We like new Cade... tighten up buddy.

Clemson's travel roster for today.

*** Clemson does not release an itemized list of players unavailable for away games.

but I'd bet you Saban despises the Tinsel Showman from Colorado and all he thinks he stands for. There is a line.... Neon went over that line long ago. JMO.

Why is he out? Did not read anything regarding his absence.

The Clemson Football Seniors decided to donate $75,000.00 to disaster relief for the victims of hurricane Helene in Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina.

I’ve NEVER been more proud to be a Clemson Tiger. 🐅 🧡

He’s a safety for them that was the conference freshman of the year in 23. He made a big hit, popped up, but he was obviously wobbly. His teammates knew something was wrong immediately. He then went down and the game was delayed for about 20 minutes while they attended to him.

His arms and hands were still in the prone position on the stretcher as they loaded him in an ambulance 20 minutes later. I assume the lady at the ambulance was his mom. She seemed terrified at the sight of him.

I stopped and prayed immediately for this young man to be ok. It was scary to see.

Woo boy, where to start? No. 12 Clemson (6-2-2, 3-2-0) had been an epitome of inefficiency for the first nine games of the season, for the most part. The Tigers, which travel to Louisville on Friday at 8 p.m., ranked 153rd in Shot Accuracy with 56 shots on goal out of 141 attempts.

There are 205 teams that play men’s soccer in the country. So, uh, not great for a defending national champion.

But we ranked 16th in the country in shots per game. Getting shots wasn’t a problem, being accurate with them was.

So, riddle me this against then-No. 3 UNC last Friday: 5 shots, 4 on goal, 3 goals. Sure, we knew that shots could be at a premium against UNC because, well, they are really good at limiting shots. We thought that goals would be at a premium, too.

And we were missing our two-time captain Adam Lundegard in the back AND our leading scorer @yoshi121374. And we did it with being a man down for the final 22-minutes, 13-seconds after a yellow turned straight red to Remi Okunlola.

Shows what I know. It had been 29 games since UNC keeper Andrew Cordes had allowed three goals in a game – Oct. 18, 2022 at <checks notes> Elon?

So, how did we do it? In my opinion, it was just an absolute masterclass in the midfield from Joran Gerbet. Sure, the free kick was spectacular and the PK was well taken for his brace.

But he dominated this game. UNC midfield couldn’t do anything with him, resorting to fouling him in the second half if they could catch him on the ball. It might be hyperbole, but I don’t know that I’ve seen a more dominant midfield performance in college. No fact checking, please.

For the game, Gerbet completed 59 of 62 passes (.952), had 190 touches, intercepted UNC six times, won two tackles while just turning the ball over four times.

His tackle of a UNC player in the first half and immediate pass out setup Ransford Gyan being fouled right outside the box in the first half. Gerbet’s next touch was taking that free kick that tied the game at 1-1.

Gerbet also had the over the top pass to Alex Meinhard into the box where Meinhard was fouled for the penalty kick. Gerbet’s next touch was the PK to make it 2-1.

The senior from Valence, France is the conductor of our orchestra on the field. If he’s not on or near the ball, he is directing teammates where to go with the ball, where to be, etc. Last Friday was just an amazing display for Gerbet, who now has four goals (all from set pieces/PKs) and five assists on the year.

No rest for the wicked, however. Clemson travels to Louisville (5-3-3, 0-2-3) to take on the Cardinals, which began the season ranked 24th.

Don’t let their pedestrian record fool you, the Cardinals are a capable team. Their three losses have come to Notre Dame (1-2), No. 1 Pitt (2-3) and UAB (1-2), and three draws against Syracuse (1-1), at BC (1-1) and at Cal (3-3). They also have beaten Kentucky (1-0) that was ranked 16th at the time of the game (Sept. 9).

However, Louisville – statistically – is pretty pedestrian. They aren’t in the top 40 in any of the meaningful categories. Their 1.91 goals per game ranks 45th and their goals allowed per game ranks 129th at 1.45.

Last year, in two games against the Cardinals, we beat them 4-0 and 5-1 – and they weren’t a bad team. They were ranked 21st in the former game and the latter came in the ACC Semifinals, but both were at Historic Riggs Field.

Gage Guerra is back for the Cards. The third-round pick of the Portland Timbers leads Louisville with five goals and two assists, including three goals and an assist in his last two games.

On paper, it looks good, but we haven’t beat them in Louisville since 2016. We’ve lost 0-1, 1-2 and 0-1 in double overtime the last three times up there. It’s a quality ACC team on the road, so nothing is a given.

We are back in the fourth spot in the ACC standings now. Again, top four spots won’t have to play a road game in the ACC tournament – first round and quarterfinals are at home sites before the semifinals and final are in Cary, NC.

Part of the reason we are in fourth was the play of Mason Lamb last Friday against UNC. The transfer from Cal State Fullerton was pressed into his first career start for the Tigers and responded with a full 90 minutes of solid work – even had a shot on goal from his left-centerback position.

Lamb played and started all 20 games last year for CSF, earning second-team All-Big West honors. He played his high school ball at Montverde Academy, no doubt helping the Florida native’s move to Clemson.

Going into last Friday, Lamb had played just 117 minutes for Clemson in three games (Loyola Maryland, Holy Cross and Notre Dame), but he stood tall when he needed against UNC. While he’s right-footed, you wouldn’t have guessed it against UNC – used his left for several long balls.

In the latest United Soccer Coaches poll, the ACC has three in the top 10 and seven total ranked teams.

