Clemson Buzz....

I know alot of people are writing us off. However, Clemson ALWAYS blows an early game, CTB seems to be overconfident at times. I think we make some noise in that first game, whether we win or not.

I am just happy to get back on the field after the AAFL screwed me out of spring football and watch this season. We won’t win a championship of any kind, but I think we make some noise as we will be young and talented.

I go hunting in South Carolina every November with some friends. Our guides are Clemson fans, obnoxious ones at that. Worse than Auburn fans. I don’t need a week of ridicule. We better beat them.

Clemson always expects to win big every year. And then football season rolls around and it’s a completely different story.

I don’t know that we’ll beat Clemson, but we have a good chance. Even if they are the best team in the ACC - and they usually find a way to blow that honor every year - that doesn’t mean very much. The ACC, as long as Miami and FSU continue to struggle, is a very mediocre conference, and generally their best team would probably be no better than third or fourth best in the SEC. That entire conference hasn’t even won a BCS game this decade, it’s absurd.

I think we have a good chance. If the Clemson people think this game is a lock, they are delusional. If a 9-4 Auburn team could beat them last year, after having all of three weeks to install a completely different offense, then this Alabama team can too.

would get half of the respect they garner if they played in the SEC. At best I think they could finish 3rd or 4th in the West, and much worse in the East. The ACC has become so dull lately that Wake Forest actually won the Conference the year before last.

I for one, feel that this will be a good game, but we can win it. I think the odds should be in our favor as well. Although none of us should ever count a game as a lock again-after the ULM travesty-I think we handled a running attack from Arkansas last year pretty well. I mean if what should have been the overall pick in the draft and the Heisman winner and another first round back put up 300 yards on us and we still find ways to win, then I think James Davis and C.J. Spiller won’t be any more of a problem than theMcfadden and Jones.

Well, glad your sense of humor pulled you through. Bottom line … when you say, “I think we handled a running attack from Arkansas last year pretty well” that is wrong. If you wrote that, but meant something else, how’s that my fault? If you said, “If we give up 300 yards to Spiller and Davis, like we did last year to Arkansas, but pull out the win, I’ll take it” then I wouldn’t have said anything. In fact, I would’ve agreed. OTS is being nice, but for the love of Bear, don’t throw stones and then hide behind him. Seriously, that’s weak. You misspoke/miswrote and I called you out on it. Don’t take it personally. Just write more clearly next time.

is I’ll agree to disagree.

Glad you enjoyed the line about Warren too.

ON FALL PRACTICE—are we there yet?

i wrote a big ol peice on why i think we’re gonna win and the internets ate it up. (that or i mistakenly hit “preview’ and then navigated away from the page i was on…) anyway here is the abridged version of

why i thnk bama is going to beat clemson; a homers perspective

first of all, clemson has 1 returning starter on O-line (they have two guys on the PSL with one career start each, the peach bowl v auby. the other two got bupkis) I think/hope/cling to the belief that bama’s D-line, despite the loss of wallace G, will be improved from last year. and that the D-line will be able to get to harper before he gets his feet set for anything downfield. I’m also thinking/dogmaticly fixated on the hope that Rolando Mcclain will hold down the title of “playmaker” for the LB’s and that Johns, harris (even i recognize the unlikely hood of knight being there) and the other guy(s) simply hold to their respective assignments. and that they dont get beat on counters, traps, play action, or other kinds of offensive tomfoolery. I think the secondary is going to be a force to be reckoned with and that hurried pass atempts, caused by an effective rush, lead to INT’s for jackson, lawrence, and the gang.

I’m also firmly convinced that Javier Arenas kicks total ass, and that he’ll likely set us up with great field position at least twice (maybe once, but then add a kick returned all the way for a TD)

those factors mentioned above should help JP Wilson settle back into the role of getting us downfield without turning the ball over. given the nicktator’s willingness to play true frosh’s, I’m thinking we could see mark ingram get some handoffs, BJ Scott and JJ should have some opportunities to make plays, and oh yeah, grant, coffee, upchurch, stover, and mccoy should be able to be counted on for production as well. if McElwain can call an efficient game, and JP is able to execute those calls, then we could be up by 2 td’s or more at halftime. and at the end of the day, we will have soundly beaten a top 10 ten team and will be on our way to an 11 win regular season, and I will also have dropped about 15 pounds by august 30, and 25 by november 29, cause the copious amounts of beer i’m about to drink has negative carbs.

...tickets to this game.

I probably will post something similar every time this game is brought up.

All I know is I work in between an office in Greenville SC and Charlotte NC an Engineering firm. Most of the guys and gals here graduated from Clemson the company has alot ofties with their engineering department. I can tell you right now they dont even consider us a treat to beat them. I would say somewhere in the lines of them playing NC State or North Carolina they have already counted it as a win. They are very arrogant cocky b($*ds too,

We are supposed to lose, and if we do lose it doesn’t hurt our season. The game is not close to being a must win for us…but Clemson thinks the game is in the bag and it is a must win for them if they think they have a shot at a NC (which they do.) With this dynamic, Clemson’s new O-line and senior QB JPW I really like our chances. Our only problem is that we only have one good LB- McClain and we will need someone to step up big time at LB.

Besides all that, Bowden is not such a good coach. No one has gone so far on their last name as Bowden…his free ride will end soon.