*To my wife who is the greatest and kept the kids on Saturday so I could go to the Clemson game with my long time friend from college, Walt (who is the only UNC fan I know - you don't want too many of them in your life). I love you, LA!
*To Stuart and Meg on their wedding (and giving me and a couple of others that I saw at the game a pass on attending their wedding). I hope y'all have many years of happiness together. I was able to make the end of the reception to wish them well and tell them Dabo said "Congratulations, this win is for Stu and Meg."
Title Defense Number
"In professional sports, Ric Flair 5 times the man"..."whether you like it or not, learn to love it, because it's the best thing going, today!"..."(the 4 horsemen) compete at a level unknown to mortal man. We run all night, we run all day, 24 hours. We live, we eat, we think wrestling. We're the best there is"..."...diamonds are forever and so are the 4 horsemen"
*Note...if you don't want to watch the match (which I don't know why you wouldn't want to watch the best there ever was) skip to the 5:28 mark.
Our Life College Football Poll:
3 New Teams Received Votes
1. Clemson (Title Belt Holder)
2. Doesn't Matter
3. Irrelevant
4. Unimportant
5. Who Cares
6. Can't Hear You
7. Not A Big Deal
8. Insignificant
9. Your Team
The Good
1. Downtown Kourtnei Brown / Touchdown Kourtnei Brown / Kourtnei Bad Bad Leroy Brown
2. The offense 50+ points two weeks in a row - 35 points in the 3rd quarter
3. Nuk Hopkins (if you have a child the Nuk should should familiar, yep that's where his nickname came from)
4. The Chad
The Bad
1. NOON KICKOFFs (just bad, bad, bad for college football)
2. Big Plays - I place the blame on safeties and cornerbacks (poor tackling and poor coverage). We have got to stop the big plays for touchdowns and big plays that lead to touchdowns.
3. Kickoffs - Have to find someone who can kick the ball into the end zone (regular kickoff guy out for the year). I appreciate the effort from Zimmerman (our punter) but he doesn't have the leg for kickoff, punting yes. 18,000 students, Dabo, send the email for open tryouts. I wouldn't complain if it was a girl - whatever make us better and kicking the ball in the end zone consistently makes us better.
Summary
As I mentioned earlier, my friend from college, Walt, went to the game with me to continue a tradition that was started after college of attending Clemson vs UNC football games. The ACC expansion caused us not to get together quite as often since Clemson and UNC are on a rotating schedule. There's a long story behind this comment but now before I attend any UNC football game with him, I must see the ticket before getting in the car to go with him (something about a UNC vs Miami game when UNC was ranked probably Top 10 and I didn't have a ticket but unknown to me he had a ticket. Me and his wife ended up with tickets to get in but no assigned seat (they were student tickets and the student sections were packed early before we got in the game and thus my rule was established). I am glad Clemson has had the upper hand the past years in football because we don't have it in basketball. We were able to expose the weakness in UNC's defense - their secondary which Taj was able to pick apart and throw touchdowns to 5 different players. No one can say we are one dimensional or stopping player x will stop the scoring. The Tiger has lost 10 pounds this year from doing pushups after each score. The 35 points in the 3rd was crazy.
Title Defense 6 Preview
It was supposed to be a match up of top ten teams but Ga. Tech is now on a two game losing streak and looking to get back on track. If history has a say in the outcome then Ga Tech will derail Clemson's BCS plans and get back on track (Last time Clemson was 8-0 and defeated UNC to get to 8-0 they lost the following week to Ga Tech - 2000). BUT as Lee Corso says "No so fast"...this Clemson team is different from the 2000 edition coached by Tammy Bowden. We have Dabo, The Chad and cast of playmakers. It's different, right? Until a new precedent is established, I keep waiting for something like this to happen (finding a way to let a certain victory slip from our hands). I keep telling myself it is different but to prove it is different you have to get it done each week and I believe that's the message Dabo is preaching to the troops - finish the job. It will be another hostile (as hostile as engineers can be) environment and another night game. Hopefully, the Danny Ford and '81 team National Championship team that was in town for last weekends events was able to shed some light on taking care of business each week to the current players. If they weren't convincing enough then they should watch the video of Oklahoma and Wisconsin games and see first hand what happens to your National Title hopes when you don't get the job done. The ranks of the unbeaten are down to the Elite 8. I hope we can walk out of Bobby Dowd Stadium on Saturday night still unbeaten...one week at a time.
Misc
1. Clemson has run 626 plays to lead the nation and The Chad says "we can run more"
2. Welcome back to the blogging world, Jenn Williams - Courtyard. I hope she stays at it. It's always a good read.
3. Dizzy Bat Baseball at a football tailgate not a good spectator sport
5. Congrats to Meghan for being name PBC Goalie of the Week - This one goes with her (2) PBC Takedowns of the Week...evidently the word is getting around the conference not to mess with Armstrong's goalie.
- 1st GOW award
- 5th Shutout of the season
- Conference Game scoreless streak 568:14 minutes (this sounds even better...her last conference goal was way back in September (9/24))
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