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A promotion? Every two years? Another way to look at it would be that it took only two years before performance did not match reputation and he had to move on. I hired a couple of guys like that in my time.

Well, yeah. What, 10 jobs in 22 years? Including his desertion as defensive coordinator of Mississippi State before the 2015 Orange Bowl game to take the same job at Florida? I'm sure Dan Mullen remembered that after Tech rolled over MSU. Collins is the classic example of one year of experience...

There is context to everything. Bobby Dodd routinely played 10-11 game seasons, and getting double digits out of that was a chore. Particularly when you were playing Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Auburn, and LSU. So saying he had four double-digits means ...

It is also true that the Swinney/Clemson "all in" culture scares off some schools and Elliott, had he been interviewed for Tech, would come with certain expectations and would have scared the bejesus out of Georgia Tech. They probably liked Collins because he had no such expectations. But in...

Surely you are not suggesting that FSU, a five touchdown underdog to a team aching to get even for Notre Dame, and a QB determined to get his name back in the Heisman race, just plain quit? Took their ball and went home? But everything else aside, it's another indication that no football should...

Interesting. Thanks. I ain't buying, but it is interesting. I am sure they wanted that recruit, but I have followed Brad Brownell since coached at UNC-Wilmington 20 years ago. He is a straight up, by the book, stand up guy. I don't see him having any part of buying players. The same with...

when and who was this? I know Ford was caught doing something but I don't recall what. Swinney welcomes all former players and coaches back and sometimes Ford wanders in but at kind of an arms-length arrangement. (He has a farm there in Pickens County and grows, get this, cannabis. My guess is...

For heaven's sake. "start IPTAY, hire a guy ..." Clemson promoted Swinney in '08 or '09. Clemson started IPTAY -- the not very clever "I pay ten dollars a year" in about ... 1934. "and magically discover" the second Dodd? Seventy five years later? Let's face it: Terry Don Philips made a...

I challenge you to prove any point you just claimed. I double dog dare you, to coin a phrase. You can't. You made it all up because that is what you want to believe. For god's sake, admit it: the guy built a powerhouse and you can't stand it. If we want to be that, then it is up to us to be...

tell us more about Johnson's observations. Not sure what you mean, but once the decision to hire Swinney was made, he made a massive culture shift almost single handedly and now has a program which is the envy of the country. What he managed to do was convince Clemson to be "all in" from top to...

Now, come on. You actually expect us -- a football message board -- to believe that France worked up the nerve to actually attack Germany?

Lucas Johnson.

You know, it is not so much their rampant cheating. Duke doesn't get all those BB players because it has a great campus. But okay. It is just that Coach K is such a raging hypocrite and it drives me nuts.

"Let alone Bobby Dodd"? I am gasping for air here.

Actually he said one was supposed to be a great pass blocker.

I always thought "proper fundamentals" were supposed to help offset mismatches, and the coaching gaps are often huge. (There's a reason coaches always lobby for higher assistants' pay.) I am not a Collins fan, never was, but I am still hoping I don't get to say "I told you so." I'm willing to...

Freeze. Liberty. Enough said.