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So you're saying they won't be Blind Sided?

I really loved Connor and hope it all works out for a kid with a great heart and no small amount of talent.

They finally figured out they needed that month to buy train tickets out of town.

They do for sure. Be interesting to see where their open date falls. And to see whether despite declarations to the contrary -- no special preparation -- Clemson spends two days in August working on nothing but the spread option. We drive 'em nuts, and in '17 they might really need those two days.

That's a good list. My only question with GT is some voters wondering which Tech team shows up: '14, '15, '16? We do have a tendency to slip backwards. As for Clemson, I am not sure. I know nobody at Clemson expects 9-3. Swinney is often the ultimate optimist, but even if he loses Watson -- not...

This is on point. Remarkable what a load of new coaches will do when those doing the hiring are less concerned about who they coached with and more about how well they coach. A lot of guuys going back on this board were wishing and wanting exactly this, and now we have what we asked for. I am...

Maybe so many football fans find it hard to put defense into perspective, myself included. We condition ourselves to think good defense is X number of points, generally maybe 14 or 21 a game, and see anything beyond it as just bad defense. Maybe with the evolution of the offenses we should...

Why do you think they do that? A straight dive excepted, when the midline and the triple option start with the Bback into the line, why would they leave a hole there? Somebody just got lined up wrong, or were they guessing maybe toss or ...? Just seems really odd.

I don't know about that. Seems to me the perceived difficulty grows as expectations grow. If one expects more -- as in, they are pros after all -- then there has to be a corresponding defense for why you won't get more. In this case it is the increasing "complexity" of the game, kind of like the...

They don't read the newspapers up there apparently.

Have we ever had, since Smith, an A back who was an automatic short yardage or 3rd down runner? He was the master at it and I don't know why because while he was fast, it was not sprinter speed. But he always seemed to get to the edge first.

By numbers or percentage?

Thanks. I like that a lot. Good get, with perfect illustrations. When they figure that out then they can say with some authority that they have figured out the offense. I'm told one of the beauties of Clemson's offense is limited QB decisions on every play, including passes. This in turn...

Why? Johnson only has eight or nine plays. Everybody says so.

It would take me forever to figure out the tape because I don't do that well, but I wonder how many of those "up the middle" are always intended to be "up the middle". There are a couple or more options involved and a lot rests on the QB's judgment. I don't know. Just think the head ball coach...

In the first place anybody who lands jet planes on carrier decks is a tough guy and spilling confidence everywhere. In the second it occurs to me that he was the type quarterback, if i remember correctly, that Jordan is. Good but not great speed, good size, determined, kind of the mold for Navy...

He does have to buy snow tires.

Well, despite doomsayers the country could in fact carry a much bigger debt load if necessary, and much of that debt is owed American investors in bonds and notes. Still debt, but keep it in perspective. Now, as to individuals, some of it is utterly ridiculous, I agree.

I am of mixed mind about ESPN, leaning toward. Only because ESPN has GT games or most of them and other than Fox Sports South on occasion, and the Raycom network in NC (at least at one time) there is no way to see them otherwise. I do not like the fees because I think they are rapacious because...

On the other end of that, I gather, might be Clemson. I read a piece the other day regarding their NC appearance that the program draws so much cash and enrollment, that even with sticking to a 70-30 freshman class SC balance and not using student fees at all, they fund other programs and...