The "Perfect Farewell" Edition

Lee Corso rides off into the sunset with a perfect weekend on College GameDay in more ways than one. 

Episode Transcript

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I know that a lot of you are frustrated with
the results that took place in Death Valley this past weekend,
falling seventeen to ten. But as I said yesterday, and

(02:17):
I want to reiterate this, if the game went the
other way, if Clemson won seventeen to ten, you would
be talking about how good you thought LSU was so.
First and foremost, Tiger fans don't go crazy believing that
this team has completely fallen off. And number two, and
I think the polls indicated that yesterday, as I said
on the program, But number two, I had a chance

(02:40):
to watch some breakdowns of the game by individuals who
see the game a little bit differently than even yours, humbly,
and here's what I'll say about it. LSU took some
big risks late in the game, risks plural form late
in the game, and they paid off the Bayu Bengals

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gambled late in the game and it worked. Now, I
will not deny that I thought offensively they were much
more creative than Clemson throughout the day, no doubt about that.
I thought defensively, on the final possession and some final opportunities.
I thought they took some chances that probably they would

(03:28):
not have done had they taken the similar chances earlier
in the game. But the most notable one is this
when you're facing a fourth and four. Like Dabosweni has
said a couple of times, now, I don't know why
k Klubneck left the pocket on that fourth and four.
He had Tyler Brown. He had Tyler Brown wide open,

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and he does. You look at the camera, the different angles,
the skycam and everything. He's got Tyler Brown. If he
stands in the pocket and delivers, he's got Tyler Brown.
So you say, well, why would he leave the pocket? Swanee, Well,
what you may not recognize and I certainly have not
played quarterback in my career, but as he's dropping back,

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what he sees to his right, whether it's in this peripheral,
whether it's his full on vision from a focal point standpoint,
he sees the defensive end stunting inside. Meaning now Blake
Miller's got him pinned down. This is a first down

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run for Kate Clubnick. Think about his speed, think about
everything that he possesses in terms of the opportunities to
make plays with his legs in his head in that moment,
corner's way off. Safety's too far gone. He's already seen
the linebacker crash, He's seen the defensive end now stunt

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to the inside. Kate Klubnick is merely thinking in that moment,
not get away from protection. K Klubnick is thinking, in
that moment, how do I get this four yard pickup
and continue this drive? And he thinks he's got it.
What he doesn't know is off to the side. And

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I wrote about this today on our website, Clemson Sports
talt dot com. You can go read the article. What
he doesn't know is that on the off side of
the field, Harold Perkins, freakishly talented linebacker nickel hybrid guy,
has made his way up towards the line of scrimmage
and is rapidly making a beeline to the opposite side,

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wrapping around where that defensive end stunts in. So the
illusion that is presented to kay Clubnick is one that
makes him feel like there is going to be no
one available to stop him from picking up four quick
and easy yards on the ground. And who knows, maybe
he goes to the end zone, but Lsu took a

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tch hands. They gambled that Kaid Klubnik would see that
worm dangling like a fish and take it, take the bait,
and he did. And I guarantee you when he popped
out from around the edge and he saw Perkins barreling
down on him before he was on the ground. Being

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a veteran quarterback, he had already digested what just went down.
He knew why he ended up where he did. He
may not have realized how open Tyler Brown was because
of some of the traffic in front of him, but
watching film, he probably recognizes. Had he stayed in the

(06:43):
pocket for a second longer, he probably hits Brown wide
open and ties that game. But it's fourth and four,
so he's you know where LSU is gambling. Kate does not.
Kay doesn't want to gamble there. Ky just wants to
make the safe and easiest play. Take what they give you.

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Is probably the message that he heard, and he saw
something good for the taking and he couldn't do it.
So as far gone as that game felt, that moment
and that play, I think to me tells kind of
the story of the risk reward that LSU had late

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in the game with the lead and they went for it,
and Clemson, because they were trailing and at home, didn't
play with that same gambler's mindset. They played a little
bit safe in that moment. And I think that's why
you're talking about LSU winning seventeen to ten and maybe
not Clemson taking that game to overtime. Kudos LSU, no doubt,

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but understand why k did what he did. In his mind,
he had four yards easy. He didn't know Perkins was
going to be there on the flip side. Let me
know what you think of the comments if you're watching
on TikTok and so that's just the facts of it.
I mean, that's the way it was. Now. Davos Sweeney,

(08:11):
as I mentioned yesterday, with the media, and of course
he's had a chance to watch the film. We heard
that some of that from his Sunday teleconference, et cetera,
and we've got full coverage of all of that over
on Clemson sports Talk dot com. Nonetheless, it is, after all,
a Wednesday, so we've got to begin to turn our

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attention towards Troy and that's where Dabosweeney picked up his
press conference yesterday in Tigertown.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
All Right, getting in the week two here, creating some
routine as far as just a normal game week and
normal prep, and obviously now it's getting into the rhythm
of the season where you got a week to get
ready and so forth. So it'd be good, you know,
for our team this week to experience that, and you know,

(08:59):
side up about being back at home. Obviously disappointing with
our with our outcome last week, but proud of the
effort and a lot of a lot of the things
that were on tape that I know lead to winning games, and.

Speaker 5 (09:14):
You know, excited to just be back at home this week.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
So it be a beautiful day hopefully in the valley,
and I look forward to welcoming Troy.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
A couple of opening comments there from Dabo Swingey as
the Tigers get ready to face the Troy Trojans who
will make their way to South Carolina from the state
of Alabama. Of course, Dabo Sweeney, in Alabama native, has
great connections to Troy, and here's a little bit more
about what he had to say about this ball club

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and what he knows about him.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
This is a school I've got a ton of respect
for growing up in Alabama. I've always all the way
back to coach Larry Blakeney. I mean Rick Rhodes, Rick
Rhodes who was a head coach and one of national
championship there and was an offensive line coach when I
was at Alabama, and ironically enough, later on Rick Rick
Rhodes became the head coach at Pelham High School, which

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was my high school. So but when I think of Troy,
I think about a university that's got some amazing tradition.
I mean, they've won national championships, and then as they
advanced their program and grew their football program and invested,
they have invested in facilities. Troy's got great support, It's

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a great community, I mean a great university, and they
have had some great, great, great football players come through
that program and great coaches, had a lot of great
coaches that have come through Troy, and so I just
I have a ton of respect for just the university
the program.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
Speaking of the Troy program, Clemson, as of course played
them several different times over the years, and they've been
to America. There have been some very competitive matchups, including
the twenty sixteen season when Clemson won the national championship.
That was a tight type ball game. In that valley.
Here's Dabo Sweeney talking a little bit more about the

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history of the matchup with Troy.

