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THREE DEEEEEEEEEE
ESPN announced the first three college football games that it will televise in three whole dimensions for their ESPN3D network this fall. The September 18th matchup between Clemson and Auburn will be the third game, after VT-Boise and Miami@Ohio State. Interesting that all three games feature ACC teams, perhaps because with academic magnets like Wake Forest and Duke most of the league’s fans are already wearing glasses. Oof. That was a bad one. Me, I don’t know anyone with a 3D television, but perhaps someone I know with the right combination of gullibility and affluence will procure one of those things in time for me to peep it in one more d. (I’m not saying 3D TVs won’t catch on, but hell they’re coming out with new models not requiring 3D glasses next year, assholes)
DABO MAKIN BANK
Dabo Swinney’s incentive laced contract is paying dividends since he guided the Tigers to the ACC Championship game last year. His contract is ballooning up to a guaranteed $1.75 million a year through 2014. That’s a mil and a half more than he made as receivers coach and $900,000 more than he was being paid last year. In a similar fashion to last year, bonuses are included for things like academic success, win totals, and bowls.
PRESEASON ALL-ACC
Three Tigers made the preseason All-ACC team, announced by media on Wednesday during the ACC Football Kickoff in Greensboro, NC. DeAndre McDaniel was the leading votegetter on the list (though not preseason POTY, credit FSU hype for giving QB Christian Ponder the nod there). He garnered first team votes on 48 of 52 ballots, meaning 4 dumb motherfuckers didn’t think a guy who had 8 interceptions and 102 tackles last year deserved to be on the first team. OT Chris Hairston and DL Jarvis Jenkins join him on the first team ballot. Check out Heather Dinich interviewing D-Mac right here.
EATING VIOLATIONS
Clemson reported some secondary violations involving athletes being given discounted breakfasts (egad!) and some scratch from an assistant coach for food. C’mon guys, the epicurean fare at Schilletter isn’t enough for you? If you want to read about it, click here.
MEDIA GUIDE
The 2010 football media guide is out now, more info from the CUAD site.
***RECRUITING UPDATE***
5-star linebacker Tony Steward out of Florida, ranked as the top LB and #2 prospect in the nation regardless of position, has stated Clemson was in the lead for his services for a while now, with FSU as the #2 team. After spending several days in Tallahassee this week drinking the Jimbo koolaid, he now claims the two teams are tied at the top spot. I think Clemson is still in great position if spending time in Tally didn’t all out flip him to the Noles.
Posted by Chili
Clemson picked up three commitments over the weekend, the biggest coming from 4-star Florida RB Mike Bellamy, who is the third ranked RB in the nation and 13th ranked recruit overall. Bellamy was on campus for an unofficial visit and “fell in love with the place.” He cites the team’s ability to get the ball in the hands of its playmakers (i.e. CJ Spiller) as a big attraction, as well as a connection to OC Billy Napier. He had offers from pretty much everywhere.
Geraldo Orta, a DB out of Valdosta, Georgia’s Lowndes HS, grew up idolizing Brian Dawkins and wanted to follow in his footsteps to Clemson. Orta committed over the weekend as well. Weapon X is a pretty damned good role model on or off the field.
Dorman’s Adam Humphries was the first commit of the weekend, and the WR/S and sees himself in the mold of Tyler Grisham.
So, things are looking pretty solid at this point for the 2011 recruiting class, which comes in at 12 commits at this point.
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.
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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
While you were looking at Sporno, I was filling up with unleaded Clemson news (because the leaded tears up… plorp blerg no joke here bad idea Thanks to PenthouseTiger for the link).
FOOTBALL!
- Pro day for the 2008 seniors is set for today and stuff should get moving sometime early this morning. All of our seniors that you’d expect to be there will be as will Courtney Vincent. Good luck to all you guys.
- The Greenville News released a pretty good article on Deandre McDaniels in this mornings paper. Check it out here.
“[Kevin] Steele, the Tigers’ newest defensive coordinator, said McDaniel reminded him of Bryant McFadden, the former Pittsburgh Steelers corner who last week signed with the Arizona Cardinals, and former Carolina Panthers safety Mike Minter.“
- Dabo Swinney will be throwing out the first pitch at the opening game for the Greenville Drive on April 13th. Very cool. It’s kind of nice that we’re building a relationship with the Drive and I hope it only grows because every game I’ve been to at West End field has been awesome.
