Lots of them running loose on College Avenue tonight.

went 14-1. Eight of those games were decided on the last drive of the game. Did not realize that. Crazy.

Venables mentioned it in an ESPN article I just read as he was talking about his OK team needing to learn how to finish. Said 5 of their 7 losses last year were decided on last drive.

Funny how my memory didn’t recall all those close games in 2016 as my perception is influenced I guess by winning so many games 2015-2019 that it seemed we just dominated most of our games. I mean I knew we had some close games but didn’t realize it was that many

Interesting, I like it.

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1) Raising the minimum age to purchase a gun to 21
2) Universal background checks
3) A reasonable waiting period for gun purchases
4) Banning the civilian purchase of assault weapons

I’m down in Alabama visiting my cousin and his wife who recently purchased a property on Smith Lake - boy is it an anomaly compared to the rest of bama.

That said, here’s a few pics from the gas station we stopped in, which used to be the bug tussle steak house:

Head of TOS just projected him to Tennessee. Are we losing ground here?

Let me preface this by saying, regardless of who was on board, what happened to the Titan is horrifying and should have been preventable. I'm also disgusted by the gross negligence/arrogance shown by Stockton Rush in interviews about the innovation of his company's engineering and the "resistance" he encountered in the development of the Titan submarine. That man killed himself and four other people because of his ego.

All that being said. I've been grossly fascinated with this whole thing, and this video is one of the best explanations I've found describing in detail what likely happened when the Titan lost pressure on its way down to the Titanic.

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I'm definitely watching the documentary on this when it comes out.

I'd still love to get Alex Taylor if a spot has opened. I wasn't sure if Dabo already knew about Will and was already counting him towards WR numbers.

need an opinion on whether to finance my truck with my 401k or not. My rate is 8 percent which was high because I’m in the middle of selling a house, so my 401k payback is six percent interest paid back to myself. Thats 14 % swing if my math is right. I know my money wouldn’t be making money in the market but 14 % seems like a good deal. So what is my dumb ass missing?

K'Von Wallace is back in Clemson this summer training.

He says most players don't go back to their alma maters to work out. But his love of Clemson, coupled with the resources the football program makes available to its former players now in the NFL, makes it a no-brainer to come back home.

Wallace, who is preparing for his fourth season with the Philadelphia Eagles, reflects on the differences between the college and professional game.

He also goes back to his difficult upbringing, part of which was spent living with his mother in public housing in Richmond as gunfire and drugs were common outside the home.

Wallace wore the same pair of shoes from eighth grade to 11th grade. Each year he’d take two brushes and a cup full of soapy water and wash the shoes to keep them fresh.

Wallace's Clemson career didn't get off to the best start. He said he was a loner, and had there been a transfer portal at the time he was a freshman (2016) he probably would've considered going elsewhere.

He ended up winning two national championships and going to four consecutive playoffs before he was selected in the fourth round of the 2020 NFL Draft.

He now looks back at his college career as the time he grew into a man, and he treasures his relationship with Dabo Swinney.

K'Von Wallace interview

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

Brad Brownell

Melanie Hall, mother of PJ

I’m at Pompano Beach/Ft Lauderdale for the week. Any must do’s while I’m here?

Restaurant recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

I don’t golf and have found the beach already.

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Part six of my Clemson Football Preview Series is now live!

Joining me for this episode is Miami Rivals publisher Marcus Benjamin.

Marcus breaks down the 2022 Canes, the recruiting wins for Mario Cristobal and makes Miami's case for a possible ACC title in 2024.

Thanks for all the support! Parts seven and eight will be released next week!

Amazing talent on that team. Wow.

Just so many great memories and so much fun to watch, as we gear up for Clemson Tigers football 2023.

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Baseball coach fired today after accusations of bullying, etc. Made it 1 year as coach.

Sorry no link.

Announcement on Aug 22?

