December 16, 20241 yr Popular Post When Dabo Swinney was named Clemson's full time head coach in December of 2008, he did the most Mack Brown thing possible that a Mack Brown Jr. type could do. He started calling around the HC coaching fraternity, asking to come visit and sit down with various HCs across the land. Many turned sweet, young Dabo down outright, as they were too busy with their own offseasons or bowl prep to care enough to help the hillbilly upstart and his staff. Still, one man did answer the call, and invited Dabo and his staff down to visit, right smack dab in the middle of Fiesta Bowl game prep - Mack Brown. They all spent 3 days in Austin, gladhanding and chumming it up. Swinney's spent some time this week with the local Clemson press talking about that event and how happy he is to be heading back to Austin. After all, he spoke before the SMU game of preparing to make a run to be the first 3-loss national title winning coach. He thinks he has Clemson peaking at the right time (nevermind South Carolina whipping them in the trenches less than a month ago) and they're ready. Running into Swinney's open armed optimism is a thin-skinned and panicked Longhorn netdom, who have spent the last week+ manufacturing ways in which they need to be worried about this upcoming, first-of-its-kind home playoff game against the underdog Tigers. Having watched a small and slow Clemson team play backyard bully in a truly abysmal ACC all year, I can do nothing but smirk and mock each of these plaintive whines on the boards, as I know Texas is about to stomp a mudhole in Clemson's ass. "But closetojumping, Dabo's a wizard and he's won the playoffs twice before! Sarkisian just eats his own boogers on the sidelines in postseason games!" While it's true that Swinney has won two national titles, those days are long in the rearview mirror. Clemson only made its way to these playoffs through the backdoor, by beating an AAC team with too much hype. This Clemson team has some future NFL players within its ranks. Mafah, if he hasn't taken too many bullets, seems like he'll be drafted. It's early, but TJ Moore and Bryant Wesco look like future stars. Antonio Williams, an older Clemson WR, is the current star and will get next level looks. Briningstool at TE is good but not great, yet he's going to the Senior Bowl and will be drafted. Defensively, Barrett Carter, Sammy Moore, TJ Carter, and Peter Woods will all likely play on Sundays. Peter Woods gets a lot of hype for a dude with like 21 tackles and 3 sacks in 7 or 8 games this year. Oh well. From there? Slim pickings. That's the difference between now and years past. Some of the players I named are true freshmen. One is a true sophomore. They're not loaded with upperclassmen ready to go high in the draft. They have upperclassmen good enough to go somewhere in the draft, and that's it. They have an average OL as usual, with a couple of OTs who could go in the mid-late rounds, but they're never been a power in that key personnel area and this year is no different. Meanwhile, Texas is loaded with draftable players and future NFL high round picks who cannot be drafted yet. While Sarkisian's bowl and playoff record, thus far, do not inspire confidence, this roster talent should. If anyone honestly believes that the slack-jawed yokel roaming Clemson's sidelines with his 1000 yard stare and openly breathing through his mouth is some sort of X's and O's threat, they've not watched much Clemson. "Now come on, CTJ, have you seen Texas' redzone offense and special teams play?" Setting aside the futility of the raging Arch vs Ewers debate, featuring masturbatory fantasies about Sarkisian casually dropping in a complete red zone playset for Manning in the postseason, I think there are reasons for promise and optimism for Texas in the RZ this game. While Texas has been mediocre scoring in the RZ due to, mostly, Bert Auburn gargling more balls than Mia Khalifa, Clemson's RZ defense has also mostly been dogshit this season, allowing points on more than 83% of their drives. This isn't Clemson from 2018 - their front seven is good but not great. They can be run on and they're not elite on pass defense either. Texas needs the offensive line to show up wearing men's jock straps underneath their uniforms and not in the pink panties they wore against the UGA front. Do that, have even Decent Quinn Ewers show up with them, and Texas gets to 20+ on the offensive side. What about the rest of it, STs included? Clemson actually has substantially worse STs than Texas in most facets. They've had a bunch of FGs missed and blocked. They do basically nothing in the return game and just lost their main return guy for the season against SMU. Their coverage teams are average to boot. All we need here on special teams is for Silas Bolden to not be a complete fucking lunatic and for someone to bring some positive karma in Auburn's direction by shaving his head and keeping him away from Scott Norwood and Ray Finkel. "I don't know, closetojumping. I don't like their running game or turnover margin advantage." The Clemson running game has been mentioned on this board and OTF as a source of concern. There's always going to be an affinity for Klubnik on the boards because of the Westlake alumni honk network. "Cade's over there being whiteboy awesome again! He's a dual threat, by gawd!" Right. Look, the Clemson running game is in trouble. It's not just that Texas is a truly elite defense, but their personnel is also a problem. Klubnik's nothing special and easily spied. Mafah is seriously banged up and can't handle 20+ carries without serious wear and tear - their own writers are talking about this. The back-up just tore his ACL. The only defense within range of what they're about to face was Georgia's or SCar's and both shut them down on the ground. As to TO concerns, part of why Clemson doesn't turn the ball over is due to the laughable schedule and competition they've played. In Clemson's 3 losses, Klubnik threw 1 TD and 2 picks. The turnover margin in those 3 games? 