Watching the dominant TE play in the NFL. Gronk, Kelsey, Kittle, Bowers, etc. great athletes, blockers, hands. Clutch plays.

Thought Brinney would be that guy. Good year but still not dominant. We have a strong TE room of athletes. I hope they can achieve this level of performance. I’m hopeful this is the year. Believe we have the players.

Had a nice return to set up Barkleys TD run and then forces a fumble on kickoff.

Have some grandkids I want to help daughter with this summer going to day camps and camps where you stay the week. Any suggestions on where to look for places kids' girl aged 11 and boy aged 12 can go?

Football, basketball, baseball, speed camps or any other stuff like even fishing camps.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Brings out the three "trophies" today at the basketball game and talked trash about it while the team was behind him. Mayor's cup from Missouri...Texas AM and the palmetto one. It's on WLTX. He's such a little wus.

Just thinking about how much the entire GSP area has grown in just the last few years. I am from Spartanburg County, and I can already tell when I’m in town the massive influx of people who have moved into the surrounding areas all around. I live in Clemson now, but I’m looking to move in the Fountain Inn/Simpsonville area. Trying to find affordable housing seems almost impossible these days. I really don’t want to settle for a subdivision. Having just an acre or two would be ideal for me because of my dogs. Everyone knows Greenvilles growth has been off the charts, but Spartanburg County seems to have really took off as well. The downtown area has been cleaned up and has more business, and the addition of the minor league team is a pretty major attraction for a lot of people. The entire upstate of SC has essentially out grown its infrastructure to the point where 85 is always just a big road jam. Hopefully the growth will ease in the coming years because we are absolutely slammed. Anyways, if anyone has any recommendations/advice for a first time home owner looking in the GSP area, I’d love to know.

Would absolutely love to have him as a DC man is not scared to bring pressure

This kid is ready to be RB1. If anyone didn’t see the old thread, I met a couple of guys who went to his old HS at the barber shop and they said he was the best player they’ve seen in Virginia.

They had watched HS Football religiously in that area and said he was by far the best player they’ve ever seen, live. 6 TD’s in state championship. Grew up running in sand on the beaches. Running game should be exponentially better in 2025.

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If Big 10 and SEC break off and have their own league and leave out the rest of college football including CL, FSU, Miami, etc. I would propose the Big 12 merge with the ACC and move to an NFL model with and AFC (Atlantic Football Conference) and an BFC (Big Football Conference). Each conference would have 4 divisions with 4 teams. It would also allow for expansion if the league wanted to. I know all of us, me included can't get into one of the SEC/Big 10 leagues fast enough, but this could be our next best option. This leaves out BC and WF. If ND doesn't join conference, you could replace ND with either BC or WF or go out and get a different team in that region (Memphis, Tulane, etc.). Would be same format as NFL with exception of playing everyone twice in your division. Instead you would play 3 other teams in your division, 4 from another division in your conference, and 4 from the opposing conference. That would be 11 games, Everyone could play 1 OOC/Rival game and then 2 preseason warmup games against other teams that are just scrimmages.

AFC (Atlantic Football Conference)
AFC EAST UNC, NC ST, Duke, UVA (OLD ACC)
AFC NORTH Cuse, Pitt, WV, VT (Big East reuniting)
AFC SOUTH FSU, CL, Miami, GT (Big southern football brands)
AFC WEST Cal, Stanford, AZ, AZ ST. (Pac W reuniting)

BFC (Big Football Conference)
BFC EAST UCF, Cincy, ND, Louisville (AAC reuniting)
BFC NORTH KS, KS ST, IA ST, OK ST. (OLD Big 12)
BFC SOUTH Texas Tech, Baylor, SMU, Houston (TX)
BFC WEST CO, Utah, BYU, TCU (Mtn West reuniting)

Schedule Example for Clemson:
Two preseason warmup scrimmages (Don't Count)
3 teams against division (Miami, FSU, GT)
4 teams against other division in AFC conference (Cuse, Pitt, WV, VT)
4 teams against other division in BFC conference (CO, Utah, BYU, TCU)

Game of horse. Sell tickets, sell beer, raise money, and let’s go.

