Clemson Holds Stadium Scrimmage

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STS can afford to be honest. Dabo & T-Net can't.

Apr 4, 2011, 1:02 PM [ in reply to Sounds like a totally different team than what I read on STS ]

The guys at ShankinTheSouthland.com don't have press credentials and so they can afford to call it like they see it (good or bad) without having to worry about losing access to the coaches & players. The guys at T-Net, and all of the other local reporters can't afford to report anything negative because they're afraid that Clemson will deny them access to the players, coaches, & administrators, thereby denying them their livlihood. (By deny them access, I don't mean that Clemson would deny them access to press conferences and open-to-the-media events. I mean that Clemson won't grant them special one-on-one interviews, and the coaches will avoid speaking with them or answering their questions.)

That's why everything you read on T-Net and in the local papers is always positive, positive, positive, sunshine, and happiness. T-Net and the local press never point out any of the blatantly obvious coaching failures or administration failures. They don't question things like promoting an inexperience wide-receivers coach to head coach AND making the tight-ends coach the OC. They are (understandably) in job preservation mode. So they just parrot whatever positive spin the Clemson athletic department gives them.

On the other hand, the guys at ShakinTheSouthland.com give credit where credit is due. They give criticism where criticism is due. And they provide excellent statistical analysis, and excellent (detailed, technical) play-by-play analysis of football games. I can't think of one time where STS has been wrong about anything regarding football, whereas T-Net and the local media always parrots the unrealistic positive-spin PR from the Clemson athletic department.

I read T-Net in hopes of learning stuff, like the pass completion stats above. But I never, ever expect to read any reasonable analyis. I read STS to get knowledgeable and honest analysis.

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Sounds like a totally different team than what I read on STS

STS? Not an acronym I'm familiar with. What is it?***

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Re: Sounds like a totally different team than what I read on STS

which has been the case more often than not

STS can afford to be honest. Dabo & T-Net can't.

I see why Dabo is high on Howard but

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