are bowl eligible and have some talent that can potentially do some good things in the not so distant future.
When we do get real talent they will leave early I promise
Players leave early at every other SEC school (except maybe Alabama) too.
Why stick around when your chances of getting to the CFB playoff are so slim? Clemson has kept players for that reason only. If they have any kind of drop off you'll see some start bolting early.
Clemson has historically had kids return a lot more often than us. We have had lots of players leave that had no chance of going in early rounds. Regardless of record if deshaun Watson was at Carolina he would have left his jr year We need to figure out what makes em stay. Money
I totally understand guys like Clowney and Alshon leaving early but we have an epidemic of guys leaving early who are to be blunt “Not NFL ready” and it rarely works out for them . I wonder what Quarles , Hampton , Ace , Troy Williamson etc etc or doing now . Hopefully they invested what money they got on rookie contracts . I think Agents and friends and family get in their heads and it takes a strong coach to tell the kid that they just aren’t good enough yet .
Thanks for making the point I couldn’t. This is exactly what I was saying. Those type players stay at other schools and it really helps. Vic Hampton and Kelcy staying would have been huge. Man I would love a Vic Hampton to step up Saturday
I wouldnt be so sure, Carolina will be the one of the toughest teams the taters will play, up to this point it has been A&M... Look at what ND did to Syracuse the second best team in the Asheshe... It all depends on injuries, if SC can get some players back, they can give the MIGHTY (y´all act like they are the NE Patriots) a game... I say F**K the Taters, Beat the hell out of them, they have had what, 10 Bye weeks leading up tho this game..
Yeah he’s also considered one of the top 10 busts of all time . He was out of the league in 4 years . He got his 1st Round money however so that’s good for him . Would have been interesting to see how much better he would have developed coming back and playing for Spurrier for one year . Having Troy and Sidney Rice on the field together would have been insane . He did get first round money so even though his career was a bust he probably made enough to live comfortably for the rest of his life .
I think Clemsin high ups actually think of ways to get better or to get around certain rules. Or at least they encourage those under them to do it. I heard it was them that thought up the deferred payment through a go fund me or something like that several years back. They claimed they used former players in practice after it was revealed Bama did it. I don’t understand why former guys would risk injury but whatever. We have probably never did that. And Newspring is just a tad too close to a football program to think everything’s on the up and up.
Clemson won't murder us. Don't be surprised if this game goes down to the wire. Tigers not as good as advertised and we aren't as bad.
