Clemson Athletics Announces Expansion and Renovation of Basketball Operations Facilities
By: Clemson Athletics

CLEMSON, S.C. – The Clemson University Board of Trustees and the Finance and Facilities Committee gave Phase I approval on a plan for comprehensive improvements to Swann Pavilion and Littlejohn Coliseum, benefiting both men’s and women’s basketball programs, with the recently added gymnastics program beginning competition in the spring of 2024. The project includes renovations of more than 51,000 square feet of existing team spaces and 30,000 square feet of new construction at a cost of $40 million.

“We are thankful to be able to begin the process of continued commitments to our basketball programs,” said Director of Athletics Graham Neff. “Strong basketball programs are key to an elite intercollegiate athletic department, which greatly impacts the student experience. We are thankful to the Brown Family for their generous support, which will allow us to continue the progress of bringing our basketball facilities among the top in the country.”





Construction would commence upon Phase II Board and State approval.

Anticipated facility improvements include further development of operations and technology in the women’s basketball team spaces, practice gym, offices and recruiting areas. Additionally, the improvements include modernization and expansion to shared strength & conditioning, nutrition, and sports medicine spaces. Some of the newly constructed spaces include men’s basketball team areas, offices, and practice gym.

Upon completion, each program will have its own designated practice gym, updated offices and team areas, as well as improved performance spaces. Externally, modified site circulation on the exterior along with a new expanded patio and plaza opportunity at the corner of the facility are included for the teams.

“This is a great step forward for our program,” said Head Women’s Basketball Coach Amanda Butler. “Clemson continues to invest in basketball, and we’re excited for what these improvements mean for the demands of our program and winning at a high level. We’re thankful to our donors and fans who have made this possible, and all the work that has gone into the process so far.”

“What a great day for Clemson Basketball,” said Head Men’s Basketball Coach Brad Brownell. “In 2013, when we first took steps to renovate Littlejohn Coliseum, Joe and Bobbi Swann aided in the advancement of both programs with the construction of the Swann Pavilion. This new project, spearheaded by Jim and Candace Brown, will continue to give us some of the best facilities in the ACC and the country, while enabling us to consistently provide our student-athletes with a first-class experience. I want to thank the Browns for their considerable generosity and strong support of our program.”

Littlejohn Coliseum last underwent major renovation beginning in May 2015. The $63.5 million renovation was completed prior to the 2016-17 season, which also added the Swann Pavilion and Burton Gallery. The existing building originally was constructed beginning in 1966 and opened for the first time on November 30, 1968.

I was listening to ESPN channel 84 this morning and this idiot said that Clemson became bad (from a national perspective) in July 2021 when Dabo "refused" to make NIL part of the program!! Would someone who does social media, please let him know about Tiger Impact. He went on to say Dabo would never be considered for the Bama job because of this same reason.

When do y'all think weigh-ins will be to me it's always a exciting time and who do y'all look forward to seeing the most ?

I was talking to my uncle the other day and he told me that he has a good friend of his who is has been coaching high school football in Georgia for over 40 years and he said Sammy Brown is the best high school football player he has seen since H Walker.

I know it was mentioned before that he is a Watson/Lawrence generational type of talent on defense.

Cris/Larry - any feedback on this statement. That is a strong statement based on all of the talent since the 80s out of Georgia.

GT: W 45-10
Furman: W 52-6
LA Tech: W 38-9
@Wake: W 31-17
NC State: W 24-21
@BC: W 25-20
@FSU: W 34-30
Syracuse: W 31-14
@ND: L 20-24
Louisville: L 27-28
Miami: W 29-26
Scar: W 30-23

10-2, Atlantic Division Champions

It's behind a paywall but for those interested you can find the story here --> https://archive.md/bzuV6

Key notes highlighted for the J-school nerds


AJC editors and attorneys investigated each complaint raised by university officials in the letter and found two elements of the story that did not meet the news organization’s journalistic standards, Editor-in-Chief Leroy Chapman said in a statement.

The AJC review found no instances of fabrications in the story, as the university’s letter had alleged, Chapman said.
In a statement, the AJC said the article’s author, investigative reporter Alan Judd, was terminated for violating the organization’s journalistic standards.

The article, first published on June 27, detailed how the national championship-winning football program rallied behind two athletes accused of sexual assault and domestic violence in recent years. It also suggested a pattern of the football program retaining other players accused of sexual misconduct on the team roster, but such a pattern could not be substantiated by the AJC’s internal review, according to Chapman.

The two confirmed cases in which the athletes were named were “accurate and newsworthy,” according to an editor’s note attached to a revised version of the article published Wednesday.
“Our editorial integrity and the trust our community has in us is at the core of who we are,” Chapman said in a statement. “After receiving the university’s letter, we assigned our team of editors and lawyers to carefully review each claim in the nine-page document we received, along with some additional source material that supported the original story. We identified errors that fell short of our standards, and we corrected them.”

