Clemson & Florida State On The Clock

Honus "The Dude" Sneed reports for Eer Insider

By Honus Sneed:

Clemson & FSU have formed committees to explore the feasability of leaving the ACC for the Big 12 and are expected to reach a decision by late summer.

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The Big 12 conference will put its expansion plans on hiatus while Clemson and FSU decide to apply for membership or stay with the ACC.

Talks between the two schools and the Big 12 began late last fall and continued after the completion of the 2011 season. Recently both schools have formed committees to examine the advantages and disadvantages of leaving the ACC for the Big 12 and expect to reach a decision by late summer.

Link to Sneed's article:

www.eerinsider.com/2012-articles/february/clemson-and-fsu-are-on-the-clock.html

Clemson & Florida State: Our View and The State of The ACC

Tonight Myself, Tim Matyaszak, The Angry Clemson Fan and guest Ingram Smith talk about the state of the ACC, Clemson and Florida State. Ingram Smith was kind enough to drop in and give us his point of view and opinions from a Florida State perspective. 

Clemson 2012 Recruiting Class & Unsigned Left On The Table

• Update- LOI's received from:
• QB Chad Kelly
• WR Germone Hopper
• ATH Jay Jay McCullough
• DT Josh Brown 
• DE Martin Aiken 
• S Ronald Geohaghan
• DE Shaq Lawson
• OT TJ Burrell
• DT Carlos Watkins
  DT DJ Reader signs with Clemson over Maryland in a very dramatic ending to his recruitment. 
  
  
  
• This is Clemson's recruiting class thus far:
  
  

PLAYER	POS	LOCATION	HT	WT	STARS	GRADE	SCHOOL
Travis Blanks Video | Scouts Report	#2 S	Tallahassee, FL North Florida Christian High School	6'1''	195		84	CLEMSON SIGNED
Germone Hopper Video | Scouts Report	#13 WR	Charlotte, NC Phillip O. Berry Academy of Technology	5'11''	170		81	CLEMSON SIGNED
Chad Kelly Video | Scouts Report	#4 QB	Buffalo, NY Saint Joseph's Collegiate Institute	6'3''	205		81	CLEMSON SIGNED
Jay Guillermo Video | Scouts Report	#1 OC	Maryville, TN Maryville High School	6'3''	292		80	CLEMSON SIGNED
Patrick Destefano Video | Scouts Report	#13 OT	Roebuck, SC Dorman High School	6'5''	275		80	CLEMSON SIGNED
Carlos Watkins Video | Scouts Report	#12 DT	Forest City, NC Chase High School	6'3''	280		80	CLEMSON SIGNED
Shaquille Lawson Video | Scouts Report	#18 DE	Central, SC D. W. Daniel High School	6'3''	245		80	CLEMSON SIGNED
Javarius Leamon Video | Scouts Report	#31 OT	Woodruff, SC Woodruff High School	6'5''	260		79	CLEMSON COMMITTED 07/08/2011
Zac Brooks Video | Scouts Report	#40 WR	Jonesboro, AR Jonesboro Senior High School	6'1''	180		79	CLEMSON SIGNED
Bradley Pinion Video | Scouts Report	#3 K	Concord, NC Northwest Cabarrus High School	6'5''	225		79	CLEMSON SIGNED
Ronald Geohaghan Video | Scouts Report	#21 S	Fairfax, SC Allendale-Fairfax High School	6'1''	192		79	CLEMSON SIGNED
Martin Aiken Video | Scouts Report	#42 DE	Bamberg, SC Bamberg-Ehrhardt High School	6'3''	245		79	CLEMSON SIGNED
Cordrea Tankersley Video | Scouts Report	#41 ATH	Aiken, SC Silver Bluff High School	6'1''	190		79	CLEMSON SIGNED
Marty Williams Video | Scouts Report	#42 ATH	North Augusta, SC Fox Creek High School	6'1''	200		78	CLEMSON SIGNED
Jay Jay McCullough Video | Scouts Report	#45 ATH	Fort Mill, SC Nation Ford High School	6'4''	233		78	CLEMSON SIGNED
T.J. Burrell Video | Scouts Report	#57 OLB	Goose Creek, SC Goose Creek High School	6'0''	200		78	CLEMSON SIGNED
Oliver Jones Video | Scouts Report	#60 OT	Ninety Six, SC Ninety Six High School	6'5''	285		78	CLEMSON SIGNED
Isaiah Battle Video | Scouts Report	OT	Saint George, VA	6'6''	265		POST	CLEMSON SIGNED
D.J. Reader Video | Scouts Report	#58 OG	Greensboro, NC Grimsley High School	6'3''	330		77	CLEMSON SIGNED
Kevin Dodd Video | Scouts Report	DT	Greer, SC Hargrave Military Academy (Va.)	6'5''	280		POST	CLEMSON SIGNED
Josh Brown Video | Scouts Report	#156 OT	Aiken, SC South Aiken High School	6'4''	270		73	CLEMSON SIGNED

