Why is it our university is settling on being bad in basketball

that it has become normal and expected for us to be on the outside looking in. Lord have mercy, if we should actually get invited to the dance, we'd frame that invitation and hang it on the wall, and it wouldn't even matter if we showed up or not. Mission accomplished, let the celebration begin! I mean, that's all we can really expect, because we've never been good at basketball; we're a football school in the middle of nowhere, so it's foolish to think we have anything to offer really good basketball players. Therefore we will never be good in basketball, so we need to accept that middle of the pack is it most years, and every now and then, with a few breaks, we might get invited to the dance. We won't get to dance with any of the pretty girls, mind you, but we'll be satisfied to get a sip of punch while standing in the shadows.

That's the mentality I get from a lot of folks, and I don't agree with it. That's what I'm talking about.

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Agreed! Nobody's happy w/the state of our basketball program

Mar 1, 2016, 9:52 PM

But, the uphill battle to compete consistently in the ACC is massive.

Those who think that recruiting in football as one of the King Pins of the conference is in any way comparable to recruiting in the ACC in basketball as a lifelong poor relation is just living in a dream world.

And to those who say that "a new gym" for the basketball program (and it's a LOT more than that) won't help recruiting simply have not watched the upward trajectory of our football recruiting since the West End Zone was Announced (not completed, just announced) and now that the proposed new football building is on the books and set to begin construction, recruiting is going inter-stellar.

Of course, the facilities wouldn't be nearly as effective without the high-powered recruiting acumen of Dabo and his folks, but Dabo would readily admit that the WEZ was the catalyst that kick started our current success in recruiting.

At this point it is looking more and more as if Brad Brownell is not the coach to get the job done at Clemson. But, this does not mean that the next coach will be any more effective or successful.

Brad Brownell will be the Clemson coach next season. That's not really in doubt. And he'll pretty much know that his future revolves around significant improvement or he'll be fired.

Then Clemson will start all over again ... but this time around, the fact that Clemson has finally given a significant amount monetary support to the basketball program just may attract a candidate who will see Clemson as more than a stepping stone.

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