0. Clemson's feasting on TOs in their 9 wins against mostly overmatched competition. The Clemson offensive game plan is usually to protect Klubnik from himself and work the short passing game while attempting to pound both he and Mafah until the weaker opponent breaks down. Against better teams, the Clemson running game has been held in check and they've been forced to try to let Klubnik and the young WR corps, along with Briningstool, win the game. They're 2-3 in those contests, with wins against an overmatched SMU on the last play of the game and Pitt in the final minute of the game when Pitt failed to spy Klubnik adequately and let him go streaking. "Sure, CTJ, but we've never played these guys and their brand terrifies me in my feelings." Clemson has beaten 10 teams this season with a combined record of 54-66. That includes an 11-2 SMU team that played virtually no one and shit itself twice against decent competition. I already discussed the two teams they beat with a winning record - a wildly overrated 11-2 SMU and a team in a disastrous state of collapse at the time of play (and continuing now) in 7-5 Pitt. The rest of their competition has either been dogshit that they obliterated, like a 5-7 FCS Citadel, or teams that paired up with them well and kicked their ass, like Georgia and Louisville. If you watched Clemson at all this year, you know that they looked slow and small against SCar and Georgia. They looked great against Wake Forest and North Carolina State. How do you expect them to match up against Texas, on the road? I'm thinking mudhole, to the tune of Texas 27 - Clemson 10. I'm not real sure how Clemson climbs above 13, even if Bad Quinn Ewers and Evil Bert Auburn show up and try to give the damned thing away. Thoughts? Hook'em
December 16, 20241 yr 10 minutes ago, closetojumping said: Thoughts? Why so negative about our offense?
December 16, 20241 yr Author 4 minutes ago, Rimbo said: Why so negative about our offense? Why so serious?
December 16, 20241 yr Popular Post Oh, no! This is giving me PTSD from your last year's magnum opus, Why Texas Stamps a Mudhole in Kansas State's Ass. Remember how that worked out?🫣 We're doomed now.
December 16, 20241 yr 17 minutes ago, closetojumping said: What about the rest of it, STs included? Clemson actually has substantially worse STs than Texas in most facets. They've had a bunch of FGs missed and blocked. They do basically nothing in the return game and just lost their main return guy for the season against SMU. Their coverage teams are average to boot. I refuse to believe that such a thing is even possible.
December 16, 20241 yr 1 minute ago, Dahobbs said: I refuse to believe that such a thing is even possible. Why so negative? Outside of our punter, our kicker and our return team our special teams rock.
December 16, 20241 yr 5 minutes ago, closetojumping said: Why so serious? I'm just a very serious person, you know. Complete lack of jocularity. So square, I'm used as a reference for construction tools.
December 16, 20241 yr What brought us to this lowly state where 27-10 is a mudhole. Don’t answer that. I’ll take it though.
December 16, 20241 yr 34 minutes ago, closetojumping said: There's always going to be an affinity for Klubnik on the boards because of the Westlake alumni honk network. "Cade's over there being whiteboy awesome again! He's a dual threat, by gawd!" Right. Excuse me? Current best quarterbacks in football (in no particular order): Patrick Mahomes - Mahomes is very good. He's a great improviser. Cade Klubnik - Cade is awesome. He's a dual threat.
December 17, 20241 yr I'm convinced, wheres the best tailgate for a 1st timer(other than South Austins mom)?
December 17, 20241 yr My positive rep comes in the form of a laughing emoji due to the brilliant bolded, italicized lamentations of the Texas pearl clutchers. Nice work. Needs the Well written content stamp of approval.
December 17, 20241 yr Well, @closetojumping I have, for reason I'm not even clear about, watched a LOT of Clemson games this season. They are shitty, and yes, as odd as it sounds have worst special teams than Texas. They struggle again any D with a functional or decent run stop. They're secondary is also extremely suspect and they SUCK on redzone D. So.. that's my much more concise take on your long winded but enjoyable and amusing post. Edited December 17, 20241 yr by BurntEyes
December 17, 20241 yr The reason for optimism for me is Mafah is not just banged up but has left games at times this season. He has a shoulder injury, that will require surgery at the end of the season. That with their second-string running back Jay Haynes is out for the season. The Clemson rush defense isn't that good either, so Texas can reestablish the running game and open up the passing game. Clemson’s Dabo Swinney Gives Update on RB Phil Mafah Clemson running back out for the rest of the season
December 17, 20241 yr If Texas can clean up the RZ, I like this team to make a run that starts with a blowout Saturday.
December 17, 20241 yr Popular Post I hope we beat them so badly that Dabo spends his entire post-game press conference crying about NIL and the portal. He'll do that anyway, but...
