well." How much of an influence is Bobby Knight on what you do? "He was a big influence, but not directly, because I never worked for him. My two first mentors, Coach Walton that I played for, and Jim Crews, were part of the Indiana family and national champions there. There is no question they had the biggest impact on me in terms of style of play and coaching philosophy. Jerry (Wainwright) is great and I think I learned a lot about recruiting from him. He helped me figure out how to run a program the right way. He and I worked well together on the defensive side as well." Do you find it funny Jerry Wainwright started this by leaving DePaul? "I guess so. He is a great guy and a great coach. He was in a very difficult situation. He is one of the more respected coaches in our business. That is one thing I appreciate about what Terry Don said in his research of me, that coaches care about what other coaches think of them. He is unbelievably highly thought of in the coaching profession. We all know you can get in a tough situation at the wrong time, and it is hard to get out. It is a little bit ironic that it led to me having an opportunity. After talking to him on my way down here today, he is happy that I did get this opportunity and I am sure you will see him wearing orange at one of our games." Brad Brownell Hiring Press Conference Transcript April 13, 2010 Clemson Athletic Director Terry Don Phillips: "Thanks for being here today and we are delighted to introduce our new head basketball coach. Brad has had an opportunity to meet with the team very briefly. We are very proud of our basketball program and our student-athletes. They have a great foundation to build upon and move forward in the future and give us an opportunity to win championships. The best recommendations you can have and counsel you can have is from people in the coaching community. In conducting this search it was very evident that people in this profession feel very strongly about Brad. He is a disciplinarian in that the team is going to be very well prepared and do things right. Every team that he has coached, UNC Wilmington and Wright State, have been teams that have played extremely well and been well-coached. That is the most telling thing as I talked to basketball coaches throughout the country, with regard to coaches they believed had an opportunity to take our kids - and we are very proud of the kids we have here - and the foundations we have here and build upon it in a very aggressive state." Brownell's Opening Statement: "This has been a whirlwind five or six days for me. I was contacted and asked to come meet with Terry Don and Bill D'Andrea. I felt right from the start when I got in that interview room, that it was very evident how much I felt like I fit the Clemson family. We talked about values and ideals and what their expectations were, and I just felt a connection with both of these men and myself in how I believe a program should be run. I think they felt and sensed the passion from a guy that is looking for an unbelievable opportunity. "I can tell you today that I am humbled by this opportunity. I am truly humbled. This is a wonderful university. I am taking over a program that is in good shape and is in the best basketball league in the country. To have that chance is something I didn't know would ever happen. I am proud of myself in that I am a self-made coach. My dad was a high school coach. I played small college basketball but I worked my tail off as an assistant, graduate assistant, third assistant, second assistant, and associate head coach to get myself a chance to be a head coach one day. Then, I worked every day as a head coach with the idea of making my players have a great experience. "I want my players to have a great experience. I want them to win, because I think that is part of it. I want them to do well in school, graduate, and get involved in the community. I think if you do all of those things they will leave college a better man and with a great experience. Fortunately, I have been blessed to be at two great schools and we were able to recruit good kids and good players. "One of the things that attracted me to the Clemson job was, as soon as I was preparing for this interview, I immediately looked at the roster to see who is coming back, what do they have, are the guys any good, what have they done in the past. Obviously it didn't take me long. I knew they had been in the tournament and they have good players in the program. So to come into a situation that is not completely broken - one where you aren't asked to be a magician and fix it - is truly exciting for a young coach like me. I have done it both ways. I have taken over at UNC Wilmington for Jerry Wainwright, whose was a very good coach and a mentor to me. I took over a program that had been to the NCAA Tournament and we were able to go back my first year. I have also taken over at Wright State, where the program had not been in good shape. "I just talked to the players about how we were able to develop an unbelievable bond and relationship with that group (first team at Wright State) in a short amount of time, and we were able to get to the tournament in my first year. I feel blessed to be at this school and be with these guys. "I certainly want to thank President Barker. He was probably the most difficult of any of the interviews; he was tough and asked some really good questions. One of them being what my expectations were of him. Maybe I am smart enough to figure out my expectations of him are whatever his are of me. He was great. He talked to me about the Clemson family and the values here. I just felt like I fit that. I am a family man and believe in working really hard and doing things the right way. I believe in being honest. Our players are going to have those values. They are going to play like that and as a team. They are going to be successful. "I also want to talk about the league. The opportunity to coach in the ACC is wonderful, probably in April, but will be challenging come next January and February, but it is