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The worldwide leader has an article on big movers in its recruiting rankings and, well, me likey what it has to say about our future QB1:

Blake Hebert, QB


Clemson New 2025 ESPN Jr. 300


ranking: 122


Seeing Hebert at an in-person camp was critical for us as it not only confirmed what we saw from his tape, but also exceeded our expectations. His verified testing numbers are outstanding for any position, let alone quarterback. Here's a look at his measurables: 75.5-inch wingspan, 10-inch hands, 4.64 laser-timed 40-yard dash and 96.33


SPARQ rating for the Elite 11. His arm strength has always been evident, but at 6-3, 215 pounds, he can roll. He posted a 20.2 mph Max Speed game film, which would be excellent for a wide receiver or a running back.

Trump allegedly has one on one conversation about military info. Biden releases it to the world. Do munition levels qualify as confidential info?

Watch out for whales this summer! 🐋 My son told me about this and I didn't believe until I watched the video.

(It is always better to watch whales from a larger boat.)

I know there’s been a couple of threads on this, but I need more help to understand my options.

I have YouTube TV, and that’s not changing. I live in Clemson, so I also cannot get the MLB package due to being in the regional market.

What is my most affordable option to watch the 2nd half of the season?

I’ve watched the Braves all summer for as many years as I can remember (less the Gonzalez years). And here we have one of the best teams ever and I cannot find them anywhere on team. I so miss TBS!

While waiting on the MMI, I’m researching a new travel bag. I currently have a 3 price set of waterproof duffle/backpacks and I love them. But the airport loves to destroy them. So I’m going to save these for my driving trips.

I’ve gotten to where I don’t like wheeled luggage, but more of a duffel. Just curious if anyone is out there traveling a lot and using a duffel.

This is what I currently have. Thinking maybe waxed canvas, but open to other ideas.
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How in the world do we compete with them in the near future? Their recruiting is unbelievable. Another 6’6”+ 330 lb OL commits today, making it 5 at that size on their commit list this year. Seems like Kirby’s run will mirror a Saban at this pace.

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These flies think they can come up in here and try to ruin my nice little LIV Golf viewing by the pool? I think not. They gon learn today!

Nm

3 reasons why the 2023 season could be the beginning of the end for Clemson Tigers football​

Story by Shane Shoemaker • Yesterday 5:04 PM




7/6/23© Shane Shoemaker
The Clemson Tigers football program is entering a peculiar season this year. For the last several seasons, the Tigers have been one of the perennial favorites to win the College Football Playoff Championship. This year, not only are they not one of the top-3 favorites to win the College Football Playoff, they’re not even the clear favorites to win their own conference. By no means have the darlings of the ACC fell off, but they aren’t quite the clear favorites they once were just a few seasons ago.



Currently, the Tigers have the seventh best odds (+1600) to win it all, according to FanDuel. In year’s past, Clemson was typically within the top-4, if not top-2. That could be because teams like USC and LSU, who are favored just ahead of Clemson, are on the upswing. So, does that then mean Clemson is treading downward? Are we now seeing the Tigers football program coming back down to ground level after so many years of being on top, consistently playing for national championships? Or is it just because those teams are the new flavor of the month?
Clemson will undoubtedly still be a top-10 team to start the season, but that seems a far distance from their usual top-5 they have become accustomed to in years past. This team is still very talented, as head coach Dabo Swinney, entering his fourteenth season, has continued to recruit well. But with some glaring issues arising, Clemson could be on the verge of missing the College Football Playoff for the third consecutive season.

New coordinators​

Swinney is introducing yet another new coordinator coming into 2023, his third in two years. This time, it’s on the offensive side of the ball, with the hiring of Garrett Riley, the younger brother of Lincoln, from national championship runner-up, TCU. Riley will be replacing Brandon Streeter, who took over from Tony Elliott in 2021 after Elliott took the head coaching position at Virginia. This comes also just a year after Swinney lost his longtime defensive coordinator, Brent Venables to Oklahoma.
For a program that has had stability at some of its most important coaching positions, it’s starting to look a little bit like a carousel. Consistency has been key at Clemson during their impressive run, whether that be from player personnel to coaching staff. Now, it seems, that Swinney is trying to learn how to adjust to the fast, every-changing landscape in college football on all fronts.

Refusing to take advantage of the transfer portal​

One major concern for Clemson heading into the 2023 season is their inability to effectively utilize the transfer portal. Given the reputation of Clemson football, it’s easy to believe that Swinney could nearly pick and choose which players he wanted every season out of the portal. Swinney isn’t adhering much to this concept, though.
The transfer portal has become such an important tool for teams to address roster needs and acquire talent, to where in some cases, it has completely reshaped a roster. Teams are making turnarounds in their programs faster than ever before, or in the case of the usual powerhouses, making them even stronger. Clemson, under Swinney’s stubborn guise and disgust for a lot of the current happenings in college football, continues to be reluctant to embrace this new source of acquiring talent, however. Since its inception in April of 2021, Clemson has only brought in three transfers while losing 28 players to other programs, including six in 2023. This lack of activity in the transfer portal could limit their ability to fill gaps on their roster and address key positions of need.
As the growing impact of the transfer portal continues, this could be a cause of separation between other teams and Clemson in the future, if not currently. As strong of a recruiter as Swinney is due in part to Clemson’s recent success, the Tigers are missing out on a clear advantage of making their team’s better every year.

