We lost another great former Tiger, who played for Coach Howard. He was my dad's roommate and who my dad called, "my best friend in life".

He was from Lanett, AL and grew up in row houses. My dad told me he showed up with all of clothes in a sack and he took a bus because his parents couldn't make the trip to drop him off at Clemson. He ended up going to Duke for law school and was an attorney in Columbus.

A couple of funny stories:

- Coach Howard told my dad and Joe that he'd had players leave early because they were too dumb but never had any leave because they were too smart. My dad was going to medical school and Joe was going to Duke for Law School.

- My dad was always first up and to the shower in the mornings and one morning Joe had glued my dad's shower sandals to the floor and my dad fell face first on the floor

- The starters rarely went "1 on 1" as my dad would say, "at practice we always did 1 v 2", meaning the starters were against the second string. One practice Coach Howard had the 1's vs each other at the goal line. My dad was starting center and his best friend, Joe, who played LB lined up in front of him. Joe knocked my dad on his ass and my dad asked him, "what was that about?" and Joe gave him a lesson he lived with forever, "It' better to give than receive"


RIP Uncle Joe

Your best guess, who wins the whole thing? It all seems like a giant crap shoot at this point and I don't think the best team necessarily wins. The format is going to be about matchups, byes, home field advantages and luck.

Wild card thoughts- What if the Big 10 sucks but still gets 4 teams in? Notre Dame does what it always does in playoffs? Playoff seeding with a power 4 school left out of the byes?

My champ pick- Ole Miss. I think they win out the season. They also will luck out with not having to be in the SEC title game. They probably get matched up against a Big 10 team. They have an outstanding D-line and a veteran Qb with a physical punishing style of offense.

We are getting questions about the status of Cedartown (Ga.) 4-star safety Tae Harris amid

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The power of the paw...in a while

Our only option is to buy and pay for the best 2-deep (maybe 3-deep at certain positions) that we can. Spread every nickel that we have over 50-55 players. After that sign another 50 one-star projects and over achievers, they will be practice dummies. Yes, some years injuries will gut us but every few years you will strike gold and miss out on injuries and make a CFP run.

We know we are not going to the ACC champ game and will not make the playoff.

I think the following things are also probable.

lose to SC
go to a crap bowl
finish outside the top 25 in recruiting

I think these things set up for the roster to potentially get raided in the offseason.

It’s unbelievable how far we have fallen as a program in 4 years. I have no faith in this staff to get the recruiting and roster management fixed.

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$9.99 a pound here in the Upstate sales page today .

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But not as cheap as Christmas

I’ve been hitting up the 4K Blu Ray deals on Amazon and GRUV

The wife has asked that I handle the stuffing this year. My previous attempt years back was a disaster so I'm turning to you all to share those secret family recipes. TIA

Anyone seen anything? Im guessing CU - 4.5.

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What are we buying today?

We're going up Saturday. Staying at 200 Main. Haven't been since pre Covid. Having Thanksgiving dinner at Madison's. Also have reservation at Wolfgangs. Any other restaurants we should check out? Things to do? Thanks

What is everyone doing for food saturday.

There are things to complain about, but this is pretty damn cool. Each player has been given, and will wear, a dog tag of a fallen Clemson alum. We complain about a lot of things that Dabo does. This, though, is awesome!!!

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Announcers and Matt Austin said this would be confirmed in 2 seconds.

Clear targeting.

Then they reviewed for awhile and said “not targeting”. Just shows how nobody knows what targeting is.

hey so I have an extra ticket to go see Mark Normund tonight at 7. If anyone is interested I would much rather sell it and sit with one of y’all as oppose to a random.

Just DM me, see y’all later