exciting. I want to compete against the best. My next goal is to take a team to the Final Four, and I told the people here that that was my goal. Certainly, if you can play well enough in the ACC and compete with the best teams in the ACC, then you have every opportunity to do that. I think it is possible at Clemson because this is a great place. Places are great because of people. The people here have an undying loyalty to this school and an unbelievable loyalty to each other. "The fan base is terrific. I watched ESPN's College GameDay here and it was unbelievable. I have coached in Littlejohn a long time ago, and it was a great experience. You have to have a great home court to be successful, and we have that here. There is good talent in the program. Good talent will help us recruit more good players. "I also have a history of doing well in conference tournaments. I like versatility and having a roster that has all kinds of different players. We have done a great job in recruiting. There are many ways to recruit. Just take a look at what Butler did, and I coached against them more times than I would have liked to last year. People get too caught up in rankings; it is not just how you collect pieces, but how you make pieces fit. How you make the pieces fit comes down to coaching, and I have full confidence that our coaching staff will make the pieces fit. If these guys will play as hard as they possibly can, not for me, but for each other and for Clemson, then we can be successful. I think that is what is great about this place. "These guys were so respectful to me, and they are talented and hungry, and I know I am. I am just excited about all of that. I believe in three things, what I call the principles of our program. I think you have to be passionate. I don't believe you wake up on the wrong side of the bed. You wake up with a good attitude and hit the ground running. I want guys that are passionate about our team. I want them to be passionate about each other, our school and about the process of getting better. Champions are passionate about getting better. Secondly, I think you have to work really hard and with purpose. You also better work smart. You better be intelligent and work at your craft in a way that is going to improve you. Talent is God-given, but skill is what you should be measured by. I think you are given a certain amount of blessings, and what you do with those blessings is how you should be measured. We are going to play with great purpose. You need to take great pride in what you do and we will take great pride in who we are and who we are playing for. We are going to give you great effort. I am unbelievably thankful to be here. I want to connect with our guys as much as possible and with everyone on campus and in the community. Our family is about as open and easygoing as they come. I think we are going to have a good time and adjust really well." How do you sell yourself to the players here and take ownership of them? "They are my players, and I told them that in the meeting. They are Clemson's players, and I am Clemson's coach. I think too many coaches get wrapped up in the stigma that this player is recruited by this coach. That won't happen here. I just hope we do it through honest dialogue. Change is difficult, but if you spend time with guys the right way, trust will come." Have you talked to any other coaches about their thoughts on you taking this job? "I have gotten probably 75 to 100 congratulatory calls. I did some research in talking to several coaches. Jerry (Wainwright) was one of them, as was my college coach Royce Walton. Jim Crews was another mentor of mine. I talked to Rick Barnes about Clemson. Everybody has been very positive about the experience. Certainly there are challenges, but everyone comes back to the same thing. It is a great place and a great opportunity and you are going to be coaching against some of the best players and coaches in America. Why would you not want to do that?" Did you target this as a job you wanted when Oliver Purnell left? "Yes. Immediately. I knew that this is right in my wheelhouse. This is a breadbasket job for me. I spent 12 years of my life at UNC Wilmington; I absolutely loved the place and the people were terrific. When you come to this part of the country and for 12 years you see the ACC, you realize they love basketball. I felt like this was a job that fit me. As soon as I spent time with Terry Don and Billy D, it took me about 30 minutes to realize I had to get this job. These are great people and this is a great place, and I needed to try like crazy to get this job." What are your expectations for the team? "I don't really get into what we are going to be and what our record is going to be. I expect us to play really hard and conduct ourselves in a professional manner. I have to get to know them, see them work out and interact with them. My expectations are high, no doubt. My expectations are high every year, and a lot of that will depend on the players. They have to buy into me and into what we are trying to do, and I think if that happens, we can be pretty good." What is your philosophy? "Again, versatility. You have to recruit versatility. When you are coaching at Wright State and Wilmington it is different because not a lot of kids grow up wanting to go there. Hopefully there will be kids who grew up wanting to go to Clemson. I don't just recruit a speed point guard or a big wing. I recruit players, and I want you to be a basketball player. I want to know about your character and what you will bring as a player in other areas. Are you going to bring toughness? That is a talent that can be overlooked in recruiting. We will press a little bit because these guys are used to doing it. I don't claim to have all the answers. I make adjustments. I have to get to know our personnel and make adjustments. I do believe this: to be successful at the highest level, ultimately your players have to make plays. The plays don't make the players. I want our guys to learn how to play. I want to teach them how to play, how to