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He's a drunk for one. But he is also back in Abu Dhabi trying to get his time adjusted. And by that I mean he is drinking heavily so he can fall asleep at some point and get into a regular rhythm.

Had a blast back in the states and great to see the Lexington crew. Already planning a Christmas trip so hopefully it will be between our ACC championship and the playoffs.

Apologies to @Larry_Williams for stealing his Amick headline.

Had a group wanting to go out for dinner on a Thursday night and a friend called for reservations. He got an email back and forwarded to the group: "I was just informed that the Restaurant will add a 35% gratuity to each bill with a large group (over 6). I understand adding on a tip for larger groups but is 35% not over the top? Based on the feedback from the group that planned on attending it is. Mentioned it at work this morning and 2 other groups had experienced the same reply. One went and the other cancelled.

Restaurant being in Chappells between Clinton, Newberry, Greenwood (near the dam of Lake Greenwood) I do not understand this fee....after all it is good food (eaten there a couple of times) but certainly not fine dining.

How about Hunter Biden being recommended for no jail time for gun charges

Start out with Kodak Black there’s plenty of Black men serving years for same crime

Go ahead Democrat Power Brokers , Joe Biden , Merrick Garland and the honest justice system explain this to the 12 per cent of America who you crap on when it benefits Democrats and then panders and lies to get their votes every election cycle. Keep supporting the Democrats you Black folks and you will keeps getting the mouthful if crap from Biden and the Democraps

MONDAY BILLY AMICK UPDATE
By: Larry Williams

CLEMSON -- Billy Amick's decision to enter the transfer portal created a major sensation among Clemson folks.

Our reporting Friday afternoon generated a whopping 31,000+ views and 472 replies on The West Zone message board as of 11 this morning.

Yeah, in the age of the transfer portal and NIL it's going to cause a stir when an All-American baseball player decides to leave.

We've continued asking around about this, and here's what we are in position to share:

*** Everything is still status quo with Amick, according to a contact we communicated with this morning.


Clemson All-American and Batesburg native Billy Amick is still on the move as of Monday. (AP)

As in, apparently no apparent headway made by Erik Bakich as he tries to talk Amick into staying.

As we told you Friday, Bakich was in New England trying to get an audience with Amick and his father Lyndon. But as best as we can tell, the Amick camp hasn't been interested in talking.

*** The vibe coming out of Clemson last week was that surely a deal had to be in place for Amick elsewhere. But multiple contacts in Amick's camp pushed back on that notion.

We have received information that Amick has been in contact with South Carolina and Florida. John Whittle, a respected and plugged-in reporter in Columbia covering Gamecocks baseball, has reported that there's been contact between Amick and South Carolina's staff.

*** A connected contact who is not at Clemson and is not in the Amick camp told us that almost every SEC team has reached out to Amick, plus Florida State and North Carolina.

This contact told us Florida would make sense and was doubtful Amick would choose South Carolina because of his Clemson family, the rivalry and the drama that would come with him having to face the team he left.

"But," the source said, "I also didn't think he would leave Clemson."

*** We believe Amick's father Lyndon is a significant factor in his son's transfer. Clearly Lyndon and Billy didn't see eye to eye with Bakich on a number of topics including Billy's desire to play third base, and the decision to pull him during some situations in games including the NCAA Regional loss to Tennessee.

According to contacts in the Amick camp, Bakich had first base and designated hitter in mind for Billy next season and the rising sophomore wanted to play third to showcase his defensive abilities to MLB scouts.

Amick is currently playing third base for the Hyannis Harbor Hawks of the Cape Cod League.

On Friday evening, the same day news of his portal decision broke, Amick had two home runs in a game against the Bourne Braves.

*** Billy Amick called Bakich last Tuesday to inform him he was transferring from Clemson. Apparently this followed the 1-on-1 meeting between Amick and Bakich during which Bakich outlined his vision for Amick next season.

Amick was named first-team All-America by Collegiate Baseball, and entering the NCAA Regional he was hitting .418 with 12 homers, two triples, 17 doubles, 58 RBIs, a .778 slugging percentage in 43 games (39 starts). He was also named first-team All-ACC.