Chapman’s statement identified the corrections and explained changes made to the article. The AJC’s editors said they could not substantiate one of the article’s key assertions about Head Coach Kirby Smart’s tenure: that 11 players remained with the team after women reported violent encounters. The “precise count of 11 players” could not be substantiated under the AJC’s standards, the statement said.
As a result of the corrections, the AJC removed or adjusted several paragraphs of the story that depended on that count, and edited the headline.

“A critical part of our mission is to hold people and institutions accountable. It is a responsibility we take seriously,” Chapman said. “We must hold ourselves to this same standard and acknowledge when we fall short, which we have here.

“We apologize to the university and our readers for the errors.”

In a second error, the article improperly joined two statements a detective made minutes apart into a single quotation, the statement said. Connecting the sentences did not change the meaning of the quote, but the way it was presented to readers failed to meet AJC standards, according to the statement.

Judd has been a leading reporter at the AJC for nearly 25 years, writing many of the newsroom’s most significant investigations and breaking news stories. His work has exposed slumlords profiting from dangerous apartment complexes in metro Atlanta; linked suspicious deaths in state psychiatric hospitals to neglect and abuse; and helped uncover a teacher cheating scandal in Atlanta Public Schools.
“I am proud of the work I have done for the AJC for the last 24 years and I am grateful for the opportunity I’ve had to serve the community,” Judd said in a statement.
The UGA article was the latest in a series of reports showing how football players often elude accountability for off-field infractions. The AJC previously reported that the program’s permissive culture tolerated reckless driving, excessive speeding and street racing by its players. That behavior culminated in tragedy when a high-speed car crash in January killed a football player and a member of the team’s staff, later leading to criminal charges against star defensive lineman Jalen Carter.

We present the uncut audio from Wes Goodwin and Garrett Riley visiting with the Clemson media earlier this week.

Goodwin shares what it was like to be thrown into the defensive coordinator fire with no previous play-calling experience.

He said the 2022 season provided sobering and difficult lessons that make him better entering his second season in charge of the defense that Brent Venables left in December of 2021.

Riley reveals how much he's fallen in love with Upstate South Carolina after leaving TCU to join Dabo Swinney.

This is Riley's second new job in as many years; last year at this time he was still getting used to his new position at TCU after two years at SMU.

Goodwin and Riley interviews

And here are the previous two in case you missed them:

K'Von Wallace

Brad Brownell

Said 100% tampering was going on with his freshmen through 3rd parties. You want to stop it? Name names! All coaches complain about this behavior but remain silent. I would blister somebody's ass with my press conference.
You could tell he was not happy.

If this is a repeat, please delete. Pretty obvious we have major problems and this goes beyond sports, but good to see it being put out for public view. Hope someone comes up with a system that saves our college sports from play for hire.

Several years ago Greg Leon, who owns several San Jose restaurants, killed the guy his wife was having an affair with. Turns out the guy was illegal and worked for a drug cartel.

He was out on bond and still working in his restaurants. No one seemed to care what he did, including myself.

Anyone know what the deal with this is now?

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Kiffin has plenty to say on transfer portal, NIL​

By: Anthony Dasher - UGASports.com

NASHVILLE – Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin has been one of college football’s biggest proponents for finding a unified plan regarding the NCAA transfer portal and Name, Image, and Likeness to keep schools on a level playing field.

Although Kiffin is all for players getting paid, concerns over programs and boosters being able to pour more into the pot than others have been a common refrain for the coach.

So, when a reporter asked Kiffin during Thursday’s session at SEC Media Days if he’d rank teams in the SEC and their boosters, it was like holding out a piece of meat to a bear.

“I am not about to start putting rankings out on boosters from top to bottom in the conference. … God, I want to so bad, though,” Kiffin said, drawing laughter from the media crowd. “The Commissioner said, remember, we've grown a lot and you don't have to respond to every question to show everybody you have the answer. So, I'm going to do that in this situation. But like I said kind of before, you want to look at the best boosters in the country and eventually the schools that have the most money that decides to pay the players, just look at recruiting rankings in the next few years. That will give you your answer.”

Kiffin used the opening statement of his press conference to express his concerns over NIL along with the NCAA transfer portal even further.

He didn’t hold back.

“First off, I've always said that I think it's phenomenal that players get a chance to get paid, which is great. I do think, which I've stood up here and said before when it first happened, that there's going to be some major issues and we're creating free agency with the portal. And with NIL, you've got a lot of pay-for-play going on and that is what it is,” Kiffin said. “Those two things combining, there's not a system in place. I don't think there are any other sports at 1 of 5 any level that is like this, that really, you every year, can opt into free agency.”

