Watson and Spiller deserve the Ring of Honor. Tajh

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Feb 7, 2017, 1:31 PM

I'll never understand the ill feelings that a small percentage of our fans have for Boyd. So he wasn't perfect. So he wasn't as good as Watson ended up being. He was still great for us, and we'll be lucky to ever see another quarterback as great as Watson as most programs will never have a guy like Watson. Watson was amazing, and I'm not debating Boyd as being in the same category as him. However, it's completely unfair IMO that people like to place the blame at the feet of Boyd for us not winning certain games while he was here. Our defense wasn't nearly as good while Boyd was here, our OL wasn't as good, and our program was still on the way up.

Those South Carolina teams weren't only beating us because Boyd couldn't handle pressure. Those teams were beating us because they were elite on the DL. Our OL couldn't buy any time for Boyd, and Chad Morris seemed to do a horrible job of calling plays against them. I say that while still having positive thoughts of Chad Morris btw, but it's true. In the 2012 game against them it seemed like we tried to drop back and throw it deep all night long even though Boyd was being hit before our receivers could run their routes. In 2013 they couldn't stop our running game and we went away from it for some reason, and not to mention the decision to have Watkins throw the ball on our first drive after we moved the ball down the field. It also didn't help that our defense could never get itself off the field against them or that in the 2013 game for instance we had two special teams turnovers.

People who say things like Boyd could never win the big games also forget that he beat Auburn twice, FSU, a top 10 Va. Tech team on the road in 2011, and again in the ACC Championship game that year. He also beat a top 10 Georgia team in a shootout, the previously mentioned LSU team, and Ohio State in the Orange Bowl. So he wasn't quite able to get us over the hump, but he sure as hell helped get us to the hump where Watson was able to finish it.

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Tajh Boyd is a major reason our program has taken the next step. He nor others do not get the credit they deserve for putting Clemson back on the map. In my opinion TB is a part of our current success. It's true he did not take us to the next level but TB had some bad luck, some of it was coaching and some of it was players lack of execution. But TB, other coaches and players like Tajh, CJ Spiller, James Davis, Charlie Whitehurst, Arron Kelly, Gaines Adams, Duane Coleman and many others during TB's tenure helped to change the culture of the football program. Dabo as we know was hired by TB brought new energy and excitement to the program. And he began to build on the foundation those before Dabo had left behind.

If we had gone in the direction suggested by many TNetters I don't think our football program would be where it is today. Some of the names I remember being suggested was Muschump, Art Briles, Jim McElwain, among others. But I don't think anyone else had the vision for Clemson that Dabo had. And he believed it could happen and then got others to buy in too. We know the rest of the story 2016 NC's!

IMHO their are many players under TB that belong in the Clemson HOF or ROH. And I believe TB belongs their as well. He accomplished many positive first at Clemson to.Things that helped to put Clemson on the path to an Elite Program. He left Dabo a solid foundation to build his vision on.

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He was 0-3 against the coots

+1, I can agree with that!***

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