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So our Daughter will not only graduate in May with honors but she will also be honored on the field Saturday for Senior Day. She had division one soccer offers but decided Clemson was where she wanted to be and it could not have been a better fit for her. She works in the CASL (Clemson Applied Science Lab) and is waiting to hear on graduate school at Clemson as well. Man what a fun 4 years she has had and we are so proud!

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Lots of backroom dealing in progress. Trump has come too far to be stopped by establishment rino senators imo.

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20 GOP senators voted to confirm Garland.

Blunt, Burr, Capito, Cassidy, Collins, Cornyn, Ernst, Graham, Grassley, Inhofe, Johnson, Langford, McConnell, Moran, Myrkowski, Portman, Romney, Rounds, Thune and Thillis.

They voted yes even though Garland:

- said he believed the departments top priorities will be ensuring racial equity and meeting the evolving threat of violent extremism - code for go after J6s.

- Garland refused to answer whether or not illegally entering v the country should remain a crime.

- he refused to say he would protect female athletes from males in their locker rooms and sports teams.

- he also refused to commit to releasing the Durham report.

And despite all of that, those Republicans voted to confirm.

Remember that.

TJ Parker Collects ACC Defensive Lineman of the Week

Release from Clemson:

Parker Collects ACC Defensive Lineman of the Week

CLEMSON, S.C. — The Atlantic Coast Conference announced today that Clemson defensive end T.J. Parker has been named ACC Defensive Lineman of the Week for his performance in Clemson’s 24-20 win at Pitt on Saturday.

Parker's selection marks his first ACC weekly honor of the season and the second of his career. He previously earned ACC Defensive Lineman of the Week for a two-sack game at Syracuse in 2023. His selection this week is Clemson's 21st ACC Defensive Lineman of the Week honor of Dabo Swinney's head coaching tenure.

On Saturday, Parker authored one of the most statistically dominant performances of any player nationally this season and of any player in Clemson history. He recorded seven tackles, 5.0 tackles for loss, a school-record-tying 4.0 sacks, a pass breakup and a forced fumble in the win.

Parker's 4.0 sacks and 5.0 tackles for loss both tied for the most of any FBS player in a single game this season. His 4.0 sacks matched the totals posted by Keith Adams vs. Duke in 1999, Andre Branch vs. Virginia Tech in 2011 and Austin Bryant vs. Auburn in 2017 for the most in school history. His forced fumble in the game was also his fourth of the season, pulling him within one of the single-season Clemson record.

Collectively, Clemson's squad that finished 7-1 in ACC play has now earned seven ACC weekly honors this season, tied with Georgia Tech (4-3), Stanford (2-5) and Cal (1-5) for fifth-most in the conference this season. The Tigers have garnered a total of 585 ACC weekly awards since 1968.

I changed my mind, I do hope we sneak in

As frustrating as it may be, I think it may be best for the overall program health for us to sneak into the college football playoff.

We either make a run, which could be great because we would be turning things around, and hopefully our recruiting would reflect that.

OR

We get embarrassed again, and it forces some real changes.

****Dave Hale, on Notre Dame

In 2014, Notre Dame and the ACC entered into a scheduling agreement in which the Irish promised five matchups per year against the conference in exchange for a home for their non-football programs. Since then, Notre Dame has effectively been Biff from "Back to the Future" to the ACC's McFly family. They roll into the house unannounced, raid the fridge and eat Wake Forest's leftover chicken and then take Georgia Tech's car without asking.

And so it was that the Irish throttled Virginia 35-14 on Saturday behind Riley Leonard's three touchdown throws. Jeremiyah Love ran for 137 and the defense picked off Anthony Colandrea three times. Notre Dame finishes 5-0 against the ACC, the sixth time in 11 years the Irish have gone undefeated against the conference in the regular season. Overall, Notre Dame is 50-9 in the regular season against the ACC since 2014, including a 9-0 record as a full member in 2020, and somewhere Jack Swarbrick is inviting his buddies to crash at John Swofford's beach house for the entire summer again.

Important question for all the guys that know X’s and O’s and anyone else that wants to chime in…

With all the talk from Narduzzi about how our offense looks basically the exact same from the last 4 meetings with Clemson and Dabo is heavily involved, etc…

I was wanting some of you to breakdown the TCU vs Michigan CFP matchup from 2 years ago. That was obviously Garrett’s best game as an OC and I remember their offense used all kinds of great plays in that game.

It looked like a lot of TCU’s offense is different than what we’re currently doing and have done for the last 5+ years. It seems like Dabo is just making Garrett call plays from the “Clemson Offense.”

Basically, I was wanting to know the schematic differences between that TCU offense and ours?

Assistants…

Instead of talking about firing and such, I have one question that has puzzled me…

When they changed the rules to allow unlimited on-field coaches, why did we not use our huge budget to hire the best on field coaches to supplement our existing staff?

Wes isn’t a LB coach. I’m not sure how good the rest are, and I am not doubting them. That said, this was a chance to not worry about recruiting skills and just look at coaching.

Boulware is intense, but again, not a proven coach.

We have an almost 1:1 ratio of staff to players when you look at the sideline. I hope we adjust and hire the best position coaches possible and the best recruiting coaches too. You don’t have to try to find the best mix of skills anymore.
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