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The play of the offense. That was a beat down at it's finest. The bubble screen is finally starting to work, but I'm worried it's not going to work forever, especially against faster defenses. The freshmen really stepped it up last night as well. Hats off to CJ Spiller, Jacoby Ford, Ricky Sapp, and Crezdon Butler. Nelson Faerber, the whitest kid on the team, got a touchdown... big ups. This is proof that the football gods will reward you if you play to the whistle. Also, our kick return team looked very good last night.
Minus: Kick coverage is officially f*cking terrible. The only way to go from where we are at right now is up. Our PATs look shaky still. Our defense played like sun baked shit for the first quarter. At least Tommy Bowden didn't call in his defensive coordinator during the post game press conference to take the heat off of his own ass. We'd had better step it up next week for GT or else you can count on an embarassment on ESPN.
A side note: The GT/Clemson Gameday thing is still not a complete lock. Don't go off telling your friends that it's going to be here. We still have to beat out the team on ABC, so this gives us a 50% chance of getting Gameday. If we do, however, you'd better damn well expect to see DFIG signs.
If you get a chance today, shoot an e-mail to Temple President Dr. Ann Weaver Hart (president at temple dot edu). Thank her because the Temple football team, including coaches, staff, AND players, donated $1500 to the Ray Ray McElrathbey Fund. That shows character and deserves big ups and much respek. Thanks guys!
Ray Ray do it fo da kids.
willy mac,
ReplyDeleteare the students doing anything fun for the game on saturday? you know, getting the fans involved. i kind of miss those days. best example was the year we played notre dame at home. notre dame won the national championship that year. charley pell was the coach. 79,78,80. i was a kid. anyway, dan devine was coaching notre dame and had called the acc officials the night before because of the "noise problem" he had heard about. wanted a penalty called if his team couldn't hear plays. i'm sure you know the story. had the pep rally in the parking lot of anderson's holiday inn where their team was staying. i'm sure dan loved that. did the "silent treatment" the next day at the game. i had some guy tell me 4 times that "we were doing the silent treatment." like i didn't get it the first time. back on the GG (green grass) section. so everyone whispered until that cannon went off. "and the crowd went wild". we almost beat notre dame. 16-17. they were national champs that year. montana, vegas ferguson, mcafee(?spelling?) the clemson fans stood and screamed for 4 quarters. we could use something like that this week. something that everybody could get in to. auburn's crowd was nuts tonight. that couldn't hurt us either. of course, herbie would give it away, when chris said "this is an unusually quiet crowd tonight for clemson". i'm babbling cause i want you to do something. that crowd needs to be kept rowdy for 4 quarters. talk to the spirit people.(they still have them right?) back then , spirit people walked around painting your face and filling you in. put something in the tiger. is somebody doing something different for this game? i may be totally wrong about this weekend, but it is a great story.
drunk blogging makes me very chatty. hope i didn't bore ya.
Our PATs look shaky still
ReplyDeleteyea, like the knuckleball to tie us with wake forest. dean's lost his confidence. do we have a C or an L or someone who played soccer?
however, the knuckleball was good. the commentator had to see the replay, before calling it, but it was good.