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FB Update: Former Clemson QB to break school records
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FB Update: Former Clemson QB to break school records


Oct 22, 2014, 10:11 AM

 
Former Clemson QB to break school records

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So does this mean that I am not a well rounded guy pursuing


Oct 22, 2014, 10:18 AM

the Renaissance man lifestyle?

I need a hug:(

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Re: So does this mean that I am not a well rounded guy pursuing


Oct 22, 2014, 10:29 AM

Translation: I am becoming a Yale Liberal and will go into politics.

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Re: So does this mean that I am not a well rounded guy pursuing


Oct 22, 2014, 11:06 AM [ in reply to So does this mean that I am not a well rounded guy pursuing ]

You are the epitome of a Renaissance Man...
But I'm still not giving you a hug...

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Re: So does this mean that I am not a well rounded guy pursuing


Oct 22, 2014, 11:13 AM [ in reply to So does this mean that I am not a well rounded guy pursuing ]

It means he had no shot a playing for Clemson and choose to go somewhere he could play football (in games) and still pursue a first class education. It's nice to know your limits.

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Re: FB Update: Former Clemson QB to break school records


Oct 22, 2014, 10:22 AM

I really liked him at qb thought he was the best out of the 3 we brought in that year.

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Re: FB Update: Former Clemson QB to break school records


Oct 22, 2014, 10:27 AM

It seems as though you may have been right.

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quote Lewis Grizzard, Brother I don't believe I'da told that***


Oct 22, 2014, 10:29 AM



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So in other words....


Oct 22, 2014, 10:32 AM

he still has no idea what he wants to do.

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Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.


Re: So in other words....


Oct 22, 2014, 10:37 AM

yes he does, he stated it in the interview, he did not want to be at CLEMSON. by the way, liberal or not any ivy league education and especially yale is a good thing. hope he continues to do well!

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knowing that you don't want something isn't the same as knowing what you


Oct 22, 2014, 10:49 AM

want.

idiot coot.

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"Anybody that says Coach Brownell is the best coach to come through Clemson is going to start an argument." -JP Hall


and about as opposite a USuC education as one could fathom


Oct 22, 2014, 10:53 AM [ in reply to Re: So in other words.... ]

Right coot?

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I see reading comprehension isn't your strong suit***


Oct 22, 2014, 10:57 AM [ in reply to Re: So in other words.... ]



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Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.


Tell 'em leadcoot


Oct 22, 2014, 11:05 AM [ in reply to Re: So in other words.... ]

.

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Re: So in other words....


Oct 27, 2014, 5:55 PM [ in reply to So in other words.... ]

sure he does, "you want fries with that"

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I was expecting this to be about Chad Kelly. After reading


Oct 22, 2014, 10:41 AM

I have this feeling that it was nearly as bad as a Chad Kelly article.

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His statement doesn't make much sense...


Oct 22, 2014, 10:41 AM

... especially considering the fact that he majored in business while he was here.

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Re: His statement doesn't make much sense...


Oct 22, 2014, 10:59 AM

Yale or any Ivy League education may look good on paper, but as we have seen these past 6 years, that does not translate into practical everyday common sense and intelligence....

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Re: His statement doesn't make much sense...Oh yes it does..


Oct 22, 2014, 12:02 PM


"Yale or any Ivy League education may look good on paper, but as we have seen these past 6 years, that does not translate into practical everyday common sense and intelligence.... "


If you look at the stats on $income$, for having an Ivey league degree, it makes perfect sense; especially if you're on scholarship. It's really a no brainer... ;) pun intended.

You can't just use the one example you've given, because you can find exceptions anywhere. Although, it is a GREAT example. LOL.

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There are no scholarships in the Ivy League***


Oct 24, 2014, 4:00 AM



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Re: There are no scholarships in the Ivy League***


Oct 24, 2014, 4:59 AM

No scholarships eh ?
Well ....hmmmm....they are not as well rounded as I was led to believe then.

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DB23


ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIPS


Oct 24, 2014, 8:07 AM [ in reply to There are no scholarships in the Ivy League*** ]

The Ivy Leagues schools as a group, have the largest endowments per student enrollment of any league in the US.

If you think their athletes aren't getting scholarships - you are sadly mistaken.

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Re: His statement doesn't make much sense...


Oct 22, 2014, 2:05 PM [ in reply to Re: His statement doesn't make much sense... ]

Very true. I forgot that Bush was an Eli!