- We’ve offered to South West Dekalb running back Kendrun Malcome. Small article on it here.
- Heather Dinich is in Clemson for a few days and even had some thoughts on yesterdays practice. The main bullet point is that Jacoby Ford looked poised to be a leader and a player for next year.
- Eric Sprott from Upstate Today wrote a pretty good article on DaQuan Bowers and his wanting to take it to the next level in 2009. I heard things. Good things.
- Dan Brooks was at Clemson’s practice yesterday, furthering the worst kept secret in the Clemson sports buzz as of late. Unsubstantiated rumors have Brooks already working hard with Joey Batson on a new diet plan for the defensive line.
Various Artists Megamix
- There’s a fund that has been started in honor of Adam Becker, a Clemson forestry graduate student that was killed in a hunting accident this past Saturday.
- Clemson junior Kyle Stanley is competing in the Arnold Palmer Invitational this weekend.
- “We’re Autobots. We’re from Cybertron, a planet far from Earth.”… and we’ve come to Clemson to enjoy your robotics competition.
- It just amazes what our ag department comes up with. Rotting peaches to help fight fungus? Really?
Block-C Tailgate
Tomorrow a few of us are meeting up before the baseball game at the Esso around 5pm. Come on out and enjoy some good times. Then we’ll swing over to the game and watch Clemson hopefully dismantle Elon. I’m going to try and set up shop on the wood porch outside if the weather isn’t too bad. If not, look for me near the big screen. Check out the official thread for more information.
Posted by Willy Mac
Happy belated St. Patrick’s Day. Sorry if we just keep pumping out repetitive news posts, but we’re working behind the scenes for next season. In the mean time, here’s what we got:
Basketball up first
- Keith Lipscomb is calling our game with Michigan the toughest first round game to pick in the tournament.
“Clemson versus Michigan. Trying to figure out which team is going to show up — on both accounts — is what made it hard for me to pick a winner. Clemson just hasn’t been the same since it destroyed Duke.“
- ESPN and EA Games have simulated us going to the Sweet Sixteen only to lose out to Syracuse in a close one. At least the computers still love us.
- Really, we can’t do basketball coverage the justice that The OP can give you. They’re just really good at this stuff. We’d like to highlight a few of their links including their Wednesday morning links, their find of a video journal documenting the Tigers’ plane ride to KC, and their attention to detail with this article. Seriously, he’s tracking planes here people.
- Silly Gamecock fans. I love when I hear Gamecocks say things like, “Oh we could take Clemson now;” “We deserve to be in the NCAA Tournament;” & “Wait till next year.” … and the next year, and the next year… look, Cubs fans pretty much have cornered the market on that phrase, so find some new material you hacks.
Foobaw and recruiting
- Ms. Dinich reminds us that all of our vicariously lived hopes, dreams, and aspirations rest on one group with in our team.
- JC Shurtburtt (that last name, just happened) gives us a heads up that we’re the front runner for a DE/OLB recruit Neiron Ball who lives in Jackson, Georgia.
- Update: Check out this interesting story over at Dr Saturday entitled, “Dissecting Dabo” (Thanks to tmac9wr for the link).
Biz Markie palate cleanser
Baseball
- Remember the chimp that beastmoded that old lady last month? Well, Clemson played the role of the ape and Presbyterian played the geriatric patient as we stomped a mudhole in them and walked it dry yesterday.
- We’ve got USC Upstate at 6:30 tonight at home. I just might go.
Forums
We’ve opened a new “Beats and Brews” sub-forum in the Main Street Forum.Upon further review, it actually hurts us to divide into subforums right now seeing as we’re so small. Such topics included are Your top three liquors, Allman Brothers, & something else we can’t list on the main page have been moved back to the Main Street forum.- Babes forum alert: Malin Akerman
- We’re taking suggestions for next year’s shirt for football season. We’re going to start taking orders here soon. We’re also taking suggestions on how to make things better. Please tell your friends.
- Behold, the Reebok Court Victory Pump II‘s in Clemson colors…