play with each other, teach them to play in flow, and how to play when a set breaks down, and in transition. There are some reads and reactions that have to be done in a motion offense that are not easy to pick up sometimes. We are going to figure out a way to make it work." Are you going to bring any staff from Wright State? "It is not 100 percent set. I am very optimistic that our associate head coach will be named the head coach at Wright State, so he may not come. I am taking names and listening. My phone is ringing off the hook about people that want to come join us here. They know this is a great place, and know this will be a great opportunity to make a name for themselves." What do you do about recruiting, since Clemson's lone signee has opted out of his NLI? "You don't panic. You do what you need to do to make roads in those situations. You get to those people quickly. You get a survey of the land, but you don't just hand out scholarships to fill spaces. You find out what your needs are, and people that are going to help your basketball program. You give yourself a chance to sign better players a year from now, but you don't go sign players just to sign them. I am excited about selling Clemson, and we will get out there and fight for the guys that originally committed and also for guys we think can help our team in the future." How different will it be recruiting here as opposed to Wright State? "It is a little more difficult from the standpoint that you have to get started a little earlier. You have to look at kids as sophomores and freshmen, as opposed to the other schools where you looked at just juniors and seniors. You have to get out and evaluate early. There are a lot of good players out there. I think you have to evaluate properly. I think misevaluation is common in our business. It will definitely be competitive, but I think there are also people that grew up wanting to come to Clemson and that can work to your advantage." Did you recruit in South Carolina when you were at UNC Wilmington? "It was more around the coast and a little bit in Columbia. I think you can get kids to come south. I tried to get kids to go north and that didn't work, so we stopped that. We had great success at Wilmington recruiting guys from Ohio to come play. We are not just going to look right around here in our breadbasket. We will certainly look at those areas first, but we are going to keep our eyes open for the Midwest and Northeast." Has the success of Oliver Purnell helped the program from an image standpoint? "I hope so. I haven't sold anything yet, or been out recruiting, but I would certainly think that since they have had success that people would see that. That opens eyes that you can be successful here." What are your thoughts on the major in-state rivalry? "I suppose I have to say I hate South Carolina, right? Is that a softball question; are you the guy I go to that makes me look good? I like that. I appreciate that. I think the rivalry is good. I haven't been here long enough to know. I know Darrin (Horn) and I respect him for what he has done, making his way from mid-major basketball to get to the highest level. He had to earn his job, too, and he is a very good coach and they will be a very formidable foe. At the same time, I hope that we will be as well." How much of an influence is Bobby Knight on what you do? "He was a big influence, but not directly, because I never worked for him. My two first mentors, Coach Walton that I played for, and Jim Crews, were part of the Indiana family and national champions there. There is no question they had the biggest impact on me in terms of style of play and coaching philosophy. Jerry (Wainwright) is great and I think I learned a lot about recruiting from him. He helped me figure out how to run a program the right way. He and I worked well together on the defensive side as well." Do you find it funny Jerry Wainwright started this by leaving DePaul? "I guess so. He is a great guy and a great coach. He was in a very difficult situation. He is one of the more respected coaches in our business. That is one thing I appreciate about what Terry Don said in his research of me, that coaches care about what other coaches think of them. He is unbelievably highly thought of in the coaching profession. We all know you can get in a tough situation at the wrong time, and it is hard to get out. It is a little bit ironic that it led to me having an opportunity. After talking to him on my way down here today, he is happy that I did get this opportunity and I am sure you will see him wearing orange at one of our games." Brad Brownell Hiring Press Conference Transcript April 13, 2010 Clemson Athletic Director Terry Don Phillips: "Thanks for being here today and we are delighted to introduce our new head basketball coach. Brad has had an opportunity to meet with the team very briefly. We are very proud of our basketball program and our student-athletes. They have a great foundation to build upon and move forward in the future and give us an opportunity to win championships. The best recommendations you can have and counsel you can have is from people in the coaching community. In conducting this search it was very evident that people in this profession feel very strongly about Brad. He is a disciplinarian in that the team is going to be very well prepared and do things right. Every team that he has coached, UNC Wilmington and Wright State, have been teams that have played extremely well and been well-coached. That is the most telling thing as I talked to basketball coaches throughout the country, with regard to coaches they believed had an opportunity to take our kids - and we are very proud of the kids we have here - and the foundations we have here and build upon it in a very aggressive state." Brownell's Opening Statement: "This has been a whirlwind five or six days for me. I was contacted and asked to come meet with Terry Don and Bill D'Andrea. I felt right from the start when I got in that interview room, that it was very evident how much I felt like I fit the