Kiffin’s comments come despite the fact his Rebels have benefited from the portal exponentially. Ole Miss has brought in 14 transfers on defense alone, and well over 20 as a whole. Still, Kiffin said having to reach that often into the portal has been a position he’d rather not be in.

“I'm not complaining about it because we take advantage of free agency, but at the same time, I don't think that's really good for college football. These massive overhauls of rosters every year, really, is not in the best interest of college football,” he said. “When you add the NIL at the same time, we have created, I've said it before, we've got different caps and no luxury taxes. So, we've got professional sports, because that really is what we are, what's been created now.”

With no caps, Kiffin said whatever programs have the most aggressive boosters will get the best players.

“Now we are adding some states that you don't have to follow the NCAA, and now the university can take their money and give it to the collective to give it to the players,” he said. “So now we really have pay-for-play that the biggest schools with the most donors, most aggressive, and the school wants to spend the most money paying the players to play to come to their school, is where we are with that.”

Unfortunately, Kiffin admits he doesn’t have many answers.

“I feel like that in this one; that I don't have the exact solution because it is so complicated and the Commissioner, who is much more educated than I on these things. Because I used to say they should be employees, so they can have real contracts, so when they come, you can sign somebody to a two-, three-, four-year contract. But there are way more issues,” Kiffin said. “That solves one problem but opens up more when they are actually employees of the university. I don't have the exact answers. I've always said when asked, shorten the windows so at least we know what your roster is and not so many chances for players.

"Like I said, I like the players get paid, but you don't … there's no other system like it. Like the player -- I've told our players. I've told our parents of our significant players, it is a great time to be a kid or a parent, okay, with where college football is. They will probably eventually fix this, so you will see this one window of a couple years where you can literally leverage your program every window or you can go into free agency and find the most money out there.”

I have a small retail boutique and we have our own domain. We had a custom website and the company that hosted it also hosted our email. We have gone with a Shopify website but they don't host customer owned domain email. I am not super literate so I need help. Currently the old company is still hosting our email but it is being a pain in the rear with some issues I am having now. How or who can I go to in order to have my emails accounts hosted somewhere else. We currently have 4 different emails in use but may need a few more, but no more than 8-10 max.

Some of the explaining may not be correct but I hope you get the gist. Thanks for anyone's help.

Going on a weekend golf trip to surfside in a couple weeks. We are already playing True Blue and Caledonia. I’ve heard Prestwick is good but didn’t know if y’all had any recommendations. TIA

Recruiting service just put in a prediction for Gipson to Texas this morning.

What happened here?

New OC, Young unproven QB, a few playmakers on offense returning, many unknowns, Solid defense questions on special teams.

For me its 2011 but it is also some what like 2017's team led by KB. Both teams won the ACC and both team's somewhat overachieved.

I saw a tweet out there that he had entered the portal. Is this correct? We seem to be awfully thin at LB.

In an offensive analyst role? Can you confirm @Larry_Williams ?

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Tiger Woods no longer facing $30M lawsuit from ex-girlfriend Erica Herman, per report​

By: Callie Lawson Freeman - Yahoo! Sports

Tiger Woods is reportedly no longer facing the $30 million lawsuit his ex-girlfriend, Erica Herman, filed against him and his trust two weeks after the couple broke up in October 2022. Her dismissal was filed on June 29 in Martin County, Fla.

The complaint will be officially dropped pending the resolution of another appeal of Herman’s, in which she sought to get out of a nondisclosure agreement with Woods.

“The Plaintiff, Erica Herman, by and through her undersigned counsel, hereby dismisses without prejudice her Complaint, filed on October 26, 2022, pending resolution of the appeal in Herman v. Woods, Case No. 23-175CA, and determination of whether her claims are subject to compelled arbitration,” the document stated, according to the New York Post.

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Herman filed the original complaint after she was allegedly forced out of her shared home with Woods in Florida. She alleged that there was a verbal agreement set to allow her to remain at the home for five more years.

She claimed Woods violated that agreement when she was allegedly tricked into going on a short vacation without him. When she arrived at the airport, Woods' personnel allegedly "told her she had been locked out of her residence" and would not be permitted to return.

The 39-year-old reportedly based her $30 million claim on how much it would cost to rent a property similar to Woods' $54 million beachfront mansion north of Palm Beach for the extra years she was allegedly promised.

Herman claimed that the NDA she signed should be waived under the Speak Out Act, which can override agreements of that kind when a case involves sexual assault, harassment, or both.

In May, Judge Elizabeth Metzger denied releasing Herman from the NDA, saying Herman did not provide “factual specificity for any claim relating to sexual assault or sexual harassment." Herman appealed the decision last month.

Woods, 47, is absent from this week's Open Championship at Royal Liverpool as he has not played a PGA Tour event since a foot injury forced him to withdraw from the Masters in April.

