Posted by Willy Mac

Dale Gilbert is going to be calling #5 a lot this year.

Posted by Block-C Staff

Each week we’re going to predict ten games. At the end of the football season, the winner gets a bottle of The Macallan Fine Oak, 18 Year.

Chili’s Picks:
FAU @ Clemson - Clemson
Notre Dame @ Georgia Tech – Notre Dame
South Carolina @ MSU – USC
California @ Tennessee – UT
North Texas @ Texas – Texas
Southern Cal @ Arkansas – USC
WVU @ Marshall – WVU
Southern Miss @ Florida - Florida
Washington State @ Auburn – Auburn
Richmond @ Duke - Duke

Willy Mac’s Picks:
FAU @ Clemson - Clemson
Notre Dame @ Georgia Tech – GT
South Carolina @ MSU – SCU
California @ Tennessee – California
North Texas @ Texas – Texas
Southern Cal @ Arkansas – USC
WVU @ Marshall – WVU
Southern Miss @ Florida - Florida
Washington State @ Auburn – Auburn
Richmond @ Duke - Duke

Greg’s Picks:
FAU @ Clemson - Clemson
Notre Dame @ Georgia Tech – ND
South Carolina @ MSU – MSU
California @ Tennessee – UT
North Texas @ Texas – Texas
Southern Cal @ Arkansas – USC
WVU @ Marshall – WVU
Southern Miss @ Florida - Florida
Washington State @ Auburn – Auburn
Richmond @ Duke - Da Spidas

Posted by Chili

There is so much to cover in this, the third installment of Dumb Shit on Tigernet. This time of the year brings with it ludicrous predictions for our season and for our rival’s, hero worship, and the time honored practice of 40 year old men drooling over high school prospects.

This guy doesn’t know he’s talking about us, but he is. I like to imagine this post in a hammered drunk hillbilly voice.

(This was one of a series of drunken posts by this guy, one of the dumbest posters on Tnet, lashing out against ‘blogs taking money from Clemson fans’ not bothering to realize he was on a message board that charges up to 80 bucks a year to post shit like this.)

If overzealous hopes and unattainable dreams could take the form of an animal, they would become a majestic eagle with Down Syndrome. If they took the form of words on an internet message board, they’d look something like these two posts.

On Saturday, ESPN televised a game featuring James Byrnes High School, a team that includes 3 Clemson commits and several other players Clemson is going after. The minute this game came on TV, Tigernet became the home of more men drooling over teenagers than a seedy Thailand motel.

Tigernet has Byrnes FEVER!

I can answer this guys query fairly easily: BECAUSE IT’S THE FUCKING INTERNET, MR. GIANT SIG PIC GUY! See half of the film Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back if you don’t believe me.

THE PROCTOR SAGA: HERO WORSHIP

There is a disconnect between the students who attend Clemson and interact with athletes on a daily basis and the middle agers who either never attended Clemson or have forgotten realities of college life. If you go to Clemson, you know what player is banging what white girl, you know the girls on campus who hop from jock dick to jock dick, Cleat Chasers, every campus has them. You know what player is a pothead or crashes fraternity parties and expects to be showered with beer and admiration because of what he does on Saturdays. I’m not at all saying that isn’t deserved, but what I am saying is that the second you try and tell any of this to a SUPERFAN, they immediately shit themselves and call you a “Coot.” A lot of football players are cocky assholes, that’s part of the winning athlete mentality. This student just made the mistake of trying to inject a bit of truth into Tigernet. The kool-aid drinkers immediately swarmed on him and his “logic.”

Now, I don’t know whether Proctor is an asshole or not, and I don’t care all that much, as long as he wins games. In that respect I’m a little like some of the SUPERFANs, but I have heard from numerous people that he is a cocky guy.

AWFUL JOKE POINT WHORE OF THE WEEK

I don’t know if this is considered a joke. Maybe this guy is earnestly reaching out to his Gamecock brethren and trying to save them. You never know. The sad thing is that these kind of posts get TONS of points, so people keep making them.

RUNNER UP

When in need of talking points against Carolina fans, SCOREBOARD. When unable to make an intellectual argument, SCOREBOARD. When in desperate need of points on Tigernet, SCOREBOARD.

