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Clemson vs Miami Preview by Tim Bourret

*Clemson enters the Championship Game 42-17, which is the same score of the 2020 Clemson/Miami football contest. Miami was ranked number 7 in the country which is also Jack Leggett’s number that was retired in April. Since then, the Tigers have a record of 22-3. The Tiger football team defeated Wofford 22-3 in 1898 in a game that also saw rain and had a temperature of 63 degrees which matches the points scored against Scar in 2003 and the temp for today’s contest. I think today bodes well for the tigers, we’ll see!

**** Bryan Harsin

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STULTZ: Harsin playing victim? Color me surprised

By: Brian Stultz - Auburnsports.com

I was done writing about Bryan Harsin. I really was. He left Auburn six months ago after a 21-month tenure that was so extraordinarily pathetic that it is almost laughable.

There was nothing else to say about him. So it was finished, much to the joy of everyone that covered him, played or coached with him. And for Auburn fans, it was a relief to get rid of a coach that never seemed to grasp what the job consisted of to win in the SEC.

I was done. And then the man from Boise basically considered himself a victim. Victim? Please. He's living the good life right now after getting a buyout that 99 percent of us can only dream about, while Auburn is trying to pick up the pieces from his negligence and outright refusal to try to win over a fan base that supports the Tigers with passion and vigor.

"There were things we didn't like,” Harsin told ESPN's Chris Low. "There were things that were disappointing, on and off the field. There were things that I wish I would have done better, and there were things where we got a chance to see some of the worst in people."

The worst in people? Yes, we certainly saw that in Harsin himself. Nothing was ever his fault. The media, as he famously told us, "wasn't in the meetings," and anything going on that resulted in a bad look for the team was passed on to someone else.

But let's go back to what he could have done better during his short stint.

He could have given at least an ounce of energy to recruiting, the lifeline of a program. The lack of relationships he tried to build with high school coaches in the state of Alabama was appalling, with some from the top programs saying they had never met or heard from Harsin. He skipped out on a planned dinner involving recruits at a local club. The infamous Junior Day in 2022 was such a disaster that it is now a running joke. Hugh Freeze did more good for the relations with high school coaches in his first week than Harsin did in his entire time on the Plains.

The turmoil inside the locker room was apparent to even the casual follower. The look of dejection, even after victories, could be seen on the faces of the players. There was a dark cloud over the program; assistant coaches were on the edge of their seats, wondering if they would be the next to get the axe.

Harsin even went as far as blaming COVID for his troubles in getting to know the power boosters and in recruiting. That's just a weak excuse for someone who seemingly didn't want to get to know them because no other coach hired during the same cycle seemed to have that problem.

"But when you really get tested as we were at Auburn, and it's the same challenge for your players, your true colors are going to show in how you handle it," Harsin said in the interview with ESPN.

True colors is a funny phrase here because we see Harsin's in this piece. He still takes little blame for what went wrong, deflecting it onto everyone else but himself. The coach who let Auburn get to a place so low doesn't seem to realize that most of the program hitting rock bottom is squarely on his broad shoulders. Instead of taking the money and being happy, he decided to crap on the same school, which he said, "It means a lot to be Auburn's head football coach and a part of this program."

Of course, it was understandable for him to be angry after the 2022 investigation that almost got him fired after one season. But instead of coming back strong and fighting, he almost seemed to give up. The small effort he gave at the beginning trying to win over the fan base was gone. The final blow was an embarrassing blowout loss to Arkansas in Jordan-Hare Stadium.

We all knew this redemption piece would come out eventually. And for those blaming Chris Low, don't. He did what any journalist would do, especially one that covers SEC football. But everyone was aware Harsin would hit back someday and let his feelings be known. That's his right. I hope he feels good about himself.

But don't believe what you read or hear from the coach. That's his side of the story. Many others will tell you quite the opposite.

At the end of ESPN's piece, Harsin tries to advise on how to win in the SEC, something he obviously knows nothing about. He says you must have alignment from everyone involved, including the university president and board of trustees. And then he hits it with this quip.

"But we don't want to make that our problem any longer," Harsin said. "That's Auburn's problem. We've moved on and being home has never felt better."

Here's the thing, Bryan: Auburn has never felt better without you.

Caden Grice availability

Last weekend the commentator on ACCN stated that part of the reason Grice is the Sunday starter is because starting pitchers are disqualified from playing in games the very next day, even as DH’s or fielders. Is this true? I would hope not as that would possibly put us without Ingle or Grice tomorrow in championship.