TUESDAY A.M. CLEMSON FOOTBALL NUGGETS
By: Larry Williams and Grayson Mann

(From today's media outing in Clemson. Some initial notes/quotes from Clemson's assistant defensive coaches. Offensive coaches and of course Dabo Swinney to come later today).

NICK EASON (Larry)

-- He's making no effort to slow the Peter Woods hype train. Said he's never seen anyone like Woods at 18 years of age. Said he has the respect of his teammates and everyone. He's a natural-born leader.

Also said he's fully developed physically in a way you don't see often if at all.

-- Asked him how comfortable he is moving Woods around. Said he cross-trains all his players inside and out.

-- Said Tre Williams, Payton Page and DeMonte Capehart have taken huge steps this offseason.

-- Capehart has been taking care of his body and becoming more flexible.

-- Said the defensive line has to generate more pressure with four, and that means winning more 1-on-1 battles.

WES GOODWIN (Larry)

-- Goodwin said Xavier Thomas and Justin Mascoll are in a different spot than they've been in the past. Really proud of them and the offseasons they've put together.

-- Said Andrew Mukuba has had an excellent offseason. Goodwin pointed out that he's gotten healthy, and that's something he wasn't last year. Said he was "really broken down" for much of last season.

He's added weight and mass. "Really excited with where he's at."

I asked Goodwin if Mukuba will continue to move around. He said he'll play either nickel or strong safety.

-- Goodwin said last year hammered home the fact that "this position will grind you up." He said it's one thing for your job to be making suggestions, and totally different when you're the guy calling the plays under the lights and managing players and their personalities. Said this time last year he had no idea how hard it was going to be. Said he's in a much better spot now in so many ways.

-- Goodwin said everyone on defense has a chip on their shoulders after last year, and you've been able to see it every day during the offseason.

-- With so many versatile players at all three levels, I asked him about the challenge of balancing that with being simple enough to allow his guys to play fast and instinctive. He said that's indeed a challenge, because you want to create cohesion and confidence that comes with guys playing side by side. "You don't want to create a lot of variables."

-- They spent the spring focusing hard on creating more turnovers. "You get what you emphasize," he said.

-- Asked him about Khalil Barnes and Shelton Lewis. He said Barnes is talented and wise beyond his years. Said he could be a guy who plays a lot of special teams and then gets in the rotation "at nickel, safety, whatever."

He said Lewis has been all about his business. "We'll see how it all shakes out in August."

-- Goodwin said they definitely want to play their best 11 on defense.

He's confident in what they have at DE, but if they need to go big with three defensive tackles against bigger teams (Notre Dame, Boston College, etc.) they'll do that. But by and large this defense's DNA against 11 personnel offenses is a 4-2-5.

MIKE REED (Grayson)

-- Said this is the most depth they've had since he's been here.

-- Trying to emphasize to everyone that they're one play away from being the starter.

-- Sheridan Jones is "a wise man." His last hurrah. Time to go out and utilize all the skills that he's acquired.

-- Reed's expectation for Wes Goodwin in Year 2: "It's going to be a better product."

-- He said "having that chip on the shoulder, something to prove is what you need in college football."

-- Said Nate Wiggins can improve in every aspect.

MICKEY CONN (Grayson)

-- Khalil Barnes and Sherrod Covil both have a role to play at the safety position and have grown tremendously.

--- R.J. MIckens is a playmaker. When he's in the game, things happen. he will be in that starting rotation.

-- Confidence is the biggest issue for Andrew Mukuba. He's been through the hills and valleys and is ready for the grind.

LEMANSKI HALL (Grayson)

-- Pure excitement when he learned XT and Mascoll were returning.

-- Said he has guys with plenty of experience who can lead the way.

-- For XT it's all about availability and accountability. Said he saw Xavier at the recent Ladies Clinic and he looks great and is in a better state of mind.

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Apologies for the Fox News link, but didnt see it elsewhere. Ya'll see this?


*Cliffs* 23 year old US soldier stationed in South Korea was being sent home to face further disciplinary actions for being a "problem", snuck onto a tourist group of the Korean border. When he had the chance he sprinted across the border into NORTH KOREA. Im assuming to defect ...

Two possible outcomes here

1) the DPRK parades him around in front of the media in a attempt to embarrass the United States
2) He is tortured to death or mostly death like the UVA kid from a few years ago

I grew up in East Tennessee and the level of excitement and hype in that area is the closest I've seen to how we all felt 8 years ago.

I get that how they got to this point was totally different - more like catching lightning in a bottle with Heupel just a few years ago. But the hype is through the roof... let's see how they handle it.

Oh, and was it really 8 years ago when we had the pizza party? Wow.

WVU hasn’t really produced many OL drafts picks…they have some. They develop guys that aren’t that highly rated.

I always like the Nester guy…felt like Clemson could have pushed for him and had a chance.

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