After that UNC game, I have decided that I’m going to name a Prick of the Game in these write-ups. I am torn between referee JC Rivero and UNC’s Sam Williams (#7). I think I’ll give the inaugural award to Rivero, who used to ref on the field in the MLS, but hasn’t since 2018 – he’s been a VAR referee since then.

But, the crimes he committed against Clemson last Friday were worse than the actual felonies he committed. He was suspended by the MLS in 2014 for claiming more than $14,000 in unemployment benefits while being gainfully employed.

Ironically enough, the last Clemson game he did was Clemson’s last-minute win over Virginia Tech on Sept. 29 last year. That win was the start of an unbeaten run to end the season. We were 12-0-1 after he refereed that game against VT, so as much of a prick as he was, I hope he’s also our good luck charm.

Go Tigers! Beat Louisville!

Musk promised free starlink access, but still requires survivors pay $400 for equipment. This while criticizing the federal government's response.

Next thing you know trumpty dumpty will be hocking "I survived Hurricane Helene" t-shirts to survivors for $60 each. Of course, they will be made in China.

Has developed a new way to piss me off- if that's possible. Am I the only one out here that has to make two or three "back" clicks to navigate from page to page? From the homepage I click on an article which takes me to the "subscribers only" page, and then click again to access the article.

But going back to the homepage I have to click back three times to get to the previous page, and then three more clicks back to homepage. This is on a Windows desktop, not the mobile version. At first I thought maybe my internet was slow to respond, but two additional clicks moves it every time. Beyond aggravating, as I do most of my TI browsing on the desktop. I also have this issue on "Talking Chop" a Braves website (not sure if Yahoo based also).

Edited to mention this is not an issue on the West Zone.

A very rudimentary question for our basketball folks ... @OrangeBandit, @CUPLAYER1, @crope1, and all others who want to chime in.

Long story short, looking for your most basic man-to-man motion offense play ...

I help coach a SCISA girls team full of kids who ... aren't basketball players, and it shows haha. And yes, there absolutely reaches a point that no matter what you run, it doesn't matter if the kids cannot pass or have any sense for movement.

After various efforts last year to implement a 5-out motion offense with a J-cut, that was abandoned, and the closest thing I've got to something that works is a 4-around-1 where the PG starts up one side, and it's pass-and-screen away from there.

We're essentially playing four guards and a post, personnel-wise -- although really only two guards who can do anything with a dribble.

The issue I cannot rectify is the first pass they want to make is the square one up top, and the angles there are just leading to too many breakaway layups in the other direction haha. Yeah, I can put in pressure release in theory and all that (2 goes to screen for 3), but what really happens in reality is simply three perimeter kids making ineffective V-cuts that no one buys, and a right-handed PG always looking to that one guard staying at the top.



We've moved our one potent player off the ball to try to improve the overall team. Our post, preferably, stays down low.

That's a lot of details for something you probably can't picture. Maybe it's more a cry for help.

But just seeing what anyone here likes as far as probably a middle-school level play? I've got multiple zone looks taken care of. Have some BLOBs that have been fine -- no more or less -- but always open to an improved one.

Also deliberating the details in what kind of 1-3-1 halfcourt to add.

We won a few games over the summer, so there's a chance to be ... competitive ... at their level, no more or less. So trying to clean up all the details before practice gets underway here soon.

Holy hell, it's always projection with these MAGA types. Of course, the fact that this clown was a Holocaust denier, paid for his wife's abortion, called gay people "filth", lauded the practice of slavery, said he wanted to go back to a time when women couldn't vote, etc. didn't bother the MAGA morons who actually let this dumbass run on their ticket....but this stuff now is apparently a bridge too far.

Remember...this is the lunatic that Trump said was like "MLK on steroids". Now Trump's staff is freaking out and trying to push him out of the race because they are already worried about losing NC to Kamala.

Great party you Republicans have right now. You should be ashamed that this idiot got anywhere near your ticket, but that's life as a MAGA extremist these days.

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From our Wake Forest site here at Rivals.com:

is I will have to watch Scar/Bama on the 60” tv instead of the 85”.

But other than that, what else could you ask for? Cool October morning, smoking meats and a great schedule of CFB upcoming. October is the GOAT month!

Some additional intel on four-star defensive back and longtime Clemson target Jordan Young

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I hope we can weather the excitement it creates and settle into the game.

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Horrendous.

3 of the 6 games are being played in North Carolina. Two of those games will be playing at the same time so market cannibalization will have both games with less eyeballs. The ACC game that will get the biggest numbers will be the Notre Dame/Stanford game even though that happens at a time of two Big SEC and Big 10 games. The "best game" is UVA vs Louisville.

I realize we can't do anymore than we are already trying to do about getting out of this league. ESPN will be justified in offering a garbage contract to extend the league or not offer them and let us test the waters.

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headed to the game at Wake today. Weve never been to a game there.

Any recommendations on where to park?

Who is the best athlete you ever played against and for whatever reason, he/she did not go to pro or to college? Just a regular Joe that you still remember to this day.

Im an upstate guy, so it's isolated for me obviously, but I've got a few that come to mind:

Vare Hamilton- DW Daniel
Jason Griffith- Pickens
Antoine Black- DW Daniel
Aubrey Gibson- Seneca
Corey Washington- Seneca
Jeff Vitaris- Seneca

Maybe these guys went on to play, but if not, it's a shame.

Who you got?

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"The system" doesn't care about victims.