Clemson family. We talked about values and ideals and what their expectations were, and I just felt a connection with both of these men and myself in how I believe a program should be run. I think they felt and sensed the passion from a guy that is looking for an unbelievable opportunity. "I can tell you today that I am humbled by this opportunity. I am truly humbled. This is a wonderful university. I am taking over a program that is in good shape and is in the best basketball league in the country. To have that chance is something I didn't know would ever happen. I am proud of myself in that I am a self-made coach. My dad was a high school coach. I played small college basketball but I worked my tail off as an assistant, graduate assistant, third assistant, second assistant, and associate head coach to get myself a chance to be a head coach one day. Then, I worked every day as a head coach with the idea of making my players have a great experience. "I want my players to have a great experience. I want them to win, because I think that is part of it. I want them to do well in school, graduate, and get involved in the community. I think if you do all of those things they will leave college a better man and with a great experience. Fortunately, I have been blessed to be at two great schools and we were able to recruit good kids and good players. "One of the things that attracted me to the Clemson job was, as soon as I was preparing for this interview, I immediately looked at the roster to see who is coming back, what do they have, are the guys any good, what have they done in the past. Obviously it didn't take me long. I knew they had been in the tournament and they have good players in the program. So to come into a situation that is not completely broken - one where you aren't asked to be a magician and fix it - is truly exciting for a young coach like me. I have done it both ways. I have taken over at UNC Wilmington for Jerry Wainwright, whose was a very good coach and a mentor to me. I took over a program that had been to the NCAA Tournament and we were able to go back my first year. I have also taken over at Wright State, where the program had not been in good shape. "I just talked to the players about how we were able to develop an unbelievable bond and relationship with that group (first team at Wright State) in a short amount of time, and we were able to get to the tournament in my first year. I feel blessed to be at this school and be with these guys. "I certainly want to thank President Barker. He was probably the most difficult of any of the interviews; he was tough and asked some really good questions. One of them being what my expectations were of him. Maybe I am smart enough to figure out my expectations of him are whatever his are of me. He was great. He talked to me about the Clemson family and the values here. I just felt like I fit that. I am a family man and believe in working really hard and doing things the right way. I believe in being honest. Our players are going to have those values. They are going to play like that and as a team. They are going to be successful. "I also want to talk about the league. The opportunity to coach in the ACC is wonderful, probably in April, but will be challenging come next January and February, but it is exciting. I want to compete against the best. My next goal is to take a team to the Final Four, and I told the people here that that was my goal. Certainly, if you can play well enough in the ACC and compete with the best teams in the ACC, then you have every opportunity to do that. I think it is possible at Clemson because this is a great place. Places are great because of people. The people here have an undying loyalty to this school and an unbelievable loyalty to each other. "The fan base is terrific. I watched ESPN's College GameDay here and it was unbelievable. I have coached in Littlejohn a long time ago, and it was a great experience. You have to have a great home court to be successful, and we have that here. There is good talent in the program. Good talent will help us recruit more good players. "I also have a history of doing well in conference tournaments. I like versatility and having a roster that has all kinds of different players. We have done a great job in recruiting. There are many ways to recruit. Just take a look at what Butler did, and I coached against them more times than I would have liked to last year. People get too caught up in rankings; it is not just how you collect pieces, but how you make pieces fit. How you make the pieces fit comes down to coaching, and I have full confidence that our coaching staff will make the pieces fit. If these guys will play as hard as they possibly can, not for me, but for each other and for Clemson, then we can be successful. I think that is what is great about this place. "These guys were so respectful to me, and they are talented and hungry, and I know I am. I am just excited about all of that. I believe in three things, what I call the principles of our program. I think you have to be passionate. I don't believe you wake up on the wrong side of the bed. You wake up with a good attitude and hit the ground running. I want guys that are passionate about our team. I want them to be passionate about each other, our school and about the process of getting better. Champions are passionate about getting better. Secondly, I think you have to work really hard and with purpose. You also better work smart. You better be intelligent and work at your craft in a way that is going to improve you. Talent is God-given, but skill is what you should be measured by. I think you are given a certain amount of blessings, and what you do with those blessings is how you should be measured. We are going to play with great purpose. You need to take great pride in what you do and we will take great pride in who we are and who we are playing for. We are going to give you great effort. I am unbelievably thankful to be here. I want to connect with our guys as much as possible and with everyone on campus and in the