Hope he didn't lose very many credits when he transferred.

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CU ain't just engineering, but Yale IS tops. I wish him well


Oct 22, 2014, 12:27 PM [ in reply to His statement doesn't make much sense... ]

I hope he makes it to the NFL. If not, having Yale on the resume for the rest of your life is a very good thing that's likely to give him connections and open doors that will give him the opportunity to make lots of money.

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Re: CU ain't just engineering, but Yale IS tops. I wish him well


Oct 23, 2014, 1:20 PM

It is a very prestigious university, but I used to think the same thing about UNCheat, too. I do believe Yale is quite different. Congrats to this young man.

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Re: CU ain't just engineering, but Yale IS tops. I wish him well


Oct 27, 2014, 6:32 PM [ in reply to CU ain't just engineering, but Yale IS tops. I wish him well ]

I would be willing to be a Citadel degree would have done the same, FWIW my nephew in law graduated from CLemson with a degree in English, he aced the MCAT and was accepted to Yale,Hopkins, for med school, full ride, but his bride ( my niece) also a CU grad in pre med(and top of her class) didn't get accepted so they are both at MUSC, 2nd year in med school. It seems his non engineering Clemson degree did him well as did hers. he didn't want to be at Clemson, it's ok,we don't want everyone. then it would be So Car.

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IF he becomes the top QB ever at Yale, it would make for an


Oct 22, 2014, 10:56 AM

excellent resume during Homecoming with all the former Presidents...

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Lets call it what it really is about. He wanted to play...


Oct 22, 2014, 11:45 AM

Had no shot playing here. He had an opportunity to get an Ivy League degree as well as play and he took it.

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Born Yaler


Oct 22, 2014, 11:46 AM

by the looks of him.

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You can have your "Renaissance man lifestyle"...


Oct 22, 2014, 12:10 PM

I will continue to...

make my own whiskey,
grow good ole tomatoes and homemade wine,
skin a buck and run a trot line

...as a Clemson Tiger.

Sincerely,

HWJr

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Re: FB Update: Former Clemson QB to break school records


Oct 22, 2014, 12:23 PM

I think this part of the actual article is the most telling...

"So when Roberts sustained a chest injury his redshirt freshman season, and saw his position on the depth chart immediately plummet, it gave him a chance to call the audible that changed his life."

Though congrats at moving on to play for a small league football program for fun.

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Re: FB Update: Former Clemson QB to break school records


Oct 22, 2014, 12:36 PM

I've never heard a football or basketball player mention Clemson's focus on engineering -- or any other aspect of academia. Most major in things as far from STEM as possible -- e.g. Parks and rec mgt. Does anyone know a starter in a power-five conference money sport majoring in EE, ME, ChemE or CivE? Physics or even Comp Sci? Might be one at Stanford or GA Tech. If they exist, we certainly don't hear about them much.

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Oct 22, 2014, 12:56 PM

Andrew Luck was an Architecture major at Stanford I believe.

GT offers very little besides engineering so I'm guessing they might have a few. I think Clemson has a player that is an engineer.
But they are few and far between and Clemson offers much more. They also offer political science which appears to be his current major at Yale....

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Oct 22, 2014, 1:13 PM

I played at Clemson YEARS AGO. I went on to med school and I'm an orthopaedic surgeon. There were others on the team that took similar pathways as me.
Anecdotally, some classmates in med school were Ivy League grads and though they were book smart, they had no more "practically" or applied intelligence than anyone else. They certainly didn't shine any better in a stressful situation compared with anyone else.
That was my point from earlier: Yale looks good on the resume, but..... (See last 6 years under our current government).

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Re: FB Update: Former Clemson QB to break school records


Oct 22, 2014, 2:10 PM

I thought that Mr. Obama was a Harvard man! You are thinking of Bush ... the warmonger!

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Re: FB Update: Former Clemson QB to break school records


Oct 22, 2014, 2:53 PM

ForestTiger-
You're obviously a liberal and that's your problem. (You want to have a political discussion on the FACTS and not the propaganda, I'm here -though I don't think this is the right forum to get in the weeds with that subject.)
And, yes, I know President Bush went to Yale and Obama went to Harvard (my statement was "Ivy League" in general).
You missed my point and the point of the original posters on this subject:
His article made it sound like Clemson didn't offer his major (which is ridiculous)and going to Yale was such a better move for him (which most of us know that's code for "I couldn't play at Clemson, so I went to Yale").
Again, no one is knocking him. He's found his niche. Most of us need a few years to find where we fit. That's life. Best wishes to him.....

