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If you take Clemson's short game, running and passing, and see how Elliott manages it in a game, it is not a stretch to think he could take the present roster and compete for a couple of years while recruiting.

No. He is good friends and a former Kansas State teammate of the Texas Tech AD. He told him no. And in a press conference after practice made, in my mind, a stirring statement of commitment and integrity any college in the country would salivate over. His oldest son is a freshman LB at Clemson...

The job is his for the taking. I could argue all the rest of it but basically, just not a retread. Right about now the Tech inbox is full of resumes forwarded by every agent in the country with a coach job hunting. No surprise to find they are all above average.

Dabo just did a terrifically entertaining riff on such attitudes when somebody purportedly said beating SC by 21 points "feels like a loss". His conclusion: that fan needs to find another team because one point is a win, and a win is what I'm after.

Yes! Great recall. It was stunning, one of those things that afterwards everybody said, "Well, sure. Why didn't I think of that?"

I might remove that Sun Bowl game only because Lane Kiffin disgraced his university and the sport and disrespected Johnson and Georgia Tech from beginning to end before finally going belly up in the game. Seeing he was going to get whipped he proceeded to stop coaching altogether and act like it...

I don't want to say Monken hates seeing the ball in the air, but he runs it back to his punter...

I know the guy is named for a pope, but if he wants out of OSU it is the same reason he wanted out of Florida: that faint white hat is seen through the gloaming, leading the posse ever closer while he asks, "Who are those guys?"

2014 VT was it?

I think you will see a thin December signing class. Those who are not certain will want to know the new coach before signing away at least a year to a commitment they will regret.

Give us dates, games and times you saw Army and Monken pass the football. Take your time.

I am inclined, still, toward the firing route. But regardless, your point about "having fun" is well-taken. Well, I mean, it is Paul Johnson and outwardly fun is relative. But I think certainly his demeanor was changed. Always short-wired and thin-skinned, this season he came over several times...

Frankly given the circumstances I am really wondering if his was a retirement or a firing. The more I think of it the more I think Johnson is not the kind of guy who runs from a challenge. I know there was a buzz through ACC coaches in the spring that Johnson was one of the coaches on the hot...

Yes, everybody runs an option now. Call it zone read, or read option, or run pass option, it is almost all option-based. (Meyer at OSU, Johnson once related, refuses to call his offense "option" though it is because he is afraid it will hurt recruiting. Of players running the option in HS. Go...

I've seen them a couple of times. He uses a shotgun occasionally, and a shotgun with motion occasionally, but stays mostly in Johnson's traditional set. Thing is, with his different formations, Monken still runs the ball, or did when I watched. His motion was Clemson-like: nothing happened with...

What in the world did either do to convince you of that notion?

We either get a retread and start all over, or a bright young coach for three years. At which point we start looking again because an ambitious coach cannot compete at the top levels of the ACC from GT. I hope for the school's sake they find a guy who is at a successful "program" now, not just...

OK, OK. Is this an attempt at levity, or another between-my-ears poll? I mean, who said this? I know they don't want to play the offense. And hate the cut blocks, though every single one of the ACC members cuts, but again who said that? How do you know that? I know it is a message board and...

I really am curious about the metric you used in your claim the 2018 ACC "worst in a decade." Why worst, or decade? Do you mean exactly 10 years, or is the whole thing kind of a typical football message board poster blowing off steam? (My wife's theory is that the boards bleed a lot of...

Nothing like going unbeaten to collect all-star votes, is there? Clemson is deep, but that deep?