Speaker 5 (11:13):
This is our third time to play them.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
The last time was our national championship year in sixteen
we played them, and I think it was thirty to
twenty three. I believe in twenty eleven we played them
and that was an ACC championship year, our first AEC
championship year, and we were down at half and everybody,
everybody was booing and saying some bad names to me

(11:38):
going off the field, you know, So it's not good.
I got a lot of respect for Troy, so I
just say that right up front. Coach Parker, you know,
he's done a nice job there. I've talked to him
a few times. I don't really know him well.

Speaker 5 (11:53):
I guess.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
I think he was an interim at Purdue at one
point and that's where I first kind of community with
him some. But he's had a great background, a great
track record, and he's doing a heck of a job
there for them. They're different when you think of Troy
as far as style of play, they're different in years
past and you think of Troy Man, they're four and

(12:15):
five wides and they're flying, and you know, they're slinging
the ball all over the field and I ain't once
you see when you turn the tape on with these dudes,
this is they'll probably have more personnel groupings than anybody
we play. I mean they're eleven, twelve, thirteen, twenty two,
multiple tight ends, a million formations and shifts and motions.

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I mean, this is a team that runs the football
and it's an old school approach. So they've gone from
that extreme all the way over here.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
So a big shift there at Troy in terms of
how they play the game. And you know, Dabo Sweeney
and this Clemson Tiger defense have talked about focusing on
tackling and this was a spectacular press conference from coach
Sweeney's perspective. We're gonna give you a good bit of
it here on the program today, but this was sort
of when it all kicked up. And you may have
seen some of our graphics on social media and some

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of the short videos we put out, but this is
when things began to escalate yesterday in Tigertown.

Speaker 5 (13:17):
So it's a challenge.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
This is a game that from a defensive standpoint, you
better want to tackle. If you don't want to tackle
in this game, you better you better pull a hamstring.
You might not want to be in this one because
this is a very It's gonna be a physical football
game and just there is no other way.

Speaker 5 (13:34):
It's just how they play the game.

Speaker 4 (13:36):
I mean it's again creating bunch sets, condensed sets to
run the ball, try to create some gaps again, shifts
motions to try to challenge your your your discipline with
your gap, integrity, your eyes, how you fit things up,
play action off of all of the runs. So you
got to this is a this is a a big

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old bruising back in their back leads the nation in
Russian right now after week one, so I know it's
week one, but I think I think it was one
hundred and eighty six yards.

Speaker 5 (14:04):
I mean, he and they just tough, tough, physical football team,
play hard.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
Again. That's Dabo Sweeney yesterday getting it set for this
matchup with Troy. He also was asked about injuries to
Khalil Barnes and Antonio Williams. I believe both of those
are hamstring injuries, and he also noted that you know,
both of those guys were sort of day to day
working their way back, a little different part of the

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hamstring for Barnes. Anyway, Sweeney was asked about his communication
and conversations with Garrett Riley. Ask people want to know
kind of what those conversations look like or what goes
into them, especially after a performance like Clemson had against LSU. Again,
part of it certainly LSU, but also Clemson getting away

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from the run game. Here's Dabo Sweeney on the conversations
with Garrett Riley and how those take place.

Speaker 5 (14:59):
Let me talk about a lot.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
Watch the tape and you just gotta you know, we
just got I mean gotta make the players that are there.
That's easy stuff, nothing complicated. Just we didn't do the
routine stuff well. And you know, our best player. The
biggest issue in that game was our best player didn't
play well. And if that's the biggest issue coming out

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of that game, sign.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
Me up for that because two will respond, promise you.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
Uh So, we watched, we all watched the tape and
talk about how we go get better this week. A
lot of good things, a lot of good things, but
not good enough to to win the game. Had all
came down to the last shot and we didn't make it.
Uh So, proud of how they competed, but we did
not didn't get the result we wanted. But you know,

(15:51):
I know more about my team now than I did before.
I got more. I got more confirmation than doubt. I've
got a lot of confirmation on who our football team
is is. And I'd rather have this feeling in this
situation than if we if we won fifty to three
against somebody. I've got a lot more confirmation on who
our team is and what they're going to be, not
what they can be, what they're.

Speaker 5 (16:12):
Going to be.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
Dabo Sweeny was also asking about how he feels. Kay
club Ittt responded to some of the criticism that Sweeney
has given him.

Speaker 4 (16:21):
I mean, can't hide it. I mean routine stuff, basically,
they not complicated. They just simple read simple progression, you know,
holding the ball, running out of pockets.

Speaker 5 (16:33):
Just didn't play well. And so.

Speaker 4 (16:37):
He's he knew before he did have to talk to him,
he already knew. He knows the game. He knows the game.
He just went right back to work. So that's what
he'll do. He'll respond, He'll bounce back a lot of football.
But you know, it's an opener. It's a tough opponent,
and you know, sometimes sometimes you sometimes your best player
can have a bad day. He had a bad day,

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to have a bad day, but but he'll respond.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Dabosweet was also asking if he would have preferred to
open with an easier opponent.

Speaker 5 (17:05):
No, No, I love it. I love it.

Speaker 4 (17:09):
Like I said, I know more about my team right
now than I did because now I've got confirmation. I've
got confirmation. I don't have any doubt. I got confirmation.
I know I know what I'm looking at. You know,
I mean there's a lot of everybody. I know what
I'm looking at. That's what I do for a living,
all right, Like I got confirmation on what this football

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team's gonna be.

Speaker 5 (17:31):
I mean, really proud of our defense.

Speaker 4 (17:33):
Played physical play, tough d line and linebackers.

Speaker 5 (17:38):
You know, hey, we played and they made him a
couple of plays.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
We got clean up penalties, you know, disappointing that we
didn't make one. If we make one of those touchdowns
and again we got a second, their guy beat our guy.
If we make one of those touchdowns a field goal,
it's a three point game with then, you know, and
I had I went for it twice on fourth downs
and we didn't make either play.

Speaker 5 (17:56):
We dropped the slant to TJ.

Speaker 4 (17:58):
And then Westco drops the slam, and then Kate doesn't
throw the touchdown to Tyler Brown. The last place is
wide open. It's wide open to tie the game. It's
wide open, the easiest and Kate just took off front,
you know. So it's disappointing. And sometimes you can try
to do too much and it's an opener, especially if
you're not even you know, playing well or whatever. And
but you know, just just more confirmation than doubt. Certainly

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wasn't just Kate. I mean, like I said, I mean,
I mean Westcoat had two big misses. Big we had,
we had uh TJ had a big mess.