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Not sure what your point is, but if I'm not mistaken


Oct 22, 2014, 1:36 PM [ in reply to Re: FB Update: Former Clemson QB to break school records ]

Cliff Hammonds was an architecture major and was first team all-ACC academic.

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All Ivy League Schools


Oct 22, 2014, 1:51 PM

Are Liberal Bastions of Socialistic Philosophy and Propaganda! That's all.

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Yea ok buddy, what's your major now? smh


Oct 22, 2014, 12:53 PM

Leaves the engineering school because he doesn't want to be an engineer.

Goes to Yale as a POLITICAL SCIENCE major. Yea pretty sure we had that major at Clemson buddy. I believe architecture is the hardest major to get into at Clemson. He should have tried that out.

Don't get me wrong I wish him the best and know he's getting a good education up there but don't act like all Clemson offers is Engineering or that engineers are cannot be well rounded. Face it you couldn't cut it as an engineer or football player at Clemson.

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Re: Yea ok buddy, what's your major now? smh


Oct 22, 2014, 2:16 PM

Another intense engineering major I see. I met quite a few during my time at Clemson.

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Re: Yea ok buddy, what's your major now? smh


Oct 22, 2014, 3:06 PM

Designing, building, and perfecting does take a pretty special talent from who ever does it. Just imagine without engineering minded people, we probably wouldn't have Global Warming so much as it is now. But getting to FSU for an away game for our FB team would be murderous. :)

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Sounds like an interesting guy.***


Oct 22, 2014, 2:49 PM



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Re: FB Update: Former Clemson QB to break school records


Oct 22, 2014, 2:53 PM

Good for Morgan

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Give the guy a break


Oct 22, 2014, 3:02 PM

He said his decision was not about football. I'm sure getting to play had a lot to do with it, but I respect that he knows football is not his future. He didn't bad-mouth Clemson, and what he said about Clemson's being primarily an engineering (and science) school is true. As someone with a BA and an MA from Clemson, I freely admit Yale is a better school for liberal arts. However, with my education behind me, I'm glad I'm following Clemson's sports teams rather than Yale's. (I'm just not that into rowing.)

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Re: Give the guy a break


Oct 22, 2014, 3:14 PM

Engineers made it possible for you to get down the river pretty with the out board engine. But don't ever get caught down chit creek without a paddle if that out board engine takes a chit on you down the creek!!!:)

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Seems to fit the bill where he went to HS


Oct 22, 2014, 6:34 PM

90% of kids that come out of Charlotte Country Day have a little 'smug' to them. I could be wrong and he could be a great kid but Yale seems to fit the mold. Their noses tend to sit higher than others.

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Re: Seems to fit the bill where he went to HS


Oct 24, 2014, 12:00 PM

:)

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Good for you Roberts, but as most people know


Oct 23, 2014, 9:09 PM

Most Renaissance men were also Engineers as well as artists and thinkers. Da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Benjamin Franklin, Copernicus all were men of science, engineering, art and thinkers. So don't give me that crap that you left Clemson because you wanted to be a renaisance man, you left because you knew you weren't good enough to play QB at a real football school. Walter M. Riggs was a true renaisance man. He was the fatherof Clemson football, an engineering professor, Clemson president and was the first college president to allow women to take engineering classes at Clemson as well as furthering the education opportunities for African Americans by giving unwavering support of SC State. What was your major at Clemson by the way? Oh yeah, pre-business. Enough said. Congrats though.

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Re: Good for you Roberts, but as most people know


Oct 23, 2014, 11:18 PM

Otter: Point of parliamentary procedure!
Hoover: Don't screw around, they're serious this time!
Otter: Take it easy, I'm pre-law.
Boon: I thought you were pre-med.
Otter: What's the difference?

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With all his success, his highest salary was $25,000 a year. The president of the university, Dr. R. F. Poole, feared that professors who earned less would be upset. "He called me up and said that he didn't want me to tell anybody what I made," Howard once said. "I said: 'Doc, you don't have to worry. I'm as ashamed as you are of what you pay me.' " - Frank Howard Obituary, New York Times, 01/27/1996


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