Losing trend?​

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/spo...-few-odd-reunions/vi-AA1cB4UX?ocid=entnewsntp

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Coincidentally, looking back to 2021, that also perhaps set off another trend. Over the last two seasons, the Clemson football program has lost a total of six games. In comparison to the year they began their dominating run in 2015, their first College Football Playoff appearance, through 2020, they lost a total of seven games in six seasons.
In the past nine seasons, the only team that has kept Clemson out of the ACC Championship game was Pitt, who beat them back in 2021, along with NC State. The only other loss that season was an out-of-conference game against Georgia. All three of Clemson’s losses last season were to out-of-conference opponents, that included Notre Dame — who they also lost to back in 2020 — South Carolina and Tennessee in a bowl game.
Clemson hasn’t beaten a Power-5 school since 2021, which was in-state rival South Carolina. For some teams, that would be considered a great accomplishment, as it wasn’t that long ago, but not for this era of Clemson football. Because not only did Clemson lose to South Carolina last season for the first time since 2013, they lost at home, ending their 40 game at-home winning streak.
That game perhaps proved to be detrimental to the Tigers, carrying over into their Orange Bowl game against a Tennessee Volunteers team that had made drastic improvements in 2022. The Tigers were simply outplayed on both sides of the ball by the Volunteers in Miami and never looked like they belonged in the game, losing 31-14.
The only Power-5 out-of-conference matchups on the Clemson schedule this season are familiar ones — Notre Dame and South Carolina. They’ll host the Fighting Irish but have to make the two-and-half hour trek southeast to Williams-Brice Stadium, making for an interesting beginning and ending to November.

Recruiting comparisons to previous national champions​

Under Dabo Swinney, Clemson has been one of the best recruited schools in the nation over the last decade and a half. The talent has been evident by the 17 first-round draft picks since Swinney took over, among a plethora other, later round picks. Those crops of talent are what earned the Tigers two national championships, while playing for two more in a span of four years. However, Clemson hasn’t played in the championship game since 2019, where they lost LSU by 17, and haven’t appeared in the College Football Playoff since the following year, losing to Ohio State in the semi-finals by 21.
Outside a six point win against Iowa State in 2021 in the Cheez-It Bowl, that means Clemson has lost two out of their last three postseason games with their last win before that coming in their 2018 National Championship victory over Alabama.
So, what’s the problem?
Let’s look at Clemson’s recruiting over the last four cycles, per 247sports.
Now, lets look at the last four national champions, who were after Clemson’s last championship.
Georgia and Alabama are averaging the second-best average classes within a four-year span, which has proved to be a bit of the norm when competing for national championships. Although Clemson’s average from their last four seasons is slightly above LSU’s last championship team in a four-year cycle at 7.5, it proves that it’s not impossible to still win titles with an plus-5 average ranking, but perhaps maybe not as consistently. If the numbers do stay true, the Tigers will need better average recruiting cycles to compete against the likes of Georgia and Alabama. For the 2023 cycle, Clemson had the overall 11th ranked class, with the 2024 class currently ranking at seventh.
It’s too way too early to tell if Clemson is truly trending downward, but there should be concerns if you’re a Tigers fan. It’s issues like these that can cause massive separation and maybe the beginning of the end for their dynasty.
The post 3 reasons why the 2023 season could be the beginning of the end for Clemson Tigers football appeared first on ClutchPoints.

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From our South Carolina site at Rivals.com:

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Curious to see some breakdown of what the top teams are returning at QB and new OCs bring to upcoming season? Seem to be alot of question marks with some of these teams.

Bama/UGA/OhioSt/Mich/Tenn. , could this be a wide open season and any team in the Top 10 win it all?

Thoughts?

Football - 22 starters - 85 scholarships
Basketball - 5 starters - 13 scholarships
Baseball - @12 starters - is it 11.7 scholarships

Link for D1 scholarships by sports:

I have never understood why baseball gets so few scholarships. Based on the rides for football/basketball, baseball should get 25 scholarships. This is a change the NCAA could make to have a positive impact on student athletes. A coach/school should not have to divide a scholarship between players.

Anyone have an explanation for this? Did baseball rides get cut with Title 9?

Tonight at 10pm on FS1. Should be a really tough test. Jamaica brought all their Premier League players to play against our C Team.

Let’s enjoy the last fun under BJ Callaghan, before Haram Berhalter returns.

Committed to Vols.

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$39,500,000 million estate on the market today in Yemassee, SC.

how the French rioters are all carrying assault rifles?

Autobiography, of sorts, read by the man himself. Norm is simply the best.

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It's been 10+ years since I've been to Jocassee, but I'm planning on remedying that this Sunday. Got a group of us going up totaling 3 boats. The plan is to get there around 9:30 in the morning. I know the lot fills up quickly, but is there any risk of not getting g a spot if we get there that early? It's $50 to reserve a spot. I'm not against doing that if necessary, but I'd rather not spend the extra money if it isn't necessary. Anything new in the last ten years that I need yo be aware of? Appreciate any info.

Morning TIers! I mean, it is but it's still insane. And just like in SC, August is coming so it's only going to get worse.

I will say this though. Everyone says it get humid here, but haven't seen anything near like humidity in Columbia yet. Even at 107, in the shade is tolerable. And once the sun goes down, you can actually sit outside even though it's in the 90s.

It is about 108 now at 3 pm here, but I am sitting in the shade at a pool bar and drinking Carlsburgs. I dunk my head every half hour and everything's cool.

Enjoy your Saturday!