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Losing to Georgia might be bad, but it pales in comparison to losing to a team from Kansas. Kansas, which had barely won 50 games the entire decade and just the week before lost to North Dakota State and scored just a field goal. I think that game set a tone that haunted Johnson at Tech: every...

We can find hope in my first Little League experience. I was transferred to Hickam Field, and my shift NCO needed helped coaching his team. Had a great pitcher, he said. Terrific. Could not wait for the season. Went to tryouts with 20,000 points to stock his team, and bid 15,000 points for the...

I think we all want to find a logical reason for perhaps illogical events, and most of the time it's just Occam's Razor at work. Lacking any credible accusation, and with a bit of anecdotal evidence to the contrary, I have to go with the integrity of the Clemson program. (The others I confess...

Somewhere I recall a quote from Johnson somewhere to the effect that if a "committed" player was visiting elsewhere, then he wasn't committed. It was both a recognition of his own recruits and his recruiting of other players supposedly "committed" to other schools. The logic of it was so...

You do know, don't you, that you just opened the door to the critics who say Johnson couldn't recruit anyway so they weren't sought by others in the first place?

Second things first, Dabo won 10 games in 2011 and has not won less than double digits since. 2010 is the only year that might be considered mediocre, with six wins and a bunch of close losses. As to the second part, one drive over that campus dodging and ducking construction zones tells you...

I had not realized until a couple of posts back you taught in Worth County. I believe that qualifies for sainthood so let me know the canonization day and I will be there. The problems you cited were not new. When Earlene Wilkerson, she of she-runned-him-off fame, was elected, she beat Buck...

That is funny because the of the person responsible for Miller and his whole staff jumping to better jobs. I gather he was very successful at Lowndes HS. Valdosta HS was getting all the ink with Wright Bazemore and his string of undefeated seasons. Bazemore was the template for scheme football...

Remember: it ain't the heat, it's the ... As for cotton, well. You know, Enterprise, Ala., in the 1920s erected a monument to the boll weevil. For forcing farmers to diversify. And from that came peanuts and from peanuts came Jimmy Carter and ...

Ah, the Sumners of Sumner. John Sumner of long ago established Sumner, population now 300 or so, in the 19th Century, but moved out because it got too crowded. Joe Sumner before his death came to own all my great-great-grandfather's 1,200 acres NE of Sumner, along with his initial acreage --...

No convincing needed. I grew up in Sumner and Sylvester and some of my fondest memories are working the field in 95-degree heat and lord knows what humidity. On the other hand, I got three bucks a day.

One word: melatonin. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but no harm either way. Or what the heck, just be grouchy. It will keep people away.

Miss your nap, did you?

Hmm. Tell that to Dabo Swinney, who fired a DC not because he got blown out in a bowl game, but because said DC objected to the change in offensive scheme. Drastic, I dunno, but dramatic? You bet. And less than seven years, too. And they didn't start bringing in boatloads until Swinney got the...

Actually it wasn't about the recruiting before or after. Clemson was losing and a coach turned it around in a lot less than seven years while changing offense and defense. If it takes a coach seven recruiting cycles to put his system in, well ....

And your point would be? There were a couple of UGA home collapses to the team on the Flats that few outside of Georgia would have cause to remember. It's enough that we do.

True, it somewhat tracks the arrival of DRad, but it takes off with the NC appearances. What is overwhelmingly evident at Clemson, however, is that Swinney is the coach they want, and the AD and administration through the president are fully committed, or per the Swinney mantra, "All In". So on...

Did not Bobby Crimmins once ride horseback around the campus, exhorting students to show up? Or did I imagine that?

Looking at it another way, the coach and the AD agree that it will take at least six -- six -- recruiting classes to achieve whatever it is they seek to achieve. (I am not being churlish here, really. If they don't like the offense, then by all means change it. While I and others may not like...

Elitist, you.