"You're just like, 'Whoa,'" Bakich said of Amick late in the season. "He's always been confident in his ability. He just needed consistent opportunities. Once he started getting them, he went from a guy we thought maybe he can provide us a little spark to there's no way we're writing a lineup without Billy Amick in it."

Bakich also said that at one point this season, after a sweep of Louisville, he turned to Amick and said: "You bleed orange if we cut you open, right?"

Bakich said the response was: "Oh yeah."

Billy's grandfather was Bill Amick, who spent three decades on Clemson's Board of Trustees. He died in 2013.

*** Last fall under Bakich, Billy Amick struggled to catch on. He hit just one home run and he was playing a position (catcher) he hadn't played in years.

His father told Jon Blau of The Post and Courier in May that entering the season he wasn't sure if his son was going to get a chance.

"A new coaching staff has to assess everything," Lyndon told Blau. "That's chaotic in itself. I understand from the coach's perspective, they have a hornet's nest they have to maintain. I'm looking at it solely as a dad.

"This is every parent's battle. You know their potential; is it being realized?"

Those words certainly take on new meaning with Lyndon's son now on the way out of Clemson.

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Players we thought would be Tigers but who never ended up at Clemson for various reasons to the dismay of TI members. So far I have

QB: Brent Schaefer (Can't remember the details but remember wanting him when he transferred)
RB: BJ Emmons (@Paul Strelow )
WR: Tymere Zimmerman
WR: Dwight Jones
WR: Mike McIntosh
TE: Gronk

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Strange Days​

“Team Brandon has also made the USA utterly toxic to 80% of humanity. Sort of what they accused Trump of doing but they actually did it! LOL. They are the gift that keeps on giving.” — Jacob Dreizin

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Strange doings at a strange time in a strange land. Videos of widespread military vehicle maneuvers around our nation popped up on the Web at mid-weekend while the American citizenry went about its holiday weekend business (including Father’s Day revels and “Juneteenth” celebration mass shootings): Scenes of armored personnel carriers rolling down Walnut Street in downtown Philly; B2 bomber wings over Minnesota; Tank columns galumphing along an Idaho highway… leading to widespread suspicions that something untoward is up. Durned if I know what it is.

Tanks on highway, Great Falls, Idaho
Among things one can know: The “Joe Biden” presidency is whirling around the drain in plain sight, and with it, likely, the Globalist hopes and dreams of making everybody eat bugs while they take away everything you own. Last week, audiotapes surfaced of the main parties to the Ukraine grift (Biden and Poroshenko) working things out in 2016 over the phone in “JB’s” final days as vice-president. Meanwhile, the House Oversight Committee has got its mitts on Biden family bank records galore detailing the abstruse money-laundering activities that were run through obscure European banks and innumerable Biden shell companies. Well, sonofabitch…!
It’s getting hard even for Democrats to ignore the accumulating evidence of the Biden family’s global grift operation, and “JB’s” obvious advancing mental deterioration, provoking moves that should lead to his ejection from office. Last week, their captive mainstream news media broadcast a cavalcade of embarrassing public idiocies committed by the Commander in Chief — declaring “God save the Queen” incongruously at the end of a Gun Safety Summit in Connecticut; groping actress Eva Longoria’s boobs after a White House movie screening; cracking a weird joke about the “Philadelphia girl” in his bed (Dr. Jill Biden); being introduced at an I-95 bridge collapse event by brain-damaged PA Senator John Fetterman who tossed up a word salad about the federal “delegadation” aiming to fix “infructure,” while dressed-up looking like Uncle Fester out of The Addams Family. The indignity of it all was really something to behold.
You understand, “Joe Biden’s” reelection campaign is another rank hoax, yet another trip laid on the American public by a desperate, degenerate Democratic Party that doesn’t know what to do next with public opinion souring on it. There’s no way this gibbering near-corpse can run again. He can’t even perform as a puppet anymore. He’s a broke-down engine pulling a train of failure, perfidy, and treason five miles long behind him. The Ukraine war project he presides over looks more and more like an effort to conceal and cover-up his family’s bribery schemes by laying waste to the pitiful chump of a foreign land that went along with the grift — and which, anyway, is winding up as yet another American military humiliation with the Russians finishing off what’s left of Ukraine’s army in the failed “spring offensive.”
Do you suppose that all these military vehicle movements around the country in recent days signal a constitutional crisis in the offing, necessitating martial law? Let me lay it out: Absolutely no one believes that Vice-president Kamala Harris is up to the job of stepping-in when “Joe Biden” gets bum-rushed out of the White House. Nor, I’m sure, are they willing to force her to resign hastily without a substitute vice-president (say, Gavin Newsom) in place — a cumbersome process that requires approval by both the House and Senate. But if Harris were flat-out forced to resign, then Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) would automatically become president.
Mr. McCarthy is, arguably, just another houseboy of the now-heinous administrative state (or deep state, or permanent bureaucracy, or blob, as it’s sometimes called). But he is not a Democrat, and is subject to the fractious pressures in the Republican Party, and could plausibly be induced to fire-and-replace post-haste the whole honking host of seditious rogues running the executive agencies — from AG Merrick Garland, to FBI Director Chris Wray, Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas, Treasury Secretary Yellen… every last one of them — which could even lead to prosecutions of these scoundrels.
Any way you cut it, it looks like the sudden catastrophic downfall of the Democratic Party, an existential crisis that would amount ineluctably to one possible outcome: nominate Bobby Kennedy, Jr. or die. But then, what would Mr. Kennedy do about all the remaining bad actors in the Party of Chaos? My guess is that almost all of them down to the rank-and-file would snap out of the mass formation psychosis they’ve been locked in for seven years and completely flip, denouncing the tyrannical madness that their deposed leadership inflicted on our country. They might even believe it never happened, or that they were not responsible for it, like the whole thing was no more than a bad dream.
Or maybe, what we’re seeing in all these military movements is the prelude to a real live military coup d’état? Just sayin’….