Glad I watch the MOST TRUSTED NETWORK FOR NEWS IN THE WORLD

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Even with that accolade to Fox I still try to figure out the truth and narrative on every story as i am open minded and Fox gets it wrong at times

Fox still has the hottest chicks on TV

PS I am going to vote for Trump if he is the Republican nominee twice as the left liberal crazy (insert names and insults) Democratic Party needs 4 good years of him destroying the deep state cabal killing America starting with the DOJ, FBI, ADMINISTRATIVE GOVT, IRS, CIA , ETC

Looking forward to Biden family including grandchildren, Garland in Jail for their crimes against the US and us people who are just conservative middle class Americans

And when all of you crazies decide to have a civil conversation I will unignore , but for now you rabid dogs who don't make life for people you need to be put down philosophically and come to Jesus and Sanity
and I deserve peace on earth from your barking at the moon.

NM

Who needs ESPN with you've got .... The CW?!

The CW has secured exclusive broadcast rights to 50 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) college football and basketball games. This deal will expand through the 2026-2027 season.

The new deal will start on Saturday, September 9, with a matchup between the Pittsburgh Panthers and their non-conference opponent, the Cincinnati Bearcats. It will continue every Saturday afternoon and evening throughout the season.

As well as 13 football games, The CW will broadcast 28 men’s basketball games and nine women’s basketball games.

“We are committed to making The CW a destination for live, appointment-viewing sporting events,” Dennis Miller the president of The CW Network said. “The ACC is home to some of the most decorated college football and basketball teams in the country and we look forward to welcoming these avid sports fans to the network as we continue to broaden our audience.”

“We are thrilled to be adding The CW to our weekly television lineup for ACC football and basketball games,” ACC commissioner Jim Phillips, Ph.D., added. “The CW’s national distribution will directly benefit our student-athletes, teams, alumni and fans. We appreciate ESPN and Raycom working together and look forward to the partnership with The CW.”

@Cris_Ard

What are the top 5 most-viewed articles/stories in TI’s history? I would imagine CJ Spiller’s commitment and Bowden’s firing would be up there, just curious what else would be up there.

I still remember practically jumping out of my chair during a lecture in my first year of med school when Spiller committed. What a moment that was!

The NCAA is so toothless a smoking gun isn't even enough​

By: Dan Wetzel - Yahoo! Sports

In recent months, a parade of NCAA executives, conference commissioners and famous football coaches have traveled to Washington to lobby Congress in search of new federal laws and regulations to oversee college athletics.

Their main concern is how the use of name, image and likeness (NIL) money can influence the recruitment and retention of athletes. They claim they need “guardrails.” They need “guidance.” They need a universal standard that they can enforce.

During the same period, the NCAAs current system of “justice” deliberated a wide-ranging case (the final document was 118 pages long) of old school cheating allegations — namely paying athletes under the table — involving LSU football and basketball.

It released its findings last week and mostly let the Tigers skate.

For example, the NCAA’s system didn’t hit LSU football with a postseason ban this year because it was very impressed with the school’s decision to ban itself from playing in a bowl during the 2020 COVID season. That self-imposed penalty, the report asserted, “reflects an institution that conducted an honest assessment of the nature and severity of the violations to hold itself accountable.”


LSU fired Will Wade after the 2022 season. One year to the day after LSU let him go, Was was hired as head coach at McNeese State. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

Not mentioned was the fact LSU football was 3-5 when this vaunted ban was announced and there was little chance it would “miss out” on anything more than some minor bowl game.

Or that in the case of former basketball coach Will Wade, the NCAA process couldn’t conclude that Wade was actually discussing a “strong ass offer” of cash to a recruiting middleman in an effort to land a player, even though the conversation was caught on a FBI wiretap. That’s because the FBI wouldn’t share the tape and, as such, it had to rely on a Yahoo Sports transcript of the call.

“Simply put, the information in one news article in and of itself is not persuasive and credible,” the ruling read.

OK. No problem. The story of the transcript wasn’t intended to be part of some investigative process. Of course, the audio of the wiretap was also played — for anyone to hear — on HBO in the 2020 documentary “The Scheme.”