Posted by Willy Mac

From Virginia up, people are still mulling about their business, planning their “wicked awesome” weekend ahead of them that will more than likely involve a professional ballgame, a “hoagie”, and some sort of mugging followed by a ride on a subcar that reeks of piss. Please, don’t try to convince me otherwise with your overbearing Irish whiskey breath. For the sake of checks and balances, this is the north. The same north where in Connecticut they passed laws to stop keeping score in little league games. This is the same north that penalizes high school football programs for dropping major points on other teams. Look, I used to go to a school where we were the victim, but all I could think about is how I’d love to do the same exact thing to the other team. It’s why man created sports… to drop 63 points on someone… mainly the Gamecocks. I suppose that next they’re going to tell us it’s not ok to finish something someone else started (Sorry but I had to work this in somehow… I love this picture).

In the Great Lake states, people are largely not even thinking about this weekend (Minus the big three: Michigan, Ohio State, and ND… And yes Tully, Michigan always comes before Ohio State. Go cry about it with the rest of the Ohio State gene pool.) That’s what Friday afternoons are for in that region. They’re still concerned about their crops not freezing and being as subtly Canadian as possible.

In the middle states (ie. The Dukes and Temples of the Big 12: Kansas, Iowa State, Colorado, minus Nebraska to some extent, and hell, even Kentucky, though they’re still technically an SEC school), the stereotype is that people are up before the sun comes up and go to bed after the sun goes down, you know, those salt of the earth workdays. And all throughout the day, the only football they’ll even come close to is the steroided, self-important version known as the NFL.

From Arizona up to Washington, well, football on any level isn’t even a blip on the radar. Unless by football they mean tyke soccer… fucking sad. I’d like to throw a tantrum and explain how soccer is the scourge of the earth, but we can save that for a rainy day next March. Given, USC and Cal have great traditions and history, but the rest of that side of America is undeserving of college football. I doubt this blog will reach Washington, but I’ll say it anyways. You’ve got some decent in state teams, so does Oregon, BUT YOU’VE GOT FUCKING AWFUL FANS. You’re too concerned with the Seahawks.

There is a reason that Idaho to the Dakotas was left out. I don’t think 8 track technology has even reached those people. It’s fairly obvious that the love shared between two grown men has though… odd. Oh well, not much to do up there, but that’s still no excuse. Chili once told me that Montana is God’s country. He invited me to go fishing with him and a friend for a weekend a while back… I didn’t go. They didn’t bring back any fish either… hmm.

Now, from the Carolinas to Texas/Oklahoma, that’s my bread and butter. This is the week in the South that millions of man hours are lost. If you wander over to any given teams message board, it’s likely to be flooded with a hundred new posters who decided that it was pertinent to post content such as “I’m a lifelong fan. We’re gonna go undefeated this year! GO [Insert team name]!!!!” Unfortunately, for those of us who actually post year round and don’t let the start of football season TOTALLY jumblefuck our brains, this is the part of the year that is least fun for us. Just check out DSOT. Unfortunately, Clemson has redneck, illiterate yahoos just like every other real football school.

Sadly for the western states, mostly Texas with a little Oklahoma on the side, I’ve experienced first hand that they don’t know how to tailgate. Don’t get me wrong, extremely nice people who try really hard, but it’s just not tailgating. They get an “A” for heart and effort, but the south still wins best in show. Now I’m sure you’ve heard in other blogs, message boards, or newspapers of southern tailgating. People tell of the real die hard fans rolling up in their RVs on Tuesday around noonish. Most of you think, “That’s not true. They’re just puffing out their chest and bullshitting me.” No, as a whole, this is how southern schools do it. I’ve been offered a beer and a biscuit on may way to a Wednesday morning class. When experienced students rent off campus apartments, they don’t look for quality, they look for how many people can fit on the floor on a Friday night before gameday.

There are sights, sounds, smells, tastes, feelings, and emotions that are strictly reserved for college football Saturdays in the south east. Sights such as Texas achieving their destiny against USC. Smells like bourbon and chicken in the noon sun. Tastes like a cold beer at 7 am. Feelings like the pulse of a stadium at the climax of a game. Emotions that are unacceptable and inappropriate in most public venues.

Because it’s not soccer. Because we’re born with it in our blood. Because the ties to the schools can go back several generations in some families. Because it’s friends and family. Because it’s what we believe in. Because it’s fun. Because it’s tradition. Because it lets you be young forever. Because no other sport on the face of this earth on any level can ever hold a flame to college football.

Posted by Willy Mac

Dear Temple Return Specialist,
Find a hole in the ground and put your head in it.
Thanks, Willy Mac