8 Disturbing Similarities between the Democrat and Nazi Parties

Do not bother replying with outrage. Just go ahead and refute the facts if you so choose.


By D. Parker

Steve McCann's "Eight Startling and Uncomfortable Ways the Democrat Party Emulates the Nazi Party" was just the tip of the National Socialist iceberg.
The fascist far left have always had to lie to survive. They've always been on the wrong side of history, and the only way they can remain viable is by gaslighting people on a full-time basis. For decades, their biggest lie has been that the supposedly pro-freedom side of the political spectrum, imbued in the precepts of individual liberty and limited government, is somehow connected to totalitarian collectivist regimes that displayed the exact opposite of those values.
Anyone who has debated leftists for the past few decades has been subjected to the same bluff abuse in their trying to maintain that nonsensical lie. But the close similarities between fascism and communism have been obvious for at least 75 years:
"In certain basic respects — a totalitarian state structure, a single party, a leader, a secret police, a hatred of political, cultural and intellectual freedom — fascism and communism are clearly more like each other than they are like anything in between".
—Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Associate Professor of History at Harvard, New York Times Magazine, Sunday, April 4, 1948

Even if you set aside the preposterous argument that totalitarians would also be proponents of liberty and limited government, there are still a myriad of parallel characteristics between the Democrat party and the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) Party. That's what was so startling about the first eight ways.
Our follow-up along those lines will make the case even more.
1. Democrats and the Nazis were/are obsessed with gun confiscation.
We'll start with the one issue the fascist far left never bring up when they try to make their absurd claims: that the Democrats and the Nazis were obsessed with gun confiscation. You will never hear them try to make this accusation of the pro-freedom right because even they know that their lies can only carry them so far. This obvious common collectivist trait also destroys the far leftist mythology of the "party switch," which supposedly took place sometime in the late '60s. This was one glaring item that didn't switch, so they avoid mentioning it.
Anyone who has been paying attention for the past few years knows that saying that the Democrats are obsessed with gun confiscation is an understatement of massive proportions. Every day, it seems they've come out with a new scheme on the national, state, and local levels to deprive the people of their commonsense civil rights.
2. Democrats and Nazis are collectivists.
There are essentially two political philosophies: individualism and collectivism. The fact is that all academic disciplines are based on foundational principles, and this is an ironclad rule that separates the two sides of the political spectrum and also eviscerates the fascist far left's biggest lie. According to F.A. Hayek, students today are often taught that on the imaginary "political spectrum," socialism and communism are "left of center," and capitalism and fascism are "right of center." This is frightfully misleading. Socialism, communism and fascism are all peas in the same collectivist pod. Hayek held that they all despised both competition and the individual, and he was precisely right.
3. The overarching philosophy of both Democrats and Nazis is centralized control.
The individualists on the pro-freedom side of the political spectrum favor liberty and limited government. The collectivists of the anti-liberty side of the political spectrum favor control and unlimited government. This can easily be seen in the Democrat's obsession with controlling not only basic liberties, but also gas stoves, dishwashers, and air-conditioners.
In the case of the German National Socialist Labor Party, this was set out as point 25 in their 25-point program:
25. In order to carry out this program we demand: the creation of a strong central authority in the State, the unconditional authority by the political central parliament of the whole State and all its organizations.
4. The centralized collectivist control philosophy of the Democrat and Nazi parties is epitomized in the phrase "the Common Good" (Gemeinnutz vor Eigennutz in the original German).
How many times have you heard the fascists of the far left parrot the phrase "the Common Good" when trying to shove a draconian, authoritarian rule down our throats? The COVID crisis was particularly egregious in this regard, exemplified by this piece in USA Today: "The COVID culture war: At what point should personal freedom yield to the common good?"
5. Far-left fascists of the Democrat and Nazi parties see force as means to their political power.
While the German national socialist party exploited force, Democrats started the practice with the KKK and perfected it with the Burning, Looting, and Murder riots during the summer of 2020, making it clear to everyone that if they didn't get their way, the BLM violence would continue.
The tradition continues with Mr. Liberty Control himself, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), threatening a "popular revolt" if they don't get their way in ramming the pre-stages of gun confiscation down our throats.
6. Democrats and Nazis are proponents of single-party systems.
It should also be obvious that the authoritarians of the far left would love to keep everything nice and simple with a single party — theirs. This is why the Nazis attacked the rival collectivists of the communist party. Just like the rival factions of Islam, they had the same ideology; it's just that they wanted to be the people in control.
This was exemplified in a piece from the New Republic, "The Constitution Is the Crisis," with this lovely quotation: "We've seen multiple periods of one-party dominance in our history; we've also seen defeated political parties wither and die. Why shouldn't the Republican Party join them?"
7. Democrats and Nazis are fascistic.
You can always tell when a leftist defines fascism, because aside from the inevitable circular logic that supposedly prevents them from being fascist, such as oh, so cleverly labeling themselves as "anti-fascist," they will define the term based on an arbitrary set of subjective (and thus meaningless) criteria.
The fact is that fascism is based on several references. When it's primarily defined as an economic system, fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer.
In present-day parlance, it's a "Public/Private" partnership, combining the worst aspects of unlimited governmental rule and corporate oligarchy, with the latter answering to the government instead of the customer. The Bud Light debacle is a prime example.
When the Italian far left originally developed this reprehensible ideology 96 years ago, it was based on La Carta del Lavoro, translated as the Charter of Labor. The New York Times enthused:
FASCISTI PROCLAIM 'CHARTER OF LABOR'; Mussolini Is Hailed as Prophet of Cooperative Industrial Peace Under the State. LABOR AND CAPITAL JOINED Document Declaring Rights and Duties Is Presented at Climax of Rome's 2,681st Birthday.
ROME, April 21. — The Fascist "Charter of Labor," embodying the fundamental principles of the Fascist-Syndicalist State, which is based primarily upon the theory of replacing the class struggle by a fruitful cooperation between capital and labor under direct State control, was promulgated tonight by Premier Mussolini at a special meeting of the Fascist Grand Council.
Strangely enough, Democrats never refer to this founding document of their base ideology. If you study any of their "academic" work on the subject, they tend to ignore these facts.
8. Democrats are striving for a totalitarian state structure and a single party like the Nazis.
Put all of this together, and you'll come to the inescapable conclusion that all of these parallels make the ironclad case that both parties are all too similar.
With with modern surveillance technology and tyrannical "innovations" like Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), the Democrats could make the Nazis look like amateurs. This is why they have to be opposed with cultural guerrilla warfare every step of the way.
D Parker is an engineer, inventor, wordsmith, and student of history, the director of communications for a civil rights organization, and a long-time contributor to conservative websites. Find him on Substack.
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*Clemson Baseball Postseason Discussion*