Speaker 5 (18:30):
He got mad. That's a contested play. That's it's football.

Speaker 4 (18:32):
And to make this plays and he will, they will,
you know, they'll get get But we didn't even we
didn't even try on the run game. I mean, we
ain't even give it a chance, you know. So things
we got to do better as coaches. I mean, it's again,
it's an opener, and that's how you get better. Things
get exposed early and rather than game eight, you know,
you're it's it's right out of the gate you're seeing
like you don't forget that. So I'd much rather have that.

(18:57):
I'd much rather have that. And again there's there was
a lot of more more good than bad. It's a
one score game. That's LUs you's gonna score a bunch
of points on a lot of people. They didn't play
very well either. I promise you they watched the tape
on Sunday and they're going, oh god, glad they didn't
throw the ball out of that guy for a fifty
yard touchdown. Nobody's around him and that's the read. Boy,

(19:18):
glad they didn't this or that. I mean, that's uh,
I mean, it's a few plays, but two really good
teams and both will have great years.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
So there you go, a good bit from Davos Sweeney
here on a Wednesday afternoon eight zero three four five
zero zero eighty six. With a quick break, we'll come back.
We will hear some more from Davo Sweeny as this
fiery press conference and critical in a lot of respects
press conference continued. We'll keep that rolling for you when

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On the iHeartRadio app Rocking and Rolling Again on a
Wednesay Day Hump Day edition, getting you ready for the weekend.
Clemson and Troy taking place three point thirty up in Tigertown,
South Carolina, with a little match up back in Columbia

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against se State in the evening. Dabo Sweeney was asked
about this LSU defense looking back at the game tape
and whether or not they did anything that surprised him.

Speaker 5 (20:26):
I ain't doing anything we didn't expect. They didn't. It
just he created a lot of the pressure because he
held the ball.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
He didn't throw it, like the third and twelve, third
and twelve when he took off scram I mean, the
reid is Tyler Brown, He's the Reid. It's a fifty
yard touchdown if he just throws the ball. But for
some reason he came off and then he started scrambling.

Speaker 5 (20:49):
You know.

Speaker 4 (20:50):
So it's a bass play. It's not even comp It
was as a very simple play. We got another play
on the play that he threw to He's got a
man side of his own side, and he threw he
had the slant for maybe a fifty yard touchdown to
westco but he threw it right to the sap on a
double coverage.

Speaker 5 (21:09):
You know, he just it's bass play day one.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
And you know he's he just didn't he didn't read
his read his progression there.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
I mean, it just eyes on the wrong thing.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
And again, sometimes as you strow, you don't, you just
do too much. But he had a bad day. I
ain't no other way to say it. I mean, like
we got to if two ain't a dude, we ain't winning.
Dudes gotta be dudes. This is big boy football. So
that's just the way it is. And uh, I can't,

(21:42):
I can't. I mean he's he's not a freshman. He
ain't a freshman. He'll respond. But like I said earlier,
if if our biggest issue coming out of that game
is our best player didn't play, well, we'll be all right.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
So there you go. That's Dabbosweeny working a little bit
through some of the issues that he saw. And again
I understand why Kate bailed on the pocket on that
final play. Watching it, I understand it. As I said,
out of the gates, there was an illusion being put
in front of him. He thought he had plenty of room.

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But this is where the pres conference really took off.
Dabo Swingy was asking about the play of Steph filand
Green and boy he let it loose here.

Speaker 4 (22:25):
Play well. All them guys. Stephan k part was disruptive.
He showed up again. That's a tough, physical team.

Speaker 6 (22:35):
Man.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
The Tom Allen, it's a difference maker force a lot
of narratives in the offseason. The only one that held
up was Tom Allen in that D line and them linebackers.
The rest of them, none of them held up. All
these great white House, we got the great White House.
Make them contested plays to win the game. You're a

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Heisman quarterback and all that, and first first pick in
the draft and all that crap.

Speaker 5 (22:59):
You you don't, you don't show up and play like that.
It's the only narrative that held up.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
Was Tom Allen and that D line and then linebackers,
and we got good corners. You know, we had a
couple of penalties. I mean, the guys, that's the only
narrative that held up.

Speaker 5 (23:15):
That's it. The rest of them.

Speaker 4 (23:19):
Everybody can just start throwing mud now because they had
just bring it on. Say we suck again. Tell everybody
we suck. Coaches suck Garrett or Cage stinks. Y'all start
writing that again. Bring that on, maybe y'all, maybe y'all
write that stuff.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
That's Dabo Sweeney man. He was giving some gyms yesterday.
He was asked about the defense specifically and whether or
not he thought the group did well with their run
fits and tackling and the things that they were really
hoping to work on.

Speaker 5 (23:51):
Did you watch it? If you didn't notice it, then
I mean, like, I mean, that's obvious.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
Guys were flying, man, They played physical, they played yeah,
and we missed a few. Like they rushed for two
point eight yards fifty eight minutes of the game. They
couldn't run the ball, so they went to the perimeter
and they just kind of nickeled and dimed us and
then took advantage of some critical errors missed opportunities on
offense where we had a chance to put the game away.
It should have been seventeen to three opening drive, seventeen

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to three, seventeen to three.

Speaker 5 (24:22):
If you really know what you're.

Speaker 4 (24:23):
Looking at on that last drive, what have seven eight
plays the last three plays of that drive is embarrassing.
Missed opportunities and those things. Those things cost you. And
then we missed the field goal. That's thirteen to three.
And if games like this a few plays. So I
mean that's why I love a game like that right
out of the gate, because you feel that because that

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creates like now you say it, but now you really
understand and practice like how critical that play is.

Speaker 5 (24:50):
It's the play.

Speaker 4 (24:51):
And until you learn to play every play with the attention,
the effort, the detail that that play deserves, you don't
really ever have the confidence to make the play that's
required in the moment that presents itself.

Speaker 5 (25:05):
And so but when you when you when you go through,
when you have a game.

Speaker 4 (25:08):
Like that right out of the game, right out of
the game, as opposed again, we just won fifty to three,
and everybody's come by, y'all and we think we're great.
You get you, you realize real quick that margin fair
is really small and it is a few plays. And
then guys got it. Dudes got to be dudes, man,
I mean, I mean, if homes don't play well, they
ain't winning.

Speaker 5 (25:29):
This is this is a simple game. It's a simple game.
So we got to be better.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
And then and then, but you also as coaches, there's
things that we got to do. If you've got somebody's
not in rhythm, that we got to help them.

Speaker 5 (25:41):
A little bit.

