Re: Did not realize SCAR was THIS young compared to others

Remember a few years ago Dabo was talking about his youngest team in the country with 40 something freshman. Obviously only a few of us cared to dive into it to figure that out.

What it says when you have that many freshman is you are building a program. It simply means you had enough talent that much of your freshman class was redshirted. If you brought in 25 in 2011 and 25 in 2012 and redshirted 20, you would have 45 freshman on paper.

for everyone saying this is it for USC, they may want to take a closer look at the facts. If you are in the top 15-20 in recruiting and redshirting many of those guys, you are big time and will be fine for years. That is the clear sign of a big time program. I have no idea how good they will be and don't care, it simply demonstrates how good teams get better when run the right way.

Clemson is doing the same but watch closely on what big names have to play as freshman. If any are able to save a year because a few good players hold the position, then things are really looking up. Just think about CB. If there were really decent CBs, Alexander would have an extra year to learn rather than be thrown in as a freshman.

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Jul 29, 2013, 9:17 PM

this is the same reason Clemson fans missed the growth of USC and didn't see the last 5 or 6 years coming.

USC was not real competition for years and taken for granted as a win by most long time Clemson fans. Now there is a group of recent Clemson graduates, including family members of mine, who didn't experience a Clemson win while they were in school.

The facts are USC led the SEC in football GPA, facilities have improved, the industrial complex surrounding the concrete jungle of a stadium has been revitalized into something many of us would be shocked to see. Many will be there this year and see what I saw a year or so ago which was high dollar parking lots for tailgating with cable, electric, buildings with tvs and cooking areas, a very nice former farmers market area with trees and grass and other things people visiting in the 70s-90s would have never expected to be there. It all comes with winning.

Wake up Tiger fans recent graduates don't take this team lightly nor do the players, old timers used ot beating them and talking down to them are forgetting the $$ their union with the SEC has provided and are missing the boat. yea it is in Columbia, no it isn't the picturesque campus of Clemson but they have money to pump into everything to make it top notch.

Meanwhile Clemson's board is fighting over what to do with Little John. USC proves these days they just build new stuff. This isn't your daddy's USC, the good news is we are seeing the best Clemson teams in school history and are keeping up with USC except for 1 category which could change this year

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Did not realize SCAR was THIS young compared to others

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Nebraska, 68 FR, really?***

Re: Nebraska, 68 FR, really?***

Thats sort of Nebraska's "thing"