Archive for November 2008
We hear tonight that Dabo will be offered the job tomorrow. More as it develops.
Hey, more developed. The Post & Courier is reporting that it’s a done deal.
The “interim” tag will be removed and Dabo Swinney officially will be named Clemson head coach within the next few days. Athletic Director Terry Don Phillips will conduct a formal interview with Swinney this afternoon, and Clemson sources indicate a formal news conference will be held Monday or Tuesday.
“We are still going to go through the process,” Phillips said Saturday after the Tigers’ 31-14 victory over archrival South Carolina at Death Valley. “I want this day to be about Dabo and the players, and I’m very happy for them. You can draw your own conclusions.”
Some Clemson athletic department staffers originally scheduled to leave Monday to accompany the men’s basketball team to Illinois for an ACC-Big 10 Challenge game Tuesday night will remain home instead.
There’s some sort of pattern here with Terry Don Phillips and football coaches where he chooses the highest emotional peak to make important hiring/contract decisions, we know how that’s worked for us in the past, let’s hope this reverses a trend.
***UPDATE***
Dabo to get a 4 year contract at around $1 mil per, according to the P&C.
Chili continues to hold a three point lead over TigerSACK and looks to be in the catbird seat to take his 2nd Mac Cup in 3 years, but SACK still has a shot with one week left.
| Rank | Pick Set Name | Total Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ping Island String Quartet | 136 |
| 2 | TigerSACK | 133 |
| 3 | Captain | 131 |
| 4 | Ayatollah Assahola | 130 |
| 5 | Tully | 125 |
| 5 | Broken Gnome | 125 |
| 7 | TheStruz | 124 |
| 7 | Sambone | 124 |
| 9 | DILLIGAF | 123 |
| 10 | Willy Mac | 121 |
| 10 | NoleCC (ScalpEm.com) | 121 |
| 10 | jasonl | 121 |
| 13 | Korn Nutz | 118 |
| 14 | magic hobo | 117 |
| 15 | Tolley Jenkins | 114 |
| 16 | Seigler | 106 |
| 17 | Lyrtch | 94 |
| 18 | Tomahawk Nation | 93 |
This just in.
Clemson didn’t win today. Chris Smelley handed the game over. He’s the sole reason Sakerlina lost. I’ve learned this from reading these two blogs - Team Speed Kills (see how they deftly avoid mentioning Sakerlina in their title, they purport to be an SEC blog since, you know Gamecock fans are so well versed in the SEC since they have to have somebody through whom to live vicariously) and Garnet and Black Attack.
What I also learned from Garnet and Black Attack was that Clemson nicknamed their stadium after LSU’s Death Valley, which comes as a startling surprise to me as I thought Clemson was named that in 1948 by the Presbyterian College head coach, and LSU’s stadium had been known for a time as Deaf Valley due to its noise level, but never Death Valley until the Bayou Bengals decided to adjust it to match our nickname. I suppose there was some mix up on my part there, I’m sure. I guess I should take their sage wisdom with a grain of salt as they decided before the game that Clemson would bow to their defense.
The comments on that post, also, are a great fountain of wisdom for us Clemson fans. Reading those posts, and this followup article on GABA, we learn that it was Smelley and ONLY Smelley that lost the game. I remember thinking to myself, when CJ Spiller was breaking ankles, or James Davis was putting his shoulder down and making defenders look like schoolboy bitches, that it was remarkable to have Chris Smelley playing all eleven defensive positions simultaneously. Oh, my bad, I just now noticed that they do blame the defense. But only the third down defense, which, you know, is different than that OTHER defense. Clemson was among the worst teams in the nation when it came to third down conversion rates, but managed to gash open Sakerlina, go figure.
Team Speed Kills aims to show us that they’re above this whole rivalry. They’re over it, they’ve moved on. Hell, they’ve already got several posts up about the whole Sylvester Croom situation. What blowout loss to our hated rival? We don’t know what you’re talking about. Oh yeah, they cover the whole SEC, that’s right..
Let’s eviscerate take a look at some of their wise predictions, all the while taking into account that we picked Clemson to lose or barely win…
GABA has the following reasons listed for Sakerlina to win.
1) ACC vs. SEC. Wait. Just hold the fuck up. “WE’RE GOING TO WIN BECAUSE WE THINK OUR CONFERENCE IS TOUGHER AND THAT WILL HELP US BEAT YOU BECAUSE WE PLAY SOME REAL TOUGH TEAMS!” Seriously? Really? They’re still trying this old gag?
2) Davis and Spiller aren’t anything to worry about. And I quote, “But this year, much like the rest of The Team from the Upstate, there’s no reason to be concerned about them.” First off, let me tip my hat (I DON’T WEAR ONE BUT IM INTERNET-PRETENDING) to this guy. We give a phonetic spelling of South Carolina — “Sakerlina” — but this cat doesn’t even fucking say “Clempsun.” I could make a Tigernettish joke about him knowing the name since it’s who they make out those Williams-Brice rent checks to, but I won’t. OR DID I? Anyway, you know how this went - 179 yards and 3 TDs from Davis and Spiller. No worries!
3) Steve Spurrier: Most Important Game. Yeah, so he’s gonna try real hard, you guys!
4) The South Carolina Defense. Too bad those third down guys fucked it up for the rest of the vaunted defense who just gave up 56 points.
5) One Quarterback. Four Picks.
Hindsight is 20/20 and all, but — fuck — some guys are blind either way. I guess I oughta take anything a guy with the screen name CocknFire (some gimmicky horseshit meant to 1. describe the “stunningly efficient” Sakerlina offense and 2. work in yet another COCK reference into something relating to that school) with a grain of salt. My screen name might as well be TommyWestPowerFootball.