Speaker 4 (25:42):
And I didn't think we did a good job of that.
But defensively, guys flew around.

Speaker 5 (25:46):
It was one game. I mean, these boys this week
gonna challenge them. They gonna challenge them.

Speaker 4 (25:51):
From a discipline standpoint, this is going to be a
real challenging group and I want to see that. I
just want to see this build on it. So there's
a lot of positives that come from it. And yeah,
I mean in linebackers, I mean, if we do make
the first tackle, I mean, Wade's got the guy he's got.
I mean, I don't even know how his needing go down,
but he you know, without that run. I mean, like

(26:13):
I said, the last fifty ten minutes of two point
eight and that is a that is a physical group.
It's a very smart quarterback and that is a back.
Uh So they gonna be a problem. And they got
some explosive dudes, and we we It was a hell
of a game. It was a hell of a game
down the last play, right.

Speaker 5 (26:32):
Out of the gate.

Speaker 4 (26:33):
It's like getting the final exam day one a class.
They made a sixty five, We made a fifty eight.
They one oms were great.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
Now Brian Kelly caught wind of that comment, he was
asked about it, and of course he fired back at
Dabo Sweeney, basically insinuating the maybe coach didn't watch the
whole tape or he was a little easy, greater on
the Tigers and little harsh on the Bayu Bengals. When
we get back, we'll play that short clip from Brian

(27:05):
Kelly as we continue to roll along here on a
Wednesday afternoon again, final second day, whatever you will call it,
recapping and talking about Clemson and LSU before we really
turned our attention to the weekend ahead. It is the
show that shakes the South Plane. Keep a lot from
more Clemson Sports talt right here on Fox Sports Radio

(27:25):
fourteen hundred and on the iHeart Radio app right here
on a Wednesday afternoon, Back at it Clemson Sports, tal
Law and Swan on a Wednesday talking a little bit
about this Clemson LSU game because some of Davilsweeney's conversations

(27:45):
about the previous weekend's matchup during his press conference for
the upcoming game against against Troy sort of put in
to the mind's eye of Brian Kelly, what Dabo Sweeney
had to say about the grades for these two teams

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and how he feels like things were a little closer
on paper. Anyway, Dabo assigned a sixty five for LSU
and gave Clemson a fifty eight. Now those numbers, by
the way, are just seven points apart, much like the

(28:33):
real game seventeen to ten the final score. Here's Brian
Kelly though, when he was told about Dabo Sweeney's comments.

Speaker 7 (28:43):
We dominated him in the second half. So he's either
a really good grader for you know, giving himself a
fifty eight, or he's a really hard greater on us,
or he didn't see the second half, which that might
be the case. He might not have wanted to see
the second half. So again, look, this is all like

(29:04):
you know, past.

Speaker 5 (29:06):
We're.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
And that's the thing. I mean, it is in the past,
no doubt. Davos Sweeney talks about having a windshield mentality,
but looking back at that LSU game, he certainly feels
like Clemson left a lot on the table and a
lot to be desired. And I tend to agree. I mean,

(29:32):
as I noted out of the gates, I think LSU
certainly took some risks, some big risk late in the game,
and they paid off. But that's what you do. You
roll the dice, You take chances in life and in sports.
And so Clemson's gotta respond. Clemson's gotta respond. And this weekend,

(30:01):
I don't think is one that's going to help tell
the story of how good you can be any more
than it would have if you opened with Troy, how
good you are you just until you go play somebody
like Clemson and LSU did you don't know? And what
you know is in that game, as tight as it was,

(30:23):
LSU ended up being seven points better. And because of that,
I would expect LSU to be favored against Clemson unless
injuries or you know, something like that happened. I would
expect that LSU would be favored over Clemson in a

(30:44):
college football playoff matchup. I would hesitate to believe that
after people watched what we all saw, that all of
a sudden you would still favor Clemson to win the game.
But it wasn't like the Tigers were bad. I don't
think I think it would be like LSU y three,

(31:05):
not to mention, I think if you take it a
step further in terms of the contest and the game
and its impact. You know, I'm not sure Clemson spread
didn't improve against most teams in the country, even in
a loss, which is why I think the Tigers didn't

(31:33):
drop nearly as far as some people would have hoped.
I think that was a game where, you know, somebody
had to lose it, and unfortunately for Clemson, much like Texas,
much like Notre Dame, top ten matchups in this day
and age of college football have a loser, and I

(31:55):
would prefer to have that than what we used to
have where you did have some ties. I mean, for
all of the hubbub about losing to LSU, let's go
back in our mind's eye to the era where ties
existed and imagine for a moment a tie ball game

(32:18):
playing out a tie ball game, and how incredibly painful
it was to leave the venue with a tie, Like
what is it? What is that? You know, I'm too

(32:39):
young to remember it being a thing for college football,
Like I know there were something that happened, but I'm
too young to really remember, like the angst of a tie,
like when Clemson in South Carolina tide, or when Georgia
and Clemson tied. Like you have all this off season
build up and it's certainly different now than it was.

(33:01):
All this offseason build up, and how great these two
teams are gonna be. And you've got this great game
that you're at for three and a half four hours, right,
I mean, you're there, You're in this great ball game.
There's multiple possessions in the fourth quarter where somebody has
a chance to win the game and they don't win it,

(33:25):
but they also don't lose it. I mean, that had
to be the most unsatisfying way to leave the stadium
for everybody. Thankfully that's gone, like you see it happen
in soccer. But the fact that we and look, I

(33:52):
don't love the way overtime is set up currently. How
quickly we go to the two point conversions thing is ridiculous.
I mean, honestly, I've often said I'd rather see it
go to I mean, we're gonna do it the way
we're doing it right now, it's kind of wild. I
don't mind the first overtime, but if we're gonna go

(34:12):
to this just running place from the two yard line
until somebody doesn't get it, I'd rather go to the
kicking thing, sort of like that old show named that tune.
You go out there, you get your two kickers, you
get a microphone. I can kick this field goal from
forty seven yards. Then the other guy, yeah, I can

(34:35):
kick this field goal from forty eight yards. They keep
working their way up. I can kick this field goal
from fifty three yards, and the other guy says, kick
that field goal, and then you line up for a
fifty three yard field goal. I'd prefer the negotiations. I
would prefer the excitement around the kick forthcoming. All of

(34:58):
that to play after play from the two yard line
trives to be insane. Final segment, Hour one, Flip side,
Final segment of hour one, Clempsons, Sports, tal Laut and Swan.
So what do you think? Did you like that idea?
Before the break? Again, like in the old days, we
had ties in college football. Thankfully that does not exist.