D1 Baseball's latest field of 64 projections has Clemson as the five overall seed in the tournament. In their regional, Clemson would host (2) Campbell, (3) Oregon, and (4) Central Conn. State. Are the Tigers solidified in your eyes as a lock for a national seed regardless of what happens in the rest of the ACCT, or would you feel more comfortable with a win Friday over BC? Sound off with your thoughts! I'm curious as to what everyone thinks.

Grease Movie/Cher/Stevie Wonder/ACDC/Dire Straits/Fleetwood Mac/Memorial Day Weekend Music Thread

Been under the weather for awhile thank the Good Lord Above for starting to feel better. Thank you all that has given the Ultimate sacrifice.

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Singer and actress Cher, was born Cherilyn Sarkisian in El Centro, California, on this day in 1946 (May 20)

Having sold over 100 million records to date, Cher is one of the world's best-selling music artists.
Her achievements include a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, a “Best Actress” Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and the Billboard Icon Award.

Cher is the only artist to date to have a #1 single on a Billboard chart in six consecutive decades, from the 1960s to the 2010s.

She has held US Billboard Hot 100 #1 singles over the longest period of time in history: 33 years, seven months and three weeks between "I Got You Babe", which topped the chart for the first time on August 14, 1965, and "Believe", whose last week at #1 was April 3, 1999.

With "Believe", she became the oldest female artist to have a US #1 song in the rock era, at the age of 52.
“Believe” also became the biggest-selling single of all time by a female artist in the UK.

An outstanding talent spanning generations....

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On this day in 1978, the Kiss LP “Double Platinum” debuted on the US Billboard 200 Album Chart at #75 (May 20)

Many of the tracks on this greatest hits double album were remixed and differed from their original versions.

The album cover was striking, and was packaged with a printed "Platinum Award" thanking the Kiss Army for making the band a "Double Platinum Success".