community. Our family is about as open and easygoing as they come. I think we are going to have a good time and adjust really well." How do you sell yourself to the players here and take ownership of them? "They are my players, and I told them that in the meeting. They are Clemson's players, and I am Clemson's coach. I think too many coaches get wrapped up in the stigma that this player is recruited by this coach. That won't happen here. I just hope we do it through honest dialogue. Change is difficult, but if you spend time with guys the right way, trust will come." Have you talked to any other coaches about their thoughts on you taking this job? "I have gotten probably 75 to 100 congratulatory calls. I did some research in talking to several coaches. Jerry (Wainwright) was one of them, as was my college coach Royce Walton. Jim Crews was another mentor of mine. I talked to Rick Barnes about Clemson. Everybody has been very positive about the experience. Certainly there are challenges, but everyone comes back to the same thing. It is a great place and a great opportunity and you are going to be coaching against some of the best players and coaches in America. Why would you not want to do that?" Did you target this as a job you wanted when Oliver Purnell left? "Yes. Immediately. I knew that this is right in my wheelhouse. This is a breadbasket job for me. I spent 12 years of my life at UNC Wilmington; I absolutely loved the place and the people were terrific. When you come to this part of the country and for 12 years you see the ACC, you realize they love basketball. I felt like this was a job that fit me. As soon as I spent time with Terry Don and Billy D, it took me about 30 minutes to realize I had to get this job. These are great people and this is a great place, and I needed to try like crazy to get this job." What are your expectations for the team? "I don't really get into what we are going to be and what our record is going to be. I expect us to play really hard and conduct ourselves in a professional manner. I have to get to know them, see them work out and interact with them. My expectations are high, no doubt. My expectations are high every year, and a lot of that will depend on the players. They have to buy into me and into what we are trying to do, and I think if that happens, we can be pretty good." What is your philosophy? "Again, versatility. You have to recruit versatility. When you are coaching at Wright State and Wilmington it is different because not a lot of kids grow up wanting to go there. Hopefully there will be kids who grew up wanting to go to Clemson. I don't just recruit a speed point guard or a big wing. I recruit players, and I want you to be a basketball player. I want to know about your character and what you will bring as a player in other areas. Are you going to bring toughness? That is a talent that can be overlooked in recruiting. We will press a little bit because these guys are used to doing it. I don't claim to have all the answers. I make adjustments. I have to get to know our personnel and make adjustments. I do believe this: to be successful at the highest level, ultimately your players have to make plays. The plays don't make the players. I want our guys to learn how to play. I want to teach them how to play, how to play with each other, teach them to play in flow, and how to play when a set breaks down, and in transition. There are some reads and reactions that have to be done in a motion offense that are not easy to pick up sometimes. We are going to figure out a way to make it work." Are you going to bring any staff from Wright State? "It is not 100 percent set. I am very optimistic that our associate head coach will be named the head coach at Wright State, so he may not come. I am taking names and listening. My phone is ringing off the hook about people that want to come join us here. They know this is a great place, and know this will be a great opportunity to make a name for themselves." What do you do about recruiting, since Clemson's lone signee has opted out of his NLI? "You don't panic. You do what you need to do to make roads in those situations. You get to those people quickly. You get a survey of the land, but you don't just hand out scholarships to fill spaces. You find out what your needs are, and people that are going to help your basketball program. You give yourself a chance to sign better players a year from now, but you don't go sign players just to sign them. I am excited about selling Clemson, and we will get out there and fight for the guys that originally committed and also for guys we think can help our team in the future." How different will it be recruiting here as opposed to Wright State? "It is a little more difficult from the standpoint that you have to get started a little earlier. You have to look at kids as sophomores and freshmen, as opposed to the other schools where you looked at just juniors and seniors. You have to get out and evaluate early. There are a lot of good players out there. I think you have to evaluate properly. I think misevaluation is common in our business. It will definitely be competitive, but I think there are also people that grew up wanting to come to Clemson and that can work to your advantage." Did you recruit in South Carolina when you were at UNC Wilmington? "It was more around the coast and a little bit in Columbia. I think you can get kids to come south. I tried to get kids to go north and that didn't work, so we stopped that. We had great success at Wilmington recruiting guys from Ohio to come play. We are not just going to look right around here in our breadbasket. We will certainly look at those areas first, but we are going to keep our eyes open for the Midwest and Northeast." Has the success of Oliver Purnell helped the program from an image standpoint? "I hope so. I haven't sold anything yet, or been out recruiting, but I would certainly think that since they have had success that people would see that. That opens eyes that you can be successful here." What are your thoughts on the major