(35:21):
I was at the tie between Clemson and South Carolina.
I mean, there's nothing worse than battling for hours and
hours and hours and everybody just goes home. Well, we tied,
and as a soccer dad, I understand that happens. But man,
when it's college football, I don't know why, but it
felt so so different. But the college football overtime period,

(35:44):
to me, leaves a lot to be desired. I'd rather
just play a regular game for another period, sort of
like the NFL does. That would be okay with me.
But I do think the intrigue of switching from where
we are now to doing one possession regularly thirty five
yards or whatever. One possession and then after that again

(36:09):
name your tune, essentially kicking contest. Two kickers out there
with a microphone. I can kick this field goal from
thirty seven yards. Oh yeah, I can kick it from
forty two. I can kick this field goal from fifty
two yards and just have them battle back, just like
name that too, and the guy goes, oh yeah, kick

(36:32):
that field goal. Now you're locked in. You gotta kick
that fifty two yard kick or that fifty seven yard kick,
and who knows, maybe we get to maybe. And I
think this is where it would get exciting. When your
kicker's out there going I can make this field goal
from sixty two yards and the other guy's like, all right,

(36:53):
well I can make it from sixty three. And then
you're like, all right, kick that field goal. Let them
have at it. I'll be honest with you, we could
almost do it without having a rush or anything. We
could really make it exciting. I mean we saw Cam
Little drill that field goal. Professionally, we can make it

(37:13):
super exciting. I can make that field goal from seventy
six yards off of tee. You get it? Will I
use a T kick that field goal? Can you imagine
the end of a football game, after we've had one
overtime period of regular football coming down to guys trying
to kick field goals from like the opposite thirty off

(37:35):
of a T. I'll take it because one if they
make it, everybody, I mean, even the losing team's gonna
be like, holy smokes, did you see that? And if
they miss it, whether it's short or wide left or
wide right, I mean there's been this whole negotiation that's
taking place along the way. I like that better personally

(38:01):
then just this two point conversion thing, as I mentioned earlier,
I don't need to see every two point play you've
got because the creativity on that, but the battle. I
can kick that, kick that field goal from fifty seven yards.
Oh yeah, I can kick it from fifty eight Kick

(38:22):
that field goal. Line them up, set them up, and
knock them down. I'm in for it. Let me know
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(39:12):
field goal. So we talked a lot about Clemson. LSU
College Football Kings put in a couple of screenshots they're
at CFB Kings on Twitter of the plays I'm talking
about third and four, wide open and Cade sort of

(39:33):
throws it into double coverage. I think LSU either gambled
there or made a mistake and he's got a wide
wide open Tyler Brown. And then on the fourth and
flour where he gets baited into scrambling outside of the pocket. Again,

(39:53):
if he just stands in he probably sees, probably sees
Tyler Brown pulling free and and open into the middle
of the field. Problem is, Kay didn't necessarily want or
even feel like he needed to be a gambler there.
He just needed to get four yards, and with the

(40:13):
way it was presented, I think he thought he had it.
I believe he thought he had it. So if you
want a text us about the LSU game, you can
a zero three four five, zero, zero eighty six. All right.
Parker Fleming, who is an analytics guy, put together a

(40:36):
net success rating for teams. Did we really get beat
that bad? And so, if you look at it, Clemson
in LSU pretty tight in terms of the competitive nature

(41:01):
of the game, one of the tightest in the country.
So safe to Saint Clemson did not get beat that bad.
The games that it was similar to Hawaii and Stanford.
You remember how close that one was. East Carolina and

(41:22):
NC State another tight one. Miami and Notre Dame fall
into this category sort of right there in the middle
of the not even in the middle, on the lower
end of the next The net success ratings. So not
a bad performance be any means by Clemson, I will

(41:45):
say to Parker Fleming, though for an analytics guy, your
chart does not play well on social media. Now our
number two, we'll continue the conversation with you about Clemson
LSU turning our attention to Troy. But I think our

(42:08):
fine feathered friends who hang out with us South Carolina
fans are not going to be happy with Josh Pates
poll after week one. I'll tell you why when we return.

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Speaker 4 (44:06):
So you could continue to peek over the fence at
the best radio showing.

Speaker 3 (44:10):
The naked would not be happy with Josh Pate. Josh Pate,
by the way, who is now hosting his show, Josh
Pat's College Football Show with on three, Josh Pate put
out his JP pole for week two. He's got Texas

(44:31):
number one. These are power ratings and not ranking, So
let me clarify some things for a moment, and I'm
sure he's done a good job too on this. Just
because Texas got beat by Ohio State doesn't mean he

(44:52):
believes they're not the most powerful team in the country.
So that might go ahead and justify your laughter at
these rankings. But he's got Texas one, Ohio State two.
He's got Georgia three and Penn State four. He's got

(45:13):
LSU five and Oregon six. He's got Notre Dame at seven.
He's got Florida at eight, Clemson at nine, and Oklahoma
at ten. Now, Oklahoma and Brent Minibles, by the way,
have a big matchup coming up this weekend. He's got

(45:35):
Miami at eleven, Alabama at twelve, Texas a and m
at thirteen, Utah at fourteen, Tennessee at fifteen. Now, this
is probably the moment where you're beginning to wonder where
South Carolina. He's got Southern cal at sixteen, Ole Miss

(45:59):
at seventeen, and South Carolina at number eighteen in their
power ratings. In his power ratings, Michigan nineteen and Florida
State twenty. Now. Look, I bring this up for a
couple of reasons. One because of the Texas thing. I
don't have much issue with his top ten. Quite frankly,

(46:25):
I think it's weird to have Texas at number one.
But if you wanted to have Texas at two in
Ohio State at one, I would. I could live with that.
I could live with the belief that if you think
Ohio State is the best team in the country, that
you could still buy into Texas being the second best
team in the country even with a loss, much like

(46:47):
I believe that Clemson losing did not have them drop
off the face of the map. When you look at
the polls either, but again, these are power ratings. I
am a little bit surprised at Florida. I'm a little
bit surprised at Oklahoma in that top ten. But at
this point, I think we can all admit the season

(47:08):
is very young, incredibly young. But I am surprised that
South Carolina is not higher than number eighteen. It does
surprise me that the game Cocks aren't somewhere just outside
the top ten, because I thought they looked good against

(47:30):
Virginia Tech, and I recognize that Virginia Tech is probably
a better team than most people wanted to give them
credit for, which while people are watching that game and
wringing their hands South Carolina fans, I was saying, I'm
really not surprised because I thought it was gonna be
a close game, and I think for South Carolina it's

