All-In [27893]
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This is a hard one for me...
Dec 16, 2021, 8:43 PM
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I have loved College Football and Clemson for as long as I can remember, since I was a little kid. I love the pomp and circumstance, pageantry, excitement, atmosphere, etc. when it comes to College Football. I can remember being so exited for Saturday to come around and I would plan my entire Saturday around watching and listening to College Football. To me, there was nothing like gameday Saturdays and watching teams win and teams get upset and fall from the ranks all around the Nation. I loved everything about College Football. The bands playing, the cheerleaders cheering, the gameday fight songs and chants. I loved the rivalries and traditions. I loved all of College Football and everything it had to offer. I loved that it was College Students playing and that paying players was strictly forbidden. I loved the Bowl Season, New Years Day, the gameday parades, the games, the beautiful Bowl stadiums painted up and decorated. I loved the off-season, the recruiting, February signing day, spring practice and spring games. I loved the summer pre-season talk, summer camps, summer practice, talk shows and predictions. I loved College Football and it was one of the things that made my life complete and brought me true happiness.
Its no longer the same for me. I love Clemson, I love the Tiger faithful but College Football is no longer what I remembered. All of the things I loved are now dead or are dying quickly. I just don't get excited about College Football anymore. Maybe I am just getting older and changing my life, maybe its because its turned into a money making business machine, maybe its the greed, maybe its all of the above or none of the above.
I love T-NET and many of you on here. You all are awesome. Some are very funny, some are just great people but all have given me years of enjoyment reading your posts. I am going to step away for a while, maybe forever, I need a break. I just cant find it in me to continue to support College Athletics the way I should. Clemson deserves its fans to be ALL IN all the time and that is something I have struggled with all year. I will be around from time to time to read posts and get laughs but I wont be around as much. I need to find happiness in life, happiness in something. College Athletics and even Clemson Football is no longer making me happy. It is nothing Clemson has done or the coaches and players. It is simply that I don't find the happiness with College Football or College Athletics like I did years ago. Sometimes, I get more depressed when I read about the NIL or Transfer Portal. These things have changed the game so much that is just not something I can get behind. This is a sad time for me, I miss the past and I miss the golden days of College Football.
Love you all, thanks for the great memories on T-Net. I will keep my account active and, from time to time, like posts. Depression and Sadness are real. People struggle everyday with depression. Sometimes, as a man or a women, you have to stop being embarrassed and make a change before things get pout of hand. I need to make those changes sooner rather than later. Sports and College football is just a small percentage of my sadness. I miss my family. I miss having them around. Holidays are not the same. Life is just not the same on all fronts.
Keep cheering those Tiger's on and pray for me if that is something you believe in.
God speed ladies and gentleman. Whether you are a Tiger or a Gamecock, keep your heads up!
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