Athletic Advisory Committee Formed At Clemson: Time To Get All The Way In

Lets start with this from 1/28-

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Clemson Forms An Athletic Advisory Committee

This from www.clemsontigers.com

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Jan. 28, 2012

CLEMSON, SC - Clemson Athletic Director, Dr. Terry Don Phillips, has announced the formation of an Athletic Advisory Committee. The committee is composed of 10 successful business leaders with strong ties to Clemson who will provide advice to the department from a strategic planning standpoint. The committee had a two-day meeting earlier this week.

"The nature of college athletics is changing in every area," said Phillips who has been Clemson's Athletic Director for nearly 10 years. "These changes are effecting how Clemson Athletics does business. It is a blessing to have access to successful business leaders who have and are facing similar issues in their industries.

"I have asked these Clemson loyalists to advise us as we strive to take our program to the next level. The candid and productive conversations we had and will have focus on key issues and strategies that will make Clemson athletics as good as it can be."

The Athletic Advisory Committee is composed of:

-discussion leader Harry Frampton, Vail, Colorado

-Steve Bond, Georgetown

-Jim Bostic, Atlanta

-Jim Brown, Florence

-Ray Cash, Seneca

-Tom Chapman, Atlanta

-Charles Dalton, Pickens

-Rich Davies, Charlotte

-Helen Hill, Charleston

-Rodney Williams, Greenville.

"Clemson is one of the top athletic programs in the nation," said Frampton. "We have only one agenda - how to help Clemson Athletics go to the next level.

"Every area of major college sports is being challenged - competition, academic success, student/athlete welfare, compliance, finances, brand marketing and conference structure. Clemson needs to lead change, not react to it.

"This Athletic Advisory Committee is not a decision making body, we are advisory. Clemson has very capable administrators and Boards to make decisions. We commend Terry Don and his staff for involving motivated business leaders in their strategic planning."

The next meeting of the Athletic Advisory Committee is scheduled for June 18 and 19."

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What does this committee mean? Well this quote from Clemson AD accurately describes it 

"The nature of college athletics is changing in every area," said Phillips who has been Clemson's Athletic Director for nearly 10 years. "These changes are effecting how Clemson Athletics does business."

This scratches the surface or eludes to what our opinion is- College football is now an arms race; get "all the way in" the game or keep out. Kind of like say, Syracuse, Pitt, Duke or UNC. They are in a game; the difference is their game is basektball. Their game will never fully showcase ACC football so it's a respected national brand. Syracuse and Pitt's 848 football fans they will bring to Death Valley don't excite Clemson fans. 

For ACC commissioner John Swofford and his gang their game is basketball plain and simple. Their motivations keep the ACC one dimensional, dumb down the competition in football and keep the prize football horses Clemson, VT, FSU and Miami off the race trac. Hire the worse college football officials money can buy and let the SEC, Big 12, Pac 12 and Big 10 stomp a mud hole in the ACC on national stages.