(47:51):
a big deal that they ended up winning that game.
Mind you, now, where would I have them again. I
don't have a problem with South Carolina being somewhere ten, eleven, twelve.
I'm okay with that. Prove you don't deserve to be there,
that would be my thought on it. But I have

(48:13):
no problem with Clemson being in the top ten. I
have no problem with Notre Dame remaining in the top ten.
I have no problem even with Josh Page Power Poll
having Texas above Ohio State. I don't love it. I
think if you reverse those two teams and those two
teams alone, there's plenty of reason to justify it and say,
do you think Texas is better than Georgia? Yeah? Do

(48:34):
you think Texas is better than Penn State? Yeah? I
think you can go on and on and on. That's
kind of my thoughts on Josh Pag's rankings. But I
know Gamecock fans gotta be seething excuse me, his Power rankings.
I'm sure game Cock fans have to be seething when
they see that. One other thing before we get to

(48:56):
Lee Corso for a minute, because Corso was unbelievable this
weekend for more more reasons than one. So North Carolina
had a lot of hubbub and buzz around it because
of Bill Belichick and was weird his girlfriend, the young

(49:16):
twenty six year old girl that he's dating, And look,
who am I to tell this guy who to date?
I mean, do I think it's weird? Yeah, I mean
I think it's I think it's strange. I mean, I'm
forty eight. I think it would be weird if I
was dating a twenty four year old. Now some of
you would say, Swanny, you're out of your mind, but

(49:38):
I mean somebody half your age, let alone if you
were his age dating a twenty four year old, I
don't even know what you have in common. But anyway,
so there's been a ton of hubbub about North Carolina

(49:59):
football because of Bill O'Brien. As a matter of fact,
back in August, it was announced that North Carolina would
have a program this fall showcasing The tar Heels on Hulu,
to which yesterday TCU Football quote tweeted, when does episode

(50:19):
one come out? Obviously because of the shellacking that they
put on the tar Heels and Bill Belichick. But remember
this is a guy that did not do radio Row,
the first coach that I know of that never did
radio row, and I thought it was embarrassing that he

(50:44):
would do that. He also put out a depth chart
prior to the game that simply had the positions listed quarterback,
running back, wide receiver. I mean why, I mean, there's
no reason to not put that information in there. There's

(51:11):
no reason to just not list it pregame, you're about
to run these individuals out there. But what blew my
mind about North Carolina is not that they went right
down the field and scored and then fell apart Alah Alabama,

(51:32):
but some of the tweets that came out just after that,
And I feel like, with what we do, and you
tell me if I'm wrong, I try not to do this,
and I think these people do this kind of stuff
just for attention and getting clicks, and there's value in clicks.

(51:54):
I get it. There's value and attention. I get it.
But when North Carolina scored to take the lead, Colin Cowherd,
who I've had I've got so much respect for. I
don't know why you have to put together these kind
of hot takes. Calherd tweeted, wasn't really sure what to

(52:15):
expect from chapel Bill, but after that drive, I have
him as the second best college coach I've ever seen,
just below Saban. Now my hope is that you're you're
saying that in jest. You're saying that to get a

(52:36):
laugh and a rise out of people, more than you're
saying that because it's the reality of what you believe.
But again, Colin Cowherd's guy that's been at ESPN and
at Fox at the highest level of this business, nationally
nationally syndicated radio shows. You don't get any bigger than

(52:57):
that in radio. And Skip Bayless, who has been on
TV on both networks, also tweeted almost at the exact
same time. And this was the thing that made me
believe that these tweets must be more about attention than substance,

(53:20):
because Skip Bayless tweeted, Wow, Belichick has a national championship offense.
Heels just shredded the frogs defense. How are those the tweets?
How are those the things that you fire off? To me?

(53:41):
It makes no sense to have that kind of take
at all. Anyway, We'll get to Corso in a minute, man,
because I love the way we celebrated Lee Corso. And
then not to mention some of the what's the word ironies?

(54:04):
There you go, some of the ironies that came out
from his final set of picks. Now, we heard from
Dabbo Sweeney a little bit earlier. We're gonna give you
some kid club nick here in our number two. We
also will have some running Handffin will help and others
for you tomorrow. But here's k club Nick talking about

(54:28):
the importance of moving on from a loss, especially given
the fact that he's a leader on the team.

Speaker 5 (54:36):
Bad game.

Speaker 6 (54:39):
You know, I think that I think part of it
is just you have to you know, I think that
in the position that I am, and uh, the leaders
on the team is, you know, I think that everybody's
looking someone, you know, and in the position that I am,
I think that, whether I want it or not, everybody's
kind of looking to me and how I'm going to react.
And you know, I was. I was pissed off after

(54:59):
the game, and I was I was upset, and it
took me a few days to really bounce back from
it because of the way that you know, I played.
But I remember last year, and I remember losing Week one,
and I actually had a guy come up and tell me,
I think on Sunday or Monday, they said, you know,
everybody's pretty mad about last year's first first lost, and uh,

(55:21):
they said, they showed up on Sunday and on Monday
and I just had a ton of energy and a
ton of enthusiasm and ready to push guys. And they
said that that just totally changed their whole mindset changed
the way that they went about practice and their mindset
for the week and and how to attack the next week.
And then we went on to have a great week too,
And that was just a really good reminder to me

(55:43):
that I came in, like, you know, my influence is
very heavy, but like I got to change my mindset too.
I got to attack every single day and attack every week.
And I think that, you know, that's what I got
to do, and that's what needs to be done. And uh,
you know.

Speaker 5 (55:58):
Just excited to go back to work.

Speaker 6 (55:59):
And it's been a really good first couple of days
getting ready for this next week. And you know, I
feel really confident about this team. I think that, you know,
a really good team that's gonna have a great year.
And I think coach Twiney said it, and he said
it to us before, and I know he said it
to y'all. But this, you know, this game gave me

(56:20):
no doubt about our team and what and what we
can do, but just totally fulfilled us with confidence and
what we can do and what we're about and just
it's exciting. It's exciting.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
That's kay club that talking about bouncing back after Clemson's
seventeen to ten opening season lost to LSU. He was
also asked about what was encouraging with the offense after
watching the game on tape.

Speaker 6 (56:49):
It's kind of encouraged you guys after the vote a film.

Speaker 5 (56:51):
And just offensive. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (56:54):
Really physical, man, really really physical. You know, we played
really tough with great calms all night. You know, I
think we just uh and in that sense, we're physical
to the very end. We fought till the very end.
We never stopped. You know that it would be easy
to quit in some of those moments, and we just
kept straining till the very end, and we stayed together.

