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There was a time when LSU was known as "the best losing football team in the country," and every win against them was guaranteed to be a dog fight regardless of their record. Dodd had a couple of almost mythic wins against them on Saturday nights in Baton Rouge when the announcers could barely...

The way Collins talks they built all three pyramids in less time it will take him at Tech.

Up front, I have collected bonuses and took them gladly. But I am increasingly skeptical about being paid a bonus for doing something one is hired to do, whether in business or sports. Why one should pay $9 or $10 million a year for a football coach -- Saban and Swinney as examples -- and then...

Actually I think Swinney holds that place now. But yes, presidents and the trustees sign off and often demand that kind of deal, and with it comes returns to the university. (At Clemson, for instance, there is now a women's softball program, its first -- hard to believe -- but funded almost...

I hired a guy once, a Navy vet, whose job entailed hunting submarines from helicopters towing hydrophones. I asked him whether, in maneuvers sometimes involving 2-3 other countries, he had ever discovered a nuclear attack boat. Never, he said. "Never." His answer was instructive: "If our subs...

The 19-year-old rule (or one year out of HS) has done more damage to college basketball than all the lying and cheating and payoffs combined. One-and-dones -- really about four months and done -- have turned even the most previously saintly -- Duke and Coach K, I am talking about you -- into AAU...

To paraphrase the Bambino, maybe they had a better year.

my bad. Yet, I guess it applies. If we have such low expectations of Collins, why is one of his assistants on the spot?

Help me understand this. We are willing to give Collins seven years to beat back the locusts and win, based primarily on the roster and scheme he inherited. Yet we say the defensive coach gets two years max and he is out of here. Same roster and scheme rationale. As much as I admired Johnson and...

Well, that is the kiss of death.

...Tell that to carrier pilots. And yes I am picking at you. Tech has been sailing into the wind for decades.

Maybe getting a tweet removed.

His 12-year-old grandson was a Clemson/Swinney camper a couple of years ago. Came time to split the teams and play a game of flag. His team was doing badly. Went to the coach and suggested, "If you want me to start a fight, I will." Coach passed.

So now the school is responsible for supporting the "families back home"? Think about how tough it would be, and is for thousands of "families back home" if they had to pay for his education. I have no problem with a stipend fr the athlete on top of the scholarship money, though it is uneven in...

Ain't it grand that even in a thread about ticket prices we can't resist picking a fight?

You may be right. The spread has changed things, and the option has gone NFL. It was little noted that in Clemson's 4-play, 96-yard winning TD drive against OSU, Lawrence completed three passes and ran once for a first down. And of course Kansas City, Baltimore, Houston among others have very...

There was a time some thought him the QB of the future. Somebody will take him for some position.

And Bryant, bless his soul, was 0-1 in NC play when Alabama rightly figured he could not throw deep and so stuck eight up front and dared him to. He could not. Swinney made the harsh decision that Bryant could get Clemson to the playoffs, Bryant just couldn't win them. If one wants to win a NC...

I believe I am correct that when Penn State beat somebody, it escapes me who because it is the Big 10, or really the Big One, they jumped Clemson to take 3 ... a vote nobody on the committee could explain and which fell apart a week later with a Penn State loss. You can breathe now.

apparently it is like the NFL or MLB. The first job is the hardest but after that, one has "experience" and slides right in. There is a reason Belichick keeps winning at New England: he makes his own decisions, renders his own judgment, chooses his own players and tells the rest of the league to...