in-state rivalry? "I suppose I have to say I hate South Carolina, right? Is that a softball question; are you the guy I go to that makes me look good? I like that. I appreciate that. I think the rivalry is good. I haven't been here long enough to know. I know Darrin (Horn) and I respect him for what he has done, making his way from mid-major basketball to get to the highest level. He had to earn his job, too, and he is a very good coach and they will be a very formidable foe. At the same time, I hope that we will be as well." How much of an influence is Bobby Knight on what you do? "He was a big influence, but not directly, because I never worked for him. My two first mentors, Coach Walton that I played for, and Jim Crews, were part of the Indiana family and national champions there. There is no question they had the biggest impact on me in terms of style of play and coaching philosophy. Jerry (Wainwright) is great and I think I learned a lot about recruiting from him. He helped me figure out how to run a program the right way. He and I worked well together on the defensive side as well." Do you find it funny Jerry Wainwright started this by leaving DePaul? "I guess so. He is a great guy and a great coach. He was in a very difficult situation. He is one of the more respected coaches in our business. That is one thing I appreciate about what Terry Don said in his research of me, that coaches care about what other coaches think of them. He is unbelievably highly thought of in the coaching profession. We all know you can get in a tough situation at the wrong time, and it is hard to get out. It is a little bit ironic that it led to me having an opportunity. After talking to him on my way down here today, he is happy that I did get this opportunity and I am sure you will see him wearing orange at one of our games." Brad Brownell Hiring Press Conference Transcript April 13, 2010 Clemson Athletic Director Terry Don Phillips: "Thanks for being here today and we are delighted to introduce our new head basketball coach. Brad has had an opportunity to meet with the team very briefly. We are very proud of our basketball program and our student-athletes. They have a great foundation to build upon and move forward in the future and give us an opportunity to win championships. The best recommendations you can have and counsel you can have is from people in the coaching community. In conducting this search it was very evident that people in this profession feel very strongly about Brad. He is a disciplinarian in that the team is going to be very well prepared and do things right. Every team that he has coached, UNC Wilmington and Wright State, have been teams that have played extremely well and been well-coached. That is the most telling thing as I talked to basketball coaches throughout the country, with regard to coaches they believed had an opportunity to take our kids - and we are very proud of the kids we have here - and the foundations we have here and build upon it in a very aggressive state." Brownell's Opening Statement: "This has been a whirlwind five or six days for me. I was contacted and asked to come meet with Terry Don and Bill D'Andrea. I felt right from the start when I got in that interview room, that it was very evident how much I felt like I fit the Clemson family. We talked about values and ideals and what their expectations were, and I just felt a connection with both of these men and myself in how I believe a program should be run. I think they felt and sensed the passion from a guy that is looking for an unbelievable opportunity. "I can tell you today that I am humbled by this opportunity. I am truly humbled. This is a wonderful university. I am taking over a program that is in good shape and is in the best basketball league in the country. To have that chance is something I didn't know would ever happen. I am proud of myself in that I am a self-made coach. My dad was a high school coach. I played small college basketball but I worked my tail off as an assistant, graduate assistant, third assistant, second assistant, and associate head coach to get myself a chance to be a head coach one day. Then, I worked every day as a head coach with the idea of making my players have a great experience. "I want my players to have a great experience. I want them to win, because I think that is part of it. I want them to do well in school, graduate, and get involved in the community. I think if you do all of those things they will leave college a better man and with a great experience. Fortunately, I have been blessed to be at two great schools and we were able to recruit good kids and good players. "One of the things that attracted me to the Clemson job was, as soon as I was preparing for this interview, I immediately looked at the roster to see who is coming back, what do they have, are the guys any good, what have they done in the past. Obviously it didn't take me long. I knew they had been in the tournament and they have good players in the program. So to come into a situation that is not completely broken - one where you aren't asked to be a magician and fix it - is truly exciting for a young coach like me. I have done it both ways. I have taken over at UNC Wilmington for Jerry Wainwright, whose was a very good coach and a mentor to me. I took over a program that had been to the NCAA Tournament and we were able to go back my first year. I have also taken over at Wright State, where the program had not been in good shape. "I just talked to the players about how we were able to develop an unbelievable bond and relationship with that group (first team at Wright State) in a short amount of time, and we were able to get to the tournament in my first year. I feel blessed to be at this school and be with these guys. "I certainly want to thank President Barker. He was probably the most difficult of any of the interviews; he was tough and asked some really good questions. One of them being what my expectations were of him. Maybe I am smart enough to figure out my expectations of him are whatever his are