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Alright magas, hopefully even y'all can see why this is ridiculous, right?

This is huge. Much bigger than Watergate. The msm and doj is ignoring and covering it up. Stuff like this is just more evidence that 2020 was a stolen election and a coup occurred.


Thursday, May 04, 2023
by Jerry Dunleavy, Justice Department Reporter |
May 04, 2023 05:31 PM

EXCLUSIVE - A recruitment email sent by Mike Morell, co-author of the infamous Hunter Biden laptop letter, wanted former intelligence officials to become signatories to help give Joe Biden a “talking point” during a crucial presidential debate against Donald Trump.
The revelation comes after Morell, the former Obama CIA acting director, admitted that now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken “triggered” him to write the October 2020 laptop letter.
The recruitment email from Morell was sent to former intelligence officials and included the laptop letter co-authored by him and former senior CIA operations officer Marc Polymeropoulos as an attachment.

The quoted language from the Morell email, sent on Oct. 18, 2020, was read to the Washington Examiner verbatim and identically by two independent sources who had access to the email.
Morell's email explained that both he and Polymeropoulos believed Russia was involved in the Hunter Biden laptop stories and that Trump likely planned to attack Biden over the laptop revelations in the upcoming debate.
“We want to give the VP a talking point to use in response,” Morell wrote, the two sources confirmed to the Washington Examiner.

GOP SENATORS ACCUSE BLINKEN OF LYING UNDER OATH ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN EMAIL DENIALS
Morell has previously testified that one of the reasons he helped put the letter together was to help Joe Biden "because I wanted him to win the election."
Mark Zaid, an attorney representing Polymeropoulos and a number of other laptop letter signers, also told the media last month that "when the draft was sent out to people to sign, the cover email made clear that it was an effort to help the Biden campaign.”

Fifty-one ex-intelligence officials signed the laptop letter, which was published on Oct. 19, 2020, three days before the debate, and contributed to the baseless narrative that the laptop stories were a product of Russian disinformation — a narrative seized upon by Biden’s 2020 campaign and spread by some of the laptop letter signers.
Biden referenced the letter during the debate after Trump brought up "the laptop from hell" and referenced Hunter Biden’s lucrative business dealings tied to Ukraine and China.
“There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he’s accusing me of is a Russian plan. They have said that this has all the characteristics — four, five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage,” Joe Biden said.

