Clemson's decision to wear the new Nike Teflon Receiver Gloves will be second guessed for a long time.GT 13, Clemson 3
I'm not going to do the normal postgame summary, as there's little to say. Tommy's Law holds true. No realistic Clemson fan was surprised by the loss or the ineptitude displayed therein by an unprepared team and poor gameplan. The Greenville News has a good recap, The State has a blurb about Mark Buchholz's Duke-like kicking day. The Tigers looked like a carbon copy of the team that got blasted by Virginia Tech last year, only with more penalties. The one constant of Tommy Bowden's tenure is that every year we have a game where the team comes out and absolutely embarrasses itself. Duke a couple years ago, Wake a couple years ago, VT last year, GT this year are all examples of this sleepy Tiger team showing up. I had really hoped that the coaching staff had learned from past blunders; there was big talk of 4-0 meaning nothing, we went up to NCSU and won a game we might've lost in past years, then we go down to play an ailing Tech team that just got jacked by Virginia and has a quarterback who might as well have limp Bob Dole dicks for arms and we make them look like worldbeaters. Our offensive line was about as effective as the US Border Patrol in keeping out the opposition and our one Minuteman, Barry Richardson, became a nonperson in a way that would warm the cockles of Stalin's heart. We went to a stadium (partially) full of Techies who have the smugness of Virginia fans and the loyalty of Miami fans and the stadium atmosphere of a 1-AA team and got our asses handed to us. Vitriol out of the way, congrats to Tech.
I am holding out one tiny ounce of hope that the team can rebound from this, I did state that out of GT, VT, BC, and Md I thought 3-1 would be the best finish we could hope for, but there's no reason to get too optimistic when Tommy's Law is still alive and well.
We'll beat Va Tech this coming weekend and be pissed for the rest of the season. Maryland and BC will crush us. bye bye ACC championship.I hate to admit it but it's probably going to be 2 in a row for SC
ReplyDeletegotta agree. it's reminiscent of the Wake loss a few years ago where (if i remember the news stories at the time) Brad Scott and Tommy were giddy and KNEW that we would beat FSU.
ReplyDeleteIs it really too much to ask to win the ACC Championship? seriously? Is it really that much to ask of a coach that is being paid a couple of million and has been here for 9 years?
If there were a new coach installed at Clemson next year, I would almost bet my left and right testicle that this team would win 3 ACC Champs in a row.
Calling Danny Ford? Probably Not
ReplyDeletehttp://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/calling-danny-ford-probably-not/
You actually have to try pretty hard to lose the way Clemson did yesterday. GT only put together one decent drive and that ended in an interception. Choice had a good game, but Tech's offense was effectively motionless... and Clemson's offense accomplished even less.
ReplyDeletewtf happened? I didn't watch much of the game, but just figured you guys were on a mission this year and would roll through Atlanta with a 15+ point win. Part of me wants to laugh and think this will be the mid-season meltdown that Tommy seems to have often enough, but part of me says you guys make everyone else your prison bitch the rest of the year, including us on Turkey Day weekend.
ReplyDeleteWhat I don't understand is, year after year, the special teams sucks, but the coaching staff seems to ignore this and it has caused two losses in the past four years to Tech alone.
ReplyDeleteAs for beating South Carolina, it will happen b/c they don't have a QB worth a damn, and they lost their best defensive player/leader. Remember Anthony Waters? Him not playing last year eventually came back to bite the Tigers in the ass.
We will finish 7&5.Our remaining victories will be against VT,CMU,and Duke.Why wasn't Willy Korn allowed at least a series in the 2nd half? Am I the only 1 that thinks his quick decision making and scrambling ability would've caused a different outcome?Why is our special teams and motivation still a problem?Why are there idiots still defending Tammy to this very day?VOTE BILL COWHER AT CU in 2008
ReplyDeleteFellas, Clemson is not a bad team. Believe me, you're not saying anything that VT and Maryland and Miami didn't say last year, or you and Auburn and Miami didn't say the year before that. GT makes a lot of good teams look bad. We make a lot of good QBs look bad, and a lot of good OLs look like they're stuck in molasses.
ReplyDeleteYou don't lose to a team for the 6th time in ten years because you had a bad day. Sometimes it's because the other team is pretty good...