(57:15):
That was a really good thing to say.

Speaker 4 (57:17):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (57:17):
And see we stayed together and that was awesome. And yeah, yeah,
I would say those are some of the highlights for sure.

Speaker 3 (57:25):
Club did it. Was also asked about his emotions after
the game, and obviously we got to talk to him
and he was down, but he wasn't avoiding the fact
that so much of it was on his shoulders. Here's
k Clubnit talking about that earlier today in Tigertown.

Speaker 5 (57:43):
I felt pretty crazy.

Speaker 6 (57:46):
Just upset at myself, you know, it's really.

Speaker 5 (57:49):
What it was, and.

Speaker 6 (57:52):
You know, just just upset, you know, and Uh, I
felt like i'd you know, kind of let some guys down.
And I know it's a team sport, but I still,
you know, I owned my mistakes and just went around
just you know, owning it and you know, not shying
away from it. So you know, I know what I did.
I know I made some bad plays and owned to

(58:13):
it and know that I could have taken over the game.
And that's you know, that's really the hard part. It's
you know, I don't feel like I went and lost
the game, but I knew that I could have taken
it over. And the second half coach put the ball
in my hands to take over the game, and I
didn't get the job done. And that's really what it
comes down to. And as a quarterback and as the
person that I am, the player that I am, you know,

(58:35):
I want to I want to be able to control
the moment and go and take over the game, especially
when I've done and proved that I can. And uh,
I just didn't go get it done. And you know,
I had a bad game and UH didn't didn't play
like myself and uh, but we'll bounce back and go
have a great year.

Speaker 3 (58:53):
So that's key club talking about how he processed and
handled things after Clemson's loss to l s U. He
He also was asked about how he felt and sort
of his thought process on it all after or while,
I guess I should say he watched the tape.

Speaker 5 (59:17):
Yeah, just bad eyes.

Speaker 6 (59:18):
You know, I think I was too focused on what
they were doing instead of what our fundamentals are. You know,
I think that it took me a few days to
kind of realize that, just sitting there and thinking about, like,
you know, what am I doing right here? You know
I've done that ever, and just bad eyes. You know,
it's just kind of what I said, just was worried
too much maybe what they were doing, and you know,
think about, you know, okay, Mike fire, they might rotate

(59:39):
right here, and you know this guy's gonna drop out
instead of just.

Speaker 5 (59:43):
Like all right, what's my first read?

Speaker 6 (59:45):
Just kind of over complicated a little bit at times,
you know, not every play, but you know two or
three plays where it just kind of, you know, over
complicated it and just make the game simple. And I
think coach Rally does a great job of that. And
you know, I love the way that he coaches us,
and you know, I put that most on me.

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
So that's kay club Nick. It's mostly on me taking
again the brunt of the criticism and the blame. And
of course quarterbacks also get the success and the money
and you know all the things that come along with
that too, even at the collegiate level nowadays. K Clubnick

(01:00:20):
was also asked about the impact that it had on
the team in his opinion, when they lost wide receiver
Antonio Williams.

Speaker 5 (01:00:33):
Probably, Yeah, it was tough.

Speaker 6 (01:00:35):
You know, Tones just a huge part of our offense
and a huge part of that game plan.

Speaker 5 (01:00:39):
For sure.

Speaker 6 (01:00:39):
We were gonna use him a lot. And it shouldn't
have affected the game though, And you know, Tyler stepped
in and did phenomenal and he killed it and you know,
he did great, and you know, I would not say that,
you know, it would have been awesome having Tonio in there.

(01:00:59):
It would have been great. But you know, it shouldn't
have affected the a win versus a loss. You know,
we should we should have been able to handle it
really well. And Tyler did great when he was in there,
and was really really proud of the way that he
did and really excited to have him, you know, back
in there. And but yeah, I'm gonna miss tone and

(01:01:19):
missed him in there for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:01:21):
All Right, we'll hear a little bit more from k
Clubnick coming up around the bend. He did spend about
ten minutes with the media, so we can give you
a few more things he talked about, like analyzing his play,
his priorities during practice, emphasis on improving the run game,

(01:01:42):
and you know, the changes that he feels the team
needs in the remainder of the season. So we'll hear
that and his response to the comments that Debo Sweeney
has made about Ki Clubnick's play since the Tigers lost
to l s U. All right, quick break, we'll come
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So thank you for supporting us, and thank you for
supporting our sponsors like Alumni Hall. All right, kay Klubnick
back to it, wearing an uncommon shirt literally the word
uncommon across it, the block sea and a pall in
the word uncommon spectacular design. Maybe you can get that

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into Alumni Hall. I don't know. Good check them out anyhow.
Clubnick was asked about analyzing his play during a game
and kind of what goes into that. Here's what he
had to say on.

Speaker 6 (01:03:45):
It, kind of in the I mean, honestly, I don't
really have a great answer for that. Yeah, I don't
really have a great answer for that. I mean, it
kind of sometimes makes the sect to be like, you know,
kind of it's easy to look and see what I
missed from the you know all twenty two and you

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can see everything and slow mo from everybody's point of view,
but you know, from my point of view, sometimes you
can't see everything and just kind of miss some things
that I don't really miss.

Speaker 3 (01:04:17):
So yeah, so that's Kate club Nick again. Tough to answer.
But like I said on the the final play of
the game, when you watch it at first, you go, man,
why does he leave the pocket? When you watch it again,
you have experts to break it down. They show you
different angles. You see why he thinks he's got the

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first down. It's like slight of hand, give else use
defensive coordinator credit. It was slight of hand. Kate saw
what they wanted him to see, and he he took it.

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The problem is they felt like if they showed him
this look, he would take it, and he did. That
will help him, by the way, That will help him
because I think what that's going to force Kay to do,
ironically is to maybe not guess as much about what

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he's seeing don't flood out of the pocket until you're certain,
And in that moment k thought that he was going
to pick up four yards in a first down. K

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club It was also asked about the run game and
his thoughts on Clemson's running game at this point, very
early in the season and getting away from it. Here's
Clubnick on that.

Speaker 6 (01:06:03):
Yeah, I really just leave that up to coach Riley. Yeah,
you know, I don't. I don't blame coach rally at all.
That's that's his decision. And you know, I think that
he's one of the best in the country at what
he does. And I love the way that he called
the game. And you know, in my mind, you know,
coach put the ball in my hands the second half
and I get it done, and that's really what it

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comes down to. So I thought that the rest of
the team played great, and.

Speaker 5 (01:06:30):
Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 6 (01:06:32):
That's you know, that's not really my decision. I love
the way he called the game.

Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
So club It was also asked about what changes he
feels kind of need to be made the rest of
the season or in the remaining games.

Speaker 8 (01:06:49):
That's a good questions the routine things routinely, man, Yeah,
I think just to the routine things really well and
just be decisive.

Speaker 6 (01:07:06):
Just be decisive and say aggressive throughout the whole game.
I think that's probably one of the biggest things. And man,
it should be me. You know, I don't need to
go be special and go try to make plays that
aren't there. You know, make the plays that are there,
and then trust trust the game plan, trust trust my preparation,
and you know, trust what we've been doing all week
and just go execute.

Speaker 3 (01:07:26):
Pat yourself on the back for that question, though, you
got the old uh hmm, that's a good question, my man.
All right, final thing from club Nick. He was asking
about Dabo Sweeney's remarks. They've they've been rough, they have
been rough. Here's what Kate had to say about it.

Speaker 6 (01:07:46):
Yeah, just got a move on.

Speaker 5 (01:07:49):
That's really it.

Speaker 6 (01:07:50):
So he's coaching, and you know he's coaching. So you
learn from it and move on.

Speaker 3 (01:08:00):
Chen it, learn from it and move on. Yeah, I
guess just take it on the chin. You know, when
you when you make a mistake, and when you are
making the type money that a guy like Kay Clubnick's
making to play college football, you don't get it done.

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There's gonna be criticism, and it comes from fans and coaches,
and I mean that's the nature of the beast. And
so for Club Nick to what's the word for k
Clubnick to have to decompress through all this. Again, he's

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never won an opening game in his career, not as
a backup, not as a starter. I mean, it's wild.
But I thought the point that he made pretty early
on in the press conference where he talked about the
fact that hey, you know what, we we've been here before,
you know, And I came back after that Georgia game
would have bouncing my step and I get that. Like

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you can wallow around and self pity, feel sorry for yourself,
you can go do something about it, and unlike you
the fans, he actually can do something about it. I
think that's why as fans, you wallow around and self
pity a lot about losses because the deep, deep down,
you know, ultimately you don't really have any control over anything.

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You can make a little noise, you can make sure
you're there, but ultimately it's gonna come down to what
Cage Club Nick does and what decisions he makes. And
I think over the long hauls fans, we we like that,
but it also makes putting the games to bed. Maybe
more difficult for you because you have no control over
the future of what happens, whereas players really do. Stay

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with us.

Speaker 9 (01:09:59):
Whatever you done for me lately, it's a fair question.
Just don't lose sight of the bigger picture. Don't forget history.
Lucky for us at Clemson, the answer to the questions
what have you done for me lately? And what have
you done? Always are the same.

Speaker 5 (01:10:25):
We winn.

Speaker 3 (01:11:12):
Final segment on a Wednesday. I want to talk real quick,
one final thing about Lee Corso. I know we brought
it up earlier. Six and zero of this selections this
past week that's incredible. I don't know how many times
he ever went undefeated where there were multiple games out there,

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but he did. He got six, you know, six up
six right, unreal. Every team that he coached and the
team he played for Florida State all one. No team
that Lee Corso was directly a part of lost this weekend.
That's incredible. But the moment they caught me was something

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I talked about here on this program, and I said,
you know, I'm glad they're doing this for Corso right
now because the only other time you could do something
like this for him is after he's gone, and I
don't mean off the show passed away. It's too late
at that point. And he made the point during the

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show he said, I kind of feel like I'm at
my funeral, and maybe it was. Chris Fowler said, yeah,
But isn't it great We're able to give you your
flowers now? And I think that's the lesson for you
give people their flowers, don't hold it inside forever until
it's too late to tell them how much you appreciate
what they did for you and what light Lee Corso

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did for this sport. Right, Because let's just assume for
a second that Lee Corso were to pass away this week,
do you think the celebration on ESPN will be any
less of his impact? Now? Granted it would almost be
the very same show in a law large respect like

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they would not go. Well. We just celebrated him while
he was alive last week. So at some point down
the line, hopefully later rather than sooner, we're gonna get
another chance to celebrate Lee Corso on college game day
and his impact and what he did. But the beauty
of that moment and the beauty of what we saw

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was what we've witnessed over the years with the relationship
between kirkharb Street and Lee Corso, where at the beginning, Corso,
much like the father, helped guide the son, and then conversely,
over these past few years, we've seen the sun, so

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to speak, in Kirk kerb Street helped guide and navigate
Lee Corso through some incredibly difficult moments on air because
of how passionate and how much he cared about him
and how much he loved him. And man, it was
awesome more than one person I talked to, more than one,

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and I'll openly admit it, Man, I got emotional watching it.
I mean tier like not not tears were your boohooing, right,
just that tear that rolls down your cheek And you
didn't you didn't even you didn't, You couldn't control it.
It's not sobbing. There's just a a feeling of finality

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two Corso's tenure. I think in some respects it's also
a little bit of a there's a recognition for for
me at least, there was of how quickly my life
has gone by, and I think about how much I
love that show and lovely Corso for so many years.

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But I think the bigger point is, give people their
flowers and don't wait until it's too late to tell
them publicly. It's one thing to profess it in front
of the world, how great you think this person is.
It's quite another to do it while they're there to

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hear it. And what you witnessed this weekend, greater than
six and zero, greater than every team he coached or
play for going undefeated this weekend, and the incredible and
indelible market that he left on the sport. You got
to witness Lee Corso receiving those flowers for the impact

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that he had on the sport, on guys like me,
on people like you. And you can't put a price
on that. That's what I really took away. You cannot
put a price on the opportunity to share with someone
what they mean to you while they're here. And it

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was an unbelievable weekend, just incredible. The fact that he
got some of those games right still, that blows my mind.

Speaker 9 (01:16:07):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:16:07):
Oh wow, all right, well man, would you look at
that two hours in the books here on Wednesday, we're
getting closer and closer to the kickoff of Clemson and Troy
South Carolina. South Carolina State not a lot of huge games.
This weekend will focus on games Tomorrow the big one

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College game Day. They're gonna be out in Norman, Oklahoma
for the Sooners in the Michigan Wolverines is those two
teams will face off this weekend. Big, big opportunity for
Brent Vinables, huge opportunity for coach Venables in this ballgame
against Michigan. Not that Michigan's like this top flight program

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right now in the minds I have most people, but
Brent Vinibles needs all the wins he can get win
over a team out of the Big Ten with a
name like Michigan. We'll do a lot for him. All right,
We got to get out of here again. Thank you
for hanging out. We'll talk to you all to morrow.
Until then it is always I'll take care now and
go Tigers.