Who Will Clempsun Choke Against This Year?

By fitsnews • on August 18, 2008

EXPERTS NOT-SO-SURE ABOUT TIGERS’ TOP TEN RANKING

FITSNews - August 18, 2008 - Sure, they can beat the Ole’ Ball Coach, but can Clempsun’s football team prove they deserve a national Top Ten ranking? According to the experts, it’s doubtful …

From RealFootball 365:

As great a reward as Clemson’s ninth-place ranking in the AP’s preseason Top 25 is, one can’t help but get the feeling that the Tigers won’t last long as a highly rated team; after all, coach Tommy Bowden’s Tigers have had trouble in the past maintaining their place among college football’s elite.

And from the Sporting News:

Clemson, for all its prowess and success, has not won an ACC championship since 1991 … So how will this team, Bowden’s 10th at Clemson, grab a brass ring that has eluded them the previous nine? The offensive line will have to be rebuilt after losing four starters. The defense returns eight starters, but will have to replace three solid athletes in end Phillip Merling (a second-round draft pick by the Dolphins) and linebackers Tramaine Billie and Nick Watkins.

The good news, of course, is that Clempsun is expected to repeat this year as national “cow-milking” champs … assuming of course Alabama doesn’t beat them out for the honor.  The two schools are also  running redneck-and-redneck for the coveted “soybean planting” title.

Anyway, the Tigers and Crimson Tide meet in Atlanta on August 30th, with Bowden gunning for only his second non-Gamecock-related SEC victory in nine years at the helm (Clempsun beat Tennessee in the Peach Bowl four years ago).

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By Thomas Bowden on August 18th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

I know one team we won’t choke against.

By fitsnews on August 18th, 2008 at 4:46 pm

Duh … Hillbilly. We already said that. Jeez, you Clempsunites really can’t read, can you?

By male sapphist on August 18th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

Clemson will have to settle for diplomas that are actually worth something…

By bcarroll138 on August 18th, 2008 at 7:19 pm

I’m a Clemson fan, but last year I learned the frustration of being a Carolina fan…my stepfather, a rabid Gamecock fan, died mid-season, when the Cocks were still 6-1 and #6. We buried him the day before the Vandy game…and the lousy Cocks sucked up the rest of their season…I’m almost glad he didn’t live to see that….almost…

I’ve never been one to cheer against Carolina, in fact, the opposite…but my hat’s off to the ones that stay in the stands til the end of the 4th…the rest pretty much suck as fans, if you ask me…

Here’s hoping y’all have a better year this season…until the last game, of course…

By Veritas on August 18th, 2008 at 9:08 pm

Fits, the ag school in Alabama is Auburn. They are even referred to as the Clemson of the plains. That being said they should be favored on every game this season and have a goodshot at bringing some modicum of glory to SC. Even as a good USC fan, I hope they are undefeated going against the cocks.

If the special teams bowden personally coaches don’t screw em they should be great.

By joe on August 18th, 2008 at 9:31 pm

the usuck fan base and alumni are infinitely more red than the clemson people. unless, of course, a gold bracelet and a salon tan represent real class.

By male sapphist on August 19th, 2008 at 2:35 am

If USC had not built their stadium in the hood/industrial zone you could reasonably expect the fans to stay longer in the stands.

USC does something that I wish Clemson would do and that is have more night games at the beginning of the season. Direct sun and 95 degrees for 5 hours…even surrounded by the majesty that is Clemson University is oppressive.

BTW, How do you get a USC liberal arts graduate off of your porch?

Pay him for the pizza

By No doo-doo ice for me, thanks on August 19th, 2008 at 10:06 am

I’ll take cow’s milk over the sweet taste of doo-doo ice any day.

http://www.thetigernet.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=5647191

By Not Sayin', Just Sayin' on August 19th, 2008 at 10:12 am

If the Tater Tech had not built its stadium/pasture in the middle of Bumfuckegypt,male sapphist could reasonably expect more night games because more of Tater Nation would to be able to attend a night game and then drive their tractors back to Dillon or Kingstree before 3am the next day. Sadly, daytime games are necessary so these liquored-up hillbillies can “git” home without killing themselves (or worse, innocent Wofford grads) or increasing the risk of getting a DUI (unless they’re immune to arrest, but that generally only applies to the players and only in Pickens County).

But if male sapphist thinks the heat in Tater Valley is going to be “oppressive” on those September afternoons, he is in for a shocking reminder of “oppression” when Rev. Tammy is waiving around his new contract after once again falling short of the Atlantic Division of the ASheShe. 1981 ain’t going to happen again, and 1991 is not likely to happen again this year either!

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