It peaked at #15 in Canada, #17 in Australia, #19 in New Zealand and Japan, and #22 in the US.

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This week in 1979, the John Stewart song “Gold” debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at #78 (May 19)

It was the lead single and biggest hit among three Top 40 singles released from his LP “Bombs Away Dream Babies”, on which Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, both appeared.
Nicks sang backup vocals. Buckingham sang backup vocals, played guitar, and co-produced.

The song was Stewart's first US Top 40 hit, as well as his first chart single in a decade.

The track eventually peaked at #5 in the US and Australia, and #4 in Canada.

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On this day in 1972, the Jethro Tull LP “Thick as a Brick” debuted on the US Billboard 200 Album Chart at #13 (May 20)

Another Jethro Tull masterpiece…

The album contains a continuous piece of music, split over two sides of an LP record, and is a parody of the concept album genre.

The original packaging, designed like a newspaper, claims the album to be a musical adaptation of an epic poem by fictional eight-year-old genius Gerald Bostock, though the lyrics were actually written by the band's frontman, Ian Anderson.

“Thick as a Brick” is an absolute classic of the prog rock genre.

Anderson has also said that "the album was a spoof to the albums of Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, much like what the movie Airplane! had been to Airport" and later remarked that it was a "bit of a satire about the whole concept of grand rock-based concept albums".

The album went all the way to #1 in the US, Australia, Canada, and Denmark, #2 in Italy, #3 in Norway and the Netherlands, #4 in Germany and Finland, and #5 in the UK.

Click on the link below to watch Jethro Tull perform “Led Zeppelin’s ‘Whole Lotta Brick’”😉:

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On this day in 1978, “Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture” debuted on the US Billboard 200 Album Chart at #53 (May 20)

This one had people around the world singing along…

It has sold approximately 28 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time, also ranking amongst the biggest selling soundtrack albums of all time.

It went to #1 around the world, in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Japan, and many other countries…

The song "You're the One That I Want" was a US and UK #1 for stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.

The album also featured the title track "Grease", another US #1 written by Barry Gibb of Bee Gees fame, and sung by Frankie Valli of The Four Seasons.

Additional singles from the album were “Sandy”, “Summer Nights”, Greased Lightnin’”, and the ONJ ballad “Hopelessly Devoted to You”.

In the UK, the album remained at the top of the charts for 13 consecutive weeks.

Click on the link below to watch many of the songs from the album on the “Grease Megamix”:

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This week in 1979, the Abba single “Does Your Mother Know?” debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at #83 (May 19)

Written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, the demo for "Does Your Mother Know" featured Björn on guide vocal, and the band decided they liked him singing the track so much, they stuck with it.

The rocky number from their sixth album “Voulez-Vous” became a Top 10 hit in the UK, Australia, and the Netherlands, and Top 20 in the US and many other countries around the world...

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Hawaiian singer, songwriter and musician Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on this day in 1959 (May 20)

Israel is known and loved for the simple and touching vocal and ukulele mashup of “Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World” from the early 90s that has featured in so many tv and film soundtracks.
The song is also often chosen to be played at private, sentimental family celebrations around the world.

Suffering chronic heart and respiratory issues as a result of his weight, Israel passed away in 1997 aged just 38....

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This week in 1981, the INXS single “The Loved One” peaked on the Australian charts at #18 (May 18)

The original version by Australian band The Loved Ones went to #2 on the charts back in 1966.

The song was always an INXS live show favourite, and was re-recorded by the band for their 1987 LP “Kick”.

In 2001 "The Loved One" (original version) was selected as #6 on the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA)'s list of Top 30 Australian songs of all time.

Great song, and this is a cool version from Countdown in 1981…

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Singer, songwriter, musician and producer Joe Camilleri was born Joseph Vincent Camilleri in Malta on this day in 1948 (May 21)

One of the most respected performers in Australian music, Camilleri was the third of ten children, whose family moved to Australia when he was two.

His mother called him Zep, which went on to become his band name when Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons formed in 1975.

His songs have become much-loved features of the Australian musical landscape over the years, with the sax dominated “Hit and Run” and “Shape I’m In”, and the quirky “Taxi Mary” all from the Jo Jo Zep years; and later with the Black Sorrows songs like “Harley and Rose”, “Hold On to Me”, and "Chained to the Wheel".

In addition to his work with Jo Jo Zep and the Black Sorrows, his side projects have included bands like The Revelators, Bakelight Radio, the Voodoo Sheiks, and Here Comes The Night.

