Re: SC grads (Bachelor's degree) that are Clemson Fans

Not usual for the Clemson alum to pull for a grad school over Clemson, particularly if that grad school is Carolina. Particularly when you've been to Billy Brice and sen how they behave.

The irony is my Dad went to Carolina and played freshman football before the war. Got his shoulder hurt during spring practice his freshman year. USC kind of dumped him and he never went back to school before being drafted into the war in Belgium and France. Howard, then an assistant, even visited him in the hospital and tried to convince him to come to Clemson, he thought they could find a way.

Dad was always a loyal Carolina fan after, even though they done him a little dirt. And yet he really was that mythical soul who pulled for Clemson any time they were not playing Carolina. Took me to the 77 Notre Dame game.

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Jul 3, 2018, 7:15 PM

Uncle actually graduated from Clemson (C/o 1981 and 4 years in the band!), so he got me hooked when I moved back in middle school (End of the Whitehurst/Dantzler era).

Started out hell bent on going to Clemson University because I was thinking of becoming an engineer, but later in high school changed to Health Science with the intent to go Pre-Med to become a Pharmacist.

Went the JUCO route to save money and make it an easier transition to MUSC, but grades, time management, and meeting my future wife changed a few things. After two years in JUCO, I decided to try and get into a trade program to avoid getting into student debt (was either head to a 4-year college to keep my schollie or quit school, but I wasn't sold on what I wanted to do for a).

For whatever reason, I was unable to get into the trade programs I was interested in. I had crazy situations such as my financial aid being frozen before I could transfer because the financial aid counselor "didn't know" I was going to transfer, though I told her at the beginning of the year I was; then another trade program I was trying to get into changed their entry requirements basically penalizing anyone not already taking classes there (and when you're a kid without additional funding outside of pell grant, I had to be smart with what I did to keep costs down).

Took that as my sign to go back to college. Flirted with the idea of going to Clemson, but didn't want to strain my relationship and with my future wife following me, she didn't want to be hours away from home so settled on USCB since the campus was nice and I could complete my degree in less than 2 years (which would complete the pell grant limit I had). Later she told me she would have followed me to Clemson, at which I was like, "dadgummit!" However, I would probably have a ton of extra loans (I could rage for days about student loans and the proper education of what college is/should be about). Graduated in 2017 with a degree in Communications.

Of course, a lot of things played into my roll of not going to Clemson; helluva ride...have thought about going to Clemson for a graduate degree, but hoping I do enough with my life to get an honorary degree from there