Trump replied, “You mean the laptop is now another Russia, Russia, Russia hoax?” Joe Biden replied: “That’s exactly what we’re told.” Trump lamented, “Here we go again with Russia.”

A few days later, the then-Democratic candidate made similar claims during a 60 Minutes interview when asked if he believed the laptop was part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
Last month it was revealed Morell told House investigators he had no intention to write the laptop letter, but admitted his phone call with Blinken, then a top advisor for Biden's 2020 campaign, “triggered" him to do so. Morell said it was his “guess” Blinken called him because the future secretary of state wanted it “out” in public that “the Russians were somehow involved.”

House Republicans wrote that the same day of the Blinken-Morell call, Blinken “also emailed Morell an article” published in USA Today which alleged the FBI was examining whether the laptop was part of a Russian “disinformation campaign.” The article was then cited in the laptop letter.
Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Mike Turner (R-OH) also said Morell received a call from then-Biden campaign chairman Steve Ricchetti after the presidential debate to thank him for "putting the statement out."
The phone call to Morell had come from Jeremy Bash, another laptop letter signer, who then got Richetti on the line. Bash, a former chief of staff at the CIA and Pentagon, was picked by Biden to be part of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board last year. Bash suggested on TV in October 2020 that the laptop story was “Russian disinformation.”
The October 2020 letter repeatedly contended there was Russian involvement with the laptop stories, arguing that “if we are right, this is Russia trying to influence how Americans vote in this election” and expressing “our view that the Russians are involved in the Hunter Biden email issue.” The letter claimed the laptop saga “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” and that “our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case.”

Then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe argued in October 2020 that there was “no intelligence” to support that the laptop was part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
Konstantinos "Gus" Dimitrelos, a cyber forensics expert and former Secret Service agent, conducted an examination of the laptop for the Washington Examiner last year, concluding "there is a 100% certainty that Robert Hunter Biden was the only person responsible for the activity on this hard drive and all of its stored data” and that “the hard drive is authentic.”

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Do we have any updates?
Do we still hate the kid?

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What could have been.

Are you a sovereign citizen?

Apparently has Clemson ranked #2 this year

Side note - has anyone every bought the digital version? Would save a trip to the store, but want to make sure it's not a clunky mess before I buy

I wonder what school in our area he was talking about at the 3:00 minute mark?

May be decided tonight with Wake and LSU. Winner probably in the driver’s seat. Fla could be the spoiler but believe tonight tells a lot. Slight edge to Deacs???

Worth the money?

https://www.espn.com/college-sports...ttee-wants-marijuana-dropped-banned-drug-list​

NCAA committee wants marijuana dropped from banned drug list​

• Associated Press

Jun 16, 2023, 05:13 PM ET
INDIANAPOLIS -- An NCAA panel is calling for the removal of marijuana from the organization's list of banned drugs, suggesting that testing should be limited to performance-enhancing substances.
The proposal released Friday from the Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports would mark a big change for the NCAA, which has been conducting drug tests at championship events since 1986. Committee members recommended halting cannabis tests at such events until a final decision is made, likely this fall.
Legislation would still have to be introduced and approved by all three NCAA divisions to take effect. Administrators in Divisions II and III had asked the committee to study the issue.
The recommendation comes as the U.S. is seeing more and more states allowing medical or recreational marijuana use.
Earlier this year, the committee increased the THC threshold needed for a positive test and recommended revamped penalties for athletes. The threshold for THC -- the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana -- was raised from 35 to 150 nanograms per milliliter, matching that of the World Anti-Doping Agency.
The committee noted in December that marijuana and its byproducts are not considered performance-enhancing substances. Instead of focusing on penalties for cannabis use, the panel suggested stressing policies that focus on the potential threats from marijuana use and the need to reduce the harm and use of cannabis products.
It also recommended schools that test to use those results to help find "problematic" cannabis use. The committee also wants to provide schools with additional guidelines about cannabis.
Separately, the committee proposed setting a threshold of 0.1 nanograms per milliliter as a trace level for the hormone GW1516 in hopes of preventing athletes from becoming ineligible because of ingesting the substance unintentionally from contaminated supplements.
The substance was initially designed for diabetes treatment but was discontinued in 2007. It has been linked to positive doping tests in endurance-related sports.

