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It is ever so regardless of the occupation. A superstar may leave and his successor almost invariably begins dropping dark hints about problems he's found, things he has to fix, all of which leads to "I am going to need a little more time than I thought to be successful." I don't know the...

One of Dodd's boys. Dodd would not have many more and none better. I believe I recall some chatter when Johnson was hired that Anderson was instrumental in the whole situation.

Okay, I get it. You are unhappy. You may even be right, though defining "just fine" in matching up against, say, Clemson, is kind of odd to me but that could be an arguable point. I know Clemson didn't believe that coming in. But "disgusting"? If you find a blocking style "disgusting", how do...

Well, nine years into it and with some rare exceptions -- all the more enjoyable for their paucity I suppose -- we have not been able to count on throwing the football. I don't mean we have never done it, Virginia Tech in 2014 certainly springs to mind, but that we cannot pull it off the shelf...

That is just snarky enough to be funny.

Well, make therm give them back if they're not using them at the moment. We need something against Miami, a team that I hate because, well, just because.

A Clemson fellow who follows them closely and knows some of the players believes Watson is trying to be perfect on every throw instead of just slinging it and having fun with the game. That, they think, is the big difference so far in this season and last season. He also thought Watson left two...

No, you're reading it right. Put those same '14 skilled position guys behind last year's and this year's line and how would you bet the egg money? Sometimes Johnson is just a grumpy contrarian. Shoot, Shaq Mason alone raised it two levels.

I could disagree on a couple of points, but even with the hyperbole this is a fair enough summary. Particularly the first vs. second half observation. "Winning" a half means diddly if you lose the game and to me is a loser's lament. We got killed. If anything happened to Clemson in the second...

I think it's fair to say that given the performance against Clemson, the O line had better not be done getting better. The question to me is how quickly can it get better as in really good. What has been brought home -- to me -- starting in 2014 was how much this offense depends on outstanding...

So would burning Atlanta.

You don't get late late. You get late early. Lose the first half like that and who cares about the cosmetic second half, when Clemson has already checked out and dialed up Louisville.

too late. I dispatched white coats and nets to your house already.

Well, okay. No argument. Except: you can't fix any offense in the world with this offensive line play. And that gets to recruiting and athletes, and that gets to all kinds of other discussions. There were a couple of times last night, again, when the O line looked like 52-card pickup. Seemingly...

People forget that Clemson had a great year by normal standards in 2014, and that two of Tech's scores came on really bad -- I mean bad -- throws from the QB who replaced Watson. But yes, Clemson has its entire program in overdrive now and deserves to be up there in the national championship...

In Swinney's remarks after the game it was clear that coming into Atlanta and breaking that Dodd stadium losing streak was important to him. I am guessing he and Johnson are kind of alike in those goal-setting things, and last night was one of Swinney's goals.

How 'bout that? Another "without a doubt" win? I notice he is saying you should bet the mortgage, not that he would bet the mortgage. Another one of those hate-big-government guys except when it's his big government. Seriously, he has a tough job, as do sports columnists. You got to have an...

Right about now Venables is said to be very unhappy but from the sideline camera he almost always is, and after losing five in a row at Bobby Dodd there has to be some nerves at Clemson, particularly with Louisville staring at them 10 days later. I see in the Charleston paper they finally...

As the hurricane emergency electric company worker once said to me as he was almost run over by a driver now impatient to get back in his house, "They all love you until the lights come back on." Let's get a look at him with the lights on.