Apparently no one at the NCAA has HBO.

“I went to him with a strong-ass offer about a month ago,” Wade said on the tape of a deal with the recruiting middleman. “[Expletive] strong. Now, the problem was, I know why he didn’t take it now. It was tilted toward the family a little bit. But I mean, it was a [expletive] hell of an offer. Like, a hell of an offer.”

When the transcript was first reported in 2019, Wade refused to offer an explanation or even meet with LSU administrators. The school suspended him for 37 days.

However, in front of the NCAA, Wade and others advanced a defense that the “strong-ass offer” wasn’t actually about money, but a chance for the middleman to join the LSU coaching staff.

The NCAA committee somehow bought this and cleared Wade of the charge. There was no explanation — or perhaps even contemplation — of why Wade, if he had a simple explanation that this was an innocent employment deal, didn’t mention it at the time and thus avoid a lengthy suspension in the first place.

If it was a job offer the whole time, common sense says he would have screamed it immediately and repeatedly. He didn't, not once publicly.

Nor was there any explanation — or perhaps even contemplation — on how Wade would have “tilted toward the family a little bit” a job as an assistant coach. Was the recruit’s mom going to get hired also? How can you “tilt” a coaching job between two entities?

The entire explanation made zero sense, except apparently to the incredibly gullible (or purposely gullible) people the NCAA empowered to serve as the judge and jury on such cases.

That’s also fine. It’s the NCAA’s own system. This isn’t criminal behavior. Who really cares? If they want to accept ridiculous excuses, employ impossible standards to evidence or give credit for minimal internal punishment offers, hey, that is up to them.

Fans certainly don’t care, at least not in any tangible way like stop watching the games. If anything, these colorful cases are part of what makes college athletics fun.

“Strong-ass offer” entering the lexicon was worth the entire thing.

Back to Washington, however.

How do the leaders of the NCAA think that an organization that is either unwilling or incapable of applying common sense rulings or appropriate punishment to long established violations based on overwhelming evidence — including FBI involvement — is even remotely capable (or willing in practice) to enforce even stricter rules and regulations on more nebulous NIL or roster tampering controversies?

The NCAA is very good at running national championships — from the Final Four to the College World Series. It’s good at serving as a clearinghouse for basic regulatory issues and establishing uniform rules of play in various sports.

However, it has no ability to investigate or enforce any rules, even the obvious ones. If “Strong-Ass Offer” doesn’t do it, then nothing will. It’s almost impossible to get caught, let alone be significantly punished.

Which is why it needs to try something different. Deregulation, free markets and realistic plans for the future is better than begging Congress to create new laws based on old thinking.

After all, who is going to investigate them? Who is going to enforce them?

It’s like asking to lower the speed limit on a highway where no police ever patrol. It’s just window dressing — a public relations charade.

And yet the NCAA says it needs guardrails to save college athletics. But if it can't even make a case on Will Wade when the FBI delivered him to it on a platter, what are more guardrails going to do?

We are moving on up as a conference fellas. A regular ol' gravy train with biscuit wheels!

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Someone please tell me our President, AD, and Board of Trustees are communicating with other top tier football programs about forming a Super League.

First get someone like Amazon or Elon Musk on board to bankroll it. Next reach out to about 64 to 72 teams for membership and then have an NIT type 2nd tier league for about 50 more schools with relegation for the bottom 8 schools of tier 1 league.

Get rid of NCAA and let member schools hold a "constitutional type convention" for creating enforcement rules including NIL and transfer. If state laws don't fall in line then kick their teams out of the league and they can keep their joke NCAA league they have now. Hire ex FBI and police officers for enforcement and suspend, sue, and fine the actual cheaters including fans that circumvent rules.

We should have at least 8 ACC teams invited so we can disband the league and get rid of Grant of Rights agreement.

Other concerns include lower tier schools making money but they could allow 2 preseason games with any team members want. Also keep the conference system for other sports.

There you have it the road map for the future now please tell me we are working on it!