IS THIS WHAT CLEMSON IS TELLING RECRUITS?

Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 2:20 pm Posted in football, recruiting, rumors 15 Comments

This piece in the Palm Beach Post about prep linebacker Jon Bostic includes this interesting tidbit:

Clemson has been on Bostic’s list for months, but he appeared to sour on the Tigers after the fired coach Tommy Bowden last month. He said the school has told him interim coach Dabo Swinney will be the head coach next year, which has restored Bostic’s confidence.

I guess, if it’s not true, it’s at least a smart tactic. Coaching turnover scares recruits, as our massive drop in committed recruits would attest.

Also feast your eyes on this bit of uber-creepy recruit worship by some Miami fan (jean short forecast: moist and tightening) at the bottom of said article:

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1JasonL on Nov 12, 2008 at 3:22 pm:

I have a strong feeling that it probably wasn’t relayed to Jon that Swinney would be the coach next year, but will “most likely” be the coach next year. Translated through a 17-18 year old it becomes “definitely absolutely.”

If Miami folks are douchenozzles, and NCState fans are douchebags, then what are UVa fans?
2Blair on Nov 12, 2008 at 3:32 pm:

That would make us “Douchemerlots”, Jason
3Penthouse Tiger on Nov 12, 2008 at 3:46 pm:

Blair you should get a gravatar
4Tully on Nov 12, 2008 at 3:56 pm:

Douchegolas?
5Manse on Nov 12, 2008 at 6:20 pm:

Organic soy milk douchucinos with Splenda.
6Chili on Nov 12, 2008 at 6:21 pm:

Manse is at least partially right. The cafe I went to on campus at UVA on Monday did offer soy milk and Splenda. Not sure about the douchucinos though.
7Willy Mac on Nov 12, 2008 at 6:26 pm:

In keeping with the soon to be expressed holiday spirit… might I suggest a cup of douchenogg?
8Manse on Nov 12, 2008 at 6:35 pm:

When I toured colleges in high school, I looked at UVA, and I, too, went to an on-campus cafe. I approached the male (not man) behind the counter, who was wearing a beret and a Moby t-shirt. I ordered “tea.” He asked if I wanted Earl Gray or Green (note that it was about 100 ass-sweating degrees outside). When I replied, “no, I just want some regular sweet tea,” he snort-laughed and said, “Uhh, just because we’re in Virginia doesn’t mean we’re Southern–after all, we’re closer to New York than Charleston.”

I decided that moment not to apply. (Yeah, and I probably didn’t have the grades to get in anyway–details).

And just so I don’t totally throw off another thread, this sounds like a decent strategy to stop the bleeding on recruits. Hopefully Dabo can pull in at least two more wins to make such promises that he’ll be around more believable.

Oh, and Willy Mac for the win.
9Blair on Nov 12, 2008 at 10:27 pm:

Gotta watch out for those cafe employees and their pious, healthier-than-thou organic lifestyle. Just go to Raisin’ Caines.
10VladimirUlianov on Nov 13, 2008 at 12:36 pm:

@8 You should have knocked that stupid hat off his head and proceeded to urinate into it, manse. I knew a girl once that argued with me that Virginia was not only not part of the South, but it had never been. I replied, “I think that Robert E Lee and thousands of Confederate soldiers would have begged to differ.” Northern Virginia might be filled with transplanted Yankees and “closer to New York than Charleston” but there are plenty of other areas in Virginia that are just as podunk and Southern as SC.
11Tom on Nov 13, 2008 at 2:54 pm:

Virginia is a beautiful and gracious state once you get outside of the DC-area inflated-housing craptacular armpit region.
12Chili on Nov 13, 2008 at 2:55 pm:

@11, agreed the non-NoVA area is aces.
13VladimirUlianov on Nov 13, 2008 at 4:33 pm:

@11 and 12, totally agree. Btw, I meant podunk in the best possible way, since I love this area and many would use the same term to describe it.
14Manse on Nov 13, 2008 at 5:16 pm:

@ 10-13

Agreed, most of Virginia is amazing. In hindsight, that guy was probably from the midwest and wanted people to think he was from Grenwich Village. So apologies if I sounded like I was indicting all of Virginia, as such a generalization would be akin to an outsider judging South Carolina by an Ohioan.

At any rate, still glad I went to Clemson.