Posted by Chili

It is only because of the incredible delight I take in reading the smug, suburban, self-congratulatory response to this Facebook post that I am able to withhold my scorn for the horrendous looking movie the City Paper is reviewing. NOBODY GIVES A FUCK, WILLIAM J. HAMILTON.

Posted by Chili

Some, I think, Cleveland Browns Rivals site has an interview up with our very own CJ Spiller. The discussion doesn’t really tread new ground, but if you’d like a good general overview of what’s up with CJ, this is your article. Of particular interest are CJ’s goals for 2009:

CS: What do you want to accomplish this season?

Spiller: To be invited to New York for the Heisman… and hopefully we’ll win the ACC and get invited to a great BCS bowl game. That’s the main thing; we haven’t won a bowl game since I’ve been here. That’s really my individual goal: to win a bowl game and to get the fans at Clemson excited about Clemson football

RF365 takes an extremely premature look at next year’s recruiting battle versus Sakerlina, though you recruiting die hards may bug out and scream IT IS NEVER TOO EARLY TO ANALYZE THE PURSUIT OF STRAPPING YOUNG MEN!!!!! And if you do scream that, I’ll nod my head, and immediately leave your vicinity and report you to authorities.

HERE IS NEWS ABOUT THINGS THAT AREN’T FOOTBALL. WELL, ONE IS FOOTBALL BUT NOT THE COOL KIND OF FOOTBALL

- Sticking with recruiting, rehabilitated Edward Norton from American History X has a brief summary of Oliver Purnell’s good ‘cruitin’.

- Former Tiger golfer Lucas Glover won the US Open at Bethpage Black before throngs of retarded Long Islanders (redundant, I know) drunkenly heckling golfers in driving rain. I couldn’t find a clip of him reading the Top Ten on Letterman the other day, so here’s Crispin Glover on Letterman instead.

- The Anderson Independent-Mail Xtra has a piece on Clemson’s Oguchi Onyewu as he and the rest of squad USA take on Brazil in FIFA’s Confederations Cup on Sunday.

- Clemson shortstop Brad Miller was named to the USA baseball national team. Congrats.

Posted by Chili

Noel Johnson, ranked 30th in ESPNU’s top 100 basketball recruits, chose to play for Coach Purnell today over LSU. Johnson, a 6′-7″ small forward out of Fayetteville, GA, was a former Southern Cal signee who bailed after the Tim Floyd shit hit the fan. Check out his Rivals profile here. This gives Clemson one five-star, two four-star, and one three-star ranked recruits for next season.

Posted by Block-C Staff

Here be the links and such

• Trevor Booker has been selected for the USA men’s basketball team to play for us this coming July in the World University Games.  Trevor Booker: Huhmerrican.
• Tim Bourret did a pretty bang up job on the 2008/09 Clemson Athletics Year-In-Review.  More like Tear’s-In-Review… amidointhisrite?!?!?  WAKA WAKA.
• While most of the spotlight is on the QB battle between WILLY KORN and Kyle Parker, The Post & Courier tells us not to count out incoming freshman Tajh Boyd, who has his sights set on the starting spot. SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
• That Noel Johnson kid out of Fayetteville, Georgia is choosing between Clemson and LSU and will probably be doing it today.  We really need a guy like this.  Thankfully we can pick up one of the pieces that Southern Cal dropped.
• If you’d have been reading and posting in the forums, you’d be on top of this post.  You’d tell me, “Willy Mac, you fool.  I know this already!”  Then we’d probably share an awkward laugh and halfway miss a high five as my ego takes a crushing blow… We even talk golf on the forums.  Go ahead and give it a try if you haven’t signed up already.  If you’re having problems signing up, shoot us an email.  If you’re a lurker, go ahead and feel free to post!

Posted by Willy Mac

Thanks to everyone who sent the following link about Clemson Men’s Soccer coach Trevor Adair.  As you may or may not know by now, he’s stepped down and left the university.  This could be a huge blow to the program as he had our team playing as good as they have since our last national title run back in the late 80′s.  Word around campus is that he was pretty much forced out politely.  Rather, he was politely asked to leave before he was fired.

Again, my stance on firing people is that people get canned way too often and way too early  these days.  My take is that yeah, he fucked up.  Who doesn’t?  People deserve second and sometimes third chances.  Adair could have quite possibly been one of the last good coaches that had that old school swagger to him. I know I’ve been using this phrase a little bit too much lately, but he really is a Clemson-first kind of guy.  He always had the best intentions for our university.  He really took care of his players and Clemson students in general.  He made his decisions with the best intentions in mind (disregarding that one that got him in trouble).

So why, why should we be like everyone else and just fire a guy because he’s in a little legal trouble? Or fire him because he has a problem with the sauce?  Wouldn’t it be more prudent to give the guy a second chance and… wait for it… actually help out somebody that really needs it?  The guy obviously has a problem with alcohol and rage issues. So instead of helping him get the help that he needs, we just unceremoniously dumped a good Clemson guy.  I mean, we dropped him at the worst possible time for both parties involved and it kind of looks a little ugly.  Maybe I’m affected because I really liked Adair (but really could haven given a shit less about soccer).  Maybe I feel this way because he always treated my friends and I well. I don’t know, I just don’t like the situation and how they dressed it up as “Adair seeks new opportunities” for the news outlets.  I just think that this is a really retroactive, forced, uncaring, self-preserving, knee jerk (am I leaving anything out?) decision that was made.

Maybe him being asked to leave is a rumor, but that’s what I’m getting from some people that I know.  Of course, he really could have just stepped down to reevaluate his life. In that case, we still need to help him out.  I seriously doubt that thisis true largely due to the fact that he really needs a paycheck right now. What do you think?  Take it to the comments…