of me. He was great. He talked to me about the Clemson family and the values here. I just felt like I fit that. I am a family man and believe in working really hard and doing things the right way. I believe in being honest. Our players are going to have those values. They are going to play like that and as a team. They are going to be successful. "I also want to talk about the league. The opportunity to coach in the ACC is wonderful, probably in April, but will be challenging come next January and February, but it is exciting. I want to compete against the best. My next goal is to take a team to the Final Four, and I told the people here that that was my goal. Certainly, if you can play well enough in the ACC and compete with the best teams in the ACC, then you have every opportunity to do that. I think it is possible at Clemson because this is a great place. Places are great because of people. The people here have an undying loyalty to this school and an unbelievable loyalty to each other. "The fan base is terrific. I watched ESPN's College GameDay here and it was unbelievable. I have coached in Littlejohn a long time ago, and it was a great experience. You have to have a great home court to be successful, and we have that here. There is good talent in the program. Good talent will help us recruit more good players. "I also have a history of doing well in conference tournaments. I like versatility and having a roster that has all kinds of different players. We have done a great job in recruiting. There are many ways to recruit. Just take a look at what Butler did, and I coached against them more times than I would have liked to last year. People get too caught up in rankings; it is not just how you collect pieces, but how you make pieces fit. How you make the pieces fit comes down to coaching, and I have full confidence that our coaching staff will make the pieces fit. If these guys will play as hard as they possibly can, not for me, but for each other and for Clemson, then we can be successful. I think that is what is great about this place. "These guys were so respectful to me, and they are talented and hungry, and I know I am. I am just excited about all of that. I believe in three things, what I call the principles of our program. I think you have to be passionate. I don't believe you wake up on the wrong side of the bed. You wake up with a good attitude and hit the ground running. I want guys that are passionate about our team. I want them to be passionate about each other, our school and about the process of getting better. Champions are passionate about getting better. Secondly, I think you have to work really hard and with purpose. You also better work smart. You better be intelligent and work at your craft in a way that is going to improve you. Talent is God-given, but skill is what you should be measured by. I think you are given a certain amount of blessings, and what you do with those blessings is how you should be measured. We are going to play with great purpose. You need to take great pride in what you do and we will take great pride in who we are and who we are playing for. We are going to give you great effort. I am unbelievably thankful to be here. I want to connect with our guys as much as possible and with everyone on campus and in the community. Our family is about as open and easygoing as they come. I think we are going to have a good time and adjust really well." How do you sell yourself to the players here and take ownership of them? "They are my players, and I told them that in the meeting. They are Clemson's players, and I am Clemson's coach. I think too many coaches get wrapped up in the stigma that this player is recruited by this coach. That won't happen here. I just hope we do it through honest dialogue. Change is difficult, but if you spend time with guys the right way, trust will come." Have you talked to any other coaches about their thoughts on you taking this job? "I have gotten probably 75 to 100 congratulatory calls. I did some research in talking to several coaches. Jerry (Wainwright) was one of them, as was my college coach Royce Walton. Jim Crews was another mentor of mine. I talked to Rick Barnes about Clemson. Everybody has been very positive about the experience. Certainly there are challenges, but everyone comes back to the same thing. It is a great place and a great opportunity and you are going to be coaching against some of the best players and coaches in America. Why would you not want to do that?" Did you target this as a job you wanted when Oliver Purnell left? "Yes. Immediately. I knew that this is right in my wheelhouse. This is a breadbasket job for me. I spent 12 years of my life at UNC Wilmington; I absolutely loved the place and the people were terrific. When you come to this part of the country and for 12 years you see the ACC, you realize they love basketball. I felt like this was a job that fit me. As soon as I spent time with Terry Don and Billy D, it took me about 30 minutes to realize I had to get this job. These are great people and this is a great place, and I needed to try like crazy to get this job." What are your expectations for the team? "I don't really get into what we are going to be and what our record is going to be. I expect us to play really hard and conduct ourselves in a professional manner. I have to get to know them, see them work out and interact with them. My expectations are high, no doubt. My expectations are high every year, and a lot of that will depend on the players. They have to buy into me and into what we are trying to do, and I think if that happens, we can be pretty good." What is your philosophy? "Again, versatility. You have to recruit versatility. When you are coaching at Wright State and Wilmington it is different because not a lot of kids grow up wanting to go there. Hopefully there will be kids who grew up wanting to go to Clemson. I don't just recruit a speed point guard or a big wing. I recruit players, and I want you to be a basketball player. I want to know about your character and what you