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I am concerned about Dabos old strategy for fewer offers. Teams are just buying players from our commitment list. I looked at some offers from some of the top schools, along with SC and Clemson to see how our offers stacked up, NOT GOOD. We only have 2 offers out to 5 stars, and only 5 offers out to 6.0 rated players, then we really start to fall off even more for the 5.9 and 5.8 players. All of the big boys are putting out their offers to EVERYONE who they feel could be a player for them. We are only putting out offers to folks we have seen in person. He should change to putting an offer out to all of the good players that they think can play for Clemson, but contingent on visiting first.

Been thinking about giving it a go... anyone in here around the Midlands familiar with it? Would like to find someone local for some more info on it

Guitarist for Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake.

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I feel like there are many folks who are “locked”into their current homes with great mortgage rates, myself included. The problem with that is the market isn’t moving at all and with crappy (respectively) prevailing rates, it won’t get any better.

I wonder if there was a way that people could move their existing loan amounts under the old rates to a new house and then pay the difference in prevailing rates?

As an example: $500k existing home. $300k mortgage at 3%.

Want to move to a $750k home. Move the $300k loan at 3% and take out another $250k at prevailing rates.

If the banks got behind that, could that even work?

WRU

He spoke after the game to the media and to the radio crew.

A few of the notables:

-- He's ecstatic at what he saw today given the circumstances. The stomach bug that's going through the team, and Ian Schieffelin's back spasms ... that's some serious fight and mental toughness you saw out of them in the 72-57 win.

"Extremely proud of our team. Our guys are just fighting."

-- Funny exchange between William Qualkinbush and Brownell when Qualk mentioned Chase Hunter coming into the game and immediately jacking a 3.

"You don't put Chase in the game as a damn decoy," Brownell said. "If we're going to play let's play."

They told Hunter that Superman needs to take off his regular clothes and put on the cape.

Chauncey Wiggins and Del Jones were the biggest producers, of course, but Chase provided a vital calming effect.

"For Chase to give 10 minutes when we needed him just speaks to his character," Brownell said.

-- Twenty-five bench points for Clemson, and 36 points in the paint to 20 for the Hokies.

Wiggins hit some huge shots (4 of 6 from 3), but what Brownell loves is he's becoming more involved near the rim. He's posting more, driving more, and all five of his rebounds today were on the defensive end as Clemson held Tech to 38 percent shooting.

Jones ... sheesh that dude just has it. He's confident far beyond his years, and his slinky-crafty style is something else.

You get the feeling no one on the Clemson side was surprised by what they saw out of him today in his 23 minutes. You could sort of see it coming.

-- This team is 17-4 and 9-1 in the ACC.

And this break before next Saturday's trip to NC State couldn't have come at a better time.

They need to get some rest and get healthy.

It’s clearly Jackson that should win, right?

The NFL rule that a kid has to be 3 years removed from HS to be drafted, at least when it was created, was to PROTECT the young men from injury. Even a collegiate athlete isn't a match for a grown ass man whose business is hurting people legally. Their body won't hold up. Medical fact...at least when my Pop practiced medicine. Hell, common f'ing sense should tell you that.

Finebaum's advice to tOSU's Jeremiah Smith was to get good lawyers and challenge the rule to make more money. That lame brain attitude is one of our major problems in CFB today....dumb asses pushing for $$ no matter the negative ramifications.

That dumb sumbitch, and every greedy dickhead like him, can eat crap and die an extremely painful death with that BS attitude and advice. JMO.

Done venting. Have a beautiful day. Going to hit 50 in the frigid NE of Florida today.

Dude is a rich man’s Will Solomon in the making.

Clemson (16-4, 8-1) vs. Virginia Tech (8-11, 3-5)
Saturday, January 25
5:00 p.m.
Blacksburg, Va. (Cassell Coliseum)
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