Beginning in the late 1970s, Camilleri also produced recordings for other artists including The Sports, Paul Kelly & the Dots, Renée Geyer and Ross Wilson, and can also be heard as a session musician and/or vocalist on recordings by numerous Australian recording acts, including Skyhooks, Tim Finn, Icehouse and Mondo Rock.

Camilleri was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame in 2007.

He continues to perform with The Black Sorrows, and they released their 19th studio album,”Saint Georges Road”, in September 2021.

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On this day in 1977, the Fleetwood Mac LP “Rumours” went to #1 on the US Billboard 200 Album Chart (May 21)

This wonderful, eclectic, emotional musical rollercoaster was famously born out of the band’s relationship turmoil, and is arguably one of the best albums of all time.

“Dreams”, “Don’t Stop”, “Never Going Back Again”, “Go Your Own Way”, “The Chain”, “Songbird”, “Gold Dust Woman”, “I Don’t Want To Know”, “You Make Loving Fun”.....just a classic piece of vinyl.

“Rumours” was an instant commercial success, selling over 10 million copies worldwide within just a month of its release, and becoming the band's first #1 album on the UK Albums Chart, also topping the US Billboard 200.

It was also #1 in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the Netherlands, and South Africa.

The record has received a Diamond Award from the Recording Industry Association of America for a 20× platinum certification or 20 million copies shipped, making it, as of 2021, tied for the eleventh highest certified album in US history.

In 2003, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

In 2018, it was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry, being deemed "culturally, historically, or artistically significant" by the Library of Congress.

In 2020, Rumours was rated the seventh-greatest album of all time in Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

Mick Fleetwood has called “Rumours” “the most important album we ever made", because its success allowed the group to continue recording for years to come.

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UGA extends AD contract, plans new practice fields

Georgia extends AD Josh Brooks, plans new practice fields

By: Associated Press

ATHENS, Ga. -- On the heels of a second straight national football championship, the University of Georgia has rewarded athletic director Josh Brooks with a contract extension that ties him to the Bulldogs through at least 2029.

The athletic association board, wrapping up its annual spring meeting Friday at a resort on Lake Oconee, also announced plans for a new track and field facility that will free up space for two more football practice fields.

Brooks' new contract will increase his salary to $1.025 million a year, with annual raises of $100,000.

The 42-year-old Brooks, who took over the athletic department in 2021 after Greg McGarity retired, called the Georgia job "a dream for me" and said he hopes to spend the rest of his career in Athens.

"I am extremely grateful," Brooks said. "I got into this business 20-plus years ago as a student equipment manager. My first job at Louisiana-Monroe was making $20,000 a year in football operations."

The Georgia board approved a fiscal 2024 budget of $175.2 million, a nearly 8% increase from the most recent budget of $162.2 million and the sign of a prosperous program that is flush with money after its success on the gridiron.

The school received approval to move forward with its preliminary plans for a new track and field facility, which will be built across the street from the complex hosting the soccer and and softball teams.

The current track stadium is located adjacent to the Butts-Mehre athletic facility, which hosts the practice fields and training facilities for the football program.

Georgia lost a chunk of its outdoor fields when it built a new indoor practice facility. After the new track and field stadium is completed, the current space will be converted to two full-length, grass football practice fields at the request of coach Kirby Smart.

"He wants to find efficient ways to practice, and there is a lot of truth to the issues we've had with our current practice fields," Brooks said. "There is a lot of strain on our turf facilities staff to keep that field in great shape when half the day it is getting shade, so that has been a challenge as well. For our football program, it is better to practice on grass fields than (artificial) turf, so to be able to have two side-by-side grass fields is huge. It makes for a much more efficient practice."

The new track and field complex, which will continue to be named Spec Towns Track, will also include an indoor facility, the first of its kind in the state of Georgia.

Visit to Duke Children’s Hospital by our baseball team

I saw where our baseball team visited the Duke University Hospital in the last few days to see some of the children that were there. I think this is a great thing which has so many benefits! It brightens the day for young children that are going through very tough times, but it also reinforces to these players how blessed they are to have both the physical and mental talents that they do and the opportunity to play the wonderful game of baseball. I just wondered if this was something that had been arranged by the ACC and all the teams participated or was this just something that our coach and his staff put together for our players? Either way, it is a great gesture, and one that should be repeated more often!

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