Here's what frustrates me.

Dec 2, 2013, 11:15 AM

It isn't just losing. I can deal with losing. If we come out and play hard and execute, we're not intimidated, we play confident and we just get beat because the other team was just better that day, I can deal with that.

Example:
The 2012 FSU loss hurt but I could deal with it. The only problem I had with that game was that Morris stopped running the ball in the 3rd quarter and left Boyd like a sitting duck for their Dline. But we played hard, we fought, we executed and they just played better that night.

It's the losses where we shoot ourselves in the foot. The games we should win or have a chance to win and we just have a melt down or brain fart. We come out with no mental preparedness. The last 5 SCUjr games, the FSU game this year, the WVU game. All self inflicted losses due to mental mistakes or intimidation and we fold our tents.

Was SCUjr better all 5 years? Absolutely not. Maybe 1 or 2 but def not this year. Def not 2009. I don't think they were better last year. They make a few plays each year or we make dumb mistakes and then fold our tents.

Was FSU better this year? Maybe. Maybe not. We spotted them 14. We held them to 3 deserved points the first 20-25 minutes and drove to their end 3 or 4 times the first 20-25 minutes. We score points instead of giving them the ball and that's a totally different game. We fought hard only to turn it over or run backwards for 15 yards. Our D fought and backed them up to their goal line and kept us in the game and then they break an 80 yard TD and we folded our tents.

Was WVU better? Maybe. Maybe not. It was a back and forth game and we were about to score. We fumble on the 1 and they run it back. We folded up our tents.

We're consistent at winning games against inferior teams. We're consistent at having good seasons. We're consistent in rankings. We're consistent in Offensive stats. Consistent at recruiting.

We're inconsistent in execution, mental preparedness and overall discipline. This was for every game. Not just FSU and the coots. We all knew that if we made the mistakes that we made against BC and NC State vs FSU and the coots we'd lose. And we did.

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Here's what frustrates me.

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Clemson sure does "spot" a lot of points to the opposition

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Re: Clemson sure does "spot" a lot of points to the opposition

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The answer is you have to find ways to play more big-time

Re: The answer is you have to find ways to play more big-time

Even now they are seeking ways of denying FSU the

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