In the discussion of Billy Amick, I've seen various accounts and opinion on what led to the dismissal of Coach Ford.

I thought I could provide some, but not all the answers... and in a separate thread as to allow replies and other insights.
This is isn't a complete set of facts, but facts as I remember and experienced them firsthand.

By 1988, Clemson Football had recovered from the sanctimonious sanctions placed on them by the ACC and the NCAA for recruiting violations that had occurred in the late 1970's. Winning the ACC in 1987 and 1988, finishing both years with identical 10-2 records had given promise to another national title soon to come for the Tigers. Recruiting was at the forefront of this challenge, as other schools were landing some incredible talent... with a lot of "new" emphasis on the student athlete life outside of football.

Some places Like Nebraska were touting its state of the art training facilities, while other schools like Miami were showcasing non dorm life for the players... including townhome like apartments that were fully furnished.

Clemson had it's reputation of a phenomenal fan base, a lake, and Death Valley. Not much else.

Mauldin Hall was the Football Athletic dorm. It had no cable, no urinals, and two small showers per 7 room segments of the building. No cable TV (mind you this was the late 80's) and elevators that worked perhaps 50% of the time. It wasn't uncommon for the elevators to get stuck transporting several large bodied players.
There was a crooked pool table with tears in the top... missing the 8 ball and cue ball... a "Frogger" and "Q-Bert" video game... and some nice 1970's vintage carpet that smelled of stale beer.

To be honest, Mauldin Hall was not a shining jewel to show parents and prospective student athletes.

My room was. Myself, and my freshman roommate had spent a lot of time making our room comfortable. We both had hand built lofted beds, mini fridges, and futon couches underneath that made our room look great... so great, that any brochures that went out to student athletes had a picture of our room to showcase the facility.

The coaches, and especially Coach Ford saw the athletic dorm situation lacking... while there was a growing murmur of a thought process that football players got "too much." This was reflected in several articles published in "The Tiger" and a few of which I rebutted. Many of these articles talked about how the football players had access to the nicer facilities on campus for housing and got preferential treatment; mistaking the fact that it was the Basketball Team that were housed in Calhoun Courts... not the football team.

In short, our living conditions were subpar to the UGA's, Miami's, FSU's, and other top 10 programs. In fact, I'd argue that the Clemson football athletic dorm was probably the worst in the ACC at that time.

Coach Ford was pushing for better facilities for his players. Something that would help attract top talent, and better in line with what our program was doing on the field.
Mauldin Hall was renovated... (paint, new carpet, and renovated bathrooms) but the footprint was still the same, and the elevators still did not work properly.

Meanwhile, the NCAA was pushing hard for the aspect of 'Athletic Dorms' to be done away with, as they felt it showcased a division between student athletes and students.

Thus, we have our conflict.

Coach Ford was on the "rubber chicken circuit" asking and advocating for increased donations to help fund a new dorm for the football team.
The BOT and President Max Lennon were advocating for more buildings, academic in nature... particularly something akin to what became Vickery Hall. Due to state budget cuts, they were relying more heavily on private donations... the same donations Coach Ford was soliciting for an athletic dorm.

In not so many words, Coach Ford basically stated that the revenue that was generated by the football team (which was in the millions) should be allocated to build a dorm. And if the fans wanted a successful program to continue, then this was the building needed, not what the BOT and President wanted. So better choose wisely. The proverbial, 'my way or the highway.'

The BOT and President seeing a power struggle... used the rumblings of another probe into NCAA violations, AND this cavalier attitude towards their authority to remove Coach Ford from his duties in early 1990 after compiling another 10 win season.
He didn't expect it, and was caught off guard. I've only seen that man cry once... and it was during his announcement to the team that he was leaving.

Subsequently, Vickery Hall was built... Athletic Dorms were 'outlawed' by the NCAA... and Coach Ford and Clemson were cleared of any NCAA violations.

President Max Lennon was held accountable for the $1 million buyout of Coach Ford's contract... and the tuition rate hikes and budget issues that soon followed. He received a no confidence vote and was dismissed in 1994.