will bring as a player in other areas. Are you going to bring toughness? That is a talent that can be overlooked in recruiting. We will press a little bit because these guys are used to doing it. I don't claim to have all the answers. I make adjustments. I have to get to know our personnel and make adjustments. I do believe this: to be successful at the highest level, ultimately your players have to make plays. The plays don't make the players. I want our guys to learn how to play. I want to teach them how to play, how to play with each other, teach them to play in flow, and how to play when a set breaks down, and in transition. There are some reads and reactions that have to be done in a motion offense that are not easy to pick up sometimes. We are going to figure out a way to make it work." Are you going to bring any staff from Wright State? "It is not 100 percent set. I am very optimistic that our associate head coach will be named the head coach at Wright State, so he may not come. I am taking names and listening. My phone is ringing off the hook about people that want to come join us here. They know this is a great place, and know this will be a great opportunity to make a name for themselves." What do you do about recruiting, since Clemson's lone signee has opted out of his NLI? "You don't panic. You do what you need to do to make roads in those situations. You get to those people quickly. You get a survey of the land, but you don't just hand out scholarships to fill spaces. You find out what your needs are, and people that are going to help your basketball program. You give yourself a chance to sign better players a year from now, but you don't go sign players just to sign them. I am excited about selling Clemson, and we will get out there and fight for the guys that originally committed and also for guys we think can help our team in the future." How different will it be recruiting here as opposed to Wright State? "It is a little more difficult from the standpoint that you have to get started a little earlier. You have to look at kids as sophomores and freshmen, as opposed to the other schools where you looked at just juniors and seniors. You have to get out and evaluate early. There are a lot of good players out there. I think you have to evaluate properly. I think misevaluation is common in our business. It will definitely be competitive, but I think there are also people that grew up wanting to come to Clemson and that can work to your advantage." Did you recruit in South Carolina when you were at UNC Wilmington? "It was more around the coast and a little bit in Columbia. I think you can get kids to come south. I tried to get kids to go north and that didn't work, so we stopped that. We had great success at Wilmington recruiting guys from Ohio to come play. We are not just going to look right around here in our breadbasket. We will certainly look at those areas first, but we are going to keep our eyes open for the Midwest and Northeast." Has the success of Oliver Purnell helped the program from an image standpoint? "I hope so. I haven't sold anything yet, or been out recruiting, but I would certainly think that since they have had success that people would see that. That opens eyes that you can be successful here." What are your thoughts on the major in-state rivalry? "I suppose I have to say I hate South Carolina, right? Is that a softball question; are you the guy I go to that makes me look good? I like that. I appreciate that. I think the rivalry is good. I haven't been here long enough to know. I know Darrin (Horn) and I respect him for what he has done, making his way from mid-major basketball to get to the highest level. He had to earn his job, too, and he is a very good coach and they will be a very formidable foe. At the same time, I hope that we will be as well." How much of an influence is Bobby Knight on what you do? "He was a big influence, but not directly, because I never worked for him. My two first mentors, Coach Walton that I played for, and Jim Crews, were part of the Indiana family and national champions there. There is no question they had the biggest impact on me in terms of style of play and coaching philosophy. Jerry (Wainwright) is great and I think I learned a lot about recruiting from him. He helped me figure out how to run a program the right way. He and I worked well together on the defensive side as well." Do you find it funny Jerry Wainwright started this by leaving DePaul? "I guess so. He is a great guy and a great coach. He was in a very difficult situation. He is one of the more respected coaches in our business. That is one thing I appreciate about what Terry Don said in his research of me, that coaches care about what other coaches think of them. He is unbelievably highly thought of in the coaching profession. We all know you can get in a tough situation at the wrong time, and it is hard to get out. It is a little bit ironic that it led to me having an opportunity. After talking to him on my way down here today, he is happy that I did get this opportunity and I am sure you will see him wearing orange at one of our games."
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Re: Back when Coach Brownlee was hired, during his introductory
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Judge...what do you think about that transcript?
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All this thread is missing is someone bringing Francis Marion’s
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mother into it. Then, we’ll have us a real hoedown!
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Does anyone know if she wears orange overalls?***
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Were you able to find that preseason poll?***
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Re: Back when Coach Brownlee was hired, during his introductory
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You better be careful.....Judge Keller ain’t going to like this.....Go Tigers!!!!
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