December 17, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, MrX said: What brought us to this lowly state where 27-10 is a mudhole. Don’t answer that. I’ll take it though. We’re too good for 17 point playoff wins now? Ok then.
December 17, 20241 yr 59 minutes ago, immamac said: 38-0 or 38-3 That's first half score second half: 41-35 or 41-38. Side Show Bob misses 4 field goals but kicks a 55 yarder to win it.
December 17, 20241 yr Just now, nineliveslost said: That's first half score second half: 41-35 or 41-38. Side Show Bob misses 4 field goals but kicks a 55 yarder to win it. Goddammit.
December 17, 20241 yr 27 minutes ago, NBHorn7 said: The reason for optimism for me is Mafah is not just banged up but has left games at times this season. He has a shoulder injury, that will require surgery at the end of the season. That with their second-string running back Jay Haynes is out for the season. The Clemson rush defense isn't that good either, so Texas can reestablish the running game and open up the passing game. Clemson’s Dabo Swinney Gives Update on RB Phil Mafah Clemson running back out for the rest of the season The reason for optimism for me is that Texas is much better than Clemson and is the biggest first round favorite for a reason.
December 17, 20241 yr 4 minutes ago, Huckleberry said: The reason for optimism for me is that Texas is much better than Clemson and is the biggest first round favorite for a reason. These are some of those reasons.
December 17, 20241 yr Any one who is worried about this game is a beta cuck that enjoys your dominatrix shoving her 6 inch stiletto heel in your ballsack while she ignores your safety word because she knows deep down you just like to be hurt and humiliated. Fuck Clemson. Texas rolls.
December 17, 20241 yr 3 hours ago, closetojumping said: The Clemson offensive game plan is usually to protect Klubnik from himself and work the short passing game while attempting to pound both he and Mafah until the weaker opponent breaks down. Remove the second reference to Klubnik there and... Nonetheless, I agree that Texas should win this game going away.
December 17, 20241 yr 36 minutes ago, troph said: Any one who is worried about this game is a beta cuck that enjoys your dominatrix shoving her 6 inch stiletto heel in your ballsack while she ignores your safety word because she knows deep down you just like to be hurt and humiliated. Fuck Clemson. Texas rolls. You can be in to this and think we’re going to kill Clemson, or so I’ve heard.
December 17, 20241 yr 39 minutes ago, troph said: Any one who is worried about this game is a beta cuck that enjoys your dominatrix shoving her 6 inch stiletto heel in your ballsack while she ignores your safety word because she knows deep down you just like to be hurt and humiliated. Fuck Clemson. Texas rolls. It's interesting to me that people who use these terms seem to have no clue how revealing and unflattering it is to themselves. 🙄
December 17, 20241 yr Popular Post 44 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said: It's interesting to me that people who use these terms seem to have no clue how revealing and unflattering it is to themselves. 🙄 Lighten up Francis, it’s the mudhole thread not a discussion of what we value in the men we love.
December 17, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, troph said: Any one who is worried about this game is a beta cuck that enjoys your dominatrix shoving her 6 inch stiletto heel in your ballsack while she ignores your safety word because she knows deep down you just like to be hurt and humiliated. Fuck Clemson. Texas rolls. I thought this was the circle of trust?
December 17, 20241 yr 47 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said: It's interesting to me that people who use these terms seem to have no clue how revealing and unflattering it is to themselves. 🙄 I... Uh... think maybe you don't know who posted that.
December 17, 20241 yr Just now, Dahobbs said: I... Uh... think maybe you don't know who posted that. Oh, I do.
December 17, 20241 yr The DL is going to throw those candy-asses around like dog toys. It is on like hambone.
December 17, 20241 yr TLDR. I’m sorry that happened to you. Or. Congrats my friend you deserve it all
December 17, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, troph said: Any one who is worried about this game is a beta cuck that enjoys your dominatrix shoving her 6 inch stiletto heel in your ballsack while she ignores your safety word because she knows deep down you just like to be hurt and humiliated. Fuck Clemson. Texas rolls.
December 17, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, troph said: Any one who is worried about this game is a beta cuck that enjoys your dominatrix shoving her 6 inch stiletto heel in your ballsack while she ignores your safety word because she knows deep down you just like to be hurt and humiliated. Fuck Clemson. Texas rolls. extremely oddly specific post is...specific?
December 17, 20241 yr 3 hours ago, nineliveslost said: That's first half score second half: 41-35 or 41-38. Side Show Bob misses 4 field goals but trips and accidentally kicks a 55 yarder to win it. more likely
December 17, 20241 yr 3 hours ago, Slacks said: Has she taught that monkey to do horns up? I know someone on here knows the answer.
December 17, 20241 yr 3 hours ago, troph said: Any one who is worried about this game is a beta cuck that enjoys your dominatrix shoving her 6 inch stiletto heel in your ballsack while she ignores your safety word because she knows deep down you just like to be hurt and humiliated. don't kink shame me
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