Glitz and Glamor VS Power Football

Jan 9, 2013, 2:54 PM

It is quite obvious that in many ways, football is just football, no matter what year or what generation. I think there is no doubt that Clemson, with Tajh coming back will win a bunch of games next year. I think its fair to say we will win 11 or 12 games and maybe even be a serious contender for a national title with our D's improvement.

I think with a flashy offense filled with glamor and some power, along with a decent defense, you can expect to win a national title and have good seasons every so often. The last couple years we have done very well and Clemson has proved they are certainly on the rise.

The question is, can this be sustained and can they win a national title with this type program? I think they can, but only once in a while. Beinf cocnsistent in within the likes of the ACC, is something both FSU and Clemson should always be able to do, but to be consistently good on a national level for a long time, I think you have to take a page from Saban, The Bear and Danny Ford.... and that is POWER football.

Alabama and Danny Fords Clemson and even Harbough's Stanford teams may not have been trully flashy and glamorous but they all had Power. They simply out physicaled you from the word go. They over powered you on both sides of the ball and recrutied to dominate, not compete. I mean sure, a flashy team might sneak in a td from time to time or flash their way to a few awesome plays, but in the end, Power football is king.

Look at LSU, we beat them and proved we can compete with them on any given day but.... who would win if we played 10 times? Id wager LSU 7 out of 10. We had to play a greta game to have a chance and they didnt play all that greta and we still were within one first down of losing. Sure we helped them some but their D had something to do with that.

The point in all this is simple, the teams that have beaten Clemson lately all did something similar, they out physicaled us. They had corners physical enough to put pressure on our receivers and get in their face right at the line. They were just more physical than us. Granted LSU was physical too bu8t sometimes they gave us too much room. I'd argue SC and FSU had a better plan in that regard.

So IMO, I think we will have a greta team next season if our D can repeat its CFA preformance but if Dabo really wants long term success, he needs to add much more power and physicalness to our team. Take a page from the greats and remember, to be great long term, you got to be tougher than the guy in front of you and punch him right in the mouth with a never back down attitude.

And then, we shall be a national, yearly contender.

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I never said you couldnt win with a good flashy O. Never said it. I also never stated that our team was not good or that we didnt play well vrs LSU. I am saying you need a power team to sustain long term success. That doesnt mean we go scrap our offense right now but it does mean that we have to be who we are but we need to recruit and play a more physical style of football. We did see a more physical Clemson team in the bowl but LSU was even more phyiscal and has been consistent in that for a long time. Thats what we need to do. Become a more physical team. WE can run the chad offense all day long but we need to be a very physical ball club and recruit to do that very thing.

I think it just comes down to who u recruit and your teams overall attitude. It has to be who you are.

Glitz and Glamor VS Power Football

Give it a rest already - Saban has a team full of 4 and 5

You are crazy***

If you think we dont need more dominance on both sides of

You ignoring what we did to LSU

That doesn't preclude the spread offense. I don't think our

You guys are making arguments from nothing....

Defense needs to improve and is, OL needs to continue to

If we had not lost the 2 fumbles, the game

Thats a silly argument considering

We were more physical on both sides of the ball***

We were more physical than we had been this season but

The biggest difference

Which team was ready to play 100 plays? I would say that

Conditioning does not equal physicality

So the more "physical" team was rolling around on the ground

We played a pretty bad game against LSU, actually

Well, maybe not bad, but average at best

We ran it 50 times...That IS power football...***

ok, i get it......no matter what i say

If a team wins they are physical, if they don't win they are

This post is a classic example of "Having a theory and

And you are full of crap. lol seriously, my post was dead

Yeah, that's it... We can't read...Either that or you're

And THIS response is the classic "Everyone is blind but me."***

Re: Glitz and Glamor VS Power Football

The more physical team ran the ball 50 times and ran 100

They hadn't effectively run the ball all day.

Exactly! They couldn't run... So how could anybody perceive

Our defense was spectacular.

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