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Little Ol' Clemson
Dec 21, 2019, 6:47 PM
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Ohio State: 61,391 students.
Clemson 24,951 students.
Clemson is actually the smallest school in the CFP, and I think the smallest to win any CFP game. It's pretty amazing what Clemson has been able to do with far less resources and alumni.
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Re: Little Ol' Clemson
Dec 21, 2019, 8:09 PM
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Clemson University is also located in the smallest host city of all 65 Power 5 schools.
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wow, I have never heard that but it is pretty remarkable.
Dec 22, 2019, 9:54 AM
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I suspect it may change with all the developement over the last couple of yrs.
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I've posted this before, I think CU was probably the baddest
Dec 21, 2019, 8:36 PM
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azzz school in college sports history when I was there 1975-79. I'm talking about "pound for pound". We had roughly 10,000 students in that era. The football team in 1978 was 11-1 and finished #6 in the country. The basketball team was 22-5 in the old ACC, when you played everybody twice. The baseball team went to the College World Series. And the soccer team was typically ranked #1 in the nation or close to it back then. There's your top 4 sports. And the tennis team was nationally ranked, as was swimming, track & field, etc.
Just pick a sport and bring em on down to Clemson... we'll kick their azzz and send em back home.
At the time, I didn't realize just how much we were "overachieving". Then in my first job I met a guy from App St and took him to visit the Clemson campus. His reaction - "This is it? App St is bigger than this." And he was right, as I recall they had 12,000 students. And then I started traveling for business and had a chance to see UCLA, Ohio St, etc. Those schools dwarfed lil ol Clemson... we looked like a podunk little community college by comparison....
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and it’s grown a lot recently
Dec 21, 2019, 8:39 PM
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When I was at Clemson just a few years ago it was at 19,000.
Also Ohio state is massive and has huge alumni base. So I don’t see why I am supposed to be impressed that their fans go to games. They are so big, it’s honestly a failure anytime they aren’t good in any sport
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I am amazed how much it has grown since my years in the 90s
Dec 22, 2019, 4:02 AM
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Close to 16K almost every year I was there. Trying to imagine almost 10K more students!
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Re: Little Ol' Clemson
Dec 21, 2019, 8:57 PM
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We got 24,000 students now?
Dang things have changed. Back in my day we were probably close to 12,000.
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Re: Little Ol' Clemson
Dec 21, 2019, 9:02 PM
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I remember hearing they were going to cap it at 10,000 ....
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This is also why we get no press...
Dec 21, 2019, 9:03 PM
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....small tv market, the rest of the country doesn’t care about us.
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Re: Little Ol' Clemson
Dec 22, 2019, 7:38 AM
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This is what we will always be
I still remember when we beat Nebraska in 81 - no one thought Little Ol' Clemson had a chance
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we were ranked #1 and Nebraska was ranked #4
Dec 22, 2019, 7:44 AM
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some knew we had a chance. We've never been favored though in any of our NC games.
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Do those other schools have New Spring. No sir. They
Dec 22, 2019, 7:40 AM
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do not.
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Re: Little Ol' Clemson
Dec 22, 2019, 9:15 AM
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Clemson student population is 3x what it was in 1970. A lot of growth.
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